Archive for March, 2009

Exam Two Posted

Shawn Klein March 30th, 2009

For PHI 122 section 1 and 2, your exam is now posted in your respective class section:

PHI 122-1 Ethics (MWF)

PHI 122-2 Ethics (M)

Quoted in Wired on Sports Ethics

Shawn Klein March 25th, 2009

I thought some of my students woud be interested in this tidbit. I was quoted in the April issue of Wired Magazine in in Brendan I. Koerner’s Mr. Know-It-All column.

You might also be interested in reading my more extensive comments on the issue here:

http://www.philosophyblog.com/2009/03/losing-and-humilitation.html

Incarceration and Ethics

Shawn Klein March 24th, 2009

We have just finished up discussing the moral justifications of punishment in my ethics classes. I thought those students might be interested in the current issue of CATO Unbound. This month’s issue, “Behind Bars in the Land of the Free,” discusses issues connected to incarceration rates, including questions of racial equality.

From the Cato Unbound website:

We’ve gathered together an all-star team of scholars to grappple with this fraught but profoundly important issue. Brown University’s Glenn Loury, author of the recent book Race, Incarceration, and American Values, offers this month’s lead essay. We’ll have replies from the University of Maryland economist John R. Lott, Harvard University sociologist Bruce Western, and eminent political scientist James Q. Wilson the Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University.