UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life Lecture Series
UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life Lecture Series
In February 2020 the UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life hosted a series of public lectures at MoLI, each looking at ethical questions that impact personal, public and professional spheres. The lectures featured prominent researchers in ethics from University College Dublin, and were held in MoLI’s Old Physics Theatre.
The role of empathy in our moral life
UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life Lecture Series
Professor Rowland Stout describes how there has been a backlash against empathy, arguing that it hinders good moral action.
The ethics of clumsiness and ignorance
UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life Lecture Series
Professor Christopher Cowley asks why we blame some people and excuse others.
Ethics in the age of climate change
UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life Lecture Series
Professor Maeve Cooke on how humans fundamentally need to rethink their ethics and their politics.
Work and idleness
UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life Lecture Series
Professor Brian O'Connor on how, in the Enlightenment, philosophers thought idleness would prevent us from realising our talents and skills.