Month: August 2020


Calls for Papers

Working as Equals: a workshop on relational egalitarianism and the workplace

Abstracts are invited for Working as Equals, a workshop on relational egalitarianism and the workplace. The workshop will take place on 4-5 June 2021 at St Mary’s College of California, Moraga, CA, or, if conditions remain unsafe, online. Deadline: November 1, 2020 Keynote Speakers: Nien-hê Hsieh (Harvard) Niko Kolodny (Berkeley) Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Aarhus) Debra Satz […]

Calls for Papers

The Philosophy of Honesty: Fellowship Announcement and Description

Wake Forest University, with the help of a very generous grant from The John Templeton Foundation, welcomes proposals for the Honesty Project’s funding initiative in philosophy. We aim to support philosophers working on the virtue of honesty, especially early career-scholars who often have new and interesting ideas but who have not yet benefited from traditional […]

Calls for Papers

The Science of Honesty: Fellowship Announcement and Description

Wake Forest University, with the help of a very generous grant from The John Templeton Foundation, welcomes proposals for the “The Honesty Project” funding initiative. We aim to support scholars working on the study of honesty, especially early career-scholars who often have new and interesting ideas but who have not yet benefited from traditional funding […]

Member News

CMU Researcher Among Team Awarded $4.4 Million Grant to Study Honesty

Republished from Carnegie Mellon University Taya Cohen, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business, along with four Wake Forest University professors has been awarded a $4.4 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation to explore scientific and philosophical questions about honesty. The grant will fund a three-year […]

Awards, Conferences

2020 Presidential Award for Scholarly Achievement: George Brenkert

Remarks for the 2020 Society for Business Ethics Presidential Awards Jeffrey Moriarty, August 2020 The winner of the 2020 Presidential Award for Scholarly Achievement is George Brenkert. Congratulations George! George received a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1971, specializing in moral and political philosophy. After a brief stop at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, […]

Awards, Conferences

2020 Presidential Award for Service: Denis Arnold

Remarks for the 2020 Society for Business Ethics Presidential Awards Jeffrey Moriarty, August 2020 The winner of the 2020 Presidential Award for Service is Denis Arnold. Congratulations Denis! When the committee meets to think about who is deserving of an award for service, top of mind are the three really big jobs that members of […]

News

Pioneers in Business Ethics – Project Update

THE PIONEERS IN BUSINESS ETHICS PROJECT GoFund Me Campaign: https://gf.me/u/ykpja7 Worrying about ethics in commerce may have begun in 1800 BC with the Code of Hammurabi, aimed at creating laws and norms in the ancient city of Babylon. As a separate academic discipline, though, modern normative business ethics began in the early 1970s following the […]