Workshops and Conferences

The Philosophy Department at BGSU hosts the annual Workshop in Applied Ethics and Public Policy. Recent workshops have been held on the following themes:

• "Democracy and Political Epistemology" (2022)
• "Assailing the Anthropocene: The Ethics of Disruptive Innovations for Surviving our Climate-Changed World" (2021)
• "The Ethics of Public Discourse" (2019)
  
• "Social Trust" (2018)
  
• "The Future of Work, Technology, and a Basic Income" (2017)
  
• "The Ethics of Policing and Prisons" (2016)
  
• "The Scope of Religious Exemptions" (2015)
• "Political Utopia: Promise or Peril" (2014)
  
• "The Ethics of Self Defense" (2013)
• "Manipulation" (2012)
•  "Freedom, Paternalism and Morality"  (2011)
• "Practical Reason" (2006)
• "Physicalism" (2005)
• "The Moral Legacy of Slavery: Repairing Injustice" (2002)