Third Annual Meeting of the Midwest Ethics Society

April 11, 2009

Columbia, Missouri

Keynote Address:  the Ethics of Pandemic Influenza Planning and Response

Lea Brandt, University of Missouri

The Midwest Ethics Society is formed around a shared commitment to exploring the fundamental questions involved in living a good, moral life.  The Society offers a forum for thinkers to present varying perspectives on both theoretical and practical moral matters.  This forum is dedicated to providing a supportive, collaborative environment that is interdisciplinary and tolerant of divergent viewpoints.  The Midwest Ethics Society is intended, in short, to be a resource both to its diverse membership and to society at large.

Conference will be on the campus of Columbia College in the Lee Room of Dulany Hall.  1001 Rogers Street, Columbia, MO  65216. 

Schedule:

12:00  The Ethics of Pandemic Influenza Planning and Response, Lea Brandt, University of Missouri

1:00  Good Business and the Rules of the Game: Robert Solomon and the Myth of Amoral Business, Laurence Rohrer, Lincoln University

2:00  "Our Jane" and Gita-Yoga: Non-Gender Exclusiveness of the Bhagavad-Gita, Melanie Johnson-Moxley, University of Missouri/Columbia College

3:00  Plato, Rawls, and Hermenuetics, Ted Vaggalis, Drury University

4:00  Why Kant's Humanity Formula Is Not the 'Supreme Principle of Morality,' Andrew Johnson, Missouri State University

5:00  Critical Reflections on Ethics: Aims, Methods, Standards and Constraints, Joseph Martire, Missouri State University

Dulany Hall is on the east side of N. 8th Street.  A parking lot is available on the west side of the street.