Speakers - Virginia Brown (Dell Medical School), Robert Prentice (McCombs Business School) Stephen Sonnenberg, M.D. (Plan II), Paul Woodruff (Philosophy)

The Oxford Ethics Centre was established in 2003 with the aim of rational reflection on personal and professional ethics: ‘The vision is Socratic, not missionary’. The Oxford Centre promotes discussion on ‘climate change, terrorism, global inequality, poverty, and genetic engineering’. The Centre has transformed the way philosophy is taught at Oxford. ‘Metaethics’ has been crowded out by practical issues. Plans for an Ethics Center at UT have been under consideration for several years and will be discussed at a conference in the fall semester 2018. How should the aims and purpose compare with those of the Oxford Ethics Centre? What strengths should be developed in bioethics to support the Dell School? How will the Center help to promote classes and teaching with an ethical component? One issue is moral injury from events such as the massacre at My Lai and the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. The Center will also discuss the ethics of teaching: do assignments that give students strong incentives to cheat cause them moral injury?