Technology & Ethics

Chair: Wendell Wallach, wendell.wallach@yale.edu

This group meets on Wednesdays at 77 Prospect St, room B012, from 4:15-6 PM.  Snacks and drinks will be provided.

The schedule for 2009-2010 is as follows:

October 7 James J. Hughes, Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

Virtue Engineering

November 6 at 2:15 PM*  Jonathan Moreno, Professor in the Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

Mind Wars

December 2 Miller Brown, Professor of Philosophy, Trinity College

The Case for Perfection:

Sports and Genetic Enhancement

 January 20 Brian Scassellati, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Yale

Socially Assistive Robots

February 3 David Pogue, Technology Columnist, New York Times

Web 2.0 vs. Journalism

March 17 Dr. Janie Merkel, Director of the Yale Chemical Genomics Center

Ethical Considerations in Chemical Genomics

Screening for Drug Discovery

 April 14 Ron Sandler, Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Northeastern University

The Value of Synthetic Organisms

May 12  Ben Hurlbut, Post-Doctoral Fellow, STS Program, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Technologies of Representation: Public Ethics

and the Human Embryo Research Debates

RSVP to bioethics.center@yale.edu if you wish to attend.

*Note that this meeting takes place on a Friday at 2:15 rather than a Wednesday at 4:15.