[bioundgrd] FW: Two Ethics Seminars Spring 2020

[Joshua Stone]

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From: Christina English <cenglish at mit.edu<mailto:cenglish at mit.edu>>
Subject: Two Ethics Seminars Spring 2020
Date: December 9, 2019 at 2:25:29 PM EST


Two Ethics Seminars Offered in Spring 2020

Being, Thinking, Doing (or Not): Ethics in Your Life [24.191]<https://radius.mit.edu/seminars/ethics-seminar>

For a decade now, Radius has partnered with MIT Philosophy to offer an undergraduate seminar focused on the ethical questions we encounter in our daily lives. The Spring course, 24.191 Being, Thinking, Doing (or Not)<https://radius.mit.edu/seminars/ethics-seminar>, meets Tuesday nights and equips MIT students to reflect more deeply on their career and life choices. It covers a variety of topics each year, including racial reconciliation, inequalities in criminal justice, responses to climate change, uses of artificial intelligence, and ethical eating. Led by Quinn White<https://www.pqwhite.com/> (Postdoctoral Associate in Philosophy) and Patricia-Maria Weinmann<https://radius.mit.edu/about/people> (Radius Associate Coordinator). 6 credits and pass/fail. Dinner is served every week.

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Building the Beloved Community: The Ethics of Public Life [ES.S91]<https://radius.mit.edu/seminars/ethics-seminar>

This Spring Radius also has an exciting opportunity through The Educational Justice Institute (TEJI) for MIT students to study ethics alongside incarcerated students in Boston’s School of Reentry program at Boston Pre-Release Center in Roslindale, MA. This seminar, ES.S91 Building the Beloved Community: The Ethics of Public Life<https://radius.mit.edu/seminars/ethics-seminar>, meets Monday nights and will focus on the question: What do we owe each other? 6 credits and pass/fail. Find out more on the Radius website<https://radius.mit.edu/seminars/ethics-seminar>.

Led by Thea Keith-Lucas<https://radius.mit.edu/about/people> (Radius Coordinator) and Shannon Schmidt. Shannon recently graduated with a master’s (MTS) in religion, ethics, and politics at Harvard, where one of the emphases of her studies was restorative justice. Shannon’s background is in electoral organizing and campaign management, interfaith organizing, and faith and politics research. She currently belongs to a community that includes formerly incarcerated men, most of whom reside in halfway houses in the city of Boston.


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