The Center for Applied Ethics is housed in the Department of Philosophy, California State University, Long Beach.  Its goals are:

• to foster interdisciplinary work in practical ethics among faculty and students on the CSULB campus.
  
• to work with community organizations to promote awareness of ethical issues in practical settings.
• to create an expanded array of educational offerings in applied ethics at CSULB.

The Center sponsors speakers, conferences, and projects on topics in applied ethics. In the future, plans include coordinating interdisciplinary ethics projects on campus (e.g., NEH-sponsored faculty reading groups, ethics across the curriculum programs), reaching out to interested community groups (e.g., working with Leadership Long Beach to offer sessions on ethics and values, sending faculty or graduate students to sit on hospital ethics committees, working with local environmental groups on public education programs), and introducing more courses in applied ethics at CSULB.

The Center’s former director is Jeffrey Moriarty.

Amy Coplan (Cal State Fullerton) will give a talk entitled, "Caring About Characters: Four Determinants of Emotional Engagement (Or, Why I Care More About President Bartlett than President Bush)," at 2:00 p.m. on April 20th, 2005 in the Library 5th Floor Gallery.

J. Angelo Corlett (San Diego State University) will give a talk entitled, "Was 9/11 Morally Justified?" at 2:00 p.m. on March 10th, 2005 in the Library 5th Floor Gallery.  After the talk, Professor Corlett discuss his work and sign his new book, Terrorism: A Philosophical Analysis.

We are also working on gathering the resources for a conference on environmental ethics.  Stay tuned!

During 2003-2004, the Center brought four distinguished speakers to CSULB for a conference entitled "Race, Social Justice, and the Professions."  Participants were: Naomi Zack (University of Oregon), Jorge L.A. Garcia (Boston College), Howard McGary (Rutgers University), and David Kim (University of San Francisco).  The event took place on February 19th, 2004.

During 2002-2003, the Center so-sponsored a symposium: "The Ethics of Stem Cell Research and Human Cloning."  The event took place on Saturday, April 5th, and included talks by Carol Itatani (CSULB, Biology), Mary Mahowald (University of Chicago), Radhika Rao (Hastings College of Law), and Bonnie Steinbock (Suny Albany, Philosophy)

During 2001-2002, the Center co-sponsored a one day conference entitled "Challenging Democracy: Religious Diversity and Political Institutions on a Global Scale" March 8, 2002. Speakers included M.A.Muqtedar Khan, Adrian College (Department of Political Science), Matthius Lutz-Bachmann, Goethe Universitat, Frankfurt (Department of Philosophy), and Andrew Wallace, Sonoma State University (Department of Philosophy).

During 2000-2001, the Center co-sponsored two conferences: "Sequencing the Future: Ethical, Legal and Social Issues Arising from the Human Genome Project", CSULB, April 21, 2001.  Speakers included Troy Duster, University of California, Berkeley; Erik Parens, Hastings Center; and Anita Silvers, San Francisco State University; as well as faculty and students from CSULB.  We also sponsored "Philosophy and Ethics in Children’s Literature", in conjunction the California K-16 Partnership Initiative, June 21, 2001.  Speakers included Gareth Matthews, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Claudia Mills, University of Colorado, Boulder; David Shapiro, University of Washington and the Northwest Center for Philosophy for Children; and Dale Turner, California Polytechnic University, Pomona.  

November 26, 2001. Dr. Michael Pritchard, Department of Philosophy, Western Michigan University "Perception and Imagination in Engineering Ethics" East Library, Room 110, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

October 16, 2001 Dr. Xinyan Jiang, Department of Philosophy, University of Redlands "Rational Beings and Moral Agency in Xunzi" East Library,  Room 110, 3:30-5:00 p.m. 

April 12, 2000 Dr. Ann Davis, Pomona College "Running Faster but Moving Slower: Information, Technology, and the Ambiguity of Progress" Main Library, 5th floor gallery, 4:00-5:30 p.m.

The Center will sponsor two lectures on applied ethics at Cerritos Community College in the fall of 2004.

A business ethics capstone course (PHIL 400I) was developed in collaboration with the CSULB College of Business Administration and has now been approved by the university.  It will be offered for the first time in the fall of 2005.

A new medical ethics capstone course (PHIL403I) has been developed and was offered during spring 2003.

In fall 2003, the Center teamed with the Long Beach OASIS community center to provide a special section of Applied Ethics for mature adults.

In spring 2001, the Center teamed with the CSULB School of Nursing to provide a special section of Ethical Theory designed for nursing students who were working at Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach.  

We are always looking for new opportunities to interact with the Long Beach community!