Warren Steinkraus Lecture

This year's lecture features David Morrow, the director of research at the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment at American University  and Visiting Fellow at George Mason University's Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, addressing "Climate Justice and Carbon Removal." The lecture will be held on Thursday October 25, 2018 at 4:00 PM in the Marano Campus Center auditorium. He studies climate ethics and climate policy with a particular focus on the ethics and governance on solar geoengineering and carbon removal.

Past Speakers

2017
J.D. Trout
"Explanation, Truthiness, and the False Climb to Knowledge"

2016
Dr. Pete Mandik
"Mind, Metaphysics and the Future"

2015
Dr. Jonathan Riley
Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Mill’s Political Philosophy and American Ideals

2014
Dr. Mark Wicclair
Conscientious Objection in Health Care: Deciding When to Accommodate Health Professionals

2013
Dr. Heather Douglas
Ideals For Responsible Science in Democratic Societies

2012
Dr. Peter Carruthers
Is Self-Knowledge Special? The Case Against

2011
Dr. Gary Varner
Personhood, Ethics, & Animal Cognition

2010
Dr. Udo Schuklenk
Doing Clinical Trials in Developing Countries Ethically

2008
Dr. Barbara Forrest
Inside Creationism's Trojan Horse

2007
Dr. Cristina Bicchierri
Do As They Do NOT As They Say: The Conditional Status of Norms

2006
Dr. Martha Nussbaum
Radical Evil in Liberal Democracies

Dr. Margaret Gilbert
The Morality of Obedience

2004
Dr. Henry Shue
Superpower Accountability

2003
Dr. James Robert Brown
Community of Science

2002
Dr. Steven Lee
Just War Theory in the 21st Century

2001
Dr. Howard McGary
Achieving Democratic Equality: Forgiveness, Reconciliation and Reparations

2000
Dr. Owen Flanagan
Minds, Morals & the Meaning of Life