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Ethics at Indiana is published twice a year to highlight research, lectures, events and activities of the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions. This is the inaugural issue of Ethics at Indiana, which replaces the printed version of the Poynter Center Newsletter. Founded in 1972, the Poynter Center is dedicated to studying a broad range of ethical issues in American public life.
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Michelle Brown grew up in south-central Indiana and earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Indiana University, but it wasn't the appeal of coming back home that enticed her to become part of the Poynter Center's "Virtuous Empathy" research project. Rather it was the fact that the project meshed so well with her scholarly work, which explores the cultural meaning of punishment and pain as experienced in prisons and other institutions of social control and exclusion. Working with IU scholars in fields as diverse as history, philosophy, religion and neuroscience, she is pursuing research that focuses on empathy and the law, including the interplay of empathy, moral discernment and rationality in punishment and criminal law.
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Apply now for the 2011 Teaching Research Ethics workshop
Each spring the Poynter Center hosts a three-day workshop in Teaching Research Ethics for faculty who need to teach research ethics to students and for administrators and staff who administer research programs on campuses. The program, now in its 18th year, combines a variety of pedagogical styles while covering a range of topics faculty need to consider in their own teaching. The Poynter Center is accepting registrations for the 2011 workshop (May 17-20), to be held at the Indiana Memorial Union.
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Poynter Center research project explores relationship between empathy and ethics
Politicians lament the "empathy gap" in modern society. Popular authors cast empathy as the key to a wiser and more just society. You can almost imagine the Beatles singing, "All you need is empathy." But a two-year Indiana University project takes a more complex and nuanced view of empathy, the ability to understand and experience another person's feelings and state of mind.
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IU Assistant Professor of History Khalil Muhammad discussed his recent book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, at a Poynter Center Roundtable Oct. 5. The book is a story about the evolution of the idea of black criminality and its ties to the making of modern urban America.
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Ethics as a competitive sport? For hundreds of undergraduates across the country, it is. Each fall, they study a dozen cases full of ethical issues, preparing to defend their views of the cases in a regional competition. The five-member IU team competed in this year's competiton on Nov. 6 in Indianapolis.
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The Healthcare Ethics Seminar meets monthly at the Poynter Center during the academic year, providing an opportunity for discussion among people who work in healthcare, faculty and students at IU, and members of the public. This fall, discussions were held on "Research Ethics in the Era of Personalized Medicine: Updating Science's Contract with Society" and "Strategies for Communicating Treatment Preferences Near the End of Life."
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People and institutions increasingly rely on pervasive and autonomous technologies to operate complex systems without thinking much about ethical and privacy issues. A recent workshop at the Poynter Center focused on these issues in a talk entitled, "Securing Emerging Technologies: Medical Devices, Robots, Cars, and More."
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Kenneth D. Pimple, director of Teaching Research Ethics programs at the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions at Indiana University Bloomington, has been named to the Ethics Committee of the National Center for Professional and Research Ethics, a new ethics center funded through a five-year, $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
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Three IU undergraduates, winners of the 2010 Poynter Center's Prizes in Research Ethics, spoke in the spring about their research involving issues in practical ethics.
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