UNIVERSITY NEWS - JANUARY 2004

MEDIA CONTACT: Stacia Smith
561-297-2971or ssmith@fau.edu

CALENDAR INFORMATION

CATEGORY: Lecture

EVENT: "You Must Remember This/We'll Always Have Paris," presented by Peter A. French, Lincoln Chair in Ethics at Arizona State University

WHEN: Tuesday, January 27, 3:30 p.m.

WHERE: Board of Trustees Room, 3rd Floor
Administration Building
Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades Road
Boca Raton, FL

COST: Free

INFORMATION: For further information, please call Mrs. Caban at 561-297-3868.

DESCRIPTION: A central question of moral philosophy is whether or not our judgments about moral responsibility regarding events or the actions of persons are appropriate. In this talk, Professor French focuses on public memory and the responsibility for the actions of generations in our past. Peter A. French is the Lincoln Chair in Ethics and the Director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University. Dr. French has a national reputation in ethical and legal theory, applied ethics and in collective and corporate responsibility. He is the author of seventeen books including Cowboy Metaphysics: Ethics and Death in Westerns, Corporate Ethics, Responsibility Matters, Corporations in the Moral Community, The Spectrum of Responsibility, Collective and Corporate Responsibility, Ethics in Government, and The Scope of Morality.
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