Each semester since fall 2001, the Center has sponsored a lecture series and dinner in honor of the generosity of the Arthur J. Schmitt Foundation to the University of Notre Dame. The goal of semi-annual lectures is to bring in distinguished speakers from around the world, attracting speakers of the highest quality, Nobel laureates, outstanding scientists and engineers, and leading philosophers and theologians. The lecture series aims to provide occasions at which the Schmitt Fellows, graduate students in the Colleges of Science and Engineering, could join with other members of the Notre Dame community to reflect on the ethical, political and religious dimensions of the studies in which they are engaged.
Below is a list of titles and speakers.
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Don Howard, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame
“Science and the Human Good: How to Think Philosophically about the Place of Values in Science”
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Peter Kilpatrick, McCloskey Dean of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame
“Science, Beauty, and the Transcendentals”
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Alasdair MacIntyre, Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture’s senior research fellow and one of the world’s foremost philosophers
“Physics, Ethics, and the Life of Practice”
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Christine Rosen, Fellow for the Project on Biotechnology and American Democracy at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a senior editor of The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology and Society.
“Convenience, Control, and Other Technological Virtues”
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Philip
Bess, University of Notre Dame
School of Architecture
"After Urbanism: The Strange Bedfellows of Neo-Traditional
Architecture and Town Planning"
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
William B. Hurlbut, M.D.
"Stem Cells, Embryos, and Ethics: Is there a Way Forward?"
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
O.
Carter Snead,
University of Notre Dame Law School
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Michael J. Baxter, University of Notre Dame
"Seeking Another City: Beyond Liberal and Conservative Catholicism
in the United States"
Wednesday, November 3, 2004
Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of
Chicago
"St. Augustine, Harry Potter, and the Confrontation with Evil"
Thursday, April 29, 2004
Stanley Fish, University of Illinois at Chicago
"There Is Nothing He Cannot Ask: Milton, Liberalism, and
Terrorism"
Tuesday, December 9, 2003
Ebrahim Moosa, Duke University
"Subject to Allah and/or Science?: Ambivalent Narrative in Contemporary
Muslim Ethics"
Tuesday, November 19, 2002
Mark
Siegler, University of Chicago
"The Science and Politics of Cloning: What a Difference a Year Makes"
Tuesday, April 2, 2002
Gilbert Meilaender, Valparaiso University
"Genes As Resources"
Tuesday, October 30, 2001
Paul Griffiths, University of Illinois at Chicago
"On Lying and Truth-Telling: Or, How and Why to Disown Speech"
