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Symposium on the Science of Violence and Compassion

I spoke at a symposium sponsored by the Silvio O. Conte Neuroscience Research Institute at Vanderbilt and the Avielle Foundation on “The Science of Violence and Compassion.” May 4, 2017 at the Adventure Science Center in Nashville.

Posted by on May 15, 2017 in News

Presentation at Brooklyn College

Presented a paper on “Solidarity and the Ethics of Place,” at Caring for Philosophy: A Conference Celebrating the Work of Eva Feder Kittay, Brooklyn College, New York, NY, April 21-22, 2017

Posted by on May 15, 2017 in News

January 2017 issue of Minding nature is available

The January 2017 issue of the journal I edit, Minding Nature, is now on line. I have an article about what can be done about climate change in the Trump years ahead. Also in this issue are essays on the ecological effects of barriers on the southwestern US-Mexico border, art and information blending to understand…

Posted by on March 6, 2017 in News

University Lecture at Penn State

On September 29, 2016 Bruce Jennings presented a University Lecture at Penn State University on “Care in the Face of Autonomy: Choice Architecture and Relational Judgment in Professional Practice,” sponsored by the Department of Bio-behavioral Health.

Posted by on October 3, 2016 in News, , ,

Grand Rounds at Wake Forest Medical Center

On October 11, 2016 Bruce Jennings presented Medical Grand Rounds at the Wake Forest University Medical Center on “Sharing the Cost of Being Vulnerable: New Directions in Ethic Near the End of Life.”

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University Lecture at Wake Forest

On October 11, 2016 Bruce Jennings delivered a university-wide public lecture at Wake Forest University on “Solidarity and the Moral Imagination.”

Posted by on October 3, 2016 in News, , ,

September 2016 issue of Minding Nature is available

The September 2016 issue of the journal I edit, Minding Nature, is now on line. In this issue are essays on developing a moral conscience, the turn toward nationalism and isolationism in the world today, the new educational and environmental mission of zoos and aquariums, and much more. Art, interviews, and provocative reflections abound in…

Posted by on October 3, 2016 in Media, News, , ,

Biotechnology: Interpreting its meaning

This is a video of a 10 minute presentation I presented at a conference sponsored by the Center for Genetics and Society. It discusses what is ethically and socially questionable in recent advances in biotechnology such as synthetic biology, and more recently gene editing and gene drives. It raises a series of questions for further…

Posted by on July 10, 2016 in Media, News

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