When: 
Thursday, April 17, 2014 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Where: 
Kirby Hall of Civil Rights, Room 104
Presenter: 
Professor Thomas I. White, Professor in Business Ethics & Director of the Center for Ethics and Business at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
Price: 
Free

Thomas I. White is the Conrad N. Hilton Professor in Business Ethics and Director of the Center for Ethics and Business at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. His publications include five books (Right and Wrong, Discovering Philosophy, Business Ethics, Men and Women at Work andIn Defense of Dolphins) and numerous articles on topics ranging from sixteenth-century Renaissance humanism to business ethics.

 In light of the kind of beings they are, is the current state of human/dolphin interaction ethically acceptable? This book argues that dolphins have intellectual and emotional abilities sophisticated enough to grant them “moral standing”; they should be regarded at least as “nonhuman persons”; and the current state of human/dolphin interaction (characterized by the deaths and injuries of dolphins in connection with the human fishing industry and the use of captive dolphins by the entertainment industry for therapeutic purposes and by the military) is ethically indefensible.

 

 

Sponsored by: 
The Philosophy Department, Dean of the College, and Office of the Provost

Contact information

Name: 
Professor Peter Gildenhuys
Phone: 
610-330-5164
Email: 
gildenhp@lafayette.edu