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04/08/07 \| Culture, Emotion, and Bioethics The Bioethics Forum will be hosting another dinner discussion TOMORROW, Monday April 9th, with Professor Jon Haidt, a visiting professor from the University of Virginia's Department of Psychology. Professor Haidt specializes in the study of morality and emotion, and how they vary across cultures. Tomorrow he will be addressing how gut feelings and intuitions drive our thoughts about bioethics. Mehek will again be served. Prof. Jon Haidt, "Culture, Emotion, and Bioethics" Frist 307 6pm. 03/30/07 \| Thomson and Abortion After a few months of quiescence, the Bioethics Forum is finally back with a lecture and dinner discussion planned this Tuesday April 3rd: This coming Monday, we will be hosting a lecture and dinner with Dr. James Mahon, a visiting Professor of Philosophy from Washington and Lee University, discussing the ethics of abortion. Prof. Mahon, a graduate of the University of Cambridge (M.Phil) and Duke University (Ph.D.), is a specialist in normative ethics (especially Kantian ethics) and early modern philosophy. We will be discussing key issues addressed in the Judith Thomson's paper "A Defense of Abortion," which is posted online here. Questions Prof. Mahon intends to address include: (a) The distinction Thomson makes between justice and good samaritanism; (b) The distinction between murder and killing in self-defense; (c) The distinction between killing and letting die; (d) The extent to which one may go in protecting one's bodily integrity. Following the lecture, dinner (most likely Mehek) will be available. Below are the times and locations for Monday's lecture: Dr. Mahon's Lecture "Thomson and Abortion" Frist 307 5:30pm Dinner Discussion following the lecture Frist 309 6:30pm		PrincetonBioethicsFORUM

04/08/07 | Culture, Emotion, and Bioethics
The Bioethics Forum will be hosting another dinner discussion TOMORROW, Monday April 9th, with Professor Jon Haidt, a visiting professor from the University of Virginia's Department of Psychology. Professor Haidt specializes in the study of morality and emotion, and how they vary across cultures. Tomorrow he will be addressing how gut feelings and intuitions drive our thoughts about bioethics. Mehek will again be served. Prof. Jon Haidt, "Culture, Emotion, and Bioethics" Frist 307 6pm.

03/30/07 | Thomson and Abortion
After a few months of quiescence, the Bioethics Forum is finally back with a lecture and dinner discussion planned this *Tuesday April 3rd:*

This coming Monday, we will be hosting a lecture and dinner with Dr. James Mahon, a visiting Professor of Philosophy from Washington and Lee University, discussing the ethics of abortion. Prof. Mahon, a graduate of the University of Cambridge (M.Phil) and Duke University (Ph.D.), is a specialist in normative ethics (especially Kantian ethics) and early modern philosophy. We will be discussing key issues addressed in the Judith Thomson's paper "A Defense of Abortion," which is posted online here.

Questions Prof. Mahon intends to address include:
(a) The distinction Thomson makes between justice and good samaritanism;
(b) The distinction between murder and killing in self-defense;
(c) The distinction between killing and letting die;
(d) The extent to which one may go in protecting one's bodily integrity.

Following the lecture, dinner (most likely Mehek) will be available. Below are the times and locations for Monday's lecture:
Dr. Mahon's Lecture "Thomson and Abortion" Frist 307 5:30pm
Dinner Discussion following the lecture Frist 309 6:30pm

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