Bioethics-y Things at Yale: Killer Kitty edition

On Thursday, September 27 at 4:15 PM, our Animal Ethics Forum will host its first-ever public lecture. Clare Palmer (Philosophy, Texas A&M) will speak on "Ethics, Conservation, and Animal Welfare: Wildlife and Outdoor Cats." Outdoor cats, you say? Well, yes, actually. Our little purring murderers are estimated to kill 4 billion animals a year in the US alone. We humans are having a huge environmental impact via our cats. Clare's talk will raise a number of tough issues: the tensions among animal lovers and environmentalists, the limits of our personal responsibility, the meaning of animal suffering.

The event is co-sponsored by the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics and the Yale Divinity School.

Bioethicsy Stuff at Yale

Our Animal Ethics group will hear Charles C. Camosy (Theology, Fordham) on the topic of Ethics and Other Animals: Common Ground Amidst Difference, on December 1 at 1pm.

Our Jerome Medalie End-of-Life Issues group will host Helen Stanton Chapple, PhD, RN, MA, CCRN, MT (Center for Health Policy and Ethics, Creighton) on December 6 at 5:30.

Our Technology and Ethics group will hear Aimee Vanwynsberghe (PhD Candidate in Philosophy, University of Twente) on A Framework for Integrating Ethics in the Design of Care Robots on December 7 at 4:15.

Locations and other details on all of these events are here.

Bioethicsy Stuff at Yale

A couple of things for folks who might be in New Haven: The Bioethics Center's sister-institution, the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale, is screening "Green Fire," a film on the life of environmentalist Aldo Leopold (author of "A Sand County Almanac"), tonight at 6. There'll be a reception and what looks to be a very fine panel discussion. Details are here. The event is being hosted by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (from which Leopold graduated in '09), with cosponsorship from the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, the Yale Divinity School, the Environmental Film Festival at Yale, and the Center for Humans and Nature. Another sister institution, the Program for Biomedical Ethics at Yale Medical School, is hosting an event on Transplant Ethics on Wednesday evening; details here. And finally, look at our front page to find out about Hal Herzog's Oct. 27 address to our Animal Ethics group on "Moral Inconsistency, Psychology, and Animal Ethics," and David Chalmers' November 4 talk to our Technology and Ethics group on "The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis."

Upcoming Bioethicsy Stuff at Yale

Two things to put on the calendar: First, Hal Herzog (Psychology, Western Carolina University) will speak to our Animal Ethics Working Group at 1 p.m. on Thursday the 27th at the Bioethics Center; his topic will be "Moral Inconsistency, Psychology, and Animal Ethics." Second (though it's a day earlier, I'm just writing this backwards), our sister organization, Yale Medical Schoo'ls Program on Biomedical Ethics, will host a conference on Transplantation Ethics on Wednesday the 26th, 5 p.m., in the Beaumont Room of Yale Med's Sterling Hall, above the medical library. Speakers will be Robert Truog and Norm Fost. Should be wonderful!