Aligned with Duke Engineering’s Character Forward initiative, Professor Siobhan Oca’s Ethics in Robotics and Automation course (ME 490) challenges students to see beyond technical skills and practice ...

If you are to read one opinion essay prompted by recent events in Ukraine and Israel, I’d recommend a piece by the bioethicist Ezekiel J. Emanuel entitled “Hamas and the Moral Failure of Our ...

The new fall semester is upon us, and at elite private colleges and universities, it’s hard to find a trendier major than Computer Science. It’s also becoming more common for such institutions to ...

Past opposition to incorporating an emphasis on ethics into business education helps explain how American big business has ended up in a succession of scandals, suggests Amitai Etzioni, who once ...

Based on our experience in teaching ethics, we have developed, tested, and presented in this article a program of instruction that rests on four pillars: popular feature films, a six-stage ethical ...

When we discuss STEM education, it's easy to focus on acts of teaching and learning. But if our vision of STEM is only confined to the classroom, we risk ignoring a large portion of what the true ...

How can each generation do better than the one that came before? What does “doing better” even mean? These questions are at the heart of all parents’ decisions about their children, at the core of ...

Earlier this week at The Atlantic, Emily Richmond asked whether high-stakes testing caused the Atlanta schools cheating scandal. The answer, I would argue, is yes... just not in the way you might ...

Note: This week’s guest-blogger is Meira Levinson, Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). Today, she co-authors with Jacob Fay, an advanced doctoral student at HGSE ...

Last week I attended American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. One of the themes running through the event was ethics education. There was, for example, much ...

Business ethics and the applied moral philosophy relevant to it employ normative language, using words such as "imperative,""obligation,""duties,""virtue," and "wisdom." In the use and justification ...

Why do people lie, cheat and steal? Why do “good” people do bad things – actions they know they shouldn’t take and do anyway? How much of someone’s antisocial behavior is the result of individual ...