What Classes Do We Offer?
Learning Teaching and learning are central to our project. Through innovative pedagogy and focused content, we help students understand the process of ethical reflection, gain knowledge and skills to apply that process in their own personal and professional lives, and mature as public citizens making concrete contributions to the public good. To support these goals, […]
How Do We Make Ethical Decisions?
It is not always easy to understand or even identify the ethical dimensions of important public issues. We may feel we do not have enough information to make judgments, or that all sides are valid, or that the issue is so complex that it resists analysis. However, understanding and assessing the ethical dimensions of contemporary […]
Gentrification in Gainesville: What is our role?
May 3, 2021 By Lucas Rentz, CAIRES Intern Gentrification is a process that many Gainesville residents are far too familiar with. As development projects arise and wealthy individuals continue to displace community members, long-time residents fear for the future of East Gainesville. To them, the area has unique cultural and historical significance that is too […]
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UF Ethics Group Hosts Community Discussion About Gentrification
As the nation continues to cope with the coronavirus pandemic, members of the Gainesville community have turned their attention to social justice issues like gentrification.
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Sex Trafficking Panel
February 20, 2020 By Megan Sam, CAIRES Intern What is this Panel About? This panel was an opportunity for students to become more informed about gender violence and its relationship to sex trafficking, especially in the context of Gainesville. Speakers The speakers present at the sex trafficking panel included Maddy Coy, Alexandria Wilson, Alison Ungaro, […]
An Open Discussion About Free Speech: The First Ethics Café of the Semester
February 19, 2020 By Melanie Halem, CAIRES Intern Last week, Ethics in the Public Sphere hosted an Ethics Café focused on the topic of free speech and hate speech. Students were able to enjoy coffee and snacks as they dove into this really difficult topic, and they found that although most people had the same […]
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Ethics and the Public Sphere: A Genealogy
February 5, 2020 Ethics & the Public Sphere is a course with a complex evolutionary history. Through its many stages of development, it has remained true to a core objective: to explore with students the relevance of ethical thought and action to their lives and in their world. Ethics is applicable regardless of students’ career […]
Education Reform
In the 2016 presidential primaries, Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders argued that college should be tuition-free. Sanders’ position garnered a lot of political traction, but what are the arguments for this position, and are those sound, compelling arguments? Hard-fought social and legal battles have, over time, interpreted and advanced the nation’s understanding of what a good […]
