The Rock Ethics Institute promotes engaged ethics research and ethical leadership from its home in Penn State’s College of the Liberal Arts.
The Rock Ethics Institute promotes engaged ethics research and ethical leadership from its home in Penn State’s College of the Liberal Arts.
Topics
The Institute’s research topic areas integrate ethical considerations into interdisciplinary scholarship at Penn State. Select a topic below to learn more or view all topics.
Public Life
Sustainability
Technology
Gender and Sexuality
Food and Agriculture
Health
Global Issues
Race
Upcoming Rock Ethics Institute Events
Penn State Sustainability kicked off the semester and its "Intersections" film series by hosting an in-person event focused on democracy and civic engagement.
Ted Toadvine, Nancy Tuana Director of the Rock Ethics Institute and professor of philosophy in Penn State’s College of the Liberal Arts, is the author of the new book, “The Memory of the World: Deep Time, Animality, and Eschatology,” published by the University of Minnesota Press.
The Rock Ethics Institute has announced the 2024 PIKSI-Rock — "Philosophy in an Inclusive Key" — summer conference lecture speakers: Ásta of Duke University (June 4), Tyrone S. Palmer of Wesleyan University (June 7) and Vrinda Dalmiya of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa (June 10). All lectures are free and open to the public.
The Rock Ethics Institute has announced the 2024 PIKSI-Rock — "Philosophy in an Inclusive Key" — summer conference lecture speakers: Ásta of Duke University (June 4), Tyrone S. Palmer of Wesleyan University (June 7) and Vrinda Dalmiya of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa (June 10). All lectures are free and open to the public.
The Rock Ethics Institute has announced the 2024 PIKSI-Rock — "Philosophy in an Inclusive Key" — summer conference lecture speakers: Ásta of Duke University (June 4), Tyrone S. Palmer of Wesleyan University (June 7) and Vrinda Dalmiya of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa (June 10). All lectures are free and open to the public.
Three members of the Business Ethics Case Team at the Penn State Smeal College of Business collaborated to place first in two competitions and second in the third at the 2024 International Business Ethics Case Competition, held in late April at the University of Massachusetts.
Penn State's Rock Ethics Institute has announced the winners of the 2024 Stand Up Awards for Undergraduate Ethical Leadership: Triniti Freeman, a nursing major at Penn State Schuylkill; Vancie Peacock, a biological engineering major at Penn State University Park; and Jenna Seigworth, an English major at Penn State Behrend.
Two members of the Smeal College of Business Ethics Case Team collaborated to finish third overall and first in the Manatee Bracket among four competing teams in the Templeton Business Ethics Case Competition in February at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida.
Department of Psychology faculty member C. Daryl Cameron discusses the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making’s upcoming “AI, Empathy, and Morality” conference, and a recent journal article he co-wrote that examines the dynamic of artificial intelligence and empathy.
Policy advocate and New York Times bestselling author Heather McGhee will deliver the Rock Ethics Institute’s 2024 Richard B. Lippin Lecture in Ethics at 6 p.m. March 28 in Freeman Auditorium at University Park. Penn State staff who attend the event in-person or virtually and register through the Penn State Learning Resource Network will receive diversity, equity and inclusion professional development credit on their LRN transcripts once the attendance is confirmed.
