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The Center sponsors humanities courses at Hope House, a residential treatment facility for recovering alcoholics and drug addicts.

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Tue 30 Jun

Writing about War

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6:00pm on Tuesday, June 30, 2015 At Bing Concert Hall

This year marks both the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War and the 14th year that U.S.

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Welcome to Ethics in Society

The McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society is committed to bringing ethical reflection to bear on important social problems through research, teaching, and engagement. The major problems faced by our troubled globe -- extreme poverty, environmental sustainability, and international peace and security -- are not only technological in nature, but also moral. To that end, we develop initiatives with ethical dimensions that relate to important public problems and draw on the established strengths of interdisciplinary Stanford faculty.

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Recently from The Buzz

Political theorists wrap up another successful retreat

By Patrick Taylor Smith on June 6, 2015

A group of Stanford graduate student and postdoc political theorists - affectionately known as "the Dirty Leviathan" - attended their sixth annual retreat at a beach house outside Watsonville on May 15th through 17th, 2015.

Kitcher on what secular ethics can learn from religion

By Maya Krishnan on May 19, 2015

Philosopher Philip Kitcher describes what secular ethicists can learn from religion in a talk on April 30th at the Stanford Humanities Center.

Experts discuss giving for global poverty relief

By The Buzz Staff on April 24, 2015

Speaking to a packed crowd of students, faculty, and community members on April 8th, philosopher Peter Singer championed the “Effective Altruism” movement, led by people who, as Singer describes it, seek to apply “evidence and reason to determining the most effective ways to improve the world.”

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