Willow Lance, a Cal Poly Pomona senior majoring in philosophy, will soon be heading to Washington, D.C., where she will spend part of the fall 2021 semester participating in the prestigious Panetta Institute Congressional Internship Program. Lance said the Panetta…
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It started with an idea from a donor to create an ethics center that would focus on issues that affect Californians. Less than two years after the suggestion was made, the faculty emeritus-funded California Center of Ethics and Policy (CCEP)…
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Research focused on racial disparities in the criminal justice system and a call for the abolition of the death penalty garnered Philosophy Professors Michael Cholbi and Alex Madva publication in the prestigious international journal “Ethics.” The journal, founded in 1890,…
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Few modern-day philosophers focus on the topic of grief, but for Philosophy Professor Michael Cholbi, it’s a subject that is at the center of his research. “It’s a surprise because you would expect philosophers to be interested in a shared common…
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Philosophy Professor Alex Madva’s decision to make unconscious bias and racial perceptions the focus of his research came out of what he didn’t see when he looked around his graduate school classrooms. He didn’t see many women or people of…
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