Melinda C. Hall, PhD

Over the weekend, I was a guest judge at the National Bioethics Bowl, which was held in Tallahassee at Florida State University. Concurrently held was the National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference #NUBC2015. Undergraduate students from across the country presented their work. During the bowl rounds, I loved watching the students, who were dedicated and excited, break into…

I touched down in Vancouver late this evening for the 2015 APA-Pacific meeting. I look forward to sharing my paper, “Bioethics in Catastrophe: A Reply to Liao, Sandberg, and Roache on Human Enhancement,” tomorrow and hearing from the commentator! 

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My blog post on environmental catastrophe and bioethics is up on the IJFAB blog today – check it out! And while you’re there, browse many fabulous discussions by awesome feminist bioethicists and philosophers.

I am pleased to announce that I will host a Philosophy Slam on Tuesday, March 3rd at 7:30 pm in Jacksonville, organized by Jacksonville University. Title: It It the End of the World? (And if so, what should we do about it?) I’m going to prompt discussion of environmental global catastrophe, ask for critiques of…

Stetson’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter is very pleased to welcome Dr. David Schmidtz (Philosophy, University of Arizona) to campus next week! He’s holding three public events, visiting classes, and eating and conversing with students and faculty.

I am thrilled to begin classes today. I am teaching Logic, Environmental Ethics, and Contemporary Moral Dilemmas. CDM might be my most daring syllabus yet – I am headed to the frontiers of ethics and the outskirts of morality with the following units: Sexual Ethics, Privacy and Honesty, Resources and Consumption, Weapons, Police, and Punishment, and…

I’m in Wauwatosa, WI this weekend attending a workshop led by the Council on Undergraduate Research. We are focusing on undergraduate research in the Arts and Humanities. The Stetson team is looking for creative ways to provide scaffolding for senior research experiences in the curriculum for students as first years, sophomores, and juniors; that is,…

11/10/14 @ 4:30 pm, Science Lecture Hall, Bethune Cookman University, Daytona Beach, FL.

Check out this blog post by Bill Peace (Bad Cripple) on the Brittany Maynard story. In the comments, Bill writes: “She will knowingly end her life before she becomes disabled. Thus her stated desire to die is indeed about disability. By logical extension she assumes end of life will involve disability and that sort of…