The Dean’s Office and the Workshop are again co-sponsoring an event with a candidate for a faculty position in Religious Ethics.  Professor Anna Peterson will join us for a lunchtime discussion of her paper, “Means and Ends in Social Ethics” at noon in the Common Room on Tuesday, Dec. 3. 

The workshop event follows two other events with Professor Peterson, the details of which are below:

Monday, Dec. 2, 2013. 4:30pm. 3rd floor lecture hall.                                                   Public Lecture by Anna Peterson, “Are Animals Nature?”

Tuesday, Dec. 3, 20139am. The Common Room.                                                     Student Roundtable with Anna Peterson

Anna Peterson is Professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Florida. She received her AM (1987) and her PhD (1991), in Ethics and Society, from the University of Chicago Divinity School. She is the author of Being Animal: Beasts and Boundaries in Nature Ethics (Columbia University Press, 2013); Being Human: Ethics, Environment, and Our Place in the World (University of California Press, 2001); Everyday Ethics and Social Change: The Education of Desire. New (Columbia University Press, 2009) (A Choice outstanding academic book of 2010), and Seeds of the Kingdom: Utopian Communities in the Americas, among others. At the University of Florida she is also affiliated with the Center for Latin American Studies; Tropical Conservation and Development Program; and School of Natural Resources and the Environment.