Ethics Bowl
Supported by the Center for Ethics, Emory University’s Ethics Bowl teams provide an opportunity to further your interest in ethics, strengthen your analytical skills, and improve your ability to think on your feet. It also gives you a chance to meet with like-minded students for laughs, conversation, and a free dinner.
In Ethics Bowl, a moderator poses a question based on previously distributed cases to teams of three to five students. Questions may address ethical problems on classroom topics (e.g. cheating or plagiarism), personal relationships (e.g. dating or friendship), professional ethics (e.g. engineering, law, medicine), or social and political ethics (e.g. free speech, gun control, etc.) Responses are evaluated on the bases of soundness of response, intelligibility, focus on ethically relevant considerations, avoidance of ethical irrelevance, and deliberative thoughtfulness.
More information on Ethics Bowl competition and the cases is available here: http://ethics.iit.edu/eb/index.html
Team members meet weekly beginning in the fall semester to prepare for the Southeastern Regional Competition usually held in mid-November. Working with the coach and each other team members discuss ways of analyzing cases, presenting an argument, and handling questions. Depending on their placement during the regionals, teams may go on to the International Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Competition held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association of Practical and Professional Ethics.
For more information or to express your interest contact:
Edward Queen
Director, Leadership Education
Center for Ethics, Emory University
equeen@emory.edu
2008-2009 Ethics Bowl Teams
Team AKatherine Gregory
Whitney Iuvone
Paige Jackson
Rachel Rosenberg
Team B
Arti Batta
Laura Hanft
Ayisha Tahir
