News Release
University Gears Up For 11th Annual Ethics Bowl
University of Detroit Mercy students will get a chance to test their critical thinking skills at 11th annual Ethics Bowl. Inspired by TV’s College Bowl, and created to examine and find answers for tough ethical issues, the Ethics Bowl will take place on Friday, Nov 5, 2010 at various locations on UDM’s McNichols Campus.
Competition begins when the moderator poses a variety of ethical questions to each competing team, and the team that comes up with the most morally defensible answer will win the match. 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.).
A panel of judges drawn from UDM faculty, staff and administration, along with several guest judges from off campus, rate answers in terms of intelligibility, focus, depth, and judgment. The first-place team has the honor of representing UDM at the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl. This event is in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE). Forty teams, representing colleges and universities throughout the United States, will put their abilities of ethical reasoning to the test.
For more information, please contact Associate Professor of Philosophy Martin G. Leever at 313-993-1135 or visit http://www.liberalarts.udmercy.edu/philosopy/ethicsbowl/index.htm.
Release date: November 02, 2010
# # #
