The Purdue Lectures in Ethics, Policy, and Science (PLEPS) began in 2010, though its roots can be traced back to the Purdue Bioethics Seminar Series, which began in 2007. For over a decade now, PLEPS has brought many nationally and internationally recognized academics and researchers from various fields and professions to speak to a diverse audience of engineers, ethicists, medical professionals, scientists, and philosophers. The mission of the lecture series is to help bolster communication and interaction between the Liberal Arts and STEM communities on Purdue’s campus. Though organized and hosted by the Department of Philosophy, PLEPS is generously supported through sponsorship by various Purdue colleges and departments.
Developments and Tensions in the Idea of Animal Welfare
Peter Sandoe (University of Copenhagen)
11 April 2019
Decolonizing the Ethics of Knowledge
Dr. Elena Ruíz (Michigan State University)
28 March 2019
Big Data Ethics
Katleen Gabriels (Eindhoven Technical University)
29 November 2018
Undoing Climate Injustice: A Capabilities Approach to Emissions Drawdown
Breena Holland (Lehigh University)
20 September 2018
Justice and Reconciliation in World Politics
Catherine Lu (McGill University)
23 March 2018
Four Archetypes for Future Food Systems
Paul E. Thompson (Michigan State)
22 February 2018
Human Tissue Research, Consent and Justice: What the Case of Henrietta Lacks Can Still Teach Us Today
Sandra Shapshay (Indiana University)
9 November 2017
Animal Breeding: An Important Component of Agricultural Sustainability, or Animal Cruelty?
Alison Van Eenennaam (UC-Davis)
11 April 2017
Disability and the Goods of Life
Stephen M. Campbell (Bentley University)
28 March 2017
Ethical Food Tastes Better
David Kaplan (University of North Texas)
22 February 2017
Minor Consent in HIV Biomedical Prevention Research: The Collision of Ethics, Regulations, and Adolescent Development
Mary A. Ott (Indiana University)
16 November 2016
Generative Justice: Ethics in the Age of Recursive Risk
Ron Eglash (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
19 October 2016
Pets, Companion Animals, and Domesticated Partners
Gary Varner (Texas A&M University)
15 September 2016
Am I Really Responsible for Ensuring a Sustainable Food Future
Raymond Anthony
13 April 2016 (University of Alaska Anchorage)
Boundary Work: Collaboration Between Philosophy of Science and Nanoscience
Julia Bursten (San Francisco State University)
23 March 2016
Culture, Poverty, and Justice: Responsibilities of Individuals and Institutions
Eric Weber (University of Mississippi)
10 February 2016
Animal Minds are Real, (Distinctively) Human Minds are Not
Peter Carruthers (University of Maryland)
18 November 2015
Climate Change, Poverty and Food Security
Thomas W. Hertel (Purdue University)
30 September 2015
A Pragmatist Philosopher's Reflections on GMOs
Lisa Heldke (Gustavus Adolphus College)
4 February 2015
Biofortification: Attenuating the Injustice of Global Malnutrition
Howard Bouis (HarvestPlus)
12 November 2014
Feeling Matters: The Role of Animals in Sustainable Communities
Gary L. Comstock (North Carolina State)
9 October 2014
Structural Bias and the Commercialization of Medicine
Rebecca Kukla (Georgetown)
24 September 2014
When Certainty of Mind Meets Uncertainty of Result, What Do We Do Next?: Prospects for the Affordable Care Act
Bert Rockman (Purdue University)
7 April 2014
Global Healthcare Availability and the Health Impact Fund
Thomas Pogge (Yale)
26 February 2014
Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race
Dorothy Roberts (U of Pennsylvania)
6 November 2013
The Duty to Take Rescue Precautions: Defending a Health Insurance Mandate
Tina Rulli (University of California Davis)
18 September 2013
Reason in a Dark Time: Ethics and Politics in a Greenhouse World
Dale Jamieson (NYU)
9 April 2013
Children, Families, and Medicine
Mark Sheldon (Northwestern)
3 April 2013
Am I My Genes?: Confronting Fate and Family Secrets in the Age of Genetic Testing
Robert Klitzman (Columbia)
19 February 2013
Why this Interest in Races?: Race, Science, and Ethics
Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh)
17 October 2012
Using Our Best Friends: A Pragmatist Take on Dogs and Cats in Biomedical Research
Erin McKenna (Pacific Lutheran University)
26 September 2012
Informed Consent and Risk: The Intersection Between Human Research and Genetics
