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"Why Good People Do Bad Things: The Science of Behavioral Ethics"
Dr. Robert Prentice
Professor and Department Chair of Business, Government, and Society
When good people do bad things, it is usually not because they have failed to read enough Aristotle or Kant. More commonly, their brains have given them permission to do something that, in retrospect, it is easy for them to see was wrong. Philosophy is integral to the study of morality, but so is behavioral ethics---the study of how and why people make the ethical (and unethical) decisions that they do.
Robert Prentice teaches business law and business ethics at the Texas McCombs School of Business, UT-Austin, where he is Chair of the Business Government & Society Department and the faculty director of the Ethics Unwrapped Video Series and Educational Program in the Center for Leadership and Ethics.
The Ethics Project at UT Austin is a university-wide initiative bringing together teaching, research, outreach, and service to respond to ethical dilemmas in business, clinical professions, education, and government. The Project is the outgrowth of six years of faculty, staff, and student discussions of ethical challenges and how the University of Texas at Austin could prepare students to meet them.
Thursday, October 10, 2019 at 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Belo Center for New Media (BMC), 5.208
300 DEAN KEETON ST W, Austin, Texas 78712
Free and open to the public
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