Professor Robert Baker Speaks at NYU forum

Robert Baker, professor of philosophy and director of the Center for Bioethics and Clinical Leadership, was a speaker (with Robert Cassidy, Professor of Philosophy at Ramapo College of NJ; and Robert Gurland, Professor of Philosophy at New York University) at a forum titled "Teaching Virtue: Ethics Across the Curriculum" held recently by the Faculty Resource Network at New York University. The three examined how issues such as corporate greed, rigid fundamentalism and radical disregard for others raise moral questions in many academic disciplines that beg to be addressed in classes. Gurland argued that faculty must address these issues, Cassidy that the moral principle of fraternity must be valued as highly as liberty and equality, and Baker illustrated how moral principles are applied to important biomedical issues.