Development Ethics and Global Justice: Gender, Economics and Environment

FAIN: EH-50443-14

Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI 48824-3407)
Frederick Gifford (Project Director: March 2014 to May 2017)

A four-week summer institute for twenty-five college and university teachers to consider new directions in the field of development ethics.

The purpose of this grant is to enable Fred Gifford (Michigan State University) and Eric Palmer (Allegheny College) to run a four-week NEH Summer Institute in the summer of 2015 on the topic of development ethics, entitled "Development Ethics and Global Justice: Gender, Economics and Environment", with twenty-five participants and eight visiting lecturers gathered at Michigan State University. This would be a follow-up to our successful Summer Institute in 2013, "Development Ethics: Questions, Challenges and Responsibilities." The goal is to consider new directions in this young sub-field of ethics and social and political philosophy that has grown to maturity as philosophers have come to notice the evident weaknesses in the extent and the effectiveness of global aid and development efforts of the mid-Twentieth Century forward, to create a program to review the first generation of development ethics scholarship and help the next generation to develop new directions.