Associate Professor Patricia Illingworth
Prof. Illingworth recently recently published Us Before Me: Ethics and Social capital for Global Well-Being.
In the last three decades we've experienced increasing "intense moral individualism," and at the same time we've witnessed massive globalization. Prof. Illingworth explores concepts, structures and institutions that we might develop to make their interactions constructive, rather than destructive. This short, powerful and passionate book argues that "social capital" should be an essential ethical concept guiding our actions.
Register for Prof. Illingworth's new Fall 2012 class PHIL1157 The Ethics of Philanthropy: Making the World a Better Place on myNEU today.
Welcome to the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Northeastern University. Our department is filled with faculty and students who love to think, read and talk about "the big questions" and the intersection philosophy, religion and the contemporary situation in which we find ourselves.
We have an active research faculty and an award winning group of students whose career plans range from heading off to graduate or law school to careers in public relations and human services. Our philosophy club is an active group of undergraduates who gather weekly for dinner and discussion of faculty and student presentations.
Susan Setta
Department Chair
The 29th International Social Philosophy Conference will be hosted at Northeastern University July 26 - July 28, 2012. This is an annual conference sponsored by the North American Society for Social Philosophy.
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