Every profession poses a unique set of ethical challenges. Advertisers must consider their responsibilities when targeting children. Doctors must decide about turning off life-support machines.
Coaches wrestle with drug abuse and gambling among athletes.
Peter French studies all of these issues, and more. A well-known philosopher and public ethicist, French now shares his ethical expertise with ASU as the new Joan and David Lincoln Chair in Ethics and director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics. The gift is being used to expand the former Lincoln Ethics Center, which was part of the College of Business, into a multidisciplinary facility serving the colleges of Business, Education, Engineering, Fine Arts, Law, Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Public Programs. The Lincolns' donation supports French's endowed chair and directorship. It also will help support professorships within the participating colleges.