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Honor and Ethics Mini-Conference Schedule

14 Wednesday Mar 2012

Posted by dan demetriou in Uncategorized

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I’m pleased to share some more details about the upcoming “Honor and Ethics” mini-conference. It will be hosted by my institution, the University of Minnesota, Morris, under the auspices of the Midwest Philosophy Colloquium.

Date: April 6, 2012
Humanities and Fine Arts Building

Schedule of Talks:
9:15 Chancellor’s Welcome
9:30 Ryan Rhodes (University of Oklahoma) “Honor and the Moral Value of Reputation”
10:30 Stephen Mathis (Wheaton) “Justifying Academic Honor Codes”
11:30 Shannon French (Case Western) “Honor Through the Ages: Differing Conceptions of a Key Concept at the Heart of the Warrior’s Code”
12:30 Break
2:00 Laurie Johnson (Kansas State) Keynote: “Honor in Today’s America”
3:15 Frank Stewart (Hebrew University) “An Anthropologist Looks at Honor”
4:30 Lad Sessions (Washington and Lee) Keynote: “Honor, Morality, Brotherhood”

You can see the poster here: MPC 2012 poster

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Should “Stolen Valor” Be Illegal?

06 Tuesday Mar 2012

Posted by dan demetriou in honor code, honor in contempory media, honor system, philosophy of honor, political science of honor

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Samuel Johnson said every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier. This seems to hold true even today, given the propensity people have of concocting false stories about military service and awarded medals. It turns out that there is a law prohibiting this, and the Supreme Court is now considering whether that law is Constitutional.

Because of the Stolen Valor Act, which was passed in 2006, it a federal crime to “to falsely represent oneself as having received any U.S. military decoration or medal,” and offenders can be sentenced to up to a year in prison. The current legal challenge, United States v. Alvarez, argues that such lies fall within one’s free speech rights.

One thing that the Justices seem divided on is whether false claims to honor cause any “harm,”or whether it is important to the “public interest” that such lies be discouraged. Taking up the perspective inclined to answer “no” to these questions, Justice Sotomayor challenged the prosecution, asking:

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