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Wesley A. Stanger, Jr. Annual Spring Dinner ~ featuring guest speaker Professor Brian Berkey
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The Penn Club of Metro New Jersey
invites you to attend the
Wesley A. Stanger, Jr.
Annual Spring Dinner
Join Us As We Honor The Thomas Newmann Outstanding Scholars
Accepted Into The Class Of 2023
Our Guest Speaker
Professor Brian Berkey
Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
will be speaking on
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Sweatshops and Corporate Obligations to the Global Poor
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| Sweatshop employment strikes many people as wrongfully exploitative due to its characteristically low wages, long hours, and difficult working conditions. There is, however, a plausible argument that's been developed by both economists and philosophers according to which, it's a mistake to think that companies that employ workers in sweatshop conditions are doing anything ethically problematic. This talk will examine both sides of this issue.
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Speaker Profile
Professor Brian Berkey works in moral and political philosophy (including business ethics and environmental ethics), in particular on questions about the demandingness of morality, individual obligations of justice, ethical issues arising with regard to climate change, and the relationship between ideal and non-ideal theory. He is also interested in the notion of collective obligations and their relationship to individual obligations, as well as in methodological issues in ethics and political philosophy, including the appropriate role of appeals to intuitions. His work has appeared in Mind, Philosophical Studies, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Utilitas, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Social Theory and Practice, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy and Public Issues, Ethics, Policy, & Environment, and Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
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