I recently came across a book that sounds fascinating as I was preparing to register for the annual meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. It's called Professional Morality and Guilty Bystanding: Merton's Conjectures and the Value of Work, written by Barry Padgett. The title pretty much says it all, and in preparation for reading it, I'm looking at Merton's Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander. I'm hoping to use the book when I start teaching a course on personal and professional ethics.
At this point what strikes me most is that if Merton were alive today, his Conjectures would be a blog!
In any case, I'm greatly enjoying the opportunity to live in Merton's world for a bit and to catch a glimpse of what was going on in the great man's mind. I especially look forward to using Merton in a class on professional ethics!
About Me
- Karen Spear, PhD
- I am the director of the Center for Organizational Ethics and an assistant professor of philosophy at Marian University. I received my PhD in ethics from Vanderbilt University. I have an MA in religion and culture from Catholic University of America and a BA in political philosophy from Kenyon College. In addition to directing the Center for Organizational Ethics, I teach Human Nature and Person and Personal and Professional Ethics in the Theology/Philosophy Department and Business Ethics in the School of Business. Prior to coming to Marian University, I taught in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Indianapolis and worked as a research administrator at Methodist Research Institute, the biomedical research center for Clarian Health. Before settling in Indianapolis, I taught in the Theology Department at Valparaiso University in northwest Indiana and at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA.
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