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Friend Me? Notions of Friendship in a Changing World
Friendship is a foundational relationship in human life and society. Some of us of us have friends we have known for many years while others of us form new and intimate friendships throughout our our lives. There are different kinds of friendships as well, including, as Aristotle noted some twenty-five centuries ago, friendships of pleasure, utility, and virtue. Some people call anyone with whom they have regular contact a friend, while others reserve the term for a very particular kind of relationship. Has the idea of friendship changed in contemporary society, especially given the role that social networking sites such as Facebook and Myspace play in creating and maintaining friendships today?
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Equipment required: chalk/whiteboard
Program available through October 2011
- Courtney S. Campbell | Corvallis
- ccampbell.oregonstate.edu
- 541-737-6196
Courtney S. Campbell is Hundere Chair in Religion and Culture and professor of philosophy at Oregon State University. Campbell's primary teaching and research interests focus on ethical issues in medicine, concepts of peace and war, theories of death and dying, and comparative religious ethics. He has been on the OSU faculty since 1990 and has received numerous awards for teaching and scholarship. Prior to joining the OSU faculty, Campbell was a research associate at the Hastings Center in New York, a think-tank for ethics in the life sciences and biotechnology. While there, he was editor of the Hastings Center Report, the premier academic journal in biomedical ethics. Campbell received his master's and doctoral degrees in religious studies at the University of Virginia and his bachelor's degree in religious studies at Yale University.
- Lani Roberts | Corvallis
- lroberts@oregonstate.edu
- 541-737-5654
Lani Roberts is a fifth-generation Oregonian who grew up near The Dalles in a house her great-great-grandfather built in 1868. She has been teaching philosophy at Oregon State University since 1989. Roberts specializes in ethics, or moral philosophy. She researches, writes, and teaches about the intersection between some of our most deeply held values and our actual daily practices. She holds bachelor's and doctoral degrees from the University of Oregon.
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