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April 18 - 21, 2006
Amasa Stone Chapel
All lectures begin at 4 p.m.
The Beamer-Schneider Lectures in
Ethics, a series organized by SAGES and
the College of Arts and Sciences, will
bring three distinguished speakers to
Case in April 2006 to address ethical
issues of national and global
importance.
These lectures are part of a larger
initiative, supported by The 1525
Foundation, to stimulate ethics teaching
in our undergraduate curriculum and
promote ethical reflection throughout
the university. The initiative includes
the appointment of visiting scholars—the
Beamer-Schneider Fellows in Ethics—as
teachers in SAGES, the Seminar Approach
to General Education and Scholarship.
In naming the initiative for Elmer G.
Beamer and Hubert H. Schneider, we honor
the memory of two men whose professional
and personal integrity made them valued
associates both of The 1525 Foundation
and of Case Western Reserve University.
We are grateful for the Foundation's
support and delighted to welcome the
community to the Beamer-Schneider
Lectures in Ethics.
Mark Turner
Institute Professor and Dean
Lecture 1: Robert K. Fullinwider,
"What's Wrong with Lying?"
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
 Robert
K. Fullinwider is a senior research
scholar at the Institute for Philosophy
and Public Policy at the University of
Maryland, where he has directed research
projects on such topics as military
conscription, affirmative action, and
multicultural education. In 1996-98, he
was research director for the National
Commission on Civic Renewal, a joint
project of the Institute and the Pew
Charitable Trusts. A volume of essays
from that project, Civil Society,
Democracy, and Civic Renewal, appeared under his editorship. He has
also edited Public Education in a
Multicultural Society: Policy, Theory,
Critique.
Fullinwider's book The Reverse
Discrimination Controversy was
published as a selection of the Lawyer's
Literary Guild. He continues to write
about affirmative action and has
recently co-authored (with Judith
Lichtenberg) Leveling the Playing
Field: Justice, Politics, and College
Admissions. He has just completed a
year as resident fellow at the U.S.
Naval Academy.
Lecture 2: Trudy Lieberman,
"Conflicts of Interest in the Health
Care Industry"
Thursday, April 20, 2006
 Trudy
Lieberman is director of the Center for
Consumer Health Choices at Consumers
Union, a contributing editor to the
Columbia Journalism Review, and
president of the Association of Health
Care Journalists. She has won numerous
honors and awards, including two
National Magazine Awards, 10 National
Press Club Awards, and five Society of
Professional Journalists Deadline Club
Awards. She also received a Fulbright
Fellowship to study health care in
Japan, a John J. McCloy Fellowship to
study health care in Germany, and a Joan
Shorenstein Fellowship at Harvard
University to study coverage of medical
technology.
Lieberman is the author of five
books, including Slanting the Story:
The Forces That Shape the News and
The Consumer Reports Guide to Health
Services for Seniors. She is
currently writing a book about the
health care system, to be published by
the University of California Press. This
spring and fall, Lieberman is in
residence at Case as a Beamer-Schneider
Fellow, teaching undergraduate seminars
on the ethics of health care delivery
and conflicting images of a free press.
Lecture 3: Kwame Anthony Appiah,
"Ethics and Cosmopolitanism"
Friday, April 21, 2006, 4 p.m.
 Kwame
Anthony Appiah, Laurence S. Rockefeller
University Professor of Philosophy and
the Center for Human Values at Princeton
University, was raised in Ghana and
educated at Clare College, Cambridge.
His many books include two monographs in
the philosophy of language as well as
the widely acclaimed In My Father's
House: Africa in the Philosophy of
Culture, which received both the
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for nonfiction
and the Herskovitz Prize of the African
Studies Association.
With Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Appiah
has edited Africana: The Encyclopedia
of the African and African American
Experience. He is also the author
(with Amy Gutmann) of Color
Conscious: The Political Morality of
Race and Thinking It Through: An
Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy.
His two most recent books are The
Ethics of Identity and
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of
Strangers. The Ethics of Identity
won a 2005 award for excellence in
professional and scholarly publishing
from the Association of American
Publishers.
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