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Dubbed the "anti-debate" by Michigan High School Ethics Bowl organizer Jeanine DeLay, ethics bowls are a partial cure to the caustic political culture afflicting the United States and much of the rest of the world.
They're also a fantastic opportunity for students to apply philosophical ethics in a friendly, highbrow environment, and to practice public speaking. Ethics bowls can be as informal and as small as a 45-minute event among a dozen students in a single classroom, or as fancy and complex as the National High School Ethics Bowl at the University of North Carolina, or the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl hosted by the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. I'm proud to say that Ethics in a Nutshell has been used by the ethics bowl community for several years, and that at one time I served as the Director of Outreach for the National High School Ethics Bowl. I founded the Tennessee High School Ethics Bowl while in grad school, co-founded the DC Area High School Bowl afterwards, and have worked with new organizers from California to China, Florida to Canada. I continue to serve as a coach, judge and moderator, and also proudly support Australia's version of ethics bowl, Ethics Olympiad. |
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To learn more about these wonderful events, visit the National High School Ethics Bowl site here, the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl site here, or a site I run, EthicsBowl.org. |