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A Different Sport: The Great American Think-Off

Submitted by jadelay on Mon, 03/30/2009 - 05:13.

There's the Ethics Bowl. In Michigan, the team of students from Western Michigan University's Ethics Center routinely makes it to the bowl's parade, if not for the prime time game. 

And then, for the rookies and freshmen among us, there is the Great American Think-Off. The Think-Off is an essay and debate contest for amateurs who want to take down some really different and practical questions. This year's question is a thought scrambler: "Is It Ever Wrong To Do the Right Thing?"

Go on. Enter and test your talents for the philosophy writing and debate ring at: www.think-off.org.

If you win, you will also be able to count yourself as one of the famous philosophers who made their name and everlasting fame by winning an essay contest. While you are filling out your application for The Think-Off, take another kind of contest, our quiz about the philosophers who did enter their own essay contests at: www.a2ethics.org/node/591. 

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UM participation in the Int'l Ethics Bowl

Submitted by johnchamberlin on Mon, 07/27/2009 - 11:12.

Jae Chung, one of the Undergraduate Fellows at the Center for Ethics in Public Life at UM, is organizing a UM team to compete in the 2009-10 Ethics Bowl.   Details will be available in September on the Center's website (www.ethics.umich.edu).  If you're curious about what the Ethics Bowl is about, here's a link: http://ethics.iit.edu/eb/index.html.