Research & Activities

CETS primary areas of focus:

• Philosophical research in such areas as the relation of technology to truth, the relation of gender and ageing, political participation and leadership, the agency of medical robots, to name just a few. The centre will organize academic conferences and symposia offering alternative interpretative frameworks to inspire new research.
• Practical training of students, as well as young professionals working in different fields related to the focus of the centre. The centre will lead workshops and training seminars dealing with recent case studies from the fields of health care ethics, biotechnology, military ethics, public ethics, and computer ethics, among others.
• Dialogue and advice. The centre will be a hub for focus groups oriented toward effective organizational decision-making. The workshops the centre will offer will aim at developing habits and capabilities of analysis and decision-making in diverse contexts, including situations not yet encountered.