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Toward a Common Goal: Ethics Across the Professions Inaugural Workshop

August 25-26, 2006

The Ethics Across the Professions inaugural workshop brought together, by invitation, approximately 40 professionals from the fields of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, engineering, architecture, business, journalism, education, philosophy, political science, public relations and law. The workshop focused on the foundational question for the initiative: What can we learn from each other by approaching ethics from a cross-professional perspective?

The workshop was held at Sierra Health Foundation in Sacramento. The two-day event began with a reception and dinner on Friday, August 25. After a welcome by Pacific McGeorge Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, Professor Deborah Rhode of Stanford Law School, who is the founding director of Stanford's Center on Ethics and one of the nation's foremost scholars on legal ethics, made a presentation on "Moral Leadership."

The program continued on Saturday, August 26 with presentations by some of the nation's leading scholars on cross-professional ethics:

Professor Robert Solomon, University of Texas: "What Can We Gain by Approaching Ethics from a Cross-Professional Perspective?"

Professor Michael Davis, Illinois Institute of Technology: "The Importance of Defining 'Profession'"

Professor Mike W. Martin, Chapman University: "Context, Connections and Contrasts, and Methodological Concerns"

William M. Sullivan, Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching: "The Ethical Formation of Professionals: Prospects and Problems"

Each presentation was followed by discussion among participants. Participants also met in break-out sessions to discuss a cross-professional hypothetical problem and to consider how the Ethics Across the Professions Initiative can most successfully promote cross-professional discourse and what specific programs the project should sponsor in the future.

Bound volumes of the event proceedings were produced and distributed to participants, interested professionals, and California legislators and legislative offices.