Pharmacists who cannot reconcile dispensing legally available abortion drugs with their moral beliefs. A justice of the peace refusing to marry an interracial couple on grounds of conscience. These are examples of personal principles conflicting with professional duties.
Monday on Up to Date, guest host Brian Ellison welcomes the Ethics Professors, UMKC Philosophy professor Clancy Martin and UMKC School of Arts and Sciences Dean Wayne Vaught to discuss if limits should exist when it comes to exercising moral conscience in the workplace.
Have you found yourself in a situation at work where your conscience conflicts with your professional responsibilities? Let us know at 816.235.2888.
Wayne Vaught is dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, professor of philosophy and medicine, and director of the Center for Applied and Professional Ethics at UMKC. His primary research focus is in the area of biomedical ethics, with an emphasis on ethical issues in pediatrics. He received a bachelor's degree in philosophy, psychology and religion at Georgetown College in Georgetown, Ky., a master's in philosophy at Baylor University, and a Ph.D. in philosophy with a concentration in medical ethics from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Clancy Martin is a professor of philosophy at UMKC. He works on 19th and 20th Century European philosophy, the intersections of philosophy and literature, and the ethics of advertising and selling. Clancy has authored, coauthored and edited several books in philosophy, including Love, Lies, and Marriage, Honest Work with Robert Solomon and Joanne Ciulla, and The Philosophy of Deception. He has published more than two dozen articles and reviews on Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Romanticism and the virtue of truthfulness and has also translated Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Clancy also publishes fiction in Noon, McSweeneys and elsewhere. Clancy earned his Ph.D. in 2003 from the University of Texas at Austin.
