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Friendship is a foundational relationship in human life and society. But, what is friendship, and why is it important to us? In this conversation, Oregon State University professor of philosophy Courtney Campbell and associate professor of philosophy (ret.) Lani Roberts will address these questions. Relying on the wisdom of the philosopher Aristotle, as well as related questions of friendship, the conversation will consider a number of questions including: can friendship occur between men and women?; can parents and adult children can be friends?; can friends can be lovers or lovers, friends?; and—given the prevalence of social media—can we live in what a writer from The New York Times calls the “faux-friendship age”?
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Courtney S. Campbell is Hundere Chair in Religion and Culture and professor of philosophy at Oregon State University, where his primary teaching and research interests focus on ethical issues in medicine, concepts of peace and war, theories of death and dying, and comparative religious ethics. He has been on the OSU faculty since 1990 and has received numerous awards for teaching and scholarship. Prior to joining the OSU faculty, Campbell was a research associate at the Hastings Center in New York, a think tank for ethics in the life sciences and biotechnology. While there, he was editor of the Hastings Center Report, the premier academic journal of biomedical ethics. Campbell received his master’s and doctoral degrees in religious studies at the University of Virginia and his bachelor’s degree in religious studies at Yale University.
Lani Roberts is a fifth-generation Oregonian who grew up near The Dalles in a house her great-great-grandfather built in 1868. She recently retired after teaching philosophy at Oregon State University since 1989. Roberts specializes in ethics, or moral philosophy. She researches, writes, and teaches about the intersection between some of our most deeply held values and our actual daily practices. She holds bachelor’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Oregon.
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