The University of Miami offers a variety of summer internships in ethics and the professions and general philosophy. Interns, who receive a modest stipend, meet regularly in small groups that include didactic sessions and at which they update faculty and each other on progress in their projects. Students are expected to complete a final, written report at the end of the summer. With rare exceptions, only UM students are eligible for these summer internships.
Established in 1996, the Summer Ethics Internship Program is traditionally sponsored by the University of Miami Ethics Programs, the Department of Philosophy, the College of Arts & Sciences and the Offices of the Provost and Vice Provost for Research.
For more information, contact ethics@miami.edu.
2017
Moreira, Felipe G. A. — “Historicizing and Rearticulating Ontology and Grounding,” Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Philosophy and Social Sciences Institute (IFCS), organized by the Logic and Metaphysics Graduate Program and Professor Guido Imaguire, August 2, 2017.
Aschliman, Lance — “Evidentialism and the 'No Rewards Principle'"
Cantalamessa, Elizabeth — “Disability Studies, Conceptual Ethics, and Metalinguistic Negotiation,” Northern Illinois University, Northern Graduate Conference, October 2017. Also to be presented at the Pacific meeting of the American Philosophical Association, March 2018.
DiDomenico, David — “On the Priority of Epistemic Basing Events”
Hauptfeld, Adam — “Phenomenal Structure and Phenomenal Content”
Landers, Casey — “Gestalt properties, Associative Mechanisms, and the Contents of Perceptual Experience”
Locke, Theodore — “The Role of Counterpossibles in Conceptual Ethics”
Mathis, Haley — “Care Ethics, Reactive Attitudes without responsibility”
McMullen, Amanda — “What are we doing when we use Synecdoche?,” presented at the University of Iceland at the "Who's Got the Power? A Philosophical Critique of Social and Political Structures" conference, October 2017. Also presented at the Florida Philosophical Association in Ocala, November 2017.
Odito, John — “The Concept of Maturity”
2016
Lance Aschliman — “The Epistemic Value of True Belief (or the Lack Thereof)”
Daniel Corrigan — “Adjudicating Environmental Disputes in Human Rights Courts: Six Mutually Supporting Benefits,” MANCEPT Workshop in Political Theory, University of Manchester, UK, September 8, 2016.
David DiDomenico — “Moral Perception, Inference, and Imagination,” Florida Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Melbourne, Nov. 5, 2016; and forthcoming in Balcerak-Jackson, M., Balcerak-Jackson, B., eds. Reasoning. Essays on Theoretical and Practical Thinking. Oxford University Press.
Nihel Jhou — “Daoist Conception of Time: Is Time Merely a Mental Construction?”
Casey Landers — “Inserted thoughts are mind pops: Preserving the subjectivity of consciousness,” poster, Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Summer 2016.
Azenet Lopez — “Non-descriptivism of Emotion and Sensation Attributions,” American Association of Mexican Philosophers, Syracuse, NY, September 2016.
Haley Mathis — “A Moral Sentimentalist Account of Punishment”
Amanda McMullen — “What is the Truth-Conditional Content of Slurs?”
Shea Musgrave — “There is No Easy Road to Platonism”
John Odito — “The Doctrine of Neocentrism”
Jordan Schummer — “Movement and Temporality in Film”
2015
Lance Aschliman and Jordan Schummer — “A Contextualist Semantics for Aesthetic Judgments” Published in Inquiry
David DiDomenico — “Moral Perception, Intuitionism, and A Priori Knowledge”
Theodore Locke — “Counterpossibles for Modal Normativists”
Azenet Lopez — “The Universe Is Not A Fundamental Object”
Haley Mathis — “Care Ethics and Just Enough Paternalism,” (i) "Care Ethics' New Theory of Respect," MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, University of Manchester, UK, Sept. 11-13, 2017; (ii) "Care Ethics' New Theory of Respect," Gender and Autonomy Conference, University of Bristol, UK, June 5, 2017; (iii) "Moral Sentimentalism's New Theory of Respect," Inclusive Philosophies Conference, Purdue University, April 21-21, 2017.
Felipe G.A. Moreira — “Images of Philosophy”
Heleana Theixos — “Ticking Time-Bomb Torture Cases and Moral Injury”
Rina Tzinman — “An Argument for Survivalism”
2014
Aschliman, LK. Exploitation and Research on the Vulnerable. Also, grant supported and influenced work on 12th Annual Graduate Student Conference: Biomedical Epistemology and Bioethics, 16-18 October 2014, University of Miami.
Corrigan, DP. Political Conceptions of Human Rights and Corporate Obligation. In The Political-Moral Controversy Over Human Rights [working title], eds. Maliks, R, Schaffer, JK; under review.
El Ali, R. A New Solution to the Gamer’s Dilemma. The Philosophy of Computer Games, 13 November 2014, Istanbul; revised version presented at American University of Beirut, 16 February 2015.
Mathis, H. Gender Equality and Biomedical Enhancement. Florida Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, 14-15 November 2014, Tampa.
Schwind, P. Towards an Intuitionist Moral Epistemology Without Self-Evidence. German Society for Analytic Philosophy, 14-17 September 2015, Osnabrück, Germany.
Theixos, HB. The Responsibility for Moral Repair in a Post-Atrocity Community. Dissertation chapter.
Yelle, B. Objective Goods and the Subjective Intuition, submitted to the Pacific Meeting of the American Philosophical Association and the “Understanding Value” conference at Sheffield University. In addition, the paper formed a significant part of chapter two of the dissertation “Realizing What Matters,” successfully defended in October 2014.
2013
No awards
2012
Daniel Corrigan
Work-Related Human Rights and the Responsibilities of Business
Daniel Hampikian
The Morality of Animal Experimentation for Medical Purposes: A Model for Comparing Animal and Human Life and Wellbeing
Monica Morrison
The Ethics of Vaccination Refusal: Epistemic Bias, Individual Choice, and the Health of the Public
Robin Neiman
GRADE-ing Equipoise:Formulating “Clinical Equipoise” as a GRADE System Policy Recommendation
Philipp Schwind and Ho Man Wai
The Epistemology of Ethical Intuitionism
Ben Yelle
Advanced Euthanasia Directives and Physician-Assisted Suicide at the Margins of Agency: The Dutch’s Experience with Alzheimer’s AEDs
2011
Daniel Cohen
A Defense of Two-Level Ethical Theories
Daniel Hampikian
Why Morality is Possible without Critical Self-Reflection in Humans and Animals: A Reply to Korsgaard
Philipp Schwind
Ross and Aristotle
Heleana Theixos
2008
Ben Burgis
Daniel Cohen
Daniel Hampikian
Developing A Confucian Model for Moral Improvement within a Care Ethical System
Mark Warren
Ethics and Psychopathy
2007
Noel Alphonse
The Case Against Preventive War: An Analysis of the Prudential and Moral Dimensions of Contemporary American Foreign Policy
Daniel Cohen
Beliefs and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Explanation, Treatment, Understanding
David Michael Hurlburt
Is it Evil to Enjoy Imaginary Wicked Acts?Dissertation chapter.
Brian Mondy
Funniness and Normativity
Shane Oakley
Typology of Causes in Medical Malpractice
Kristin Francoeur
Genetically Modified Organisms: The Development, Spread, and Legislation of GM Crops
Mary A. Hooshmand
Telemedicine for Children with Special Health Care Needs in Rural, Remote and Medically Underserved Areas: Is there an inherent ethical responsibility for insurance companies to provide coverage?
Amy L. Kaye
Whose Duty Is It? Nurses’ Role in Informed Consent
Manny Halberstam, Brandeis University
A Timeline of U.S. Quarantines
2006
Peter Gauthier
Ethics and Data Mining
Liz Giles
Ethics and Art Therapy
Alyssa Anne Henning
Ethics and Ophthalmology
Michael Hurlburt Facial Transplantation and Challenges to Informed Consent
Publication: Hurlburt M. Facial transplantation: Understanding the interests of patients and hurdles to informed consent. Medical Science Monitor 2007; 13(8): RA147-153. [https://www.medscimonit.com/download/index/idArt/491816]
Presentation: Hutlburt M. Facial Transplantation and Challenges to Informed Consent. 34th Annual Conference for Value Inquiry, Adrian College, Adrian, Michigan, April 12-14, 2007.
Shane Oakley
Ethics and Statistics
Resource: Oakley S. Statistics. Forthcoming on the “Ethics Curriculum Project, a Web-based,
interdisciplinary, intercurricular moral reasoning resources”
2005
George Barrios
Advance Directives in Spanish
Jeremy Morris
Virtual Child Pornography
Shane Oakley
Ethics and Journalism
Matthew Schuh
Ethics and Stem Cell Research
2004
Shane Oakley
A Philosophical Analysis of Stem Cell Research
Jeremy Morris
Zarina Motorwala
Project Medishare
Matthew Schuh
2003
John Kenyon
Ethical Evaluation of “Retainer Fee” Medical Practice
Publication: Needell MH, Kenyon JS. Ethical evaluation of “retainer fee” medical practice. The Journal of Clinical Ethics2005;16(1):72-84.
Shirong Luo
Empathy and Virtue: A Comparison of Two Novel Approaches to the Ethicality of Abortion
Osvil Acosta-Morales
The Ethics of Quarantine or Ethics and Quarantines
Ellen Lee Moskowitz
Ethics Across Borders or International Research Ethics (in collaboration with Sergio Litewka)
Liz Giles
Fetal Rights, Abortion, Child Abuse, and Guardianship
Presentation: Giles L. Wrongdoing, Entitlement and Binding Contracts with Nonexistent Beings.
Presented to the annual conference of the Florida Philosophical Association, St. Petersburg, Fall 2003.
Amber Winick
Health Privacy in Different Cultures
2002
Jennifer Miles
The Possible Exploitation of Women in the Harvesting of Embryos for Stem Cell Research
Michael L. Veber
Virtual Child Pornography
Christopher Weaver and Erin O’Callaghan
Guardianship and Mental Incapacity
Michelle Eustache
Ethics and Public Health
2001
Michael Gombosh
Inappropriate Incentives for Conducting Human Subjects Research
Padmini Jagadish
End-of-Life Care
A.J. Kreider
Varia
Shirong Luo
Ethics and Genetics
Len Olsen
Ethics of Sport Fishing
Publication: Olsen L. Contemplating the intentions of anglers: The ethicist’s challenge. Environmental
Ethics 2003;25:267-277.
2000
Sarah Dundorf and Sheron Fraser-Burgess
Conflicts of Interest in Professional Communities
Mark Neunder
The Moral Permissibility of Therapeutic Genetic Engineering
Yvette Pearson
Obligations Towards Offspring Non-Paternalistic Arguments for Limiting the Freedom to Create New Persons
1999
Jason Borenstein
Scientific Evidence and the Legal System
Publications:
Borenstein, J. The epistemic challenge of expert testimony. International Journal of
Politics and Ethics 2002; 2(3):225-42.
Borenstein, J. Authenticating expertise: philosophical and legal issues. International
Journal of Applied Philosophy 2002; 16(1):85-102.
Borenstein, J. Re-examining expert testimony. International Journal of Politics and
Ethics 2002;2(1):19-36.
Borenstein, J. Expertise and epistemology: can laypersons assess the claims of experts?
Philosophy in the Contemporary World 2002; 9(2):1-6.
Borenstein, J. An account of expertise: Goldman, Polanyi, and beyond. Appraisal 2001;
3(4):147-50.
Peter Ganovsky
Authorship Policies and Recruitment of Human Subjects
Satu Shah
Drug-seeking Behavior in Dade County Emergency Departments (continued)
Kenneth Zide
Pediatric Decision Making
1998
Ilana Cohen
The Talmud and Medical Ethics
1997
Jennifer Arnold
Ethical Considerations of Genetic Screening and Engineering for Skeletal Dysplasias
Amy Brickman
Ethical Issues Involved in Genetic Testing for and Manipulation of Personality Traits
Steven Brumer
Informed Consent Research and Tissue Sampling Policies
Brian Kirmse
Drug-seeking Behavior in Dade County Emergency Departments
Geri Newburge
Ethics and Public Health
Eby Paul
Tissue Cataloguing at the University of Miami/ Jackson Memorial Health Center
1996
Dan Goldberg
The Ethics of Databases and Genetic Information
