The Ethics of the Image is an interdisciplinary program about the ethics of representing ideas and representing others using images or pictures, broadly construed. These images can be artistic, documentary, journalistic, religious, mathematical, or scientific, but we are concerned with how ideas are expressed visually, and with the ethical and moral implications of those expressions. The point of the series is not merely to point out that “pictures can be misleading” or some other simplistic observation, but to deeply explore the nuances of what it means to use images to communicate, with help from practitioners and scholars.
Center Director
Mark Stein, professor of history
Program Directors
Paul McEwan, professor of media & communicaiton
Elena FitzPatrick Sifford, associate professor of art history
About the Muhlenberg College Center for Ethics
The Muhlenberg College Center for Ethics seeks to develop our capacities for ethical reflection, moral leadership and responsible action by engaging community members in scholarly dialogue, intellectual analysis and self-examination about contested ethical issues. Through thematic lectures and events, the Center for Ethics serves the teaching and study of the liberal arts at Muhlenberg College by providing opportunities for intensive conversation and thinking about the ethical dimensions of contemporary philosophical, political, economic, social, cultural and scientific issues. In service to its mission, the Center for Ethics hosts special events and programs, provides faculty development opportunities and provides support for student programming.
