We are very excited about our BFCGI speakers for 2023 fall. (both will be in Harper Union Pacific Room). James Stacey Taylor is a provocative economist who has written extensively on ethical issues. Santiago Meija (Fordham) is one of the top emerging business ethicists today, and he publishes extensively on many cutting edge issues in the field today.

On Thursday 6pm September 21 James Stacey Taylor will be presenting a talk on markets and morality in the Harper Center Union Pacific Room. Taylor teaches at the College of New Jersey and is the author of 5 books: Markets with Limits: How the commodification of academia derails debate (New York: Routledge 2022), and Bloody Bioethics: Why Prohibiting Plasma Compensation Harms Patients and Wrongs Donors (New York: Routledge, 2022), Stakes and Kidneys: Why markets in human body parts are morally imperative (Ashgate Publishing, 2005/New York: Routledge, 2017); Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics (New York: Routledge, 2012), Practical Autonomy and Bioethics (New York: Routledge, 2009). The talk will be at 6pm in the Harper Center. He has authored numerous Op-Eds for publications such as the Los Angeles Times, the New York Daily News, USA Today. His award-winning Op-Ed for the Los Angeles Times was credited with influencing the ruling of the 6th District Court circuit that led to the legalization of payment for bone marrow. He is an occasional contributor to The Times Higher Education.

At 6pm September 28, Santiago Meija, Business Ethicist from Fordham University, will be making a presentation on “Corporate Ownership and the Common Good” in the Union Pacific Room at the Harper Center. Of the 3 most-downloaded articles from Business Ethics Quarterly in 2022, Meija wrote 2 of them. Some of his most recent articles include:

• Santiago Mejia. (2023). “The Normative and Cultural Dimension of Work: Technological Unemployment as a Cultural Threat to a Meaningful Life.” In: Journal of Business Ethics. DOI: 10.1007/s10551-023-05340-0
• Santiago Mejia and Joshua A. Skorburg (2022). “Malleable Character: Organizational Behavior Meets Virtue Ethics and Situationism.” In: Philosophical Studies. 179.12 pp. 3535–3563.
• Santiago Mejia and Dominique Nikolaidis (2022). “Through New Eyes: Artificial Intelligence, Technological Unemployment, and Transhumanism in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun.” In: Journal of Business Ethics, 178.1, pp 303-306.
• Santiago Mejia (2022). “Socratic Ignorance and Business Ethics.” In: Journal of Business Ethics, 175.3 pp. 537–553.
• Santiago Mejia (2021). “Which Duties of Beneficence Should Agents Discharge on Behalf of Principals? a Reflection Through Shareholder Primacy.” In: Business Ethics Quarterly, 31.3 pp. 421–449.
• Santiago Mejia (2021). “The Peculiar Nature of the Duty to Help During a Pandemic.” Business Ethics Journal Review 9.2, pp 8–13.