About Us
Mission Statement
The Center is dedicated to emphasizing the essential role that morals and values play in the achievements and successes of individuals and organizations.
Our mission is to improve the ethical awareness and understanding and thereby the ethical decision-making and behavior of the ASU community and extending to society at large.
The Center’s goal is to create a university and community ethical culture by sponsoring, organizing and conducting an array of activities on ethics issues that occur in specific fields and professions as well as those of pressing importance in the community at large.
Background - The Lincolns
Joan and David Lincoln founded the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University in 1998.
Continuing public interest in ethics and the increasing importance of providing students an ethical education prompted Joan and David Lincoln of Paradise Valley to give Arizona State University a gift of to initiate a university-wide applied ethics program developed and coordinated in the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics.
Lincoln Chair in Ethics - Dr. Peter French
Serving as the Lincoln Chair in Ethics and the Director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics is Peter French, Ph.D.
Dr. Peter A. French joined the ASU faculty as the Lincoln Chair in Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and as Director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics on October 16, 2000.
The Lincoln Center of Applied Ethics opened in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences on December 1, 2000.
Dr. French is a respected international authority on ethics and is the author of 19 books and dozens of articles.