Our Mission
Vision and Mission Statement
Vision
Empowering the ASU community and beyond through scholarship, education, and engagement to imagine, innovate, co-create, and nurture our collective ethical future aimed at human and nonhuman flourishing.
Mission
Established in 1998 by Joan and David Lincoln, the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University is dedicated to fostering ethical behavior that leads to positive outcomes in all aspects of life. Today, the Center continues to uphold these values by:
Empowering faculty, students, and our communities to envision and innovate ethical futures through their research, teaching, and service.
Designing programming that promotes reflection on our responsibilities to secure ethical human flourishing and a respect for the natural world.
Supporting interdisciplinary ethics projects that tackle challenging social problems.
Current Foci of the Center
Humane Tech
It is no longer enough to adapt humanly as technologies transform our world. The challenge is to re-imagine technology for a more humane world, and we believe humanities-inspired research will be vital to realizing the potential of this shift.
Cultivating Virtues & Values
The study of virtue and character as practice is a defining attribute of the field of ethics. The Lincoln Center is committed to engaging with students, experts and communities to nurture the development of ethical character through research, teaching and service.
Imagining Ethical Futures
These projects find new and ethical approaches to traditional research methods and pedagogy; making connections, creating opportunities and asking, "who's account gets to count?"
