The Center for Public Philosophy holds an annual Outreach Invitational Ethics Bowl program for high school students that have never participated in a Regional Ethics Bowl.
We provide the necessary resources for any school to join the Ethics Bowl community, including coaching.
Part of what makes this Ethics Bowl program so vibrant at UC Santa Cruz is the enthusiastic, multi-generational collaboration among five distinct groups: high schools students, undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, and members of the community. Here’s how it works:
We mobilize some of our strongest undergraduate philosophy majors, training them to coach the high school teams; and
And we secure community leaders to serve as judges at the culminating event at UC Santa Cruz alongside university faculty and graduate students.
We are pleased to share that CPP received the 2022 APA/PDC Prize for Excellence and Innovation for its Invitational Ethics Bowl Program. It recognizes philosophy departments, research centers, institutes, societies, publishers, and other organizations for creating programs that risk undertaking new initiatives in philosophy.
If you or your school is interested in participating, please contact CPP Director Jon Ellis.
Watch our documentary of the first year of the program:
Teachers and principals reflect on the program:
The UCSC Ethics Bowl Team
We mobilize some of our strongest undergraduate philosophy majors, training them to coach the high school teams; and
And we secure community leaders to serve as judges at the culminating event at UC Santa Cruz alongside university faculty and graduate students.
If you or your school is interested in participating, please contact CPP Director Jon Ellis.
We mobilize some of our strongest undergraduate philosophy majors, training them to coach the high school teams; and
And we secure community leaders to serve as judges at the culminating event at UC Santa Cruz alongside university faculty and graduate students.
If you or your school is interested in participating, please contact CPP Director Jon Ellis.
We mobilize some of our strongest undergraduate philosophy majors, training them to coach the high school teams; and
And we secure community leaders to serve as judges at the culminating event at UC Santa Cruz alongside university faculty and graduate students.
If you or your school is interested in participating, please contact CPP Director Jon Ellis.
Every Fall a group of UCSC undergraduates compete in the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl.
The Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl (IEB) was founded in 1996 by Robert Ladenson, at Illinois Institute of Technology, as a format for teaching applied ethics to engineering students. The competition has since grown into an annual national event with over two hundred universities fielding teams. The top 32 teams, determined by a set of regionals around the country, compete at the national IEB every year.
The UCSC Ethics Bowl team was founded in 2005 by Sandra Dreisbach and Carmen Zinn. The team is co-sponsored by the Philosophy Department and taught every Fall as Philosophy 143. We compete yearly in the California Regional, and have a tradition of qualifying for the National IEB on a regular basis. All interested UCSC undergrads are encouraged to contact the coach, Kyle Robertson.