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This Friday, April 5, at 5:30 pm the great Amalia Amaya Navarro (Edinburgh) will present her paper "Virtues and Values in Professional Ethics" at Fordham. 

Amalia Amaya is British Academy Global Professor at Edinburgh Law School and Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophical Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She is the author of The Tapestry of Reason: An Inquiry into the Nature of Coherence and its Role in Legal Argument (2015). She is now working on a book manuscript that develops a virtue approach to legal reasoning and judicial ethics. 

Abstract: In this paper, Prof. Amaya-Navarro provides some reasons in support of giving virtue, alongside values and principles, a central role in the ethics of the professions, Virtues, she argues, are not reducible to values, with which are related in complex ways. She also develops a skill model of professional virtue, with a focus on the creative professions, and examines some of the key character traits that are needed to excel in these professions. The paper concludes by suggesting some implications of this approach for professional education and institutional design.