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Professor to Address Ethics in Business, Sports in Live ‘Office Hours’ Interview April 1

Wayne Norman will take questions from viewers about corporate responsibility and other ethical issues

Wayne Norman

Duke philosophy professor Wayne Norman will address questions about ethics in business and sports during a live, interactive "Office Hours" webcast interview, beginning at noon April 1 on the Duke University Ustream channel.

Anyone can send in a question for Norman. To do that, send an email before or during the webcast to live@duke.edu, tweet with the tag #dukelive or post to the Duke University Facebook page.

In addition to political philosophy, Norman studies topics in business such as corporate social responsibility and conflicts of interest.

"One of the problems I'm currently trying to address is the question of how business leaders should cope with the vast array of vocabularies out there for evaluating the extent to which firms are ethical," Norman said in a recent interview. "Different departments and stakeholders use different language and criteria for evaluating a firm's activities and policies. But it's not clear that all of these languages are interchangeable, and often they're coming from some particular (and possibly biased) political perspective."

Also a sports fan, Norman blogs about ethical issues in sport at "This Sporting Life." Topics for recent posts include athletes' prayers and whether sumo wrestling is a real sport. He also maintains a separate blog titled "Ethics for Adversaries."

Norman is the Mike and Ruth Mackowski Professor of Ethics in the Kenan Institute for Ethics and the Department of Philosophy. He is the author of "Negotiating Nationalism: Nation-building, Federalism, and Secession in the Multinational State."

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Office hours at a university are times when professors leave their doors open for individuals to stop by and discuss issues such as current events and developments in their fields. Duke's "Office Hours" series aims to bring the expansiveness and sparkle of these conversations to anyone with an Internet connection and an interest in the ideas bubbling up at Duke. This semester, topics have ranged from national security reporting to the preaching of Martin Luther King Jr., and marine life in Antarctica to the uprising in Egypt.