Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 06/20/2024.
We all deplore plagiarism, but should we? Randy Cohen argues that much of what we label as plagiarism in fiction, in music, and in art, is not only acceptable, it is admirable. Indeed it is the only way such work can be done. Other kinds of plagiarism • in academic work, for example • deserve our scorn. How do we distinguish between them and how ought we respond to each?
In this talk, Randy Cohen takes a close look at the ethics of transportation. Ethics concerns the effects of our actions on others. If you drive a private car when you have alternatives • say for a half-mile hop in a big city • then those effects are horrible: you pollute the air, squander public space, and kill about 30,000 of your neighbors every year.
After 12 years writing the popular New York Times Magazine column "The Ethicist," Randy Cohen shares details and answers popular questions of his unusual job: Were those letters real? Did he ever get one wrong (or, depending on your perspective, right)? Audiences are given a chance to pose their own ethical dilemmas or set Cohen straight about a past column.
If we can reach a rough consensus on right and wrong • don't lie, don't cheat, don't steal • why don't we all behave virtuously? Cohen explores the idea that the answer lies not in our characters but our circumstances, and discusses how to create the kind of communities (in our neighborhoods, our schools, and our businesses) in which we are likely to behave admirably. During the Q&A, he then applies these ideas to the actual ethical problems facing the audience.
Randy Cohen is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Plagiarism, a Kind of Defense, Drive an SUV in Manhattan & You're Driving Straight to Hell: The Ethics of Transportation, Being "The Ethicist": An Evening with Randy Cohen, How to Be Good, Humor and Business and Personal Ethics. The estimated speaking fee range to book Randy Cohen for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Randy Cohen generally travels from New York, NY, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Calvin Trillin, Ben Stein, A.J. Jacobs, Mike Greenberg and John Tesh. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Randy Cohen for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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