The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics
Who We Are
The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE) is a membership organization dedicated to advancing scholarship, education, and practice in practical and professional ethics.
Or, as we like to say, we're an organization for the ethically curious.
As a member, you'll get exclusive opportunities and discounts to attend APPE programs, including our annual conference, and more. As a non-member, you can still stay informed by joining our listserv to receive our monthly newsletter and weekly jobs and events postings.
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Submit Your Conference Proposal
APPE invites individuals from every discipline and profession interested in advancing scholarship, teaching, and a general understanding of applied ethics to submit proposals based on their work to our 35th Annual APPE International Conference on March 5-8, 2026, in St. Louis.
There will be an online-only portion of the conference program on April 10, 2026, to accommodate our members, presenters, and guests who are located across the globe, or who are unable to attend the in-person conference in St. Louis.
This year, we invite proposals for the annual conference that explore the question, What Do We Owe Each Other? In today’s complex world, what are our ethical responsibilities to each other? How do these responsibilities shift in times of crisis and catastrophe, or across our professional or personal lives? How do we stand up for what’s right—when it matters most, and when it seems to matter least?
APPE Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl®
Undergraduate students from Macalester College took home the national championship in the APPE Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl (APPE IEB)®, which was held February 22 and 23 in Norfolk, Virginia. The final match against Stanford University featured cases about space weaponry and term limits for federal judges.
In the final, the students discussed the following questions:
- If you were tasked with outlining the United States’ policy with respect to the use of space weaponry, what would that policy look like?
- If you were tasked with producing a policy regarding the term lengths for federal judges (up to and including lifetime appointments), what would that policy look like?
Over two days, 36 teams of undergraduate college students from across the country wrestled with these and other thorny issues using a set of cases that were drawn from real-life ethical challenges in education, business, life, and politics.
What We Do
Through our signature programs, as well as an annual conference and a variety of programs and events, APPE fosters moral reasoning skill development, works to promote ethical conduct in all sectors of our daily lives, nurtures the next generation of ethical leaders, and seeks to advance civil public discourse on diverse ethical issues.
Mark Your Calendar
Strategic Decision Making & Ethical Leadership
A Conference for Undergraduate Leaders
September 5-7, 2025
Upcoming Events
Organizational Members
Gies College of Business
Prindle
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