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- Ethics in Action
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Authors: Cox-White, Becky ; Connolly, Peggy ; Leever, Martin G. ; Keller, David R.
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This is a collection of case studies covering ethical dilemmas drawn from personal and professional experience, and media accounts. The cases were developed for the Ethics Bowl, a competition similar to College Bowl where teams of u...
Year: 2009Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-07-20 13:00
- Problems and Cases: New Directions in Ethics 1980-1996
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Authors: Whitbeck, Caroline
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: Ethical discussion has taken an increasingly practical turn in recent decades, and in the 1990s has provided new ground for the development of areas of practical ethics, such as research ethics. Now, more often than not, inquiry sta...
Year: 1996
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/CMS/edu/instructessays/probcase.aspxBiblio - KBL781 - 2009-09-14 13:31
- Frontiers of illusion : science, technology, and the politics of progress
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Authors: Sarewitz, Daniel R.
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This volume discusses the fundamental myths that have guided the formulation of scientific policy for the past half century that have done much to serve the professional and political interests of the scientific community, but often...
Year: 1996Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-12-03 12:42
- Engineering Good: How Engineering Metaphors Help us to Understand the Moral Life and Change Society
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Authors: Coeckelbergh, Mark
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science & Engineering Ethics
Abstract: Engineering can learn from ethics, but ethics can also learn from engineering. In this paper, the author discusses what engineering metaphors can teach us about practical philosophy. Using metaphors such as calculation, performance,...
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-009-9163-0Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-06-07 11:46
- But Is It Unique to Nanotechnology? Reframing Nanoethics
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Authors: Godman, Marion
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: This article looks at the sub-discipline of nanoethics and discusses the nature of this new discipline. The author argues that it is important to focus on the broader ethical implications of nanotechnology, rather than only on the u...
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-008-9052-yBiblio - KBL781 - 2009-07-13 15:20
- Upstream/downstream : issues in environmental ethics
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Authors: Scherer, Donald
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This is a collection of essays looking at key concepts, ideas and issues in the field of environmental ethics, including population expansion, accumulation of toxic wastes, pollution of air and water, and the effects of actions by t...
Year: 1990Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-10 17:40
- Ethics and robotics
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Authors: Nagenborg, Michael ; Capurro, Rafael
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This volume discusses the convergence of the two disciplines of ethics and robotics, and how the field of robotics, and how the field of robotics raises large societal and legal questions beyond traditional industrial applications. ...
Year: 2009Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-10-12 15:54
- Taking sides. Clashing views on environmental issues
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Authors: Easton, Thomas A.
Publication Type: Book
Secondary Title: Taking sides; Variation: Taking sides.
Abstract: The thirteenth edition of this book looks at controversial issues in the field of environmental ethics in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. An instructor's manual wit...
Year: 2010Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-01-04 16:10
- Toward an Ethics of Persuasive Technology
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Authors: Berdichevsky, Daniel ; Neunschwander, Erik
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Communications of the ACM
Abstract: Technologies have always influenced people's lives and how they lead them, but for the most part, their effects on people's attitudes and behaviors have been incidental, even accidental. For example, automobiles and highways helped ...
Year: 1999
DOI: 10.1145/301353.301410Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 15:54
- STS 210: Ethics, Science, and Technology
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Authors: McGinn, Robert
Publication Type: Syllabi
Abstract: In this course, developed by Dr. Robert McGinn of Stanford University, students are asked to look at a number of ethical controversies spawned by recent or emerging technical advances and subject them to vigorous critical analysis, ...
Year: 2006
URL: http://sts.stanford.edu/Syllabi/210syl.pdfBiblio - KBL781 - 2009-12-01 17:24
- ECE/Philosophy 316 : Ethics and Engineering
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Authors: Hillmer, Philip ; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Publication Type: Syllabi
Abstract: ECE/Philosophy 316: Ethics and Engineering is a course taught by Professor Philip Hillmer of the the Department of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. This syllabus from the Spring 2011 includes a description...
Year: 2011
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/ECEPhilosophyUIUC2011.pdfBiblio - Anonymous - 2011-03-08 15:55
- Professional Virtue and Professional Self-Awareness: A Case Study in Engineering Ethics
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Authors: Stovall, Preston
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science & Engineering Ethics
Abstract: This paper articulates an Aristotelian theory of professional virtue and provides an application of that theory to the subject of engineering ethics. The leading idea is that Aristotle's analysis of the definitive function of human ...
Year: 2011
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-009-9182-xBiblio - KBL781 - 2011-03-07 17:28
- Is Moral Theory Useful In Practical Ethics?
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Authors: Harris, Charles E.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Ethics: The Journal of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum
Abstract: Many applied or practical ethicists hold that ethical theories have little value in practical ethics. They argue that when you subject an ethical problem in terms of one theory, such as utilitarianism, and then subject the same pro...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.uvu.edu/ethics/seac/Harris%20-%20Is%20Moral%20Theory%20Useful%20in%20Practical%20Ethics.pdfBiblio - Anonymous - 2011-08-09 13:30
- Metaethics Across the Curriculum
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Authors: Scales, Stephen
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Ethics: The Journal of the Society for Ethics across the Curriculum
Abstract: Along with the resurgence of interest in General Education since the 1970s, there has been an increasing demand for teaching ethics in the University. In the 1990s this demand has blossomed into a desire for “teaching ethics across ...
Year: 2005
URL: http://www.uvu.edu/ethics/seac/Metaethics%20Across%20the%20Curriculum.pdfBiblio - KBL781 - 2009-09-14 13:31
- The Value of Case Law in Teaching Philosophical Ethics
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Authors: Oljar, Elizabeth A.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Ethics: The Journal of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum
Abstract: The growth of ethics as a distinct academic and professional field over the last thirty years or so has been generally beneficial to those of us who teach ethics regularly from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Among other th...
Year: 2002
URL: http://www.uvu.edu/ethics/seac/The%20Value%20of%20Case%20Law%20in%20Theaching%20Philosophical%20Ethics.pdfBiblio - Anonymous - 2011-08-15 15:04
- Teaching Ethics With Science Fiction : A Case Study Syllabus
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Authors: Pease, Anastasia
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Ethics: The Journal of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum
Abstract: This short article describes how science fiction literature can provide an excellent variety of interdisciplinary case studies. The author describes how cases in these stories can help students talk about issues such as technology e...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.uvu.edu/ethics/seac/Pease%20-%20Teaching%20Ethics%20with%20Science%20Fiction%20%20A%20Case%20Study%20Syllabus.pdfBiblio - Anonymous - 2011-08-09 14:38
- Theory-Building Activities: Virtue Ethics
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Authors: Cruz-Cruz, Jose A. ; Frey, William
Publication Type: Teaching Module
Abstract: This module provides activities that allow students to develop insights into the ethical approach commonly called virtue ethics. A previous module on
Year: 2010
URL: http://cnx.org/content/m13755/latest/Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-03-12 12:47
- Climate Change, Responsibility, and Justice
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Authors: Jamieson, Dale
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: In order to see anthropogenic climate change as clearly involving moral wrongs and global injustices, we will have to revise some central concepts in these domains. Moreover, climate change threatens another value ("respect for natu...
Year: 2010
URL: http://as.nyu.edu/docs/IO/1192/ClimateChangeResponsibilityJustice.pdf
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-009-9174-Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-06-21 15:34
- Thinking Ethically About the Environment : An Introduction to the Twelve Part Short Course in Environmental Ethics
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Authors: DeCosse, David ; Warner, Keith Douglass ; Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University
Publication Type: Syllabi
Abstract: This short course introduces students without a background in ethics to key features of environmental ethics. it is written to help students- from high schoolers to adult learners, to recognize and use moral language to describe how...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas/environmental_ethics/short-course.htmlBiblio - Anonymous - 2011-08-31 14:20
- Faculty Lesson Plans with a Green Perspective
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Publication Type: Syllabi
Abstract: This is a collection of syllabi and lesson plans produced by faculty from many different departments at Miami Dade College that all explore issues of environmental ethics in some way....
Year: 9999
URL: http://www.mdc.edu/environethics/Lessonplans.aspBiblio - Anonymous - 2011-08-31 13:40
- Technology, Corporations, and Contemporary Globalization: An Ethical and Social Critique
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Authors: Klein, Sherwin
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: International Journal of Applied Philosophy
Abstract: I explore certain interconnections and commonalities among technology, corporations, and contemporary globalization in order to best understand the dangerous ethical and social consequences that accrue from them. I begin by discussi...
Year: 2011Biblio - KBL781 - 2012-07-12 10:53
- Who Teaches Ethics? An Inquiry into the Nature of Ethics as an Academic Discipline
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Authors: Biesecker, Amanda ; Tang, Jeffrey ; Benton, Morgan ; Thomas-Saunders, Daphyne ; McGraw, David K.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Ethics
Abstract: This paper explores the role of ethics in higher education by examining the academic training and departmental home of professors who teach courses in ethics. In particular it examines the extent to which individuals teaching course...
Year: 2012Biblio - KBL781 - 2012-11-13 17:21
- The Moral Authority of a Professional Code
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Authors: Chapman, John N. ; Pennock, J. Roland ; Davis, Michael
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Secondary Title: Authority Revisited
Abstract: For many, the claim that a professional code can have moral authority is perplexing. Either a code is enforceable, or it is not. If it is, it certainly has authority but the authority is law-like, that of a command backed by force, ...
Year: 1986Biblio - KBL781 - 2012-11-21 10:36
- How Can Philosophers Teach Professional Ethics ?
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Authors: Weil, Vivian
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Journal of Social Philosophy
Abstract: This article discusses what role philosophers should play in developing and teaching courses on professional ethics. The author discusses the importance of case studies in teaching ethics, and how philosophers, working with practiti...
Year: 1989
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9833.1989.tb00014.xBiblio - KBL781 - 2012-11-30 14:22
- Developing and Using Cases to Teach Practical Ethics
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Authors: Goldman, Michael ; Philosophy Documentation Center ; Davis, Michael
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Philosophy
Abstract: This article discusses the case study method in teaching practical and professional ethics and gives some guidiance on how to go about developing case studies for use in difference ethics courses, how to uses cases in class, and how...
Year: 1997
DOI: 10.5840/teachphil199720445Biblio - KBL781 - 2012-11-30 14:15
