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Teaching Applied Ethics, Critical Theory, and 'Having to Brush One's Teeth'

Authors: Applebaum, Barbara
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Philosophy
Abstract: The aim of this essay is to demonstrate the crucial role that critical theory plays in teaching applied ethics. After delineating what is meant by critical theory, it is argued that critical theory augments critical thinking and enc...
Year: 2002

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-07-10 15:37

March Madness: A Case in Applied Ethics

Authors: Riviello, Eric ; Scholz, Sally J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Philosophy
Abstract: What is at stake when students sell the highly sought-after basketball tickets they receive for free through a university's lottery system? This article discusses a case in applied ethics taken from the experience of college student...
Year: 2008

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-09-14 13:31

Teaching Applied Ethics Effectively

Authors: McNulty, Mike
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Philosophy
Abstract: The paper explains how to teach applied ethics while taking into account the intense metaethical debate going on behind the scenes. The preliminary discussion addresses teaching goals, challenges, and standards. Central to the main ...
Year: 1998

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-09-14 13:16

Introducing Ethics

Authors: Garratt, Chris ; Appignanesi, Richard ; Robinson, Dave
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: What are the acceptable limits of scientific investigation and genetic engineering, the rights and wrongs of animal rights, euthanasia and civil disobedience? This book confronts these dilemmas, tracing arguments of moral thinkers, ...
Year: 2005

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-10-29 11:28

The Pedagogic Value of General Moral Principles in Professional Ethics

Authors: Hobson, Peter ; Walsh, Adrian J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: General moral principles have played a major role in the teaching of professional ethics. However, recently there has been some criticism of such 'principlist' approaches to teaching. It is alleged (i) that abstract principles don't...
Year: 1998

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-05-21 16:36

Morality, Moral Theory, and Applied and Professional Ethics

Authors: Gert, Bernard
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: In this article I distinguish morality, the moral system that is used, usually unconsciously, by people when deciding how to act morally or when making moral judgments, from a moral theory, which is supposed to provide an explicit s...
Year: 1992

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-05-21 16:34

Ethics updates

Authors: Hinman, Lawrence M.
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Designed primarily to be used by ethics instructors and their students, this web resources includes case studies from a large variety of disciplines and subject areas, instructional materials, and other, related resources. ...
Year: 1999
URL: http://ethics.sandiego.edu/

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-07-13 15:33

Of balloons and bicycles or the relationship between ethical theory and practical judgement

Authors: Jonsen, A. R.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Ponders what moral theory has to do with practical judgement and asserts that the relationship between the two is an unhappy one. Long term nature of the relationship between theory and practice; Metaphor of the balloon and the bicy...
Year: 1991

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:06

Is Moral Theory Useful In Practical Ethics?

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.pdf

Biblio - Anonymous - 2011-08-09 13:30

The Usefulness of Moral Theory in Practical Ethics: A Question of Comparative Cost (A Response to Harris)

Authors: Davis, Michael
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Ethics: The Journal of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum
Abstract: This is a response to Charles Harris's article, Is Moral Theory Useful In Practical Ethics?. The author argues that Harris does not make any argument about the usefulness of mo...
Year: 2011
URL: http://www.uvu.edu/ethics/seac/Davis-The%20Usefulness%20of%20Moral%20Theory%20inPractical%20Ethics.pdf

Biblio - Anonymous - 2011-08-09 13:44

Value Ladenness , Theoretical Virtues , and Moral Wisdom

Authors: Scales, Stephen
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Ethics: The Journal of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum
Abstract: Why do we teach more than one ethical theory? Why do we offer arguments that highlight the theoretical advantages and costs of several incompatible theoretical frameworks? Why not just tell the students that Kant was right, gloss ov...
Year: 2002
URL: http://www.uvu.edu/ethics/seac/Values%20Ladenness%20Theoretical%20Virtues%20%20and%20Moral%20Wisdom.pdf

Biblio - Anonymous - 2011-08-15 15:57

Ethical Pluralism : An Alternative to Objectivism and Relativism

Authors: Lengbeyer, Lawrence Adam
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Ethics: The Journal of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum
Abstract: This article discusses how, in ethics courses, students are naturally drawn to ethical relativism even after becoming aware of its shortcomings, because it seems the better option when compared with ethical objectivism. They worry a...
Year: 2004
URL: http://www.uvu.edu/ethics/seac/Ethical%20Pluralism%20An%20Alternative%20to%20Objectivism%20and%20Relativism.pdf

Biblio - Anonymous - 2011-08-15 11:18

Rethinking Utilitarianism

Authors: Darwish, Bahaa
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Ethics: The Journal of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum
Abstract: Because science is not value free, there has been an increasing international impetus to provide students with appropriate tools that can help them discuss the complex ethical questions that arise in their academic disciplines. This...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.uvu.edu/ethics/seac/Darwish%20-%20Rethinking%20Utilitarianism.pdf

Biblio - Anonymous - 2011-08-09 14:09

Theory-Building Activities: Virtue Ethics

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 moral exemplars has helped stud...
Year: 2010
URL: http://cnx.org/content/m13755/latest/

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-03-12 12:47

Theory Building Activities: Mountain Terrorist Exercise

Authors: Frey, William
Publication Type: Teaching Module
Abstract: This exercise, based on Bernard Williams' "Jim and the Jungle" scenario, helps students see the way they use ethical theories in their everyday reasoning. Williams' scenario is constructed as a classical dilemma--a no win situation ...
Year: 2007
URL: http://cnx.org/content/m13764/latest/

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-03-12 12:47

Response to Michael Davis: The Cost is Minimal and Worth It

Authors: Harris, Charles E.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Ethics: The Journal of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum
Abstract: This article is written in response to a article by Michael Davis discussing the importance of including moral theory in professional ethics courses entitled, "The Usefulness of Mo...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.uvu.edu/ethics/seac/Harris-Response%20to%20Micheal%20Davis%20The%20cost%20is%20Minimal%20and%20Worth%20it.pdf

Biblio - Anonymous - 2011-08-09 13:56

The Usefulness of a Comprehensive Moral Theory

Authors: Gert, Bernard
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Ethics: The Journal of the Society for Ethics across the Curriculum
Abstract: This article continues a discussion between Bernard Gert, Michael Davis, and Charles Harris from a 2009 volume of Teaching Ethics on the helpfulness of moral theory when teaching practical and applied ethics. In this exchange, Charl...
Year: 2012
URL: http://www.uvu.edu/ethics/seac/Gert_The_Usefulness_of_a_Comprehensive_Systematic_Moral_Theory.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2012-08-21 10:14

A Reply to Bernard Gert

Authors: Harris, Charles E.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Ethics: The Journal of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum
Abstract: This article continues a discussion about the need to include ethical theory when teaching ethics between Bernard Gert, Michael Davis, and Charles Harris. In this paper, Charles Harris discusses how he has found it to be important t...
Year: 2012
URL: http://www.uvu.edu/ethics/seac/Harris_A_Reply_to_Bernard_Gert.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2012-08-21 09:52

The Usefulness of Moral Theory in Teaching Practical Ethics: A Reply to Gert and Harris

Authors: Davis, Michael
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Ethics: The Journal of the Society for Ethics across the Curriculum
Abstract: This article continues a discussion between the author, Bernard Gert and Charles Harris about the usefulness of teaching moral theory when discussing practical and applied ethics. The author argues that moral theory is not very usef...
Year: 2012
URL: http://www.uvu.edu/ethics/seac/Davis_The_Usefulness_of_Moral_Theory_in_Teaching_Practical_Ethics_Reply_to_Gert_n_Harris.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2012-08-21 09:35

The Usefulness of Moral Theory in Teaching Practical Ethics :A Response to Gert and Harris

Authors: Davis, Michael
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Ethics
Abstract: We now have a three-cornered debate.1 Gert and Harris agree that my earlier critique of teaching moral theory in practical (or applied) ethics is mistaken while disagreeing about which moral theories are better than my non-theoretic...
Year: 2011
URL: http://www.uvu.edu/ethics/seac/Davis_The_Usefulness_of_Moral_Theory_in_Teaching_Practical_Ethics_Reply_to_Gert_n_Harris.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2012-12-07 12:35

The Usefulness of Moral Theory in Teaching Practical Ethics : A Question of Comparative Cost (A Response to Harris)

Authors: Davis, Michael
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Ethics
Abstract: This article is a response to a claim by Charles Harris that, "moral theories can often be useful in resolving moral dilemmas. Both students and practitioners of practical ethics should be constantly reminded of this, because in pra...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.uvu.edu/ethics/seac/Davis-The%20Usefulness%20of%20Moral%20Theory%20inPractical%20Ethics.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2012-12-07 17:24