Philosophy

Authors: Marino, Gordon
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Chronicle of Higher Education
Abstract: Argues that ethics education must help students to be honest about themselves and their own values. Views of Kierkegaard on moral knowledge; Inclusion of training to make students better able to detect inner reflections; Common reac...
Year: 2004

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-07-14 16:55

Authors: Halliday, Robert
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Philosophy
Abstract: This paper investigates some implications of moral development theory for teaching ethics. A summary of moral development theory, focusing on the work of James Rest, provides the basis for our investigation. The authors conclude tha...
Year: 2006

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-07-13 15:20

Authors: Domino, Brian
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Philosophy
Abstract: This article presents the authors experience of using a model of team teaching where a philosophy class "tours" the campus and engages other classes in ethical discussions throughout the semester. This approach allows for an engagin...
Year: 2008

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-07-13 15:12

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

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: 2009

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-07-20 13:00

Authors: Ziman, J. M.
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This book is an introduction to science and technology studies and discusses the underlying philosophical and sociological aspects of of science and technology, topics such as realism and social construction, discourse, and the publ...
Year: 1984

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

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.aspx

Authors: Thomason, Neil
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Philosophy
Abstract: Well-replicated experimental results indicate that students learn more when they work closely with each other in small groups in or out of class. The author provides twelve ways of getting students to philosophize together. Given th...
Year: 1990

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

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

Authors: Pry, Samuel ; Thomas, Mark L. ; Reilly, Richard
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Philosophy
Abstract: Plagiarism is often equated with theft, but closer inspection reveals that plagiarism is fundamentally a form of deception. In the case of plagiarism in the classroom, a plagiarist sabotages the instructors ability to make a fair a...
Year: 2007

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-09-14 13:23

Authors: Pudner, Kalynne Hackney
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Philosophy
Abstract: Many postsecondary institutions now require an ethics course for graduation, typically one in applied ethics. This paper considers how the requirement of such a course can be justified from the institution's perspective, and also fr...
Year: 2008

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-09-14 13:23

Authors: Pritchard, Michael S.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Ethics: The Journal of the Society for Ethics across the Curriculum
Abstract: In this article, the author seeks to answer the question of what role philosophy should play in an ethics across the curriculum program. He first discusses his understanding of the aims of practical ethics, and then considers the c...
Year: 2001

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-09-14 13:23

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

Publication Type: Book Chapter
Secondary Title: Ethical issues in professional life
Abstract: The author looks at virtues that should be cultivated in professional ethics education. He argues that along with paying attention to the quandaries that professionals face and the structures in which they work, attention must also...
Year: 1988

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

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

Authors: Bok, Sissela
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This book examines the distinction that can be drawn between secrecy and privacy, why both are needed in many situations, and when secrets are desirable, such as the need to preserve surprise, and situations where secrets can be har...
Year: 1984

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-09-10 14:36

Authors: Morse, Stephen J.
Publication Type: Audiovisual
Abstract: This is a audiovisual recording of a talk given by DrDr. Stephen J. Morse, Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law, Professor of Psychology and Law in Psychiatry at the Penn Law School and Associate Director of the Penn Center fo...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.ethicslibrary.org/resources/107/

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: 1996

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-12-03 12:42

Authors: Fitzgerald, Patrick
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Teaching Philosophy
Abstract: Discusses the importance of service-learning in influencing students' moral outlook and how it can be incorporated into an ethics class. ...
Year: 1997

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-07-13 15:20

Authors: van Gorp, A ; van der Molen, S.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science and Engineering Ethics
Abstract: Different methods have been developed to address ethical issues during research. In this, article ethical parallel research within a Research and Technology Organization is described. Within a European project about perceived sec...
Year: 9999
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-009-9187-5

Authors: Taylor, Angus
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This book seeks to map the philosophical debate about the ethical status of animals, and humans relationship with different species. The author covers the moral status of animals both currently and from a historical perspective, pr...
Year: 2003

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-02-24 15:07

Authors: Cohen, Carl ; Regan, Tom
Publication Type: Book
Secondary Title: Point/counterpoint;
Abstract: This unique volume follows a point/counterpoint layout, with the two philosophers authoring this volume arguing about the moral status of animals, and the ethics of using animal subjects for research purposes. ...
Year: 2001

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-02-24 15:07

Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This anthology, edited by Peter Singer, the author of the 1986 edition of the same name, discusses the moral status of animals, the animal movement, and issues such as the use of animals in research and in industrial farming. The v...
Year: 2006

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-02-24 15:07

Publication Type: Book
Secondary Title: Practical and professional ethics series;
Abstract: In this new study, Mike W. Martin rethinks professional ethics to include personal commitments and ideals. Using examples from a wide range of professions, including medicine, law, teaching, journalism, engineering, business, and mi...
Year: 2000

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-02-23 16:01

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: As gay marriage becomes legal in states like Massachusetts and with the the U.S. Supreme Court striking down anti sodomy laws in Texas in 2003, the arguements for legalizing polygamy now seem stronger then they have been for many ye...
Year: 2009
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Polygamy.pdf