Philosophy

Authors: Housman, Alfred ; Kelty, Christopher ; McGill, Scott
Publication Type: Online Tutorial
Abstract: Ownership, authorship, plagiarism, intellectual property, parody, critique, re-use, credit, reputation, allusion, imitation, patronage, payment, piracy, creativity, originality, borrowing, lending, stealing, quoting, citing, lifting...
Year: 2008
URL: http://cnx.org/content/col10217/latest/

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: 10.1145/301353.301410

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.pdf

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.pdf

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-x

Authors: van der Molen, S. ; van Gorp, A
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science & Engineering Ethics
Abstract: Different methods have been developed to address ethical issues during research. Most of these methods were developed at universities. In this article ethical parallel research within a Research and Technology Organization is descri...
Year: 2011
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-009-9187-5

Authors: Hansson, Sven Ove
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science & Engineering Ethics
Abstract: Research is subject to more stringent ethical requirements than most other human activities, and a procedure that is otherwise allowed may be forbidden in research. Hence, risk-taking is more restricted in scientific research than i...
Year: 2011
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-009-9186-6

Authors: Schmaus, Warren ; Schmaus, Warren
Publication Type: Web Article
Secondary Title: Perspectives on the Professions
Abstract: Inroduces a special edition of the Perspectives on the Professions newsletter that looks at a book published by philosopher Alan Goldman in his book, "The Moral Foundations of Professional Ethics" and tries to answer if members of v...
Year: 1983
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/perspective/v3n1-2%20perspective.pdf

Authors: Schmaus, Warren ; Luban, David
Publication Type: Web Article
Secondary Title: Perspectives on the Professions
Abstract: Provides a review of Alan Goldman's "The Moral Foundations of Professional Ethics" and discusses whether professions are governed by special moral values and how these moral values are still connected to common moral values held by ...
Year: 1983
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/perspective/v3n1-2%20perspective.pdf

Authors: Robert Ladenson ; Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Web Article
Secondary Title: Perspectives on the Professions
Abstract: This article discusses the role codes of ethics play in professional life, and why professions chose to adopt professional codes of ethics....
Year: 1981
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/perspective/v1n1%20perspective.pdf

Authors: Davis, Michael ; Gawthrop, Louis C
Publication Type: Web Article
Secondary Title: Perspectives on the Professions
Abstract: Discusses the pressure that faculty of professional schools are under to teach their students ethical decision-making, and some reasons why education in ethics is important....
Year: 1988
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/perspective/v7n2%20perspective.pdf

Authors: Schmaus, Warren ; Goldman, Alan H.
Publication Type: Web Article
Secondary Title: Perspectives on the Professions
Abstract: This article looks at the moral authority of norms set by institutions such as professional association, especially when rules or norms require an agent to do what, from his own perspective, might appear to be wrong. Rules limiting ...
Year: 1983
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/perspective/v3n1-2%20perspective.pdf

Authors: Davis, Michael ; Sawyier, Fay
Publication Type: Web Article
Secondary Title: Perspectives on the Professions
Abstract: Discusses the author's experience of entering the profession of philosophy and the how we might want to rethink what distinguishes those who teach a profession from those who practice it....
Year: 1986

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Authors: Sawyier, Fay ; Bynum, Terrell Ward
Publication Type: Web Article
Secondary Title: Perspectives on the Professions
Abstract: Discusses the call made by philosopher Leslie Stevenson who urged philosophers to apply their philosophical knowledge and skills to issues like abortion, world hunger, and other areas of applied ethics. The author looks at the field...
Year: 1986
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/perspective/v6n2%20perspective.pdf

Authors: Sawyier, Fay ; Davis, Michael
Publication Type: Web Article
Secondary Title: Perspectives on the Professions
Abstract: Discusses the current state of ethics in the political, science, engineering, and business world and the role the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at the Illinois Institute of Technology may play in the next ten yea...
Year: 1986
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/perspective/v6n2%20perspective.pdf

Authors: Davis, Michael ; Gibson, Mary
Publication Type: Web Article
Secondary Title: Perspectives on the Professions
Abstract: Discusses the role that consent and just have in determining the acceptable risk of a project or action, and how risk is a complex combination of fact and value, as much an assigning a value as a weighing of facts. ...
Year: 1990
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/perspective/v9n2%20perspective.pdf

Authors: Davis, Michael ; McDonald, Michael M.
Publication Type: Web Article
Secondary Title: Perspectives on the Professions
Abstract: Discusses the results of a major survey of universities and researchers in the area of applied ethics to develop a strategy for applied ethics research in Canada. The author discusses activities currently underway in the areas of bu...
Year: 1990
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/perspective/v10n1%20perspective.pdf

Authors: Davis, Michael
Publication Type: Web Article
Secondary Title: Perspectives on the Professions
Abstract: Introduces a special issue of the newsletter, Perspectives on the Professions, that explores the field of professional ethics outside of the United States, including Russia, England, Canada and Australia....
Year: 1990
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/perspective/v10n1%20perspective.pdf

Authors: Davis, Michael
Publication Type: Web Article
Secondary Title: Perspectives on the Professions
Abstract: This article introduces a special second issue of the newsletter perspectives on the professions that looks at professional ethics around the world. ...
Year: 1991
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/perspective/v11n1%20perspective.pdf

Authors: La Forge, Paul ; Nanzan University
Publication Type: Conference Paper
Secondary Title: OEC International Conference on Ethics in Engineering and Science
Abstract: This essay discusses practical ethics through basic philosophy, incorporating three main elements: ethical thought, ethical definition, and ethical values....
Year: 1999
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Education/instructguides/laforge.aspx

Authors: Nevers, P.
Publication Type: Web Article
Secondary Title: Pre-College Materials
Abstract: A study of how children react to nature, natural objects, and the environment. Focuses on how children react to ethical conflicts about the local environment. (This paper was presented at the Center for the Study of Ethics in Societ...
Year: 1999
URL: http://www.onlineethics.org/Education/precollege/naturekids.aspx

Authors: Association for Practical and Professional Ethics ; Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Shawn and Kevin have been close friends since they met during their college years. The two have lent each other emotional support and done favors for one another over the years, but now Shawn has asked Kevin to lend him $5,000 to pu...
Year: 2000
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Money%20and%20Friendship.pdf

Authors: Carr, Edward ; Association for Practical and Professional Ethics ; Dillard, Brenda ; Funke, Rhiannon Dodds ; Diaz-Sprague, Raquel ; Boxall, Sussana Flavia ; Carr, Sarah ; Potthurst, Adam
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Science has always been on the forefront of making food easier to produce but the possibility of synthetically produced meat has some people wondering if it has gone too far. However, some people see it as a way to help solve world ...
Year: 2009
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Synthetic%20Meat.pdf

Authors: Association for Practical and Professional Ethics ; Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: The year is 2020, and the new President of the United States has come to believe that the growing gap between the highest and lowest income groups likely reflects a deep problem in both the United States and world economies related ...
Year: 2000
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Federal%20Income.pdf

Authors: Robert Ladenson ; Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Frederic T. Sommers, a Professor at Brandeis University, is one of 650 subscribers on an Internet mailing list dedicated to feminist philosophy. Professor Sommers is the husband of Professor Christina Hoff Sommers of Clark Universit...
Year: 1995
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Mailing%20List.pdf