Philosophy: Ethics: Applied: Science and Technology

Resources for middle and high school students on ethical issues in the sciences.

Outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life.

Provides engineers, scientists, and science and engineering students with resources for understanding and addressing ethical problems.

A research project at the Meaning and Computation Lab, University of California, San Diego. Explores the hypothesis that information artifacts embody definite but implicit value systems.

Promotes the socially responsible application of science and technology through educational programs for young people, primarily at the college and high school levels.

UNESCO: Division of Human Sciences, Philosophy and Ethics of Science and Technology.

Personal web pages of Luis Gonzalez-Mestres, including topics of science ethics and other social aspects of science.

Explores various ways that the human race has attempted to achieve perfection through philosophies and technologies of the past century.

Starting points for students and teachers. Includes discussion topics and other curriculum links.

Addressing such issues as environmental, health and safety implications of technology, engineering ethics and professional responsibility.

Links to STS-related information sources from North Carolina State University.

Offers class resources, syllabus and information; compiled by Will Buschert.

Guidance of society members in various professional dealings, especially those involving conflicts of interest.

Dicusses new technologies that are raising ethical, legal and social dilemmas as cutting-edge science intersects with the law.

An essay on the scientific method (or lack thereof) and the consequences of misconduct in science by Henry Bauer.

Contains links to on-line resources, a bibliography, and several original essays on ethics and misconduct in science.