Applied
Categories
- Bioethics (130)
- Professional Ethics (11)
- Science and Technology (8)
Links
European Ethics Network
http://www.kuleuven.ac.be/een/
Founded to improve interaction and cooperation among ethicists. Compiles research and education reports in professional ethics.
EthicsWeb.ca
A Canadian window on ethics resources (mostly applied ethics resources), both Canadian and international.
The W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics
An interdisciplinary research institute, doing work in bioethics, business ethics, professional ethics, environmental ethics, and animal welfare and the ethics of animal use.
Sxethic
http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/sxethic/index.html
Many essays on ethics, with a focus on animal and human rights in daily life.
Josephson Institute of Ethics
http://www.josephsoninstitute.org/
Nonprofit membership organization dedicated to improving the ethical quality of society by advocating principled reasoning and ethical decisionmaking.
Ethics Connection
http://www.scu.edu/SCU/Centers/Ethics/homepage.shtml
The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University provides a framework for ethical decision making and cases that raise typical ethical dilemmas confronted by young people.
Academic Dialogue on Applied Ethics
http://caae.phil.cmu.edu/Cavalier/Forum/ethics.html
Seeks to apply rules of discourse drawn from contemporary conversational ethics in on-line dialogs. Background materials included.
Fairness.com
Features articles and links focused on both personal and societal fairness issues.
Stanford Encyclopedia - Punishment
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/punishment/
Philosophical justifications of punishment, article by Hugo Adam Bedau.
PBS - Endgame: Ethics and Values in America
Forces fictional characters to make critical decisions with profound moral, ethical or social implications.
Stanford Encyclopedia - The Free Rider Problem
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/free-rider/
Philosophical issues related to collective action; by Russell Hardin.
Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership
http://www.chumirethicsfoundation.ca/
The foundation was created from a bequest by Sheldon Chumir who believed that ethical values are fundamental to a healthy society. The foundation fosters ethical actions in the practical world of government, business and community.
Character Counts Coalition
http://www.charactercounts.org/
A nonprofit, nonpartisan, nonsectarian character education framework that teaches the Six Pillars of Character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship.