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Business Ethics Students

The following sites have material that will assist you to understand the key ideas and to write your essay. In no particular order, it includes general philosophy, ethics, and specialist sites.

Ethics Update

http://ethics.acusd.edu/index.html

British Society for Ethical Theory

http://www.etsu.edu/ethics/bset.htm

Society for Ethics

http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/corlett/se.html

The Society for Ethics is an academic society that seeks to promote philosophical research in ethics without promoting a particular ideological creed or agenda, except that of research excellence in ethics.

Beauchamp & Bowie. Ethical Theory and Business. Textbook web site.

http://cwx.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/beauchamp/

A Bibliography of Metaethics

http://www.gla.ac.uk/Acad/Philosophy/Lenman/bib.html

Produced by James Lenman, Philosophy Department of the University of Glasgow.

Organised by authors surname (not subject). Links paper-based articles and sources – couldn’t see links to electronic versions of these articles.

Ethical Theories

http://truth.wofford.edu/~kaycd/ethics/index.html

From the online course-book “Business Ethics” compiled by Professor Charles Kay, Wofford College.

The Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy

http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/

The encyclopaedia is a combination of articles from three sources (1) adaptations from public domain sources, (2) adaptations of material written by the editor for classroom purposes, and (3) original contributions by professional philosophers around the internet. It arranged alphabetically by subject.

Stanford University Encyclopaedia of Philosophy

http://plato.stanford.edu/

Searchable, dynamic encyclopaedia. Still being developed.

Philosophy Text Collection

http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/philtext.htm

Some classic philosophical texts are available in HTML, text, and RTF formats.

Brown Electronic Article Reviews Service

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Philosophy/bears/homepage.html

Searchable reviews of published articles in moral and political philosophy.

The editors state:- “It is not a substitute for articles, but neither is it a mere addition to an already undigestible volume of published material. It enhances the value of ordinary journal articles by providing an immediate, high quality, and fully public critical notice not available in any other form.”

The Philosophical Society

http://www.philsoc.freeserve.co.uk/index.html

“In 1913 a number of professional scholars and amateur philosophers founded The Philosophical Society of England 'to promote the study of practical philosophy among the general public'. The Society helps to bring together professional philosophers and non-professionals, to bring philosophical ideas and problems to the public attention, and to encourage wider discussion of both traditional and topical philosophical issues.

The Philosopher – Journal of the Philosophical Society

http://www.the-philosopher.co.uk/

“The Philosopher is the oldest general Philosophy Journal in the world. It provides a forum for short, original, brilliant and accessible articles (and, it is true, space for a few rather less good ones!). The Philosopher believes in principle anything can be made clear to the interested reader.

Online Journal of Ethics

http://condor.depaul.edu/ethics/ethg1.html

Hippias – Limited Area Search of Philosophy on the Internet

http://hippias.evansville.edu/

Hippias is a peer-reviewed search engine that provides access to philosophy-related resources on the World-Wide Web. Quality is controlled by a system of hyperlinked internet sites which are managed by qualified professionals who serve as the associate editors of the project.

Epistemelinks.com

http://www.epistemelinks.com/

Searchable arrangement of philosophical resources on the internet, managed by philosopher.

Ethical / Moral Decision Making

http://www.ethics.ubc.ca/resources/dec-mkg/

Ethical decision-making resources from the Centre for Applied Ethics.

Philosophy around the Web

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~worc0337/phil_index.html

Philosophy resources compiled by Dr Peter J. King of St Hilda's College, Oxford

Literature on Utilitarian Ethics (From Ethics Update website)

http://ethics.acusd.edu/utilitarianism.html

Includes links to classical sources by Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin and Henry Sidgwick.

Classical Utilitarianism

http://www.la.utexas.edu/cuws/index.html

Page of links to works by Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill and Henry Sidgwick compiled by Dan Bonevac, Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin.

Utilitarianism

http://www.utilitarianism.com/

http://www.utilitarian.org/one.html

http://truth.wofford.edu/~kaycd/ethics/util.htm

From the online course book “Business Ethics” compiled by Professor Charles Kay, Wofford College.

Kant and Kantian Ethics

http://ethics.acusd.edu/kant.html

From the Ethics Update website, includes links to specific websites on Kant.