Applied Ethics Philosophy

Applied

Applied ethics deals with concrete moral issues like abortion and euthanasia. Many of these are also tackled in Society: Issues, and this category is intended, unsurprisingly, for more philosophical debates and writings than you will find under Society: Issues.

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• - An interdisciplinary research institute, doing work in bioethics, business ethics, professional ethics, environmental ethics, and animal welfare and the ethics of animal use.
  
• - 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.
  
• - A nonprofit, nonpartisan, nonsectarian character education framework that teaches the Six Pillars of Character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship.
  
• - A Canadian window on ethics resources (mostly applied ethics resources), both Canadian and international.
  
• - Founded to improve interaction and cooperation among ethicists. Compiles research and education reports in professional ethics.
  
• - Promotes public debate on topics relevant to the moral dilemmas in South African society.
  
• - A bibliography of philosophical ethics and theoretical tools of cognitive science.
  
• - Provides a forum for the exploration and discussion of ethical issues, both theoretical and applied.
  
• - Many essays on ethics, with a focus on animal and human rights in daily life.
  
• - Forces fictional characters to make critical decisions with profound moral, ethical or social implications.
  
• - Nonprofit membership organization dedicated to improving the ethical quality of society by advocating principled reasoning and ethical decisionmaking.
  
• - The Institute contributes to an ethical reflection of recent developments in biomedicine, science and technology.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Seeks to apply rules of discourse drawn from contemporary conversational ethics in on-line dialogs. Background materials included.
  
• - Philosophical justifications of punishment, article by Hugo Adam Bedau.
  
• - Ethical treatise by Nagarjuna, a Tibetan Buddhist classic on moral conduct.
  
• - Philosophical issues related to collective action; by Russell Hardin.
  
• - An exploration of experimental and scientific ethics.
  
• - Features articles and links focused on both personal and societal fairness issues.
  
  

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