Applying Philosophy to Contemporary Ethical Issues

Philosophy:  The Big Questions (HZB3M)

Abortion

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

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/abortion/

http://www.balancedpolitics.org/abortion.htm

http://abortion.procon.org/

http://ethics.sandiego.edu/presentations/AppliedEthics/Abortion/abortion.pdf

https://www.sahealth.sa.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/83a92880452d4a61835cd3005ba75f87/Abortion+Ethicical+Considerations+June+2014+PAC.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CACHEID=83a92880452d4a61835cd3005ba75f87

http://www.csus.edu/indiv/g/gaskilld/ethics/abortion.htm

http://www.debate.org/abortion-debate/

Adoption

https://www.childwelfare.gov/adoption/adopt_ethics/

http://encyclopedia.adoption.com/entry/ethical-issues/127/1.html

https://www.bcadoption.com/resources/articles/complexity-adoption-ethics

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-conn/the-ethics-of-internation_b_6506198.html

http://msass.case.edu/downloads/vgroza/fall2004/ethicalissues.pdf

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18506474

http://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/ethiopia-international-adoption-program-ethics-birth-families-activists

http://everydaylife.globalpost.com/adventages-disadvantages-adoption-11879.html

http://www.pear-reform.org/

Advertising Ethics

http://www.icharter.org/standards/eas405/

http://www.managementstudyguide.com/advertising-ethics.htm

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/list-ethical-legal-issues-advertising-11466.html

http://www.aef.com/on_campus/classroom/speaker_pres/data/3001

http://www.mediaexperts.com/blog/ethics-in-canadian-advertising-a-conversation-with-dr-alan-middleton

http://www.apa.org/monitor/sep00/advertising.aspx

http://www.businessphilosophy.co.uk/articles/ethics&advertising.pdf

Animal Experimentation

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/animals/

http://animal-testing.procon.org/

http://www.aboutanimaltesting.co.uk/benefitscategory.html

http://www.aboutanimaltesting.co.uk/challengescategory.html

http://www.indiana.edu/~acoustic/s685/Rowan-1997.pdf

http://www.stanford.edu/group/hopes/cgi-bin/wordpress/2010/07/animal-research/

http://www.ahc.umn.edu/rar/ethics.html

http://www.debate.org/animal-rights/

Celebrities and Athletes as Role Models

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/coaching-and-parenting-young-athletes/201504/are-athletes-good-role-models

http://www.livestrong.com/article/516755-should-parents-allow-celebrities-to-be-their-childrens-role-model/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/4733686_Sports_Celebrity_Influence_on_the_Behavioral_Intentions_of_Generation_Y

http://persweb.wabash.edu/facstaff/hortonr/articles%20for%20class/lockwood%20and%20kunda.pdf

http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/9492/1/rolemodels.pdf

Censorship

http://www.debate.org/internet-censorship/

http://thewire.in/73915/internet-censorship-making-hidden-visible/

https://www.utm.edu/staff/jfieser/class/160/4-censorship.htm

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00049670.2010.10735994

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/foci11/tech/slides/wright.pdf

http://www.yourmiddleeast.com/culture/banned-by-the-bureau-censorship-in-lebanon_43400

http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2016/10/30/depth/censorship-fades-away-advent-social-mediaethics-while-savouring-flavour

http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2010/04/navigating-media-ethics-and-censorship-in-dubai097/

https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/7716/librarytrendsv39i1-2i_opt.pdf?s..

Cloning

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/cloning/

http://www.pnas.org/content/112/29/8879.full

https://www.scu.edu/ethics/focus-areas/bioethics/resources/the-ethics-of-human-cloning-and-stem-cell-research/

http://pubs.rsna.org/doi/full/10.1148/radiol.2293030542

http://www.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/28153/ethics_stemcell_cloningresearch.pdf

http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/genetic/human-cloning3.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/science/20tier.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/pcbe/reports/cloningreport/

Corporations

https://ethicalrealism.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/ethical-implications-of-corporations/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2013/05/14/enron-ethics-and-todays-corporate-values/#dac14dd7688c

http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1013&context=si

http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2015/03/19/the-worlds-most-ethical-companies-2015/#76dc978b2bed

http://www.minyanville.com/sectors/consumer/articles/Good-Business253A-Corporations-with-Great-Ethical/2/16/2013/id/48045

http://www.ethicscentre.ca/EN/

http://www.ehow.com/info_8444236_economic-effects-multinational-corporations.html

http://www.globalissues.org/issue/50/corporations

http://www.worldwatch.org/node/575

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-johnson/corporations-dont-do-bad_b_800604.html

http://www.global-labour-university.org/fileadmin/GLU_conference_Unicamp_2008/Submitted_papers/Impact_of_Multinational_Corporation_in_Malaysia_by_Rajeswari_Raman.pdf

http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/06/14/how-corporate-social-responsibility-improved-these-companies-bottom-lines/#

Euthanasia

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/euthanasia/

http://www.balancedpolitics.org/assisted_suicide.htm

http://www.debate.org/euthanasia/

https://startsat60.com/stories/living/the-never-ending-argument-over-voluntary-euthanasia

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2748292/

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmsa071143#t=article

Freedom of the Press

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7127423.stm

http://www.omicsgroup.org/journals/2165-7912/2165-7912-2-114.php?aid=6461

https://ethics.journalism.wisc.edu/2012/11/30/bashing-leveson-how-not-to-defend-press-freedom/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3894026/The-Government-vows-stock-10-week-consultation-impose-tougher-rules-press-ahead-Leveson-two.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/10/18/the-freedom-of-the-press-doesnt-give-the-media-any-special-privileges-but-its-also-not-a-redundancy/?utm_term=.073b47889694

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3850060/Freedom-Press-defended-says-watchdog-head-warns-newspapers-doomed-lose-independence.html

http://www.fairobserver.com/region/europe/press-freedom-of-the-press-media-23302/

http://www.dailysabah.com/feature/2016/10/29/the-media-press-freedom-and-terrorism

Genetic Engineering

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/animals/using/biotechnology_1.shtml

http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/embryo-screening-and-the-ethics-of-human-60561

http://www.policymic.com/articles/3971/genetic-engineering-debate-are-there-lines-we-shouldn-t-cross

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3078015/

http://www.sciencegroup.org.uk/ifgene/proscons.htm

http://www.biology-online.org/2/13_genetic_engineering.htm

Genetically Modified Foods

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/harvest/

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/genetically-modified-foods-a-primer-1.1341529

http://www.who.int/foodsafety/publications/biotech/20questions/en/

https://www.scu.edu/ethics/focus-areas/bioethics/resources/genetically-modified-food/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3558185/

https://www.macalester.edu/~montgomery/GMOs2.htm

Globalization

http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikecollins/2015/05/06/the-pros-and-cons-of-globalization/#23b30cf12170

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=55243#.WBqoXy0rLIU

http://www.businessinsider.com/world-turning-its-back-on-globalization-2016-4

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-commentary/what-canada-needs-to-succeed-in-a-changing-globalized-world/article26555240/

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/oct/31/globalisation.simonjeffery

http://www.economicsonline.co.uk/Global_economics/Globalisation_introduction.html

http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/discussion-ethical-globalization

http://euromentor.ucdc.ro/vol2nr1martie2011/eur-en/the%20ethical%20problems%20of%20globalization-niadi-cernica.pdf

Gun Control

http://www.balancedpolitics.org/gun_control.htm

http://www.debate.org/gun-rights/

http://connection.ebscohost.com/us/gun-control/overview-gun-control-debate

http://www2.econ.iastate.edu/classes/econ362/hallam/Readings/GunControlBoylan.pdf

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/g/gun_control/index.html

http://www.usnews.com/topics/subjects/gun-control-and-gun-rights

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/burke-e-strunsky/the-gun-control-controver_1_b_2103877.html

Internet Privacy

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3078835/

http://ethics.csc.ncsu.edu/privacy/web/study.php

http://ba.tepper.cmu.edu/ethics/chiu-2000.pdf

http://www.carlilecomputers.com/Documents/How_Private_Is_the_Internet.pdf

http://www.iisi.de/fileadmin/IISI/upload/2009/p265.pdf?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter (Information Revelation and Internet Privacy Concerns on Social Network Sites:  A Case Study of Facebook)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/26/iot_data_ethics_talk/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/haroldfurchtgottroth/2016/10/28/internet-privacy-in-the-age-of-wikileaks/#55dabb6e16ce

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/11/02/huge-victory-online-privacy-advocates

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-yahoo-internet-privacy-surveillance-20161010-story.html

Piracy

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/the-ethics-of-internet-piracy

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/02/2012211103617437180.html

http://theconversation.com/is-downloading-really-stealing-the-ethics-of-digital-piracy-39930

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2468925/cybercrime-hacking/the-ethics-of-piracy.html

http://rt.com/op-edge/torrent-piracy-sharing-law-440/

http://jindal.utdallas.edu/files/smith-telang-07-02.pdf (Competing with Free: The Impact of Movie Broadcasts on DVD Sales and Internet Piracy 2009)

http://www.wne.uw.edu.pl/inf/wyd/WP/WNE_WP109.pdf (Why is online piracy ethically different from theft?  A Vignette Experiment 2013)

http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/course/21/21w.784/www/BD%20Supplementals/Materials/Unit%20Two/Piracy/trends%20in%20software%20piracy.pdf (Trends and patterns among online software pirates 2003)

Torture

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/torture/

http://www.balancedpolitics.org/prisoner_torture.htm

http://www.debate.org/torture/

http://philosophytalk.org/shows/ethics-torture-1

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-harris/in-defense-of-torture_b_8993.html

http://www.du.edu/korbel/hrhw/volumes/2007/evans-2007.pdf (The Ethics of Torture)

Vegetarianism

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/animals/using/eating_1.shtml

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/02/isvegetarianism-and-veganism-about-not-harming-animals-or-feeling-morally-superior

http://ecochildsplay.com/2015/10/31/the-ethics-of-eating-vegan-vegetarian-omnivore/

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/national-vegetarian-week-5-ethical-reasons-to-stop-eating-meat-10260780.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/why-doesn-t-everyone-go-vegetarian-a7015166.html

War

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/war/

http://www.debate.org/war-on-terrorism/

http://philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu/faculty/rarneson/Courses/McmahanEthicsofKillinginWar.pdf

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/30/syria-conflict-just-war-theory_n_3839287.html

http://www.economist.com/node/7231163

http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/submitted/Perry/ethics.html

http://fair-use.org/international-journal-of-ethics/1915/01/the-ethics-of-war

Welfare / Social Assistance / Poverty

http://www.debate.org/welfare/

http://www.debate.org/social-programs/

http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/iie/v8n3/welfare.html

http://www.ehow.com/about_7549267_pros-cons-government-welfare-programs.html

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/opinion/article_7b7e3c0a-a5c8-11e1-93da-001a4bcf887a.html

http://www.pearsonhighered.com/samplechapter/0205569390.pdf (Ch. 3 Social Justice and Social Welfare Policy 2009)