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Sub-Categories in Applied

Bioethics (203)
Business and Corporate Ethics@ (62)
Environmental Ethics@ (12)
Professional Ethics (17)

Science and Technology (20)
Vegetarianism and Veganism (6)
War and Peace (6)

Web Sites in Category Applied

Academic Dialogue on Applied Ethics - Seeks to apply rules of discourse drawn from contemporary conversational ethics in on-line dialogs. Background materials included.

African Ethics Initiative - Promotes public debate on topics relevant to the moral dilemmas in South African society.

Cognitive Science and Ethics - A bibliography of philosophical ethics and theoretical tools of cognitive science.

Ethics as a Science - An exploration of experimental and scientific ethics.

Ethics Connection - 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.

EthicsWeb.ca - A Canadian window on ethics resources (mostly applied ethics resources), both Canadian and international.

European Ethics Network - Founded to improve interaction and cooperation among ethicists. Compiles research and education reports in professional ethics.

Fairness.com - Features articles and links focused on both personal and societal fairness issues.

Institut für Wissenschaft und Ethik - The Institute contributes to an ethical reflection of recent developments in biomedicine, science and technology.

Josephson Institute of Ethics - Nonprofit membership organization dedicated to improving the ethical quality of society by advocating principled reasoning and ethical decisionmaking.

Northern Illinois University - Ethics Consortium - Provides a forum for the exploration and discussion of ethical issues, both theoretical and applied.

PBS - Endgame: Ethics and Values in America - Forces fictional characters forced to make critical decisions with profound moral, ethical or social implications.

Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership - 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.

Stanford Encyclopedia - Punishment - Philosophical justifications of punishment, article by Hugo Adam Bedau.

Stanford Encyclopedia - The Free Rider Problem - Philosophical issues related to collective action; by Russell Hardin.

Sxethic - Many essays on ethics, with a focus on animal and human rights in daily life.

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.

Windsor Castle - The Tree of Wisdom - Ethical treatise by Nagarjuna, a Tibetan Buddhist classic on moral conduct.

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