Applied Ethics

Jerrold R. Coombs is a founding member of the Association for Values Education and Research. He co-authored a number of reports of research on moral education and law-related education. Earl Winkler is a member of the Advisory Council on Ethical Issues in Health Care for the British Columbia provincial government, a member of the Permanent Council on Ethical Issues for the Law Reform Commission of Canada, and a founding member of the Canadian Bioethics Society.

• Part I: Methodology, Critical Potential and Sceptical Doubts:. 1. Science, Ethics and Rationality.Aristotle and Foucault on Science and Applied Ethics: Bent Flyvberg.Scientific Knowledge, Discourse Ethics, and Consensus Formation in the Public Domain: Matthias Kettner.Citizen Virtues for a Technological Order: Langdon Winner.2. Moral Agreement.Actual vs. Hypothetical: Alison Jaggar.Rule Utilitarianism and Applied Ethics: Richard Sikora.Moral Philosophy as Subversive Activity: James Rachels.Trust and Distrust of Moral Theorists: Annette Baier.Socratic Scepticism: Roger Wertheimer.3. Moral Theorizing and Moral Practices.Reflections on some of the Sources of Hypocrisy: Nancy Ann Davis.Part II: General Issues Related to the Fields of Applied Ethics:.4. Business Ethics.How to Think Systematically about Business Ethics: Michael Philips.Corporate Roles, Personal Virtues: An Aristotelian Approach to Business Ethics: Robert Solomon.Moral Philosophy and Business Ethics: The Priority of the Political: Alistair Macleod.Business Ethics and Stakeholder Analysis: Kenneth Goodpaster.Philosophy and its Host: The Case of Business Ethics: Michael Yeo.5. Environmental Ethics.Environmental Ethics: Values in and Duties to the Natural World: Holmes Rolston III.Ethics, Public Policy and Global Warming: Dale Jamieson.Morality, Rationality and Politics: Solving the Greenhouse Dilemma: Peter Danielson.6. Biomedical Ethics.From Kantianism to Contextualism: The Rise and Fall of the Paradigm Theory in Bioethics: Earl Winkler.Can Ethnography Save the Life of Medical Ethics?: Barry Hoffmaster.Ethics Codes and Guidelines for Health Care Research: Can Respect for Autonomy be a Multi-cultural Principle?: Edward Keyserlingk.The Functions and Limitations of a Professional Code of Ethics: Dale Beyerstein.