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3John Evan Seery, Political Returns: Irony in Politics and Theory from Plato to the Antinuclear Movement Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 12 (3): 218-219. 1992.
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23Mergers, takeovers, and a property ethicJournal of Business Ethics 7 (1-2): 109-116. 1988.The recent takeover and merger trend cries out for ethical evaluation. This essay proposes a model for evaluating them in terms of their impact on a firm's immediate stakeholders: investors, owners, management and employees. Since mergers and takeovers are 'Transfers of Ownership of Firms' they entail a property ethic of ownership, control, securing stakeholder interests, and defining which stakeholders should exercise these rights. I use the model to evaluate two fictional cases, a friendly mer…Read more
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From Critical Theory to Critical EcologyTelos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 22 (n/a): 85. 1974.
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11Empire and Culture in CanadaPhilosophie Et Culture: Actes du XVIIe Congrès Mondial de Philosophie 4 374-377. 1988.
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6Hard like water: ethics in businessOxford University Press Canada. 1998.Hard Like Water represents a uniquely Canadian, and international, perspective in a field largely dominated by US writers. The accessible book sets up a "core ethic" that helps the reader to link a few, familiar core values: care for life, welfare, honest communication, and civil rights, with business practices. These values are supplemented by five performance maxims: do no harm; solve the problem; enable informed choice; act, learn, improve; and seek the common good. The book is designed to sh…Read more
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45Ethics, Technology Development, and InnovationsBusiness Ethics Quarterly 4 (3): 235-252. 1994.The aim of this essay is to present a model of ethical technology management which assumes that elites who make the system design and development decisions should minimize the risks to stakeholders rather than maximize gains for their organizations. Given the unsettled state in ethical theory a familiar substantive Social, Economic, Environmental and Rights value set or ‘SEER’ ethic is presented. To enable foresight of the negative SEER effects of innovations a technology life cycle is introduce…Read more
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10Ethical Issues in Business: A Philosophical ApproachT. Donaldson and P. H. Werhane, editors Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1983 (Second Edition). Pp. viii, 392, $16.95 - Business Ethics, Corporate Values and SocietyM. Snoeyenbos, R. Almeder, and J. Humber, editors Topic Bibliographies Buffalo, NY: Prometheus, 1983. Pp. 502. $15.95 (review)Dialogue 24 (2): 368-370. 1985.
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31Ethical Issues in Business: A Philosophical Approach T. Donaldson and P. H. Werhane, editors Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1983 (Second Edition). Pp. viii, 392, $16.95Business Ethics, Corporate Values and Society M. Snoeyenbos, R. Almeder, and J. Humber, editors Topic Bibliographies Buffalo, NY: Prometheus, 1983. Pp. 502. $15.95 (review)Dialogue 24 (2): 368-370. 1985.
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34Business ethics in canada: Distinctiveness and directions (review)Journal of Business Ethics 16 (6): 583-590. 1997.
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35Diverse knowledges and competing interests: An essay on socio-technical problem-solvingScience and Engineering Ethics 8 (1): 83-98. 2002.Solving complex socio-technical problems, this paper claims, involves diverse knowledges (cognitive diversity), competing interests (social diversity), and pragmatism. To explain this view, this paper first explores two different cases: Canadian pulp and paper mill pollution and siting nuclear reactors in seismically sensitive areas of California. Solving such socio-technically complex problems involves cognitive diversity as well as social diversity and pragmatism. Cognitive diversity requires …Read more
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1Alexander Rosenberg, Philosophy of Social Science Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 9 (5): 197-199. 1989.
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16Canadian Political Thought H. D. Forbes, editor Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1985. Pp. xii, 471. $12.95 paperDialogue 26 (1): 173-. 1987.