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Ethics on the Job: Cases and Strategies, Fourth EditionWadsworth, Cengage Learning. 2014.This is a book for practical, ethical decision-makers. The first half of the book presents a strategy for making ethical decisions in the presence of a conflict of values. The main theories of ethics are presented, along with strategies for applying and evaluating their import. Two cases are described and analyzed in full, following the RESOLVEDD strategy. The second half presents detailed descriptions of 45 ethical conflicts that are found in contemporary workplaces, and that can be address…Read more
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139The concept of interpersonal manipulation in social critique and psychological researchPhilosophy and Social Criticism 8 (2): 209-231. 1981.
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Pragmatism in the Epistemology of Willard van Orman QuineDissertation, Washington University. 1974.
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Michael J. Zimmerman, An Essay on Moral Responsibility (review)Philosophy in Review 9 505-507. 1989.
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50The central distinction in the theory of corporate moral personhoodJournal of Business Ethics 9 (6): 473-480. 1990.Peter French has argued that conglomerate collectivities such as business corporations are moral persons and that aggregate collectivities such as lynch mobs are not. Two arguments are advanced to show that French's claim is flawed. First, the distinction between aggregates and conglomerates is, at best, a distinction of degree, not kind. Moreover, some aggregates show evidence of moral personhood. Second, French's criterion for distinguishing aggregates and conglomerates is based on inadequate …Read more
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40Ethics on the Job: Cases and StrategiesWadsworth Publishing Co.. 1995.ETHICS ON THE JOB guides the reader through a step-by-step analysis to help them make good decisions in the face of ethical conflict. With the RESOLVEDD strategy, the authors have devised a powerful system for ethical decision-making in the workplace, which they teach students to implement through timely case studies and detailed analyses. Students develop a working grasp of important philosophical principles and their application in ethical conflicts, and learn to apply the RESOLVEDD strategy t…Read more
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66The Responsibility of Men for the Oppression of WomenJournal of Applied Philosophy 2 (2): 217-229. 1985.There can be little sense to claims that living men are responsible for the oppression of women in the past, or that men who have not oppressed women still bear responsibility for such oppression.
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83Owing loyalty to one's employerJournal of Business Ethics 11 (7). 1992.Neither employer expectations of loyalty, nor good treatment of employees by employers, nor employee appreciation of employers, nor the duty of nonmaleficence, nor the intention to be loyal, nor the duty not to act disloyally provide a basis for a moral or ethical duty of employee loyalty. However, in addition to the law, a pledge to be loyal can obligate one to be loyal. But if the specific content of such a pledge is unstated, the conduct required by the pledge may be indefinite. Moreover, the…Read more
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7Why Blame the Organization? A Pragmatic Theory of Collective Moral ResponsibilityLittlefield Adams. 1995.Exploration of the fundamental motivations for attributing moral responsibility to various kinds of collectives serves as the basis for understanding the meaning of such attributions. Such attributions have a mid-range, limited justification. The analysis has broad implications for a wide variety of writings on aspects of collective moral responsibility, revealing serious deficiencies of any theory of corporate moral personhood.
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55Abortion Policy and the Argument from UncertaintySocial Theory and Practice 11 (3): 371-386. 1985.The Argument from Uncertainty in the abortion debate is the argument that because the moral status of the fetus is uncertain, abortion policies should afford it maximum protection in order to avoid doing very great evil. Three versions of the argument are developed, and each is based upon an unfounded assumption of a burden of proof in the abortion debate. Each is found to make an unwarranted assumption, or to beg the question, and each fails to provide reasonable support for its conclusion.
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18The Meaning and Justification of Collective Moral ResponsibilityPublic Affairs Quarterly 2 (3): 69-83. 1988.
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Michael J. Zimmerman, An Essay on Moral Responsibility Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 9 (12): 505-507. 1989.
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Ehics on the Job: Cases and Strategies Second EditionWadsworth. 2000.This little textbook of 146 pages clarifies the basic concepts of ethics, introduces basic ethical principles, explains a strategy for ethical decision-making in difficult cases, and offers forty-five case descriptions for students to apply the RESOLVEDD strategy
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72Detecting Spirituality and Philosophizing About ItTeaching Philosophy 31 (4): 375-396. 2008.Often viewed as the deep common core of all religions, spirituality has been addressed in a direct philosophical manner only occasionally. After noting some recent philosophical literature, a questionnaire for evaluating a person’s spirituality is described, and a general theory of spirituality is advanced. Spirituality is, generally, the yearning for, quest for, experience of or belief in a great reality that is largely beyond ordinary experience and that inspires one’s interior, private life a…Read more
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