Philosophy 104: Business Ethics
Russell Marcus, Instructor. Email me.
Queens College, Spring 2007
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I'm sorry for missing class on Tuesday.
Our next quiz will be on Friday, May 11. Papers are still due on Friday.
Course Material
Handouts and Downloads, including Reading Guides
Exam and Paper Preparation Materials
Links to Sites I Recommend for This Course
The Queens College Writing Center
The Aghori, Hindu cannibals
An Organization for Corporate Responsibility Officers
Business Ethics's Top 100 Best Corporate Citizens
Malcolm Gladwell's recent sort-of-defense of Enron, and his blog
Other Enron-related websites
- The Houston Chronicle's indispensable Enron website
- A scorecard, from the NY Times
- Links to lots of good Enron sites, from a Canadian ethics website
- The Powers Report, Enron's Post-Bankruptcy Internal Investigation
- A timeline, from Wikipedia
- A
teaching instrument for whistle-blowing
- Research Activities, from Newsweek Education
- The Sarbanes-Oxley Report and a summary of its provisions
- The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's website
A Christian Response to Seeking the Origin of Morality in Evolution
A Nice Kant Page, not specific to his moral philosophy, but with links to texts and a few other good pages
Aristotle and Virtue Ethics, good links, but also a lot of distracting material
Proudhon on "Property is Theft"
Mandeville, and the Fable of the Bees
Libertarians in favor of the free market
Progressives, opposed to the free market
Each of the above two websites is worth some time
Applications of the Prisoner's Dilemma, not entirely accurate, but interesting
An iterated (repeated) Prisoner's Dilemma, with a simple interactive simulator
A sophisticated discussion of the Prisoner's Dilemma
Other Philosophy Links
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Thoughts, Arguments and Rants, a Philosophy Blog
The American Philosophical Association
Guide to Philosophy on the Net (Links to everything, many are broken)
Some Philosophy Departments in the New York Area
Fun
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy