PUAD 700 --------------------------------------Fall 2004 ---------------------------------------READING

INTRODUCTORY AND BACKGROUND READINGS

1. Garrett Hardin, Tragedy of the Commons, Science, Dec. 1968 (pdf format)

2. Garritt Hardin Obituary, American Scientist, Jan. 2004. (pdf format)

3. Garrett Hardin_Extention of Tragedy. In Science1998 (word format)

4. Josephson Institute - Decision Making (pdf format)

5. Kohlberg_6 Stages of Moral Development (word format)

6 . Kohlberg Stages_Comments by Crain (word format)

7. Kants Bicentenial (word format)

8 . Prison Simulation-1971_Normal or Monster, NYT May2004 (word format)

9. In Defense of the Slippery Slope Argument (pdf format)

10. Sommers, Why Johnny Can't Tell Right from Wrong, Hudson Institute (pdf format)

11. Sommers_Teaching theVirtues (word format)

12. Drugged To Be Sane for Execution, NYT, Oct. 2003 (pdf format)

13. Should Doctors Help with Execution NYT 10June2004 (word format)

14. The Ethics Of Torture - In Atlantic Unbound (pdf format)

15. Public Policy Analysis - Can We Tell Which Life Worth More? May 2003 (pdf format)

JOHN RAWS THEORY OF JUSTICE

1. John Rawls- A Portrait (word format)

BIOETHICS READINGS

1. Newsweek, Raelians Clone Project Jan2003 (pdf format)

2. Ted Williams’ Tale Gets Stranger NYT 14Aug.2003 (word format)

3. Transplanted Heads_ABC Program (word format)

4 . Desperation and New Drugs (pdf format)

5. Health, Hope, & Hype in Medical Breakthroughs (pdf format)

6. Clone Countdown of Landmark Events - WiredMag Jan 2004 (pdf format)

7. Clinton's Bioethics Commission-ClintonTroubled About Stem Cells (Nov98) (pdf format)

8..Kristoff, Oh Death, Where Is Thy Sting? (pdf format)

9. Case AgainstPerfection, Atlantic Monthly Apr04 (word format)

10.Review: Beyond Therapy_Biotechnology & Happiness by GreggEasterbrook (word format)

SLIDES

1. Definitions of Ethics and of Moral Dilemmas (pdf format)

2. Nature of Ethical Dilemmas (pdf format)

3. Ethics_Isn't Personal (word format)

4. Alternative Standards for the Good (pdf format)

5. Ethics Formal Systems (word format)

6. Do's & Don't - Costs Of Violation (word format)

7. Common Assumptions About Ethics (word format)

8. Fields of Professional Ethics Study and Applications (pdf format)

9. Ethical Qualities (word format)

10. Benevolent-Malevolent Qualities (word format)

11. Ethics Laws List (word format)

12. Ethics The Philosophical Legacy – Historical Periods (word fomat)

13. Giants of Philosophy (word format)

14. Copper Ethics Decision Model (word format)