Books in the Practical and Professional Ethics series

This volume is a collection of essays by notable political philosophers and legal scholars on the concept of "deliberative democracy". With this theory, moral issues like abortion or affirmative action can be discussed using an enriched process of deliberation that forces citizens to take into account the moral claims of others. In large part these essays form a response to and criticism of the highly influential book Democracy and Disagreement byAmy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson, published in 1996 by Harvard, which propelled this theory into the scholarly limelight and which has been the single most important locus of this recent discussion. The contributors are all well-known, including Daniel Bell, Russell Hardin, Cass Sunstein, Stanley Fish, and NormalDaniels. Gutmann and Thompson contribute a response to critics.

Conflicts of interest pose special problems for the professions. Even the appearance of a conflict of interest can undermine essential trust between professions and the public. This volume is an accessible guide to the ramifications and problems caused by conflicts of interest.

This volume is a collection of essays by notable political philosophers and legal scholars on the concept of "deliberative democracy". The theory uses an enriched process of deliberation that forces citizens to take into account the moral claims of others.

As usually understood, professional ethics consists of shared duties and episodic dilemmas. This book rethinks professional ethics to include personal commitments and ideals, including many not mandatory for all members of a profession.

Asks the question: are we replacing morality with therapy, in potentially confusing and dangerous ways, or are we creatively integrating morality and mental health? This work focuses on practical concerns like love, work, self-respect, self-fulfillment, guilt, depression, crime, violence, and addictions.

Thinking Like an Engineer is both a work in engineering ethics and an attempt to understand engineering as a profession. Featuring in-depth studies of central questions of engineering ethics, it also includes a brief reconstruction of the history of engineering and an extensive review and criticism of relevant work in the social sciences.

This volume reintroduces the work of English philosopher and educator Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900). First published in 1898, it collects nine essays in which Sidgwick discusses ethical issues including the use of animals in research and whether public officials may ever be justified in lying.

This volume of essays by philosophers of law and political philosophers looks at the ethical difficulties inherent in this situation from a variety of perspectives.

Modern science is big business. This book examines some of the important and difficult questions resulting from the financial and economic aspects of modern science such as: How does money affect scientific research? Have scientists become entrepreneurs bent on making money instead of investigators searching for the truth?

In Playing Politics with Science, David B. Resnik examines the philosphical, political, and ethical issues related to government control of science and develops a conceptual framework for thinking about restrictions on scientific research, education, and advice. He defends scientific independence and autonomy within a framework of government oversight.

Since the introduction of radio and television news, journalism has gone through multiple transformations, but each time it has been sustained by a commitment to basic values and best practices. Journalism Ethics is a reminder, a defense and an elucidation of core journalistic values, with particular emphasis on the interplay of theory, conceptual analysis and practice. The book begins with a sophisticated model for ethical decision-making, one that connects classical theories with the central purposes of journalism. Top scholars from philosophy, journalism and communications offer essays on such topics as objectivity, privacy, confidentiality, conflict of interest, thehistory of journalism, online journalism, and the definition of a journalist. The result is a guide to ethically sound and socially justified journalism-in whatever form that practice emerges. Journalism Ethics will appeal to students and teachers of journalism ethics, as well as journalists and practical ethicists in general.