PHIL240: Ethics: Ethics Topic Areas

The Conversation is a site where researchers and scholars explain their work. Each article includes links to many other sources. This article by William S. Lynn examines not only the social justice aspects of climate change ethics, but also our "obligations to other species."

The first of a two part series at Yale Climate Connections by David Appell on the ethics of "engineering the climate system." Part 2 is here: https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2012/12/the-ethics-of-geoengineering-part-2/

An article by Steve Cohen at Columbia University's Earth Institute.

Also see this article: https://en.unesco.org/news/ethical-principles-climate-change which provides an overview of the declaration.

Listen to the podcast on the website or your favorite podcast app. Season Three examines justice: "Inside these ordinary cases we found the troubling machinery of the criminal justice system on full display.".

The Equal Justice Initiative is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society..

Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director Ava DuVernay's examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country's history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America.

From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Ethics.

From Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs.

From the Institute for Business Ethics in the UK.