Regis University Masters in Liberal Studies


Moral Philosophies Underlying Professional Ethics

Some Suggested Bibliographic Resources

Global Ethics

Attfield, Robin, and Barry Wilkins (ed.) (1992) International Justice and the Third World: Studies in the Philosophy of Development, London: Routledge.

Attfield, Robin (1999) The Ethics of the Global Environment, Purdue: Purdue University Press.

Brown, Noel J., and Pierre Quiblier (ed.) (1994) Ethics and Agenda 21: Moral Implications of a Global Consensus, New York: United Nations Publishers.

Brown, Peter (2000) Ethics, Economics and International Relations, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Cooper, David E., and Joy A Palmer (1995) Just Environments: Intergenerational, International and Interspecies Issues, New York: Routledge.

Engel, J. Ronald, and Joan Gibb Engel (ed.) (1990) Ethics of Environment and Development: Global Challenge, International Response, Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Jones, Charles (1999) Global Justice: Defending Cosmopolitanism, New York: Oxford University Press.

Low, Nicholas (2001) Global Ethics and the Environment, New York: Routledge.

Kung, Hans (1998) A Global Ethics for Global Politics and Economics, New York: Oxford University Press.

Peterson, Anna L. (2001) Being Human: Ethics, Environment and Our Place in the World, Berkeley: University of California Press.

Swidler, Leonard (ed.) (1999) For All Life: Toward a Universal Declaration of a Global Ethics - An Interreligious Dialogue, Ashland, Oregon: White Cloud Press.

Practical Ethics

Cicero, Marcus Tullius (1990) On Duties, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Originally published in 44 BCE.

Midgley, Mary (1993) Can't We Make Moral Judgments?, New York: St. Martin's Press.

Midgley, Mary (1993) The Origin of Ethics, in Singer, Peter (ed.) A Companion to Ethics, Cambridge: Basil Blackwell, 3-13.

Midgley, Mary (1995) The Moral Primate: Humans, Freedom and Morality, New York: Routledge.

Miller, Richard B. (1996) Casuistry and Modern Ethics: A Poetics of Practical Reasoning, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Selznick, Philip (1992) The Moral Commonwealth: Social Theory and the Promise of Community, Berkeley: University of California Press.

Singer, Peter (1993) Practical Ethics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Toulmin, Stephen and Albert R. Jonsen (1988) The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning, Berkeley: University of California Press.

Weston, Anthony (1997) A Practical Companion to Ethics, New York: Oxford University Press.


Ethics and Geography

Ethics, Place and Environment (vol 1-4; 1997-2000)

Corbridge, Stuart (1993) Marxisms, Modernities and Moralities: Development Praxis and the Claims of Distant Strangers, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 11 (3), 449-472.

Corbridge, Stuart (1998) Development Ethics: Distance, Difference, Plausibility, Ethics, Place and Environment, 1 (1), 35-54.

Curry, Michael R. (1991) On the Possibility of Ethics in Geography: Writing, Citing, and the Construction of Intellectual Property, Progress in Human Geography, 15 (2), 125-147.

Curry, Michael R. (1995) Geographic Information Systems and the Inevitability of Ethical Inconsistency, in Pickles, John (ed.) Ground Truth: The Social Implications of Geographic Information Systems, New York: Guilford Press, 68-87.

Harvey, David (1997) Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference, Cambridge: Blackwell.

Hay, Iain (1998) Making Moral Imaginings: Professional Research Ethics, Pedagogy, and Professional Human Geography, Ethics, Place and Environment, 1 (1), 55-76.

Hillier, Jean (1998) Paradise Proclaimed? Towards a Theoretical Understanding of Representations of Nature in Land Use Planning Decision-making, Ethics, Place and Environment, 1 (1), 77-91.

Light, Andrew and Jonathan Smith (ed.) (1996) Philosophy and Geography: Environmental Ethics.

Lynn, William S. (1995) Geography, Value Paradigms, and Environmental Justice, Newsletter of the Society for Philosophy and Geography, 1 (2), 2-4.

Lynn, William S. (1998) Animals, Ethics and Geography, in Wolch, Jennifer and Jody Emel (ed.) Animal Geographies: Place, Politics and Identity in the Nature-Culture Borderlands., London: Verso, 280-298.

Lynn, William S. (1998) Contested Moralities: Animals and Moral Value in the Dear/Symanski Debate, Ethics, Place and Environment, 1 (2), 223-242.

Matless, David (1994) Moral Geography in Broadland, Ecumene, 1 (2), 127-153.

Mitchell, Bruce and Dianne Draper (1982) Relevance and Ethics in Geography, New York: Longman.

Sack, Robert (1997) Homo Geographicus: A Framework for Action, Awareness, and Moral Concern, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Smith, David M. (1994) Geography and Social Justice, Oxford: Blackwell.

Smith, David M. (1998) Geography and Moral Philosophy: Some Common Ground, Ethics, Place and Environment, 1 (1), 5-34.


Hermeneutics

Ball, Terence (1987) Deadly Hermeneutics; Or, Sinn and the Social Scientist, in Ball, Terence (ed.) Idioms of Inquiry: Critique and Renewal in Political Science, Albany: State University of New York, 96-112.

Ball, Terence (1988) Transforming Political Discourse: Political Theory and Critical Conceptual History, New York: Basil Blackwell.

Barnes, Trevor J. and James S. Duncan (ed.) (1992) Writing Worlds: Discourse, Text and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape, New York: Routledge.

Bellah, Robert N., Norma Haan, Paul Rabinow and William Sullivan (1983) Social Science as Moral Inquiry, New York: Columbia University Press.

Bernstein, Richard J. (1991) Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics and Praxis, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Bruns, Gerald L. (1992) Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern, New Haven: Yale University Press.

Crapanzano, Vincent (1986) Hermes' Dilemma: the masking of subversion in ethnographic description, in Clifford, James and George Marcus (ed.) Writing cultures: the poetics and politics of ethnography, 51-76.

Floistad, Guttorm (1973) Understanding Hermeneutics, Inquiry, 16 (4-Winter), 445-465.

Gadamer, Hans-Georg (1993) Truth and Method, New York: Continuum.

Kelly, Michael (ed.) (1990) Hermeneutics and Critical Theory in Ethics and Politics, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.

Mueller-Vollmer, K. (1989) The Hermeneutics Reader: Texts of the German Tradition from the Enlightenment to the Present, New York: Continuum.

Mugerauer, Robert (1995) Interpreting Environments: Tradition, Deconstruction, Hermeneutics, Austin: University of Texas Press.

Salmond, Anne (1982) Theoretical Landscapes: On Cross-Cultural Conceptions of Knowledge, in Parker, David (ed.) Semantic Anthropology, New York: Academic Press, 65-87.

Toulmin, Stephen (1990) Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity, New York: Free Press.

Toulmin, Stephen and Albert R. Jonsen (1988) The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning, Berkeley: University of California Press.

Wachterhauser, Brice R. (ed.) (1986) Hermeneutics and Modern Philosophy, Albany: State University of New York Press.

Wachterhauser, Brice R. (ed.) (1994) Hermeneutics and Truth, Evanston: Northwestern University Press.

Qualitative Inquiry

Bryman, Alan (1988) Quantity and Quality in Social Research, London: Unwin Hyman.

Denzin, Norman K. and Yvonna S. Lincoln (ed.) (1994) Handbook of Qualitative Research, Thousand Oaks, California: Sage.

Eyles, John and David M. Smith (ed.) (1988) Qualitative Methods in Human Geography, London: Polity Press.

Flinders, David J. and Geoffrey E. Mills (ed.) (1993) Theory and Concepts in Qualitative Research: Perspectives From the Field, New York: Teachers College Press.

Sayer, Andrew (1992) Method in Social Science: A Realist Approach, London: Routledge.

Schwandt, Thomas A. (1993) Theory for the Moral Sciences: Crisis of Identity and Purpose, in Flinders, David J. and Geoffrey E. Mills (ed.) Theory and Concepts in Qualitative Research: Perspectives From the Field, New York: Teachers College Press, 5-23.

Smith, John K. (1993) Hermeneutics and Qualitative Inquiry, in Flinders, David J. and Geoffrey E. Mills (ed.) Theory and Concepts in Qualitative Research: Perspectives From the Field, New York: Teachers College Press, 183-200.