Regis University Masters in Liberal Studies


Moral Philosophies Underlying Professional Ethics

Online Discussion Groups

Discussion Name: alt.christnet.ethics
Type: Newsgroup
Website: Usenet Newsgroup

Discussion Name: alt.soc.ethics
Type: Newsgroup
Website: Usenet Newsgroup

Discussion Name: computer-ethics
Type: Email List
Contact: webccsr@rawls.ccsr.cms.dmu.ac.uk
Website: Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility
Description: This list is for scholars working on the social and ethical impacts of information and communication technologies. It promotes an interdisciplinary approach to the subject and can be used for discussion, call for participation and announcements.

Discussion Name: CPAE
Type: Email List
Contact: Ron Barnette
Description: The Center for Professional and Applied Ethics (CPAE) is an academic forum for discussing issues related to professional and applied ethics. Topics include: Health Care Business, Media Law, Public Policy Public, Administration, Sport Environment, Computing Education. Listmembers are encouraged to post information regarding ethics-related conferences, workshops, and the like, as well as news items, bibliographies, current topics, and challenging queries and cases for discussion and debate.

Discussion Name: ecotheol
Type: Email List
Contact: Ian Tilsed
Description: A forum for discussion of ecological theology. The goal of the list is to enable academic discussion of environmental issues from a theological or ethical perspective.

Discussion Name: Egoism and Ethics Debate
Type: Email List
Website: Topica.com
Description: "On this list we debate whether egoism is an ethical philosophy. We also seek out what "shoulds" can be supported through philosophical debate. In their posturings people cite ontology, epistemology, rationality, theology, ecology, science, mathematics, social anthropology, psychology, or whatever else can make a good argument. Authors, contemporary and classical, are often quoted, making it quite an informational forum, and a good mix of educational backgrounds exists."

Discussion Name: enviroethics
Type: Email List
Contact: Quentin Merritt
Website: http://www.cep.unt.edu/enviro.html
Description: The enviroethics list is a forum for academic discussion of environmental ethics and philosophy. Topics for discussion range from value theory to applied ethics in an environmental context. The list is open to anyone with an academic interest in environmental ethics.

Discussion Name: Ethics and Technology Discussion Forum
Type: Web-based
Contact: William Buschert
Website: http://duke.usask.ca/~wjb289/PHL236/forum/
Description: "This BBS is designed to serve as a discussion forum for people interested in issues pertaining to technology, ethics, and the philosophy of technology. The Forum contains sections devoted to specific technology-themed courses at several Canadian universities. Anyone is welcome to register, however."

Discussion Name: Ethics-Announcements
Type: Web-based
Website: Yahoo! Groups
Description: For announcements about publications, conferences, events, websites, jobs, and anything else relevant to ethics.

Discussion Name: g-ethic
Type: Email List
Contact: Ingrid Shafer
Description: This is the discussion forum of the Center for Global Ethics (a subsidiary of the Global Dialogue Institute at Temple University) which coordinates the work of thinkers, scholars and activists from around the world, who are working to define, implement and promote policies of responsible global citizenship.

Discussion Name: talk.abortion
Type: Newsgroup
Website: Usenet Newsgroup