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Applied
Research Ethics National Association
Description: ARENA
is a national service organization for professionals concerned with issues
relating to the protection of human subjects, the humane care and
treatment of animals, scientific misconduct, eithical decision-making in
healthcare, and other ethical issues pertaining to biomedical and
behavioral research. ARENA's mission is the promotion of networking among
its members, the development of educational activities, the resolution
and/or amelioration of mutual problems, and the professional advancement
of its members in order to enhance the ethical conduct of research and
medicine.
Association for Moral
Education
Description: The Association for Moral
Education (AME) was founded in 1976 to provide an interdisciplinary forum
for professionals interested in the moral dimensions of educational theory
and practice. The Association is dedicated to fostering communication,
cooperation, training, curriculum development, and research that links
moral theory with educational practice. It supports self-reflective
educational practices that value the worth and dignity of each individual
as a moral agent in a pluralistic society. The Association emphasizes the
development of moral understanding in all individuals, and believes that
such development requires opportunities for engagement in moral dialogue.
Through its program of conferences and publications, the AME serves as a
resource to educators, practitioners, students, and the public in matters
related to moral education and development, provides expertise on
educational policies and practices, and provides information about moral
education to interested parties in the general public.
British
Society for Ethical Theory
Description: Runs conferences
(annual or more frequent); encourages the electronic interchange of
information, drafts of papers, reviews; publishes a list of members and
their research interests; and publishes a list of British Graduate
Students in Ethics.
Carnegie Council on Ethics and
International Affairs
Description: Founded in 1914 by
Andrew Carnegie, the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to
research and education in the field of ethics and international affairs.
The purpose of the Council is to promote a greater understanding of the
values and conditions that enable peaceful relations among nations. As a
prominent national and international voice, the Council brings
intellectual distinction and integrity to the idea that the moral
dimension of international affairs needs to be understood along with
political, economic, and security considerations.
Center for Applied Christian
Ethics
Associated University: Wheaton
College
Description: "The primary mission for CACE is to assist
Wheaton College to fulfill its mission of preparing future Christian
leaders who will strengthen the Christian community and improve society
worldwide through the development of the moral sense informed by biblical,
historical Christian faith and through the practice of Christian
responsibility for our particular times."
Center for
Ethics
Associated University: University of
Idaho
Description: "The Center, through its director and
faculty, provides classes, workshops, applied interventions, evaluations,
assessments, and consultation about character education and all its
perspectives to any organization, profession, industry, and discipline.
...The Centers staff has written teacher texts, Sport Ethics: Applications
for Fair Play, athlete texts, Who Says This Is Cheating, developed
computer generated interactive CD-ROM teaching tools, Performance
Enhancing Drug Use, teacher curriculum materials, teacher methodologies,
and computer assisted teaching materials. The staff has also developed
student texts in Principled Thinking for K-12 using sport as a
milieu."
Center for
Ethics
Associated University: Georgia State
University
Description: "The Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for
Ethics seeks to enhance moral reflection, dialogue and constructive action
on campus, in greater Atlanta and beyond."
Center for Ethics and
Values in the Sciences
Associated University: University
of Alabama at Birmingham
Center for
Global Ethics
Description: The Center for Global Ethics
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. As profoundly interconnected members of a
global community, we recognize the need to develop and advance the
acceptance of a viable and sustainable Global Ethic.
Center for the Advancement
of Applied Ethics
Associated University: Carnegie-Mellon
University
Description: A research and development environment,
closely associated with the CMU philosophy department, that focuses on
teaching people practical methods for analyzing and responding to real
ethical problems. Their website includes information their various
projects, including multimedia CD-ROM tools on such issues as conflict
resolution, abortion, the right to die, forgery, etc.
Center for
Values and Social Policy
Associated University:
University of Colorado
Description: The Center for Values
and Social Policy was founded in 1980 in order to bring the resources of
philosophical analysis to bear on matters of social philosophy.
Centre for Applied
Ethics
Associated University: University of British
Columbia
Description: The Centre for Applied Ethics is an
interdisciplinary research institute. Scholars at the Centre are involved
in research projects in almost all areas of applied ethics. The mission of
the Centre is to bring moral philosophy into the public domain by
advancing research in applied ethics, supporting courses with a
significant ethical component and acting as a community resource. The
Centre provides opportunities for academics, practitioners and others to
engage in systematic and rational reflection on significant moral issues
of the day.
Centre
for Applied Sport Philosophy and Ethics
Research
Description: The Centre for Applied Sport
Philosophy and Ethics Research was founded in 1992 by Simon Eassom. It is
the only Centre of its kind in UK/Europe and has close contacts with
similar centres in North America at the University of Idaho and the
University of Western Ontario. Its main aim is to promote research and
publication in ethics and moral philosophy related to sport.
Centre for
Philosophy and Public Issues
Associated University:
University of Melbourne
Description: Established in 1990,
"The Centre has two related aims: to promote research in those areas of
philosophy most relevant to significant public issues, and to apply the
techniques of contemporary philosophical analysis to public discussion of
those issues."
Centre for Research
Ethics
Associated University: University of
Göteborg
Description: The Centre was established as a non-profit
foundation in 1990 by the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Göteborg
with the purposes of doing research in ethics and to offer training and
courses in the ethics of science to scientists, social scientists and
students. CRE gives regular courses of this kind at the School of medicine
at Göteborg university and at Chalmers University of Technology. The
general theme of the research at CRE is Science and Values. CRE also
publishes a booklet series Studies in Research Ethics. Different themes
are treated, usually in connection with CRE's projects, seminars and
workshops.
Computer Ethics
Institute
Description: "Beginning in 1985 as the
Coalition for Computer Ethics and incorporated in 1992 as the Computer
Ethics Institute, CEI is a 501(c)(3) research, education and policy study
organization that has focused on the interface of advances in information
technologies, ethics and corporate and public policy."
Consortium Ethics
Program
Description: A project in biomedical ethics
education, co-sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Center for Medical
Ethics Hospital Council of Western Pennsylvania.
Council for Ethics in
Economics
Description: "The Council for Ethics in
Economics is a worldwide association of leaders in business, education,
and other professions working together to strengthen the ethical fabric of
business and economic life. The Council identifies and responds to issues
important for ethical economic practices and assists in the resolution of
these issues."
Ethics and Public Policy
Center
Description: The Ethics and Public Policy Center
was established in 1976 to clarify and reinforce the bond between the
Judeo-Christian moral tradition and the public debate over domestic and
foreign policy issues. Its program includes research, writing,
publication, and conferences. The Center affirms the political relevance
of the great Western ethical imperatives--respect for the dignity of every
person, individual freedom and responsibility, justice, the rule of law,
and limited government. It maintains that moral reasoning is an essential
complement to empirical calculation in the shaping of public
policy.
Ethics Resource
Center
Description: Its mission is to be a leader and
catalyst in fostering ethical practices in individuals and
institutions.
Eubios
Ethics Institute
Description: The Eubios Ethics
Institute was founded by Darryl Macer in 1990, in Christchurch, New
Zealand and in Tsukuba Science City, Japan. The Eubios Ethics Institute is
a nonprofit group that aims to stimulate the international discussion of
ethical issues, and how we may use technology in ways consistent with
"good life" (eu-bios). It aims at an integrated and cross-cultural
approach to bioethics, and at building up an international
network.
European Centre for
Ethics
Associated University: Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven
Description: "Established in 1989 to be a "critical
centre of thought" - a Christian inspired centre of excellence to promote
and coordinate ethical research and reflection within the Leuven academic
community and to network with ethicists from other European
universities."
Institute for
Criminal Justice Ethics
Description: The Institute for
Criminal Justice Ethics was established to foster greater concern for
ethical issues among practitioners and scholars in the criminal justice
field. Through its diverse programs it serves both as a national
clearinghouse for information and as a stimulus to research and
publication. It seeks to encourage increased sensitivity to the demands of
ethical behavior among those who enforce our system of criminal justice, a
more focused treatment of moral issues in the education of criminal
justice professionals, and a new dialogue among scholars and practitioners
on specific topics in criminal justice ethics.
Institute for Global
Ethics
Description: The Institute for Global Ethics is
an independent, nonprofit, nonsectarian, and nonpartisan organization
dedicated to elevating public awareness and promoting the discussion of
ethics in a global context. As an international, membership-based think
tank, we focus on ethical activities in education, the corporate sector,
and public policy.
International
Humanist and Ethical Union
Description: The
International Humanist and Ethical Union is an international organization
for humanism. IHEU campaigns on humanist issues, develops practical
humanist initiatives, represents humanist concerns at international
bodies, and supports humanist organizations and individuals throughout the
world.
Kennedy Institute
of Ethics
Associated University: Georgetown
University
Society for
Empirical Ethics
Description: In general, its purpose is
"to foster a dialogue between philosophy and the social sciences around
the issue of human flourishing, using empirical knowledge to give
contemporary muscle and specific determination to this old Aristotelian
idea."
Society
for Ethics
Description: Established in 1995, The Society
for Ethics (SE) serves the purpose of promoting philosophical research in
ethics, broadly construed, including areas such as (but not limited to)
ethical theory, moral, social and political philosophy, as well as areas
of applied ethics such as (but not limited to) legal, business and medical
ethics. Although the SE is primarily a philosophical society, others are
also encouraged to become members.