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Ethics in The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Note: If you are a student looking at this to help with a paper/essay on the Omelas short story – that is great, we hope something here helps – but be sure to give a reference – and send me…
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Group Discussions…
Following the post about the skills philosophy/ethics students need, we hagve been using the 187 (Skills) module to discuss what procedures might best enable group / class feedback discussions, and whether any ground rules are needed for them… Comments for…
EZ205 Langauge and Ethics podcast / Utilitarianism powerpoint
For those on EZ205 Language & Ethics, there is a short podcast with some definitions of Moral Realism at: – hope it is useful. [It may be of interest to those studying A-level, ( As / A2) Religious Studies, Philosopy…
Ladies College Philosophy & Religion event
Last week, some of our staff and students attended an event at the Cheltenham Ladies College on Religion and Philosophy. This was mainly aimed at students of A-Level Religious studies (philosophy & ethics) – but they kindly had asked RPE…
Ethical Decisions – and the study of philosophy and ethics
I was reading a comment over at the UNF philsophy blog:(here) where a UNF philosophy student [I think] relates a (rather frightening) real-life incident that she was involved in – and then relates it to the topic at hand (the…
Reading Lists (and more)
Well, firstly – Happy New Year to all – and secondly, to more pressing matters… Second years will be revising for the modules where they have exams – but of course, first year (level) Religion, Philosophy & Ethics students have…
Peter Singer / Animal Testing & Utilitarianism
Philosopher Peter Singer has been in the news again. While most well-known for his advocacy of animal rights, he has surprised many by claming that some animal testing may be justified. While some animals rights campaigners may be shocked –…