BUSINESS AND COMPUTER ETHICS

(Philosophy 103)

by Dan Gaskill

California State University Sacramento .

Fall 2006 syllabus

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Midterm 2 On Monday, November 20

Assignment #2 has been posted -10-19-06

Assignment #1 has been posted -9-17-06

Hey, I think I may have found an anthem for this class (apologies to Weird Al haters) -9-10-06

ASSIGNMENTS

Assignment #1 (due September 27)

Assignment #2 (due November 1)

Assignment #3 ( due December 13-15)

Write about 600 words in answer  to the questions posed by one of the linked case study documents.  Try to anticipate an objection to your position and respond to it:

Business Cycle case study

Environmental Impact case study

Miscellaneous Links

GRADING CODES EXPLAINED

Professor Gale Justin's Course Materials Page (includes case studies)

Wikipedia entry for Business Ethics.

Computer Ethics: Basic Concepts and History

ONLINE READINGS

This list is a work-in-progress.  Reading assignments are given in class.

"Utilitarianism" by John Stuart Mill (abridged)

Articles on Offshoring:

Wikipedia entry

"The New Global Job Shift"

"The Case Against Affirmative Action" by Louis Pojman

Note that the pro-AA article is in the course reader.

"The Product Liability Debate"

"Product Liability and the Threat to Contraception"

Wikipedia on Product Liability

"Theories of Intellectual Property" by William Fisher

"Why Software Should be Free" by Richard Stallman (a series of arguments --some more cogent than others-- by the founder of GNU)

"Biotechnology Patent Pool:  An Idea Whose Time Has Come?" by David Resnik

"Virtual Child" Pornography on the internet by Dannielle Cisneros

LECTURE NOTES

Students:  I will post some notes on some topics, but it is your responsibility to take notes in class.

notes on argumentation

notes on Utilitarianism

notes on Kantian ethics

notes on Social Contract Theory

notes on Friedman (CSR)

notes on Frank (CSR)

notes on Offshoring

notes on Affirmative Action

Study List for Midterm1

Liability

Truth In Advertising

Intellectual Property

Midterm 2 Review

Patents

Privacy

Virtual Violence

Environmental Ethics

Final Review