September 28, 2011 by

Advanced Article: Peter Geach Good and Evil

Peter Geach argues that GE Moore confuses predicative adjectives “a brown horse” with attributive adjectives eg “a good philosopher” – where…

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September 28, 2011 by

Extract 2: G.E.Moore on the Naturalistic Fallacy

Moore is a non-naturalist cognitivist (it’s not just the non-cognitivists like Ayer and Hare who are non-naturalists as Jill Oliphant’s textbook…

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July 6, 2011 by

Article: (level 2): Ethics of euthanasia

Here is a very clear treatment of the ethical issues surrounding euthanasia. If you follow the links within the site you…

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June 15, 2011 by

Weblinks and READING

The whole of Geoffrey Klempner’s excellent course on business ethics – with many ideas which could be adapted for A level,…

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June 15, 2011 by

Article: (Level 2): Business Dilemmas

In this article Geoffrey Klempner argues for an objective basis for morality which is broadly Kantian – seeing my human interests…

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June 4, 2011 by

Advanced Article: Aquinas’ four concepts of law – Richard Jacobs

http://www83.homepage.villanova.edu/richard.jacobs/index.html

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May 31, 2011 by

HOW TO EVALUATE your work

PARAMETERS OF EVALUATION EXEMPLARY SATISFACTORY DEFICIENT     UNDERSTANDING AND INTERPRETATION Excellent understanding of language and reasoning. Precise interpretation of text…

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May 31, 2011 by

WRITING PHILOSOPHY Essay:S

For excellent advice from Bristol University to its undergraduates (who I guess have not been well served by our great Bristish…

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May 22, 2011 by

Applied Ethics Megagrid

applied ethics megagrid.pdf

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May 22, 2011 by

Table: IVF – for and against

Utilitarian ethics and IVF treatments – is it worth it? Click here for a YouTube clip from My Sister’s Keeper Pleasure/…

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