• Syllabus
• Online Course Manual by LH: Strongly Recommended  
• Discussion Forums: Contribute & Check your Forum Participation Credits
• Philosophy Comix: Ethics
• Ethical Impact Statement (Term Papers)
  • Guidelines
  • Example Outline: Joe Camel: Joe Slideshow
• Unit 1: Basic Principles
  • Chapter 1: Ethics and Business
    • Objectives & Overview
    • Chapter Outline (Lecture Notes)
  • Chapter 2: Ethical Principles in Business
    • Objectives & Overview
    • Chapter Outline (Lecture Notes)
• Unit 2: The Market and Business
  • Chapter 3: The Business System: Government, Markets, and International Trade
    • Objectives & Overview
    • Chapter Outline (Lecture Notes)
  • Chapter 4: Ethics in the Marketplace
    • Objectives & Overview
    • Chapter Outline (Lecture Notes)
• Unit 3: Business and its External Exchanges
  • Chapter 5: Ethics and the Environment
    • Objectives & Overview
    • Chapter Outline (Lecture Notes)
  • Chapter 6: The Ethics of Consumer Production and Marketing
    • Objectives & Overview
    • Chapter Outline (Lecture Notes)
• Unit 4: Business and its Internal Constituencies
  • Chapter 7: The Ethics of Job Discrimination
    • Objectives & Overview
    • Chapter Outline (Lecture Notes)
  • Chapter 8: The Individual in the Organization
    • Objectives & Overview
    • Chapter Outline (Lecture Notes)

Critical Thinking:

• Syllabus
• Discussion Forums: Contribute & Check your Forum Participation Credits
• Texts
• Required: A Guide to Good Reasoning, David C. Wilson, McGraw-Hill Inc.
• Recommended: Student Solutions Manual, David C. Wilson, McGraw-Hill Inc.
• Philosophy Comix: Logic & Language
• Lecture Outlines
1. Good Reasoning (Ch. 1) 
2. Arguments (Ch. 2) 
3. Format for Clarifying (Ch. 3)
4. Streamlining (Ch. 4) 
5. Specifying (Ch. 5)
• Life's a Pitch: Unclear and Ambiguous Advertisements
• Lexicon of Intentionally Ambiguous Recommendations
6. Structuring (Ch. 6)
7. Format for Evaluating (Ch. 7)
8. Fallacies (Ch. 8)
9. Truth (Ch. 9)
10. Deductive Logic (Ch. 10)
11. If-Then Arguments (Ch. 11)
• Secondary Assumptions and the Fallacy of Accident (Handout)
• Fallacy of Accident Exercise Answers
12. Either-Or Arguments (Ch. 12)
13. Induction & Frequency Arguments (Ch. 13)
14. Inductive Generalization (Ch. 14)
15. Arguments from Analogy (Ch. 15)

Of General Interest

• Materials on the Internet: Cautionary Note: Let the Browser Beware!
• Alma Online Forums
• LH's Philosophy Resources, Etc.
• LH's Philosophy Bookshelf
• APA Guide to Nonsexist Writing
• Guidelines on Writing a Philosophy Paper from James Pryor of Harvard
• Blackwell's Glossary of Philosophical Terms
• LH's Mainly Modern Philosophical Glossary
• Middle East News Service

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