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Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 2, Issue 2, 2000, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Don't Lump Press in with Media: Ted Gup Speaks about Journalism's Bad Press
• Thinking about Ethics: Quotable Quotes
• The Dark Days of France: A Look at Vichy Law, Part II
• Director's Corner: Not Allowed to Shrug by Robert P. Lawry
• News, Notes, and Events

Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 2, Issue 1, 1999, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• A Look at Vichy Law
• Notice: The Center Launches Website
• Director's Corner: Tinkering with the Machinery of Death by Robert P. Lawry
• Ethics Events
• Ethics Updates
• News and Notes

Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 1, Issue 4, 1999, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• CPE Celebrates Success With Rosenberg Project "Drama Discussions"
• Ethics Fellow Sadowsky Wins Award and Nomination
• Guest Director's Corner: Gift and Commodity by Edward Lawry
• Ethical Russian Entrepreneurship: Does It Exist?
• News and Notes

Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 1 Issue 3, 1999, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Richard Weisberg; author & scholar, to address CWRU
• Update on Ethics Fellows and Associates
• Regulating Ethics
• Porn on Campus: What are the Issues?
• Director's Corner by Robert P. Lawry
• CWRU Says Good-bye to Tom Murray ....With a Smile
• News and Notes

Aborting The Pros And Cons Of Abortion: No Escaping The Killing Fields, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article critiques rationales of both opponents and supporters of intentionally aborting a human fetus. The critique has implications for arriving at legal, ethical, and moral judgments.

Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 1, Issue 2, 1999, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Panel Meets to Discuss Hate Crime Legislation
• Voices of Diversity
• Director's Corner: Distraction & the Good Society by Robert P. Lawry
• Ethics in Leadership
• Jean Bethke Elshtain Addresses CWRU
• News and Notes

Center For Professional Ethics, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1998, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Tom Anderson Appointed as Ethics Fellow
• Director's Corner: Off base / On Base, by Robert P. Lawry
• Physician-Assisted Suicide: Morally Permissible?
• In Memorium: Marliln Samuels, 1996 Fellow
• News and Notes

Trends. A Stain On The Red, White, And Blue: Sex And United States (U.S.) Foreign Policy, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the impact of the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal on Bill Clinton's foreign policy

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, Summer 1998, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Director's Corner: Striving To Be Good by Robert P. Lawry
• Notice: We Welcome Suggestions
• Groups as Gatekeepers to Genetic Research
• Searching for Foundations: Feminist and Postmodern Approaches to Philosophy
• News & Notes
• Doing Ethics
• Ethics Case: Professionalism

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, Winter 1998, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Director's Corner: Individual and Community by Robert P. Lawry
• Good-bye, Denise
• Ethics Dinner Features Barbara J. Blodgett
• Dr. Caroline Whitbeck Presents Inaugural Lecture
• News & Notes

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, Fall 1997, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Director's Corner: Religion and the Public Square by Robert P. Lawry
• Ethics Institute Comes to an End
• The 1997 1525 - CPE Summer Ethics Fellows
• Chaired Professorship in Ethics Position Filled
• News 7 Notes

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, Fall 1996, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Director's Corner by Robert P. Lawry
• 1525 - CPE Summer Ethics Fellowship Program Off to a Great Start
• The 1996 1525 - CPE Summer Ethics Fellows
• Dennis F. Thompson Visits Campus
• News & Notes

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, Winter 1995, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Director's Corner by Robert P.
• Why Be Moral? by Brenda Wirkus Ph.D.
• A Milestone for the C.P.E.
• News & Notes

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, Fall 1994, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Director's Corner by Robert P. Lawry
• Doing Ethics
• Comments on "House for Sale"
• A Response to "House for Sale" by Jean Calhoun
• Notice: Prominent Author and Law Professor to Address C.W.R.U.
• Goodbye....
• Welcome....
• New & Notes

Challenges For Compatibilism, Kenton Machina

Faculty Publications - Philosophy

In order to show that persons can be morally accountable even though their choices are at least potentially explainable in a scientific way, the standard compatibilist position holds that causal determinism is compatible with some type of freedom or autonomy moral responsibility requires. This paper shows that even if causal determinism is indeed compatible with that sort of freedom, that cannot prove contemporary scientific explanations for choices are compatible with moral responsibility. In other words, this paper argues that much of the debate over free will, autonomy, and determinism cannot establish compatibilism. Recognition of this point leads us to seek …

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, Spring 1994, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Director's Corner by Robert P. Lawry
• Ethics Day 1995: Ethics and Computers by Pete Simmelink, Jerod Tufte and Sam Harmon
• Doing Ethics! "House for Sale"
• Comments on "Benevolence"
• First Comment by Marty Krist
• Second Comment by Rev. John L. Brown
• News & Notes

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, Winter 1994, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Director's Corner by Robert P. Lawry
• Carter Lecture a Success
• Save the Dates
• News & Notes

The Structure Of Ethics In The Early Christian Church: A Sourcebook, James Edward Shaul

Open Access Master's Theses (through 2010)

Rather than construct a moral monolith, or argue for any specific ethical position, the goal of this thesis is to lay a foundation upon which an ethical system can be built. The goal of this thesis is to construct a solid base of information that will inform and help direct discussion in Christian ethics. In finding a common base, the Christian community may not necessarily find moral consensus, but it certainly is hoped that is can find common understanding and therefore some measure of intellectual unity. This thesis attempts to examine the actual writings of the early Christian church, describing …

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, Fall 1992, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Director's Corner by Robert P. Lawry
• Doing Ethics! Benevolence
• Comments on Promise Keeping
• First Comment by Rev. John L. Brown
• Second Comment by Jane Sipe
• News & Notes

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, Spring 1992, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• The Director's Corner: "Ethics and the Environment" by Robert P. Lawry
• Notice Lecture: Mending the Earth: The Planet in Law & Morals
• "Doing Ethics!" Promise Keeping
• Comments on "Competing For a Job"
• New & Notes

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, Fall 1991, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Director's Corner by Robert Lawry
• Holly Brooks Joins CPE Staff
• "Doing Ethics" Competing For a Job
• News & Notes

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, Winter 1991, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• The Director's Corner by Robert Lawry
• Notice Lecture: "Ethics Today: Self-Esteem and Self-Respect"
• News & Notes
• "Doing Ethics!" Ethics in the Military: Confidentiality
• Comments on the :Military Ethics" Case by The Rev. John L. Brown
• Response: Fall 1990 The Director's Corner
• Postscript: Death with Dignity - And Humor by David B. Cooper, Associate editor

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, Fall 1990, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• The Director's Corner: Legacies by Robert Lawry
• News & Notes
• Notice: The 1990-1991 Programs
• Meet the Center's Steering Committee
• "Doing Ethics!" Heinz's Moral Dilemma
• Comments on 'Heinz's Moral Dilemma" by Celeste Billhartz
• "Ethics Case" Ethics in the Military: Confidentiality

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, Spring/Summer 1990, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• The Director's Corner by Bob Lawry
• News & Notes
• "Doing Ethics!" Office Thievery
• Comments on the "Office Thievery" Case by Rev. John L. Brown
• "Ethics Case" Heinz's Moral Dilemma

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, Winter 1990, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Thoughts From the Director Emeritus: Human Rights vs. Natural Rights: Stewardship of the Earth by Bob Clarke
• News & Notes
• "Doing Ethics!" The Bodies
• Comments on "The Bodies" Case by Harold R. Rauzi
• "Ethics Case" Office Thievery
• Notice: The Spring 1990 Program

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, Fall 1989, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• The Director's Corner by Bob Lawry
• News & Notes
• "Doing Ethics!" The Bodies

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, June 1989, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• The Co-Director's Corner: Morality and Ethics in Today's Society by Bob Clarke
• Bob Clarke Retires
• A Word From the Director Emeritus
• News & Notes

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, March 1989, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• College Educated Black Women: Career Challenges and Dilemmas by May Wykle, Ph.D.
• Notice Conference: 'Family and Career; An Uneasy Partnership"

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, January 1989, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• The Co-Director's Corner: Personal Reflections on the History of the Center by Bob Clark
• Notice: Center for Professional Ethics Spring 1989 Programs

Newsletter: The Center For Professional Ethics, Fall 1988, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• The Co-Director's Corner by Bob Lawry
• Notice: Fall 1988 Dialogue Forums
• Notice Published: The Power of the Professional Person
• Notice: New Faculty Joins the Center for Biomedical Ethics
• News & Notes