Presented at the 1999 Ohio University Student Conference on Applied Ethics. The opinions expressed are the author’s and do not necessarily reflect those of Ohio University or the Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics.
Bradford Short — Carnegie-Mellon University
After speaking of metaphysics and the right-state of life-liberty as viewed by Rousseau, t…
Presented at the 1999 Ohio University Student Conference on Applied Ethics. The opinions expressed are the author’s and do not necessarily reflect those of Ohio University or the Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics.
Matthew Ciske – Ohio University
The central question of my research this year is “Are police officers and other criminal investigators et…
Jessica Kapusta, Mercyhurst College
This paper deals with the kind of lying that every individual commits every day — the “little white lie.” Since there is very little material on this subject, I conducted some research of my own, asking about 15 subjects to define lying for me and to list any circumstance in which they felt lying would be necessary. I then ask…