Welcome.

Welcome to the Business Ethics Course Blog (Phil 200) for students in Professor Silver's Fall 2005 Business Ethics course at the University of Delaware.

This is an experiment in which students (and occasionally the professor) will post relevant items on the blog. This may include links to articles on the web with snippets of text along with some insightful commentary. It may include critical analysis or observations related to the course readings.

Every student is authorized to post to the blog, and to make comments on other posts. Every post and every comment should be directed to advancing the discussion.

Remember, this is an academic exercise that is governed by the values of the academy. No anonymous posts or comments are allowed. Respect each other, but challenge each other in the pursuit of the truth.

By the way, I anticipate that there will be many posts to the New York Times. Please take a minute and go through the free registration process at www.nytimes.com. You cannot do well in this course, and you cannot be a good citizen in this society, if you do not keep up with the news. You may post from any reliable and reputable source. It is your responsibility to figure which sources fall in this category.

One note regarding blog etiquette: you do have the power to edit your posts after they have been published to the blog. Blog etiquette requires that any non-trivial change be noted clearly as UPDATED with the original text preserved somewhere within the post.