PHIL 322 Lecture Notes - Lecture 40: The Whistleblower
30 Aug 2018
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Wednesday, August 23, 2017
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arch should be undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of media literacy program in helping
young people be cognizant of both explicit and implicit persuasion
- recommendations for public policy 1. findings be placed firmly in the public domain to form
an alternative point of reference for policy debate at a time when the ethics of advertising to
children is a highly topical issue across the world 2. policy makers to consider not just the
capacities of the targets of advertising messages but also the formats of the messages
themselves 3. media literacy campaigns — suggested that these do more than provide
information about how messages are created and presented, and instead specifically educate
children (and their parents) about advertising formats that can persuade without them even
noticing 4. advertising industry itself reconsiders how it can best approach responsible and
ethical children’s advertising
Some Paradoxes of Whistleblowing by Michael Davis
- argues standard theory of whistleblowing is paradoxical meaning there is a real inconsistency
between the theory and the facts
- whistleblowing - disclosing info publicly about corruption
- shall be concerned here only with moral justification, that is, with what morality permits or
requires
- Whistleblowing always involves revealing information that would not ordinarily be revealed
- What seems to make whistleblowing morally problematic is its organizational context. A mere
individual cannot blow the whistle (in any interesting sense); only a member of an
organization, whether a current or a former member, can do so
- Whistleblowers generally do not gain their information under false pretenses
- The whistleblower cannot blow the whistle using just any information obtained in virtue of
membership in the organization
- To be a whistleblower is to reveal information with which one is entrusted
- claims to be ding it because its what he should be doing
- organization deserves whistleblowers loyalty
Document Summary
Wednesday, august 23, 2017 arch should be undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of media literacy program in helping young people be cognizant of both explicit and implicit persuasion. Argues standard theory of whistleblowing is paradoxical meaning there is a real inconsistency between the theory and the facts. Whistleblowing - disclosing info publicly about corruption. Shall be concerned here only with moral justification, that is, with what morality permits or requires. Whistleblowing always involves revealing information that would not ordinarily be revealed. What seems to make whistleblowing morally problematic is its organizational context. A mere individual cannot blow the whistle (in any interesting sense); only a member of an organization, whether a current or a former member, can do so. Whistleblowers generally do not gain their information under false pretenses. The whistleblower cannot blow the whistle using just any information obtained in virtue of membership in the organization. To be a whistleblower is to reveal information with which one is entrusted.
