Useful Websites

Details of the OCR Religious Studies specification can be found at:

http://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/as-a-level-gce-religious-studies-h172-h572/

General

http://en.wikipedia.org/

A general online encyclopaedia but always use with caution as some articles are more reliable than others

http://plato.stanford.edu/

The highly respected Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/

Regularly updated details of BBC associated programmes and articles on ethics

http://www.faithnet.org.uk

Articles and links on Philosophy and Business Ethics, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheFaithTube

An indispensable source of video clips on religious, philosophical and ethical issues

http://www.harryhiker.com/exercise.htm

Online exercises on philosophy and ethics

http://www.rsrevision.com/contents/aboutus.htm

Useful revision site covering all the main topics of philosophy and ethics

http://www.religion-online.org/

Online texts from recognised scholars on many issues including ethics

http://subknow.reonline.org.uk/

Detailed knowledge of ten major belief traditions, housed at REonline (the world’s leading RE research portal)

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1114992

A student discussion room on philosophy and ethics

http://www.religioustolerance.org/

Site working for religious tolerance across faiths and also looking at current ethical issues

http://www.srtp.org.uk/

The Church of Scotland’s Science, Religion and Technology Project focusing on ethics

http://www.newadvent.org/

Roman Catholic website that covers all aspects of the faith including philosophical and ethical issues

http://www.tere.org/

A Roman Catholic site for Teachers’ Enterprise in Religious Education

Key Thinkers and Theories

http://erg.ucd.ie/arupa/references/gaia.html

A general introduction to Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis

http://gadfly.igc.org/e-ethics/Intro-ee.htm

An introduction to environmental ethics by Partridge

http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/Environ/Enviroethics.htm

An introduction to environmental ethics by Epstein

http://www.angelfire.com/ms/perring/baier.html

Notes on the work of Annette Baier from Dowling College, New York

http://www.importanceofphilosophy.com

Articles on philosophy and ethics based on the work of Ayn Rand

http://www.justwartheory.com/

An entire website devoted to the theory and housed at Oakland University, USA

http://www.newmanreader.org/works/grammar/index.html

An online version of An Essay in aid of a Grammar of Assent by Newman

http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/~ppp/Kant.html

Countless resources and articles on Kant with links to other related websites

http://www.nobunaga.demon.co.uk/htm/kant.htm

Kant’s works online

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/questionofgod/ownwords/future2.html

Online chapters of Freud’s From The Future of an Illusion (1927)

http://www.rep.routledge.com/article/DB047

Scholarly article on Kant from the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

http://www.uri.edu/personal/szunjic/philos/util.htm

A detailed survey of Utilitarianism

http://www.utilitarian.org/utility.html

Materials on Utilitarianism

http://www.utilitarianism.com/mill1.htm

Online version of Mill’s Utilitarianism

http://www.victorianweb.org/philosophy/utilitarianism.html

A critique of Mill’s Utilitarianism from the National University of Singapore