Lesson series

Noggin- My Brain on Ethics

Noggin uses easily remembered terminology that allows people to understand ethics better- and in turn, speak ethics more fluently.
Speak fluent ethics with Noggin!

What's included?

  • 7 Lessons
  • Ethics Cases
  • Quizzes
  • Graphic Novel Cartoons

Speak Fluent Ethics in my professional and personal life

I will learn a language of ideas and terminology necessary to identify ethical aspects of the situations I encounter, to think and talk about them,  to make ethics judgments and decide how to act, and to resolve disagreements with others.

For the Brain I Have rather than the Brain I Think I Have.

Some assembly is required to learn this ethics language.  Results may vary because people see different aspects of a situation, use different ethics tests, have different members in the crowd they look to for advice, or a different narrative of who they are. 

Meet One of our Author/Instructors

J. Brooke Hamilton III, Ph.D., MBA
Co-founder and CEO, EthicsOps.com LLC and principal author of Noggin & iPad stick figure art.

I earned my B.A. and M.A. degrees in Philosophy at Georgetown University and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Emory University, then taught 7 years and chaired the Philosophy Department at Tuskegee University. Returning to Louisiana, I worked in marketing and as President of my family’s manufacturing business for 14 years, during which time I completed an M.B.A. at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and joined their College of Business, teaching Management and Professional Ethics. After 25 years I retired as Emeritus Professor. My ongoing research focuses on developing practical ethical standards that people can remember and use. My website, www.EthicsOps.com, receives 1,700 visits a month and provides a set of those standards applied to examples, which has been adopted in multiple educational settings and translated into Turkish.

During a 2008-09 academic-year sabbatical spent reading contemporary psychology and neuroscience research on ethics, I developed a model of how the brain processes ethics and began a multi-year project to develop an online course in how to more effectively use the brain we have rather than the brain we think we have to make ethics judgments, act ethically in the face of organizational barriers, and resolve ethics disagreements. I recently migrated the material to an interactive adaptive online platform for use in higher education and by businesses, professionals, and individuals. After beta testing, “Noggin – My Brain on Ethics” debuted in the fall of 2019.
Brooke Hamilton

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