Ethics and the University

ISBN-13: 9780415180986 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 288 str.

Michael Davis

Opis

This text brings together two closely related topics, the practice of ethics in the university (academic ethics) and the teaching of practical or applied ethics in the university. The volume is divided into four parts: a survey of practical ethics, offering an explanation of its recent emergence as a university subject, situating that subject into a wider social and historical context and identifying some problems that the subject generates for universities; an examination of research ethics, including the problem of plagiarism; and a discussion of the teaching of practical ethics.

Spis treści

PART I Introduction 1 The ethics boom, philosophy, and the university 2 Academic freedom, academic ethics, and professorial ethics PART II Research ethics 3 The new world of research ethics: a preliminary map 4 Science: after such knowledge, what responsibility? 5 University research and the wages of commerce 6 Of Babbage and kings: a study of a plagiarism complaint PART III Teaching ethics 7 Ethics across the curriculum 8 Case method 9 A moral problem in the teaching of practical ethics 10 Sex and the university

O autorze

Michael Davis is Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, and Professor of Philosophy, Department of Humanities, Illinois Institute of Technology. He is the author of Thinking Like an Engineer: Essays in the Ethics of a Profession (1998).