Ethics and the University

by Davis,Michael

• ISBN13: 9780415180979
• ISBN10: 041518097X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Ethics and the University 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. This 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 * A discussion of the teaching of practical ethics. Michael Davis explores how ethics can be integrated into the university curriculum and what part particular cases should play in the teaching of ethics * An exploration of sexual ethics Ethics and the University provides a stimulating and provocative analysis of academic ethics which will be useful to students, academics and practitioners.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Series editor's preface	xi
PART I Introduction	1	(42)
The ethics boom, philosophy, and the university	3	(19)
Academic freedom, academic ethics, and professorial ethics	22	(21)
PART II Research ethics	43	(66)
The new world of research ethics: A Preliminary Map	45	(14)
Science: after such knowledge, what responsibility?	59	(19)
University research and the wages of commerce	78	(13)
Of Babbage and kings: a study of a plagiarism complaint	91	(18)
PART III Teaching ethics	109	(112)
Ethics across the curriculum	111	(32)
Case method	143	(32)
A moral problem in the teaching of practical ethics	175	(20)
Sex and the university	195	(26)
Notes	221	(34)
Bibliography	255	(11)
Index	266