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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812977203321

Autore

Davis Michael <1943->

Titolo

Ethics and the university / / Michael Davis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999

ISBN

1-280-33077-5

1-134-67750-2

0-203-02988-7

0-203-15981-0

1-134-67749-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Collana

Professional ethics

Disciplina

174/.937

Soggetti

Education, Higher - Moral and ethical aspects - United States

Ethics - Study and teaching (Higher) - United States

Research - Moral and ethical aspects - United States

Sexual ethics - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-265) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Series editor's preface; Introduction; The ethics boom, philosophy, and the university; Academic freedom, academic ethics, and professorial ethics; Research ethics; The new world of research ethics: a preliminary map; Science: after such knowledge, what responsibility?; University research and the wages of commerce; Of Babbage and kings: a study of a plagiarism complaint; Teaching ethics; Ethics across the curriculum; Case method; A moral problem in the teaching of practical ethics; Sex and the university; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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