Ethics and the University [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Davis Michael <1943->
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Disciplina: 174.937; 174/.937
• Soggetto topico: Education, Higher - Moral and ethical aspects - Un; 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Ethics and the University
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450974703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Professional Ethics