ABSTRACT
Academic ethics are currently much in the news but there is a great deal of uncertainty, both as to what constitutes specifically academic ethics and about a number of issues that are taken to be issues of academic ethics. This collection of papers focuses on both questions, moving from consideration of the very idea of a University and what that entails, via attempts to locate the major current concerns, to particular issues relating to the University's relations with the corporate world, the professor's role, relations between student and teacher, credentialling, the demands of collegiality and plagiarism. The editors have provided both a full and reasoned introduction and a critical end-piece that attempt to bring some order to the often inchoate nature of this field, raising the further question of whether institutions should, or should not, frame formal codes of conduct. The selected papers are drawn from diverse sources and together provide one of the first comprehensive overviews of academic ethics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|62 pages
The Idea of a University
part II|102 pages
Contemporary Concerns
part III|46 pages
The University and Business
chapter 13|3 pages
This Little Student Went to Market
chapter 14|6 pages
The True Scholar
part IV|94 pages
The Professor
part V|68 pages
Administration
chapter 24|5 pages
Professional Values and the Allure of the Market
part VI|97 pages
Professors and Students
part VII|29 pages
Collegiality
part VIII|42 pages
Plagiarism
part IX|48 pages
A Code of Ethics
part X|17 pages
Credentialling
part XI|16 pages
Academic Ethics: Towards a Coherent Concept