Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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).