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Quandaries and Virtues
Attuned to the revival of moral concern in public and private life, Edmund Pincoffs argues in Quandaries and Virtues that the "structures known as ethical theories are more threats to moral sanity and balance than instruments for their attainment because ethical theories are, by nature, reductive." Pincoffs's is the first full-scale examination of the reductionist tendencies in contemporary ethical theory. It explores questions that previously have received scant attention: How can mutually inconsistent and systematically reductive ethical theories be 'applied' to the resolution of moral problems? Is there a defensible form of virtue-oriented perfectionism? How are we to understand the relation of virtue-ideals to the ethics of obligation?
The Responsible Administrator
Praise for the Fifth Edition of The Responsible Administrator "Cooper's fifth edition is the definitive text for students and practitioners who want to have a successful administrative career. Moral reasoning, as Cooper so adeptly points out, is essential in today's rapidly changing and complex global environment."—Donald C. Menzel, president, American Society for Public Administration, and professor emeritus, public administration, Northern Illinois University "The Responsible Administrator is at once the most sophisticated and the most practical book available on public sector ethics. It is conceptually clear and jargon-free, which is extraordinary among books on administrative ethics."â...
Faculty Work in Schools of Education
A full-bodied, robust discussion of issues of concern to faculty in schools of education.
Living with One's Past
1. On Living With One's Past. Peace of Mind and Effective Agency. Hume, Falk. When the Past Is Problematic. Some Cases. Self-Conception and Self-Doubt. Deliberate Wrongdoing: Blackouts. On What to Do. On Unmanageable Internal Factors 2. Persona Moralism. People Are Different. Assumptions about Persons. Stereotyping and Judging. On Legal Punishment. Basic Individuals and Social and Historical Particulars. Normative Assumptions. Sources of Normative Assumptions. Independent Sources? Summary. Persona Moralism Self-Imposed. On Death. On What to Do 3. Problematic Agency. Persona Moralism: Innocent, Vicious, In-Between. The In-Control Agent. Difficulties. Vulnerabilities. Observations, Issues. On What to Think about Persons 4. On Living With Others. The Moral Problem of Personal Justice. Justice Individualized. A Note on the Subject of Justice. Toleration without Equal Liberties. Personal Fairness 5. On Recovery and Self-Protection. The Going-On Problem. On the Ideas of Recovery and Self-Protection. About the AA Program. AA's Twelve Steps. Notes. Remarks on Peace of Mind.
In Pursuit of Knowledge
Although academics have never lacked for critics, publications on the profession tend to be either popularized polemics, which are engaging but misleading, or scholarly analyses, which are intellectually responsible but of little interest to anyone but specialists. In Pursuit of Knowledge offers an alternative: a unique portrait of academic life that should appeal to both experts and a general audience. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, including higher education, history, law, sociology, economics, and literature, the book focuses on the ways in which the pursuit of status has undermined the pursuit of knowledge. Deborah Rhode argues that both individual scholars and institutions in h...
Freedom and Tenure in the Academy
Van Alstyne presents an "unhurried" historical review of the extent to which academic freedom has been accepted into domestic constitutional law. Two essays deal with the issue of tenure and academic freedom. Ralph S. Brown and Jordan E. Kurland agree that tenure reinforces academic freedom but wonder if there is not a large price to be paid for such a system. In a highly instructive review Matthew Finkin looks at academic tenure and freedom in the light of labor law. Focusing on freedom of artistic expression, Robert O'Neil raises difficult questions about what kinds of art displays taxpayers can be expected to tolerate in the colleges and universities they support. Rodney A. Smolla looks at the ways in which "hate" speech and offensive expression on campuses engage wide First Amendment jurisprudence. Judith Jarvis Thomson examines the vexed issue of selecting - and valuing - individual faculty members or disciplines with regard to ideology. Michael W.
Transforming Religious Liberties
Proposes a new theoretical approach to religious liberty that both transcends and transforms current approaches to law and religion.
Virtuous Giving
"A good study book for philanthropists and those who study them. Religion gets a fair shake." -- Christian Century "Mike Martin has written a clear and wide-ranging book on ethical issues related to philanthropy that is rich in concrete examples." -- Ethics Writing for the general reader, Mike Martin explores the philosophic basis of philanthropy -- "virtuous giving." This book will be welcome reading for anyone who has pondered what caring and giving mean for a good society.
Multiversities, Ideas and Democracy
Multiversities are sprawling conglomerates that provide liberal undergraduate, graduate, and professional education. As well-springs of innovation and ideas, these universities represent the core of society's research enterprise. Multiversities, Ideas, and Democracy forcibly argues that, in the contemporary world, multiversities need to be conceptualized in a new way, that is, not just as places of teaching and research, but also as fundamental institutions of democracy. Building upon the history of universities, George Fallis discusses how the multiversity is a distinctive product of the later twentieth century and has become an institution of centrality and power. He examines five characte...
