Ethics Teaching in Higher Education

✍ Scribed by Douglas Sloan (auth.), Daniel Callahan, Sissela Bok (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 316
• Series: The Hastings Center Series in Ethics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A concern for the ethical instruction and formation of students has always been a part of American higher education. Yet that concern has by no means been uniform or free from controversy. The centrality of moral philosophy in the undergraduate curriculum during the mid-19th Century gave way later during that era to the first signs of increasing specialization of the disciplines. By the middle of the 20th Century, instruction in ethics had, by and large, become confined almost exclusively to departments of philosophy and religion. Efforts to introduce ethics teaching in the professional schools and elsewhere in the university often met with indifference or outright hostility. The past decade has seen a remarkable resurgence of the interest in the teaching of ethics, at both the undergraduate and the professional school levels. Beginning in 1977, The Hastings Center, with the support of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, undertook a system­ atic study of the state of the teaching of ethics in American higher education.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
The Teaching of Ethics in the American Undergraduate Curriculum, 1876–1976....Pages 1-57
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
Goals in the Teaching of Ethics....Pages 61-80
Problems in the Teaching of Ethics: Pluralism and Indoctrination....Pages 81-101
What Does Moral Psychology Have to Say to the Teacher of Ethics?....Pages 103-132
Evaluation and the Teaching of Ethics....Pages 133-150
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
The Teaching of Ethics in American Higher Education: An Empirical Synopsis....Pages 153-169
The Teaching of Undergraduate Ethics....Pages 171-189
The Teaching of Ethics in Undergraduate Nonethics Courses....Pages 191-203
Professional Ethics: Setting, Terrain, and Teacher....Pages 205-241
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
Paternalism in Medicine, Law, and Public Policy....Pages 245-275
Whistleblowing and Professional Responsibilities....Pages 277-295
Front Matter....Pages 297-297
Hastings Center Project on the Teaching of Ethics: Summary Recommendations....Pages 299-302
Back Matter....Pages 303-315

✦ Subjects

Ethics