Essay on Academic Ethics

Ethics in Academic Advising

Academic advisors confront many ethical problems and benefit from being able to draw on a system of ethical principles. Such principles, to be credible, should be philosophically defensible and not merely reflective of individual tastes. This article proposes such a set of principles, shows how they can be used to cope with ethical dilemmas, and explains why such dilemmas cannot be prevented. T...

reconsidering academic research ethics

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Ethics in academic publishing: a timely reminder

Most, if not all, academic librarians are by now familiar with the term “predatory publishing.” Beall in 2012 defined predatory publishers as “those that unprofessionally exploit the gold open-access model for their own profit,” often taking advantage of junior faculty and graduate students [1]. This problem has grown at an almost exponential rate. Whereas Beall identified 23 suspected predator...

Making Adorno's Ethics and Politics Explicit [Review Essay: J.M. Bemstein, Adomo: Disenchantment and Ethics

The opening line of J.M. Bemstein's preface to Adomo: Disenchantment and Ethics rings true: "Readers of Adomo are inevitably stmck by how everything he wrote was infused with a stringent and commanding ethical intensity" (xi). Adomo's lavish invectives chase out the ethical depravity he found hiding in every comer of modem life, and he has thus become a cult figure among the growing demographic...

Why law pervades medicine: an essay on ethics in health care.