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Two Principles of Academic Ethics

Some time ago, while I was advising a doctoral student regarding her search for an academic position, she showed me her graduate school transcript. I noted that she had been...

Choosing a Specialty: Charles Lassiter’s Study of Academic Philosophy Positions

Charles Lassiter, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Gonzaga University, has made available on his website the results of a study he undertook to identify the fields of philosophy in which...

Taking Teaching More Seriously

In a generous review of my recent book Professors as Teachers, Martin Benjamin supports most of its major contentions, yet he finds outdated my claim that research, not teaching, rules...

Professors as Teachers: Two Tenure Cases

This post is the third of three adapted from Steven M. Cahn’s forthcoming book Professors as Teachers. In this work he suggests how departments and colleges can do more to...

Professors as Teachers: Criteria for Awarding Tenure

This post is the second of three adapted from Steven M. Cahn’s forthcoming book Professors as Teachers. In this work he suggests how departments and colleges can do more to...

Professors as Teachers: In Defense of Tenure

This post is the first of three adapted from Steven M. Cahn’s forthcoming book Professors as Teachers. In this work, he suggests how departments and colleges can do more to...

Prudent Reserve in Academic Administration

This essay will be published in the forthcoming book Academic Ethics Today: Problems, Policies, and Prospects for University Life, ed. Steven M. Cahn (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022). This collection of thirty-one new...

John Rawls and Fair Equality of Opportunity

...ed. Steven M. Cahn, Routledge, 2002). Yet the vast literature to which Rawls’s book gave rise included little, if any, discussion of how the magnum opus authored by the outstanding...

The Goals of Campus Discipline

This essay will be published in the forthcoming book Academic Ethics Today: Problems, Policies, and Prospects for University Life, ed. Steven M. Cahn (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022). This collection of thirty-one new...

Arguments Against Your Own

Chess players seeking to assess a position need to anticipate the best moves that can be made by their opponents. Similarly, in considering any philosophical problem, we should take seriously...