Campus Conflicts
Published on 28. January 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-0-19-755011-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Ethics of Campus Conflicts is a Contemporary Moral Problems textbook that focuses on controversial issues relevant to college camputses. It is a hybrid of running text elucidated by passages from relevant readings-readings taken from books and essays by commentators who ahve studied, and sometimes been party to, the campus controversies featured in the book
Reviews / Votes
This text is a timely look at contemporary moral issues on college campuses. It has a wide range of current examples and problems, treated with a diverse set of authors, reasoning through the topics from a moral frame."- Lisa Yount, Savannah State University An accessible, comprehensive, and crucial introduction to ethics and critical thinking informed by the realities of our rapidly changing public sphere."
- Albert Spencer, Portland State University
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 165 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-19-755011-3 (9780197550113)
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Content
- Chapter 1: Moral Reasoning on Campus
- Ethics and the moral life
- Normative dominance
- Universality
- Impartiality
- Reasonableness
- Box: Morality and the law
- Moral relativism
- Ethics and religion
- Argument fundamentals
- Deductive arguments
- Box: Valid and invalid argument forms
- Inductive arguments
- Enumerative induction
- Analogical induction
- Inference to the best explanation
- Box: Three mental obstacles to critical thinking
- Moral arguments
- Box: Common fallacies in moral reasoning
- Moral theories
- Evaluating moral theories
- Two important theories
- Traditional utilitarianism
- Kantian ethics
- Box: Beware of motivated reasoning
- Moral principles
- Respect for persons
- Justice
- Utility
- Nonmaleficence
- Beneficence
- Key terms
- Exercises
- Chapter 2: Free Speech, Equality, and Harm
- Perceptions of Campus Speech
- What students believe
- Campus realities
- Why Free Speech Matters
- The right of free speech is not absolute
- Free speech in recent U.S. history
- Protected and Unprotected Speech
- True threats
- Harassment
- Punishable incitement
- Fighting words
- Viewpoint-neutral regulations
- Speech and harm
- Psychological harms
- Dignitary harms
- Speech equals violence?
- Box: Free Speech and Civility
- Free Speech and Inclusion
- Cancel Culture
- Counterspeech
- Box: Counterspeech: What Works, What Doesn't
- Argument Analysis
- Key terms
- Exercises
- Readings discussed: Louis D. Brandeis, Susan Benesch, Nadine Strossen, Ulrich Baer, Lee C. Bollinger, Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt, Sigal R. Ben-Porath, Jeremy Waldron, Maxime Lepoutre, the AAUP, PEN America, the ACLU, Erwin Chemerinsky, Howard Gillman, Pamela Paresky, Justice Louis Brandeis, University of Chicago, Dangerous Speech Project, Susan Benesch, Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic, Harper's Magazine letter, Michelle Goldberg, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Jonathan Zimmerman.
- Chapter 3: Hate Speech and Speech Codes
- Punishing Speech
- Speech codes: overbreadth and vagueness
- The University of Michigan code
- The University of Wisconsin code
- The University of the Virgin Islands code
- Box: Two Views of Speech Laws
- For Speech Codes
- Matsuda's proposed speech code
- Problems of vagueness
- Existing laws against speech harms
- Box: How Hate Speech Laws Are Used in Europe
- How effective are speech laws?
- Argument Analysis
- Key terms
- Exercises
- Readings discussed: Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Nadine Strossen, Erwin Chemerinsky, Howard Gillman, Mari J. Matsuda, University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin, University of the Virgin Islands, Azhar Majeed, Glenn Greenwald, Richard Stengel, Conor Friedersdorf.
- Chapter 4: Academic Freedom
- Why academic freedom?
- The role of professors
- Past assaults on academic freedom
- Faculty Freedom
- What academic freedom does and doesn't do
- The Steven Salaita case
- The Joy Karega case
- The Charles Negy case
- The AAUP position
- Classroom Freedom
- Indoctrination vs. education
- Trigger warnings
- Safe spaces
- Freedom of expression vs. freedom from expression
- Silencing students
- Censorship and safe spaces
- The ache for home
- No Platforming
- The appeal to equality
- The risks of censorship
- Obama's admonition
- No platforming and academic freedom
- Argument Analysis
- Key terms
- Exercises
- Readings discussed: Jennifer Lackey, John Stuart Mill, John Dewey, Michael P. Lynch, Jennifer Saul, Michele Moody-Adams, Mary Kate McGowan, Jonathan Zimmerman, Ann Franke, Benjamin Daniels, Catherine Baiocchi, Cary Nelson, Sigal R. Ben-Porath, Colleen Flaherty, Divya Kumar, Michael Levenson, Joy Karega, Steven Salaita, Charles Negy, Inside Higher Ed, Tampa Bay Times, New York Times, Michele Moody-Adams, Michael S. Roth, Ruth Simmons, Robert Mark Simpson, Amia Srinivasan, Barack Obama
- Chapter 5: Race, Racism, and Justice
- Race and Racism
- Defining racism
- The nonexistence of biological race
- Scientific racism
- Why is racism morally wrong?
- Racism Past and Present
- American slavery
- The KKK and Jim Crow
- Essential concepts of slavery
- Racial inequalities
- Whites who say they "don't see color"
- Structural racism
- Box: Removing Confederate Monuments
- Racial inequalities in wealth
- Racial inequalities in education
- Box: White Privilege and Its Problems
- Racial inequalities in the criminal justice system
- Racism or Not?
- Racist statements and motivations
- Unacknowledged racism
- Degrees of racism
- Microaggressions
- Box: Responding to Microaggressions
- Argument Analysis
- Key terms
- Exercises
- Readings discussed: Randall Kennedy, Lawrence Blum, Maria Golash-Boza, Naomi Zack, American Anthropological Association, Michaels James, Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Shannon Sullivan, Radley Balko, Conor Friedersdorf, Michele Moody-Adams, Kevin, Nadal
- Chapter 6: The Ethics of Protest
- The Right to Protest
- Protest and the First Amendment
- Protests on Campus
- Civil Disobedience
- Conscientious Objection
- Classic Civil Disobedience
- MLK's Exposition
- Nonviolence and Violence
- Peter Suber's Defense of Civil Disobedience
- Box: Is It Protected Speech or Civil Disobedience?
- Uncivil Disobedience
- Disrupting lives
- Defining Uncivil Disobedience
- Philosophers against Personalized Protest
- Candice Delmas: When Disobedience Should Be Uncivil
- Box: Should Students Be Punished for Disrupting Speech?
- Argument Analysis
- Key terms
- Exercises
- Readings discussed: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), Martin Luther King, Jr., Kimberley Brownlee, Peter Suber, Martha C. Nussbaum, Charles Watson, Sarah Holtman, Candice Delmas
- Chapter 7: The Ethics of Belief Online
- Believing
- Clifford's Principle
- A Duty to Base Beliefs on Evidence
- The Hazards of the Infosphere
- Fake News
- Reasonable Skepticism
- Reading Laterally
- Reading Critically
- Using Google and Wikipedia
- Box: Your Brain on Social Media
- Sharing
- The Ethics of Sharing Misinformation
- Sharing Misinformation about the Pandemic
- Gradations of Blame
- Deliberate Deceivers, Self-Deceivers, and Bullshitters
- Box: Trustworthy Fact-Checkers
- Arguing
- Morally Responsible Arguing
- How to Argue Productively Online
- Box: How to Win Every Argument
- Argument Analysis
- Key terms
- Exercises
- Readings discussed: W.K. Clifford, Sabrina Tavernise, Guy Harrison, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
- Appendix A: For Further Reading
- Appendix B: Answers to Exercises
- Appendix C: Writing Argumentative Essays
- Glossary
- Index
- Ethics and the moral life
- Normative dominance
- Universality
- Impartiality
- Reasonableness
- Box: Morality and the law
- Moral relativism
- Ethics and religion
- Argument fundamentals
- Deductive arguments
- Box: Valid and invalid argument forms
- Inductive arguments
- Enumerative induction
- Analogical induction
- Inference to the best explanation
- Box: Three mental obstacles to critical thinking
- Moral arguments
- Box: Common fallacies in moral reasoning
- Moral theories
- Evaluating moral theories
- Two important theories
- Traditional utilitarianism
- Kantian ethics
- Box: Beware of motivated reasoning
- Moral principles
- Respect for persons
- Justice
- Utility
- Nonmaleficence
- Beneficence
- Key terms
- Exercises
- Chapter 2: Free Speech, Equality, and Harm
- Perceptions of Campus Speech
- What students believe
- Campus realities
- Why Free Speech Matters
- The right of free speech is not absolute
- Free speech in recent U.S. history
- Protected and Unprotected Speech
- True threats
- Harassment
- Punishable incitement
- Fighting words
- Viewpoint-neutral regulations
- Speech and harm
- Psychological harms
- Dignitary harms
- Speech equals violence?
- Box: Free Speech and Civility
- Free Speech and Inclusion
- Cancel Culture
- Counterspeech
- Box: Counterspeech: What Works, What Doesn't
- Argument Analysis
- Key terms
- Exercises
- Readings discussed: Louis D. Brandeis, Susan Benesch, Nadine Strossen, Ulrich Baer, Lee C. Bollinger, Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt, Sigal R. Ben-Porath, Jeremy Waldron, Maxime Lepoutre, the AAUP, PEN America, the ACLU, Erwin Chemerinsky, Howard Gillman, Pamela Paresky, Justice Louis Brandeis, University of Chicago, Dangerous Speech Project, Susan Benesch, Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic, Harper's Magazine letter, Michelle Goldberg, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Jonathan Zimmerman.
- Chapter 3: Hate Speech and Speech Codes
- Punishing Speech
- Speech codes: overbreadth and vagueness
- The University of Michigan code
- The University of Wisconsin code
- The University of the Virgin Islands code
- Box: Two Views of Speech Laws
- For Speech Codes
- Matsuda's proposed speech code
- Problems of vagueness
- Existing laws against speech harms
- Box: How Hate Speech Laws Are Used in Europe
- How effective are speech laws?
- Argument Analysis
- Key terms
- Exercises
- Readings discussed: Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Nadine Strossen, Erwin Chemerinsky, Howard Gillman, Mari J. Matsuda, University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin, University of the Virgin Islands, Azhar Majeed, Glenn Greenwald, Richard Stengel, Conor Friedersdorf.
- Chapter 4: Academic Freedom
- Why academic freedom?
- The role of professors
- Past assaults on academic freedom
- Faculty Freedom
- What academic freedom does and doesn't do
- The Steven Salaita case
- The Joy Karega case
- The Charles Negy case
- The AAUP position
- Classroom Freedom
- Indoctrination vs. education
- Trigger warnings
- Safe spaces
- Freedom of expression vs. freedom from expression
- Silencing students
- Censorship and safe spaces
- The ache for home
- No Platforming
- The appeal to equality
- The risks of censorship
- Obama's admonition
- No platforming and academic freedom
- Argument Analysis
- Key terms
- Exercises
- Readings discussed: Jennifer Lackey, John Stuart Mill, John Dewey, Michael P. Lynch, Jennifer Saul, Michele Moody-Adams, Mary Kate McGowan, Jonathan Zimmerman, Ann Franke, Benjamin Daniels, Catherine Baiocchi, Cary Nelson, Sigal R. Ben-Porath, Colleen Flaherty, Divya Kumar, Michael Levenson, Joy Karega, Steven Salaita, Charles Negy, Inside Higher Ed, Tampa Bay Times, New York Times, Michele Moody-Adams, Michael S. Roth, Ruth Simmons, Robert Mark Simpson, Amia Srinivasan, Barack Obama
- Chapter 5: Race, Racism, and Justice
- Race and Racism
- Defining racism
- The nonexistence of biological race
- Scientific racism
- Why is racism morally wrong?
- Racism Past and Present
- American slavery
- The KKK and Jim Crow
- Essential concepts of slavery
- Racial inequalities
- Whites who say they "don't see color"
- Structural racism
- Box: Removing Confederate Monuments
- Racial inequalities in wealth
- Racial inequalities in education
- Box: White Privilege and Its Problems
- Racial inequalities in the criminal justice system
- Racism or Not?
- Racist statements and motivations
- Unacknowledged racism
- Degrees of racism
- Microaggressions
- Box: Responding to Microaggressions
- Argument Analysis
- Key terms
- Exercises
- Readings discussed: Randall Kennedy, Lawrence Blum, Maria Golash-Boza, Naomi Zack, American Anthropological Association, Michaels James, Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Shannon Sullivan, Radley Balko, Conor Friedersdorf, Michele Moody-Adams, Kevin, Nadal
- Chapter 6: The Ethics of Protest
- The Right to Protest
- Protest and the First Amendment
- Protests on Campus
- Civil Disobedience
- Conscientious Objection
- Classic Civil Disobedience
- MLK's Exposition
- Nonviolence and Violence
- Peter Suber's Defense of Civil Disobedience
- Box: Is It Protected Speech or Civil Disobedience?
- Uncivil Disobedience
- Disrupting lives
- Defining Uncivil Disobedience
- Philosophers against Personalized Protest
- Candice Delmas: When Disobedience Should Be Uncivil
- Box: Should Students Be Punished for Disrupting Speech?
- Argument Analysis
- Key terms
- Exercises
- Readings discussed: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), Martin Luther King, Jr., Kimberley Brownlee, Peter Suber, Martha C. Nussbaum, Charles Watson, Sarah Holtman, Candice Delmas
- Chapter 7: The Ethics of Belief Online
- Believing
- Clifford's Principle
- A Duty to Base Beliefs on Evidence
- The Hazards of the Infosphere
- Fake News
- Reasonable Skepticism
- Reading Laterally
- Reading Critically
- Using Google and Wikipedia
- Box: Your Brain on Social Media
- Sharing
- The Ethics of Sharing Misinformation
- Sharing Misinformation about the Pandemic
- Gradations of Blame
- Deliberate Deceivers, Self-Deceivers, and Bullshitters
- Box: Trustworthy Fact-Checkers
- Arguing
- Morally Responsible Arguing
- How to Argue Productively Online
- Box: How to Win Every Argument
- Argument Analysis
- Key terms
- Exercises
- Readings discussed: W.K. Clifford, Sabrina Tavernise, Guy Harrison, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
- Appendix A: For Further Reading
- Appendix B: Answers to Exercises
- Appendix C: Writing Argumentative Essays
- Glossary
- Index