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We describe the educational character and leadership development processes used by the United States Air Force Academy that other educational institutions may find useful. Our processes include an integrated educational curriculum... more
Most scientific domains have guidelines concerning ethics in research. These guidelines are designed to enable researchers to conduct good research while avoiding potential harm to research participants. This paper examines the bases for... more
This paper focuses on some of the ethical issues which may arise when conducting research in the context of homelessness. These issues are considered from the viewpoints of researchers, research coordinators and interviewers, drawing from... more
Trade-Van Director Chien-Lung Hsu was dismissed from his position of associate professor at Takming University of Science and Technology following revelations about plagiarism and fabrication in his published academic papers. As a result... more
What does it mean to care about the truth? And why does it matter whether you DO care? Haack's answer is more relevant than ever in our era of "post-truth."
Throughout the duration of this psychology capstone project (PSYC4900), learners were required to write 5 self-determined short essays on various psychological topics. This paper is a compilation of topics on postpartum depression;... more
The article analyses the history of Humboldt's university model and its relevance and effectiveness nowadays. Humboldt's university model has been developed in the beginning of the 19 th century by W. von Humboldt and widespread... more
Sosa's "virtue epistemology," Haack notes, is a form of reliabilism. Zagzebski's is more focused on epistemic virtues, though misguided in hoping to explain epistemic justification in terms of the exercise of such virtues. But epistemic... more
學術著作必須公開流通、討論、批判與利用,提供接續之研究者站在巨人肩膀,得以看得更寬、更遠。學術活動不僅直接關係國家之競爭力,更關係著不同國家、族群或世代之間的交流;當交流與澄清形成的共識範圍愈多,人與人之間的爭議或衝突範圍即縮減。因此,現代化國家都將學術活動形成國家制度,涉及教育學位授予、教師與研究員資格取得之學術著作,必須公開陳列與流通。相反的,蔡英文的升等教授文件被核定保密30年,而升等副教授的博士論文直到2019年9月才公開。本研究旨在註解蔡英文1983年取得自倫敦政經... more
I hereby release my Unicode transcription of Thomas into the public domain. With the papyrus of the Nag Hammadi Library publicly accessible, so must the transcriptions be, in order that translations can be verified - and 'silent... more
Одной из актуальных задач истории науки является изучение этических вопросов исследовательской деятельности, которые включают в себя не только ценностные ориентации и добродетели ученых, но также отклонения от норм, конфликты,... more
Drawing on ego-documents and scholarly works of the outstanding historian Stepan Borisovich Veselovskiy, this article analyzes the ethical principles he adhered to between the 1920s and 1950s, when he, though staying in the USSR, lived in... more
In the past two decades, individual explanations of scientific misconduct ('bad apples') have increasingly given way to systemic explanations ('bad systems'). Where did this interest in systemic factors (publication pressure, competition... more
Straight answers to questions definitive of the academic life: What is a university? What is a professor? Who are the colleagues of a person in higher education? What should be learned in graduate school regardless of the field of... more
Self-plagiarism requires clear definition within an environment that places integrity at the heart of the research enterprise. This paper explores the whole notion of self-plagiarism by academics and distinguishes between appropriate and... more
When a researcher creates a paper based on previous works, but conceals the "cited literature" without explicitly publishing the fact of the citation, it will interrupt the transmission of information and even hinder the spread and... more
This short piece expresses Haack's confidence in the value of philosophy, but also her grave concerns for the state of the profession; specifically, it articulates the dangers of a growing trend to an anti-philosophical scientism.
Like predatory journals, predatory conferences are a growing part of the academic landscape, but unlike their journal counterparts, to date predatory conferences have not been extensively investigated, and many unanswered questions about... more
This article applies principles from the first two articles in the series to further clarify the nature of education and the exemplary life of the educator. Ethics will be distinguished from values and morals, with professional ethics... more
as the front cover says, here Haack offers a sparkling collection of her essays on philosophy, science, religion, law, literature, and life.
В статье рассматриваются достижения, тенденции и проблемы в развитии общественных наук, прежде всего гуманитарных – истории, филологии и др. после 1991 г. Автор определяет особенности этой сферы фундаментальной науки и тенденцию роста... more
On 13 December 2013, Jen-Chang Liu reviewed Shin-Yun Wang’s (2014) newly published textbook and found enormous questionable issues, in particular the textbook transmitted erroneous information from other testbooks. On 7 January 2014, Liu... more
Skills in writing papers for scientific journals have become crucial across academia, and universities everywhere are arranging writing courses in their ph. d programs. During two decades of teaching such courses I have witnessed how... more
The concept of distributed moral responsibility (DMR) has a long history. When it is understood as being entirely reducible to the sum of (some) human, individual, and already morally loaded actions, then the allocation of DMR, and hence... more
Described by one reader as "delightfully direct," this memoir is illuminating both about Haack's career, and her philosophical development. This reprint is remarkable both for having appeared only three weeks after the original, but also... more
This study responds to Bay and Greenberg's (Bay, D.D. and Greenberg, R.R. (2001). The relationship of the DIT and behavior: A replication. Issues in Accounting Education 10(3): 367–380) call to investigate alternative psychometric... more
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS to a special issue of the Journal of Academic Ethics on the theme Positive Integrity Guest Editors Diane Pecorari, City University of Hong Kong Wendy Sutherland-Smith, Deakin University Much research within... more
Today’s economics and business students are expected to be our future’s business people and potentially our tomorrow’s economic leaders and politicians. Thus, their beliefs and practices are likely to affect the definition of acceptable... more