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Track Record Arguments in Normative Ethics
ABSTRACT Track record arguments (TRAs) contend that it speaks in favor of an ethical theory (such as utilitarianism) if many of its past proponents had moral views that were controversial at their time but which we now consider to be clearly true (e.g., women's equal rights in 18th century Europe). This paper explores how to construct potentially sound
Leonard Dung
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Honesty is regarded as a basic ethical value in all educational programmes, and academic integrity is of undisputed importance in educational environments.
Cecilia J. Theart, Ilze Smit
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Cyber-pseudepigraphy: A New Challenge for Higher Education Policy and Management [PDF]
There is no lack of critical literature dealing with cyber-plagiarism and the implications for assessment in higher education. The practice of the selling of academic papers through the Internet is generally included under the category of plagiarism ...
Anderson GL +3 more
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Competing Under Oath: Can Honesty Pledges Reduce Cheating in Competitive Environments?
ABSTRACT People frequently compete with one another for awards, benefits, contracts, positions, or roles. One of the regulatory challenges in these contexts lies in preventing people from making dishonest claims to win such competitions. Honesty pledges, asking people to commit to ethical behavior ex ante, have been found to reduce cheating under non ...
Ronit Montal‐Rosenberg +2 more
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Forget About Cheating, What About Learning? [PDF]
This paper will argue that academics need to re-focus on what really matters when developing policies to prevent plagiarism (used here in a broad sense to include unauthorised collaboration in assessment) and deal with its occurrence.
Roberts, Jane
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The Cognitive Conditions Associated with Academic Dishonesty in University Students and Its Effect on Society [PDF]
The problem of cheating in universities has existed as long as education itself; however, the problem has gotten exponentially worse in recent years. While consequences of cheating are not as noticeable today, the growing numbers of students cheating ...
von Jena, Zachary Alexander
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Family Matters: Exploring the Link Between Parental and Executive Financial Misconduct
ABSTRACT Using a novel data set of misconduct records for Finnish CEOs and directors and their parents, we explore whether corporate executives’ financial misconduct is associated with similar behavior by their parents. Controlling for various other factors of executive financial misconduct, we find that executives are significantly more likely to ...
JENNI KALLUNKI +4 more
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How engineering students experience ethical situations: Findings from a phenomenographic study
Abstract Background Previous attempts to measure engineering students' understandings of ethics and social responsibility have yielded conflicting results, in part because of the multidimensional nature of ethics‐related outcomes. Purpose Determining how students experience ethical situations and the variations in those experiences can lead to more ...
Stephanie A. Claussen +5 more
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Abstract Background. Fostering healthy urban living conditions is a critical public health objective. One efficient approach lies in the contact to nature, as numerous studies have shown that urban and peri‐urban natural elements both indoors and outdoors carry a large potential in buffering typical urban threats to mental health.
Marilisa Herchet +6 more
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Spartan Daily, April 4, 1986 [PDF]
Volume 86, Issue 42https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/7431/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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