Lexington Books
Pages: 186
Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-0-7391-2288-4 • Hardback • June 2009 • $121.00 • (£93.00)
Robert B. Talisse is associate professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University.
Maureen Eckert is assistant professor of philosophy at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
Part 1 Introduction
Part 2 About Steven M. Cahn
Chapter 3 Lessons for Philosophers from Business Ethics
Chapter 4 Academic Standards and Constitutive Luck
Chapter 5 Meaningful Lives
Chapter 6 Teaching Ethics: The Relevance of Empirical Findings in Psychology
Chapter 7 The Teaching Profession
Chapter 8 Philosophy and its Teaching
Chapter 9 Philosophical Humor: Lewis Carroll and Introductory Philosophy
Chapter 10 Shake Em' Up: On Teaching Weird or Irrelevant Philosophical Views
Chapter 11 Global Norming: An Inconvenient Truth
Chapter 12 Intercollegiate Athletics and Educational Values
Chapter 13 How to Duck out of Teaching
Chapter 14 The Happy Immoralist
Chapter 15 Mentoring
Part 16 Afterword
This is a splendid collection, one that exhibits both the great variety and underlying unity of the philosophical and educational issues that have drawn Steve Cahn's attention throughout his career. His distinguished contributions to the field of philosophy, to the institutions that preserve and foster humanistic inquiry, and to higher education as a whole are truly remarkable. This book reflects Cahn's scholarly interests and his moral and practical concerns. It will provide pleasure and instruction to professional philosophers and, indeed, to anyone seriously interested in the well-being of the academy.
— Karen Hanson, Indiana University