The Ethics of Campus Conflicts [Paperback]

,The Ethics of Campus Conflictsis a Contemporary Moral Problems textbook that focuses on controversial issues relevant to college campuses. 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 bookChapter 1: Moral Reasoning on CampusEthics and the moral lifeNormative dominanceUniversalityImpartialityReasonablenessBox: Morality and the lawMoral relativismEthics and religionArgument fundamentalsDeductive argumentsBox: Valid and invalid argument formsInductive argumentsEnumerative inductionAnalogical inductionInference to the best explanationBox: Three mental obstacles to critical thinkingMoral argumentsBox: Common fallacies in moral reasoningMoral theoriesEvaluating moral theoriesTwo important theoriesTraditional utilitarianismKantian ethicsBox: Beware of motivated reasoningMoral principlesRespect for personsJusticeUtilityNonmaleficenceBeneficenceKey termsExercisesChapter 2: Free Speech, Equality, and HarmPerceptions of Campus SpeechWhat students believeCampus realitiesWhy Free Speech MattersThe right of free speech is not absoluteFree speech in recent U.S. historyProtected and Unprotected SpeechTrue threatsHarassmentPunishable incitementFighting wordsViewpoint-neutral regulationsSpeech and harmPsychological harmsDignitary harmsSpeech equals violence?Box: Free Speech and CivilityFree Speech and InclusionCancel CultureCounterspeechBox: Counterspeech: What Works, What Doesn'tArgument AnalysisKey termsExercisesReadings 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, Harp