A Teacher's Life: Essays for Steven M. Cahn: Robert B. Talisse: Lexington Books

A Teacher's Life

Essays for Steven M. Cahn

A Teacher's Life

Essays for Steven M. Cahn

Description

Steven Cahn belongs to that exclusive class of professors who have not only contributed influentially to the leading debates of their discipline, but have also written insightfully about the academic vocation itself. This volume comprises 13 essays, authored by Cahn's colleagues and former students, presented in his honor on the occasion of his 25th year as Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York. The chapters focus on topics that have been central to Cahn's philosophical work, such as the teaching of Philosophy, the responsibilities of Philosophy professors, the nature of happiness, and the concept of the good life.

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

Product details

Published	Jun 16 2009
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Extent	186
ISBN	9780739122884
Imprint	Lexington Books
Dimensions	242 x 161 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Robert B. Talisse

Author

Maureen Eckert

Contributor

Norman Bowie

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Steven M. Cahn

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Randall Curren

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Alan Goldman

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Tziporah Kasachkoff

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Peter Markie

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John O'Connor

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David M. Rosenthal

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Robert Simon

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David Shatz

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George Sher

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Douglas Stalker

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Christine Vitrano

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