The Impact of Academic Research

Coeditor, The Impact of Academic Research on Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies (Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2021) (with William Schweiker, Michael Welker and Stephen Pickard)
 
Volume 4 of a 10 volume series on Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies.
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Project Series Description (Canopy Forum article) 

List of Series Volumes Reprinted
Description

This volume addresses whether, how, and where academic research has an impact on ethical education, character formation, and the communication of values in late modern pluralistic societies. It reflects the great impacts of a global network of research universities, with the enormous range from the natural sciences to mathematics, historical and theological investigations. It offers praises of the institutionalized impact of the search for truth and the defense of tested truth-claims, but also skeptical voices with respect to the ethical impact of academic research today.

With contributions by Stefan Alkier (Frankfurt), Rüdiger Bittner (Bielefeld), Celia Deane-Drummond (Oxford), Bernold Fiedler (Berlin), Andreas Glaeser (Chicago), Gary Hauk (Atlanta), Jörg Hüfner (Heidelberg), Michael Kirschfink (Heidelberg), Andreas Schüle (Leipzig), William Schweiker (Chicago), Michael Welker (Heidelberg), and John Witte, Jr. (Atlanta).
Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgments 
  • Preface to the Series 
  • Introduction to the Present Volume – William Schweiker 

Part One: Academic Work and Ethical Concerns in Research Universities 
  • The Idea of a Research University – William Schweiker
  • A Hermeneutic Sociology of Ethical Emergence: Critical Thought in Research Universities – Andreas Glaeser
  • Absolute Truth: A Toxic Chimera? – Bernold Fiedler
  • Can Academic Research be a Moral Guide? – Rüdiger Bittner
  • Academic Research as Developing, Testing and Defending Elaborate and Differentiated Truth-Claims – Michael Welker

Part Two: Character and Ethics at the Intersection of Disciplines 
  • The Impact of Science on Ethics – Jörg Hüfner
  • Ethical Considerations in Biomedical Research: Welcome Guidance or Unwanted Restrictions to Scientific Progress – Michael Kirschfink
  • Academic Bondage and Social Transformation: The Case of American Universities and Slavery – Gary S. Hauk
  • The Educational Value of Law and Religion – John Witte, Jr.
  • Science, Theology, and Character Formation in Texts from the Old Testament (Genesis 1, Psalm 104) – Andreas Schüle
  • Forming Identity Through Scripture: New Testament Perspectives in Academic Theology – Stefan Alkier
  • Forming Scientists? Educating for Wisdom, Conscience and Virtue in Multidisciplinary Frameworks – Celia Deane-Drummond
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  • Contributors