Tag Archives: academic honesty

plagiarism, ignorance and responsibility

Here’s the third post in a series on cheating/academic dis­hon­esty in col­lege (first post, sec­ond post). A year and a half ago, I taught an intro­duc­tion to phi­los­o­phy course inde­pen­dently. The lec­tures were in per­son, but the tests were online because the class only met once per week and I didn’t want to use up

the wrongness of cheating

Last time, I dis­cussed some prob­lems with the the­ory that, when you cheat, “you’re only cheat­ing your­self.” Today, I have a few things to say on the wrong­ness of cheat­ing. These are by no means com­pre­hen­sive or ground break­ing, just some food for thought. First, I’ll back­track just a lit­tle and say that there is