In Face of the Facts
Subtitle: Moral Inquiry in American Scholarship (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)
Contributors: Richard Wightman Fox (Editor); Robert B. Westbrook (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 28, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780521621335
Subjects: Ethics & Moral Philosophy; History of ideas, intellectual history; Philosophy; Applied Ethics; Scholarship And Learning; History: American; United States - General; Ethics--United States; History / United States / General; Ethics; Learning and scholarship; United States
First sentence: Of all the academic disciplines, philosophy is perhaps the one that most fully embraces the legitimacy of moral inquiry as part of its enterprise.