Educating for Virtuous Intellectual Character and Valuing Truth

Educating Librarians in Intellectual Freedom

IT IS TRUE, of course, that most early American librarians-believers in the logic of the Enlightenment-personally abhorred book censorship, and that some supported this conviction with appropriate words and deeds, But the profession’s putatively strong commitment to the right to read and to the wider concept of intellectual freedom is nevertheless largely a twentieth century development, beginn...

Valuing Intellectual Property: an Experiment

I. THE BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 R A. Classical Economics and Intellectual Property . . . . . . . 5 R B. Behavioral Challenges to the Rational Choice Model: The Endowment Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 R 1. The Strength of the Endowment Effect . ....

Educating for Intellectual Virtues: From Theory to Practice

My concern in this article is with two perennial questions in the philosophy of education and educational theory: What are the proper aims or goals of education? What are the most fitting ways of achieving these goals? The answers I defend draw heavily from recent research within virtue epistemology on intellectual character virtues like curiosity, open-mindedness, attentiveness, intellectual c...

Valuing Information Systems in Contract and Intellectual Property Disputes

Decades of research on the economic impact of computer information systems used by businesses provide the basis for assessing claims arising in litigation over such systems. It is possible to estimate the impacts of systems on costs of business operations, on market share, on margins, on flexibility of product design, and on market entry strategies. It is possible to estimate economic impacts, ...

Speaking Power to Truth: Digital Discourse and the Public Intellectual