All News

Professor of Philosophy Robert Simon is the author of Fair Play: The Ethics of Sport, a revised edition of his 1991 book Fair Play: Sports, Values and Society. Many ethical concerns surround the world of athletics, even beyond those scandals and abuses in sport that raise eyebrows. Some concerns delve deeper into the idea of competition itself; these conceptual and ethical questions ask about the role athletics should play in our society and lives.

Professor of Philosophy Robert L. Simon has written Neutrality and the Academic Ethic, the fourth book in a series edited by Steven M. Cahn titled, Issues in Academic Ethics. The book is divided into two sections. The first, “Academic Ethics and the Neutral University,” asks if universities should be politically neutral and if so, can they be. Simon examines questions about the meaning of neutrality, distinguishes different conceptions of what neutrality involves, and considers in what sense, if any, institutional neutrality is both possible and desirable.