Civility in Politics and Education

Deborah S. Mower is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship on Virtue Ethics and Confucianism at Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 2008. She is a member of the Executive Committee for the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum and has published multiple papers in applied ethics. She co-directed (with Wade Robison) the 11th International Conference on Ethics Across the Curriculum on "Citizenship and Civility" in 2009. Wade L. Robison is the Ezra A. Hale Professor of Applied Ethics at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He was President of the International Hume Society for sixteen years and is active in Ethics Across the Curriculum at RIT and elsewhere. He has written, edited or co-edited 9 books. His most recent book, with L. Reeser, is titled Ethical Decision Making in Social Work (2000). His book Decisions in Doubt: The Environment and Public Policy (1994) won the Nelson A. Rockefeller Prize in Social Science and Public Policy.

Part 1. The Problems of Civility and Incivility 1. Debunking Three Myths about Civility. Timothy C. Shiell 2. Epistemic Peers and Civil Disagreement. Kristin Schaupp 3. "Fuck You" and Other Salutations: Incivility as a Collective Action Problem. Mark Kingwell Part 2. Accounts of Civility 4. Communication and Civility. Megan J. Laverty 5. An Aristotelian Account of Civility. Howard J. Curzer 6. Civility and Magnanimity. Andrew Terjesen Part 3. Expanding Accounts 7. Filial Piety as a Path to Civility: The Confucian Project. Kam-por Yu 8. Neither Morality Nor Law: Ritual Propriety as Confucian Civility. Stephen C. Angle 9. Civility as a Condition of Citizenship. Alan Tomhave 10. Civility, Impartiality, and Cosmopolitanism. Laura Arcila Villa Part 4. Teaching Civility 11. Civility, Citizenship, and the Limits of Schooling. Harry Brighouse 12. Civility as Democratic Civic Virtue. Robert F. Ladenson 13. Authentic Civic Participation Requires Critical Thinking Methods that Work. Jeff Buechner 14. Competition in the Classroom: An Ideal for Civility. Paul Gaffney References. Contributors. Index.