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  On Intellectual Honesty
Introduction: The concept of intellectual honesty is often rather narrowly defined in an academic setting, where its usual purpose is to combat unethical behaviors such as plagiarism or cheating on exams.
While it is clearly expected that each student shall exhibit honesty in taking exams and in representing the authorship of his/her work, there are other dimensions to intellectual honesty that impinge on every aspect of thinking and communicating.
It also prohibits plagiarism, which would violate honesty in the transmission of ideas (misrepresenting the authorship of a body of work by presenting someone else's work as your own).
www.ics.uci.edu /~arvo/honesty.html   (544 words)

  
  Greene's Creationism Truth Filter - "In Terms Of Finding Out"
Intellectual honesty is difficult, but it is worth it — we are pursuing truth.
The intellectually honest person simply cannot accept a religious belief by faith when he or she is aware of the abundance of evidence that controverts such a belief.
The intellectually honest person must be free to decide for herself or himself that any particular belief is fallacious or nescient, if indeed such is the case, free to reject such a belief, and free from having to constantly worry about censure, reproach, and ostracism when she or he does so.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Thebes/7755/finding.html   (5771 words)

  
 ACADEMIC HONESTY
While the faculty, because of their unique role in the educational process, have the responsibility for defining, encouraging, fostering and upholding the ethic of academic honesty, students have the responsibility of conforming in all respects to that ethic.
Intellectual honesty requires that students demonstrate their own learning during examinations and other academic exercises, and that other sources of information or knowledge be appropriately credited.
Academic honesty is therefore required of all students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~econ103n/academic_honesty.htm   (664 words)

  
 Core Virtues: Honesty
Intellectual honesty is often equated with the conscientious avoidance of plagiarism.
An intellectually honest position is one that has given careful consideration to counterveiling evidence; one that has fully explored and fairly assessed opposing arguments; one that has seriously contemplated alternative explanations and is able to state them with precision.
Intellectual honesty can be fostered in our students by holding them accountable in their work for a careful consideration of viewpoints in opposition to their own, by not letting them get through the college without struggling with data, evidence, arguments, and views that might challenge the notions with which they entered its gates.
www.calvin.edu /admin/provost/atc/Integrity/ai_honesty.htm   (220 words)

  
 Tipping - a method for optimizing compensation for intellectual property.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
However, what the RIAA does not seem to grasp (or perhaps, is mortally afraid to acknowledge) is that regardless of the merits of their case, suing Napster into oblivion is merely the first battle in an escalating techological war that they cannot win [2].
Instead of making a doomed effort to prevent their intellectual property from being distributed, they should instead be devoting their efforts to creating an environment in which users of their property feel obliged to pay for the use of it.
A major concern of intellectual property owners is that they believe that if they depend on the honesty of their users, the vast majority will just "free ride" and not pay.
tipping.selfpromotion.com   (2451 words)

  
 intellectual - Wiktionary
Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person.
Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments.
Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy.
en.wiktionary.org /wiki/intellectual   (158 words)

  
 Intellectual Honesty Guidelines | Department of Anthropology
Intellectual honesty is the cornerstone of the development and acquisition of knowledge.
Intellectual honesty demands that the contribution of others be acknowledged.
While it is recognized that scholarly work often involves reference to the ideas, data, and conclusions of other scholars, intellectual honesty requires that such references be explicitly and clearly noted.
anth.ucalgary.ca /home/links/intellectual-honesty-guidelines   (722 words)

  
 Intellectual Ownership and Honesty
Athabasca University understands that the concept of Intellectual Honesty may not be clear to all students.
Intellectual honesty (sometimes called Academic Honesty) is a philosophy that demands that you acknowledge the contribution of others in scholarly writing and research.
Students and researchers are often understandably confused about academic honesty because they realise that if they give credit for every single idea that is not original, then their papers would simply be a list of citations.
www.athabascau.ca /studserv/inthonesty.htm   (984 words)

  
 Code of Academic Honesty (T 10.02)
Academic honesty is a cornerstone of the development and acquisition of knowledge.
Academic honesty is a condition of continued membership in the university community.
All members of the university community have a responsibility to ensure that they themselves, and others, are familiar with generally accepted standards and requirements of academic honesty.
www.sfu.ca /policies/teaching/t10-02.htm   (805 words)

  
 Lamar State College-Orange Catalog Intellectual Honesty
Thus, if the instructor determines that a student's work has been intellectually dishonest, the instructor may award the student an "F" for the course or for the specific task determined to have been dishonestly accomplished.
A student involved in an appeal of an intellectual dishonesty case has the right to remain in class until a decision is made.
A student who is found guilty of intellectual dishonesty loses his or her right to withdraw voluntarily from the course in which cheating occurred.
www.orange.lamar.edu /Catalog/intellectual_honesty.htm   (354 words)

  
 Intellectual Honesty
As such, the unswerving path of intellectual honesty that one finds in the writings of the great Torah scholars is exemplary and inspiring.
But that would not have been intellectually honest, for it would leave the student of Rashi with the impression that the matter was so simple or obvious that it required no explanation.
In the 19th century, with the rise of "enlightened" scholars and "Biblical Criticism," the standards of intellectual honesty in the Jewish world were compromised.
www.aish.com /jewishissues/jewishsociety/Intellectual_Honesty.asp   (936 words)

  
 Rediscovering intellectual honesty
The biggest deficiency in the internet and software industry, and consequently in the swell of blogging groundlings that accompany it, is that of a lack of intellectual honesty.
The principle of intellectual honesty is that you acknowledge the contributions of others' research and writing that may well have contributed to your own.
I cannot be the only one who finds a distinct mismatch between pursuing my real intellectual interests, and those compromises I feel I must make in order to put bread on the table.
times.usefulinc.com /2003/10/21-honesty   (514 words)

  
 Ranum's Rants: Intellectual Honesty
To me, intellectual honest and integrity are the fuel that makes science work - and, as many of you know, I've been arguing for years that this is a field that desperately needs a bit more scientific rigor.
But if that's the level of intellectual honest some of these people are aiming for, they may as well just make up a bunch of numbers and be done with it.
Another huge bit of intellectual dishonesty that drives me nuts is the way that some parts of the security industry deliberately manipulate the media (and therefore the public) by taking advantage of their basic ignorance.
www.rearguardsecurity.com /episodes/3-transcript.html   (2071 words)

  
 Intellectual Honesty in the Era of Computing : April 1995 : THE Journal
Institutions proclaim such policies to ensure that members of the campus community and the general public are aware of its formal position on a subject such as intellectual property.
The fact that the policy may be difficult to enforce d'es not void its value in establishing a climate by formally stating that this institution values intellectual honesty and that includes not just plagiarism but piracy as well.
Education is needed for students, faculty and staff not only about the importance of intellectual honesty but also on the laws, rules, procedures and expectations of society and the institution regarding intellectual property.
www.thejournal.com /articles/12959_3   (500 words)

  
 Academic Integrity at Princeton: Intellectual Community
Every college or university is an environment rich in intellectual, technological, and information resources where students and faculty members come together to pursue their academic interests.
The right to intellectual ownership of original academic work is as important to the life of the university as the right to own personal possessions.
As we at the University strive to build on their work, all of us -- from freshman to full professor -- are obligated by the ethic of intellectual honesty to credit that work to its originator.
www.princeton.edu /pr/pub/integrity/pages/community.html   (355 words)

  
 Said/Many Islams
The overall result is that any attempt to place the horrors of what occurred on 11 September in a context that includes US actions and rhetoric is either attacked or dismissed as somehow condoning the terrorist bombardment.
Intellectually, morally, politically such an attitude is disastrous since the equation between understanding and condoning is profoundly wrong, and very far from being true.
Intellectual responsibility, however, requires a still more critical sense of the actuality.
www.lacan.com /said.htm   (2689 words)

  
 Early Riser: Intellectual Honesty
As much as I respect my devout friends and family, one of the biggest challenges I have with most very devout folks is their lack of intellectual honesty when dealing with issues that cross over between faith and the material world.
Intellectual Honesty is an attribute of a good argument...
This is not intended to imply that these folks are not intellectuals or honest, because they are really smart and honest.
republicanuu.blogspot.com /2006/01/intellectual-honesty.html   (1188 words)

  
 gregw
Something I discovered about honesty is, the honesty that we human beings perceive in our minds, as in when we intellectually know something is true or untrue, is only the tip of the iceberg of real complete honesty.
Intellectually I think I am being 100% honest, and intellectually I AM being 100% honest, but the big bulk of what is most important is NOT my intellect, but IS my 'sensory impressions'.
So after experiencing this changes within myself, I realized that there is much more to honesty that just intellectual honesty, there is also purity and integrity of the physical body and it's nervous system and sensory organs.
www.rawtimes.com /people/gregw.html   (577 words)

  
 Star Wars: Blogs | The Home of Fan Audio | Intellectual Honesty and Discussion
The concept in question is that of intellectual honesty, and how it is a required basis for any intelligent, prodcutive discourse.
Again, intellectual honesty demands an understanding and acknowledgement of what actually exists, rather than what one would like to exist.
it becomes incumbent for the intellectually honest fan to recognize this unfortunate dichotomy and remember to always take into account the context in which a date or time frame is given within a story.
blogs.starwars.com /fanaudio/23   (2049 words)

  
 Policy: Academic Honesty - Trinity, a comprehensive university in Washington, DC
Trinity is devoted to the highest standards of academic honesty and intellectual integrity.
As an institution of higher education founded in the Catholic intellectual tradition and rooted in liberal learning, Trinity challenges students to develop sound moral and ethical practices in their study, research, writing and presentations; in their examinations and portfolios; and in all of their relationships and actions as members of the academic community.
If the student admits the violation of the Academic Honesty Policy, then the hearing becomes a meeting during which the deans and faculty member talk with the student about the case, and the student is informed of the penalty.
www.trinitydc.edu /policies/academic_honesty.php   (3858 words)

  
 Discernment in relationship to emotional honesty and responsibility 2
Honesty like any other arena in recovery is not a fl and white issue.
There are a multitude of levels to honesty, of perspectives in which to view the concept of honesty.
Emotional honesty is the one we are focusing on in this article, but intellectual honesty with ourselves is necessary in order to start becoming emotionally honest.
joy2meu.com /emotional_honesty5.htm   (9382 words)

  
 WMD » Intellectual Honesty in the Courts   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Instead, I’d like to consider what ‘intellectual honesty’ might mean in the context of the courts.
If the correct explanation of the repeated dissent is intellectual dishonesty, then scientist X should be censured for engaging in activity that is both morally wrong and highly damaging to scientific progress.
Doing so is a form of intellectual dishonesty, and this sort of judicial intellectual dishonesty is severely damaging to the courts, and to our society.
mdickson.com /blog/philosophy/3   (1901 words)

  
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Academic integrity essentially means "intellectual honesty": honesty in the use of information, in formulating arguments, and in other activities related to the pursuit of knowledge and understanding.
Knowledge creation necessarily entails dialogue with an intellectual community; acknowledging the role of particular contributors to one's own work is a fundamental academic responsibility.
Education empowers and encourages the individual to discover and express his or her own intellectual voice in respectful dialogue with other voices.
www.american.edu /academics/integrity/whatis1.htm   (342 words)

  
 Intellectual Honesty
The concept of intellectual honesty is something I picked up from my studies of how Charles Darwin's "Origin of the Species" was received and discussed in the 1860's.
The honesty required is the same that is demanded of a theologian when he reads Charles Darwin.
Peter, the master of semantic acrobatics and intellectual trickery, tells his assembled critical souls that Daniel, probably a card-carrying member of the Anthro-Cult with clandestine connections among the sinister wizards in the Goetheanum basement, is intellectually dishonest!
uncletaz.com /at/marapr04/intellectualhon.html   (3983 words)

  
 Intellectual Honesty in the Era of Computing : April 1995 : THE Journal
The intellectual property laws of the United States, as amended and modified, cover numerous things including computer software and other digitized works such as graphics, pictures and sounds.
In its simplest form the law says that it is legal to make an archival copy of digitized works and illegal to make other copies without the permission of the person or organization that holds the rights to the material.
Since constitutional times our laws have protected intellectual works and failure to do so is a violation of the law.
thejournal.com /articles/12959   (473 words)

  
 "A Requirement of Intellectual Honesty": On Benedict and the German Bishops | Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. | December 20, ...
The attractiveness of "intellectual honesty" is that the person we deal with tells us what he really holds.
Intellectual honesty means that we know that he thinks within the limits of faith--limits what make him, in fact, much more open to all of reality.
Intellectual honesty means that the hearer and the speaker understand one another, and that no barrier of dishonesty or hiddenness stands between them.
www.ignatiusinsight.com /features2006/schall_germanbishops_dec06.asp   (3364 words)

  
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And he says his own “sophisticated methodological falsificationism offers new standards for intellectual honesty,” specifically “that one should try to look at things from different points of view, to put forward new theories which anticipate novel facts, and to reject theories which have been superseded by more powerful ones” (37-38).
Genuine intellectual honesty in studying politics risks doing scholarship that governments may find unpatriotic, even seditious; that offends the legislatures, voters, and private and corporate donors who fund our institutions; that some see as blasphemous and morally corrupting; and that invades the privacy and damages the reputations of some whom we study.
As that provocative statement suggests, in these remarks I want to lay out some propositions about what intellectual honesty involves, and hence what methodological rigor involves, that go beyond the admonitions that Lakatos provides and that are specifically pertinent to how we study politics.
www.clas.ufl.edu /users/jkassel/rogerssmith.doc   (1962 words)

  
 http://www.qando.net/ - Its not about patriotism, its about intellectual honesty
I’m only arguing the intellectual honesty or dishonesty of having a position that claims support for the troops, but not for the policy that may send them into a particular conflict.
Essentially, they could believe that the motives and principles of the architects of the war are immoral, while still believing that the actions of the troops are not immoral...or that there are "not-immoral" things occurring parallel to the immoral components of the war.
It’s not the "salvation meme" as you call it, its about whether, in a moral sense, two naturally conflicting positions are intellectually reconcilable: the war is immoral, but I love the warrior—homosexuality is immoral, but I love homosexuals.
www.qando.net /details.aspx?Entry=2219   (7979 words)

  
 ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: Intellectual Honesty
Simple honesty is a precondition of all scholarly work.
It is shocking and discouraging to have people who occupy positions of trust engage in deceptive strategies in the name of "saving an institution." I stand amazed in the presence of godless tricks ventilated in the cause of Christian education.
Honesty should have compelled Fair and Reese to say flatly that Resner is wrong in saying the mother of Jesus was "another sexually questionable woman."
www.bible-infonet.org /ff/editorials/acu/108_08_02.htm   (1900 words)

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