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In the Face of the Facts: Moral Inquiry in American Scholarship

 In the Face of the Facts: Moral Inquiry in American Scholarship, edited by Richard Wightman Fox and Robert B. Westbrook

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Woodrow Wilson Center Press with Cambridge University Press, 1998

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978-0-5216-2133-5 hardcover; 978-0-5216-2887-7 paperback
 In the Face of the Facts: Moral Inquiry in American Scholarship, edited by Richard Wightman Fox and Robert B. Westbrook

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Recently there has been a renewed interest in moral inquiry among American scholars in a variety of disciplines. This collection of accessible essays affords a view of the current state of moral inquiry in the American academy, and it offers fresh departures for ethically informed, interdisciplinary scholarship. Seeking neither to reduce values to facts nor facts to values, these essays aim to foster discussion about inquiry and moral judgment, and demonstrate that moral inquiry need not be either dispassionate and value-free or moralistic and preachy. In gathering this volume, Fox and Westbrook sought to explore what amounts to a new moral inquiry without moralizing across a wide range of subjects investigated and taught in the modern university.

These chapters were presented and commented on at a 1995 conference sponsored by the Wilson Center’s Division of Historical, Cultural and Literary Studies, and have been subsequently revised for publication.