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Academic Honesty

You are responsible for being familiar with the standards for academic honesty and plagiarism. Please see the explanations below as well as the CMU student handbook for more information. In order to deter and detect plagiarism, online tools and other resources are used in this class.





Correct attribution of others' work. You should always have a list of references at the end of a paper, which should be full bibliographic entries, as I have done for your textbook on the Course Schedule. In the body of the paper, quotations or citations should be indicated with the author's last name, the date of the work, and the page number referenced (if applicable). Quotes that are less than three lines long should be indicated with quotation marks, with the citation outside the quotation marks, but inside the final period. Quotes that are more than three lines long should be indented and single spaced, without quotation marks, and have the source beyond the last period.


Examples:

Russell (1948) argues that we can know that other people have minds by making an analogy to own case.

One solution to "the problem of other minds" is that we can know that other people have minds by making an analogy to own case (Russell, 1948).

"If we are to believe that there are thoughts and feelings other than our own, that must be in virtue of some inference in which our own thoughts and feelings are relevant..." (Russell 1948, 485).

References
Russell, B. (1948) Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Internet. Use of the Internet is fine; however, a reference including only a website is not acceptable. A website should be thought of as a publisher, so you should still have all of the other information: author, title, and date of "publication." As a general rule, if you don't know the author or the date of the material on a website, then you shouldn't use it as a reference.

Example:

"But at this point Hume invoked the argument that made him famous...[E]verything is based on a belief that nature is uniform with respect to repetition" (Mattey 1994, 2)

References
Mattey, G.J. (1994) "Hume Lecture Notes" www-philosophy.ucdavis.edu/phi023/humelec.htm.

A violation of academic honesty includes, but is not limited to, using original or paraphrased work from any source without proper citation.



Philosophy Department Statement on Citing and Plagiarism.

The straightforward disclosure of the sources used in completing course work is essential to the integrity of the educational process.  In that way one acknowledges the ideas of others and helps to highlight what is distinctive of one's own contribution to a topic.  It also enables instructors to be more effective teachers by providing an accurate sense of the student's grasp of course material.  

Students are expected to use proper methods for citing sources; such methods can be found in style guides like the Chicago Manual of Style, or the most recent MLA Handbook.  In general, an acceptable method of citation provides enough information to allow a reader to track down the original sources. You should consult your professor, if you have any questions about which method to use, or which kinds of collaboration or assistance to disclose. 

Failure to acknowledge the ideas of others is a serious violation of intellectual integrity and community standards.  It is the individual student's responsibility to be aware of the university policy on cheating and plagiarism.  This is available online at: http://www.cmu.edu/policies/documents/Cheating.html and in the section on "University Policies" of The Word: Undergraduate Student Handbook.  Students who plagiarize face serious sanctions at both the course level, and the university level.  At the course level, faculty members have significant discretion to determine the sanctions that are appropriate to individual cases of cheating and plagiarism. 

Within the Philosophy Department, it is customary for professors to give plagiarized assignments a failing grade and, when appropriate, fail students for the course.  Additionally, a letter may be sent to the Dean of Students indicating that the student in question has submitted plagiarized material and received a course-level sanction.  Plagiarism is a violation of the community standards of Carnegie Mellon University.  As such, allegations of plagiarism may be brought before a University Academic Review Board, which will determine whether community standards have been violated and level additional sanctions, if appropriate.  Although this body also has significant discretion over the sanctions that it levels, plagiarism can result in academic probation, suspension, and even expulsion.