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In these seventeen essays, distinguished senior scholars discuss the conceptual issues surrounding the idea of freedom of inquiry and scrutinize a variety of obstacles to such inquiry that they have encountered in their personal and professional experience. Their discussion of threats to freedom traverses a wide disciplinary and institutional, political and economic range covering specific restrictions linked to speech codes, the interests of donors, institutional review board licensing, political pressure groups, and government policy, as well as phenomena of high generality, such as intellectual orthodoxy, where coercion is barely visible and often self-imposed.
Sommario
Introduction: Who Is Afraid of Academic Freedom?, by Akeel Bilgrami and Jonathan R. Cole1. A Brief History of Academic Freedom, by Geoffrey R. Stone2. Truth, Balance, and Freedom, by Akeel Bilgrami3. Academic Freedom and Its Opponents, by David Bromwich4. Academic Freedom Under Fire, by Jonathan R. Cole5. Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom, by Joan W. Scott6. Obscurantism and Academic Freedom, by Jon Elster7. What's So Special About Academic Freedom?, by Michele Moody-Adams8. Academic Freedom and the Constitution, by Robert Post9. IRB Licensing, by Philip Hamburger10. To Follow the Argument Where It Leads: An Antiquarian View of the Aim of Academic Freedom at the University of Chicago, by Richard A. Shweder11. What Is Academic Freedom For?, by Robert J. Zimmer12. Academic Freedom: Some Considerations, by Matthew Goldstein and Frederick Schaffer13. Academic Freedom and the Boycott of Israeli Universities, by Stanley Fish14. Exercising Rights: Academic Freedom and Boycott Politics, by Judith Butler15. Israel and Islamic Freedom, by John Mearsheimer16. Academic Freedom and the Subservience to Power, by Noam Chomsky17. Academic Freedom: A Pilot Study of Faculty Views, by Jonathan R. Cole, Stephen Cole, and Christian C. WeissList of ContributorsIndex
Info autore
Akeel Bilgrami is the Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy and a Professor on the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. His books include Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment; Self Knowledge and Resentment; and Belief and Meaning. Jonathan R. Cole is the John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University at Columbia University. For fourteen years, he served as provost and dean of faculties at Columbia. His latest book is The Great American University: Its Rise to Preeminence, Its Indispensible National Role, Why It Must Be Protected.
Riassunto
Celebrated scholars, including Joan Scott, Noam Chomsky, Stanley Fish, Judith Butler, Jon Elster, Akeel Bilgrami, and Jonathan R. Cole, examine contemporary pressures on the free pursuit of knowledge.
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"Who's Afraid of Academic Freedom? is a fantastic compilation of essays about a critically important and understudied topic. It has been 100 years since the definition of academic freedom was laid out by the Academy and 75 years since it has been studied and synthesized in any significant way, thus making this collection of essays one of the most important documents in that last century regarding the Academy and its role in our society. I would consider this to be the leading compendium of ideas and thinking on academic freedom yet produced." - President Michael Crow, Arizona State University
