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Who's afraid of academic freedom? / edited by Akeel Bilgrami &Jonathan R. Cole.

LIBRA LC72.2 .W48 2015
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English
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Physical Description:
xvii, 428 pages ; 24 cm
Other Title:
Who is afraid of academic freedom
Place of Publication:
New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
Summary:
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 in which coercion is barely visible and often self-imposed.-- Publisher
Contents:
  • 1 A Brief History of Academic Freedom / Geoffrey R. Stone Stone, Geoffrey R. 1
  • 2 Truth, Balance, and Freedom / Akeel Bilgrami Bilgrami, Akeel 10
  • 3 Academic Freedom and its Opponents / David Bromwich Bromwich, David 27
  • 4 Academic Freedom Under Fire / Jonathan R. Cole Cole, Jonathan R. 40
  • 5 Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom / Joan W. Scott Scott, Joan W. 57
  • 6 Obscurantism and Academic Freedom / Jon Elster Elster, Jon 81
  • 7 What's So Special About Academic Freedom? / Michele Moody-Adams Moody-Adams, Michele 97
  • 8 Academic Freedom and the Constitution / Robert Post Post, Robert 123
  • 9 IRB Licensing / Philip Hamburger Hamburger, Philip 153
  • 10 To Follow the Argument Where It Leads: An Antiquarian View of the Aim of Academic Freedom at the University of Chicago / Richard A. Shweder Shweder, Richard A. 190
  • 11 What Is Academic Freedom For? / Robert J. Zimmer Zimmer, Robert J. 239
  • 12 Academic Freedom: Some Considerations / Matthew Goldstein Goldstein, Matthew, Frederick Schaffer Schaffer, Frederick 247
  • 13 Academic Freedom and the Boycott of Israeli Universities / Stanley Fish Fish, Stanley 275
  • 14 Exercising Rights: Academic Freedom and Boycott Politics / Judith Butler Butler, Judith 293
  • 15 Israel and Academic Freedom / John Mearsheimer Mearsheimer, John 316
  • 16 Academic Freedom and the Subservience to Power / Noam Chomsky Chomsky, Noam 334
  • 17 Academic Freedom: A Pilot Study of Faculty Views / Jonathan R. Cole Cole, Jonathan R., Stephen Cole Cole, Stephen, Christopher C. Weiss Weiss, Christopher C. 343.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
  • 9780231168809
  • 0231168802
OCLC:
886878395

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