Who's afraid of academic freedom? / edited by Akeel Bilgrami & Jonathan R. Cole.
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 tra...
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[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- A brief history of academic freedom / Geoffrey R. Stone
- Truth, balance, and freedom / Akeel Bilgrami
- Academic freedom and its opponents / David Bromwich
- Academic freedom under fire / Jonathan R. Cole
- Knowledge, power, and academic freedom / Joan W. Scott
- Obscurantism and academic freedom / Jon Elster
- What's so special about academic freedom? / Michele Moody-Adams
- Academic freedom and the Constitution / Robert Post
- IRB licensing / Philip Hamburger
- To follow the argument where it leads : an antiquarian view of the aim of academic freedom at the University of Chicago / Richard A. Shweder
- What is academic freedom for? / Robert J. Zimmer
- Academic freedom : some considerations / Matthew Goldstein and Frederick Schaffer
- Academic freedom and the boycott of the Israeli universities / Stanley Fish
- Exercising rights : academic freedom and boycott politics / Judith Butler
- Israel and academic freedom / John Mearsheimer
- Academic freedom and the subservience to power / Noam Chomsky
- Academic freedom : a pilot study of faculty views / Jonathan R. Cole, Stephen Cole, and Christopher C. Weiss.