Who's Afraid of Academic Freedom? / edited by Akeel Bilgrami and Jonathan Cole.
Editor: New York : Columbia University Press, 2015Fecha de copyright: ©2015Descripción: 1 online resource (449 pages)Tipo de contenido:- text
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- LC72.2 .W48 2015
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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, in which coercion is barely visible and often self-imposed.
As the editors say in their introduction: "No freedom can be taken for granted, even in the most well-functioning of formal democracies. Exposing the tendencies that undermine freedom of inquiry and their hidden sources and widespread implications is in itself an exercise in and for democracy."
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Who Is Afraid of Academic Freedom?, by Akeel Bilgrami and Jonathan R. Cole -- 1. A Brief History of Academic Freedom, by Geoffrey R. Stone -- 2. Truth, Balance, and Freedom, by Akeel Bilgrami -- 3. Academic Freedom and Its Opponents, by David Bromwich -- 4. Academic Freedom Under Fire, by Jonathan R. Cole -- 5. Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom, by Joan W. Scott -- 6. Obscurantism and Academic Freedom, by Jon Elster -- 7. What's So Special About Academic Freedom?, by Michele Moody-Adams -- 8. Academic Freedom and the Constitution, by Robert Post -- 9. IRB Licensing, by Philip Hamburger -- 10. To Follow the Argument Where It Leads: An Antiquarian View of the Aim of Academic Freedom at the University of Chicago, by Richard A. Shweder -- 11. What Is Academic Freedom For?, by Robert J. Zimmer -- 12. Academic Freedom: Some Considerations, by Matthew Goldstein and Frederick Schaffer -- 13. Academic Freedom and the Boycott of Israeli Universities, by Stanley Fish -- 14. Exercising Rights: Academic Freedom and Boycott Politics, by Judith Butler -- 15. Israel and Islamic Freedom, by John Mearsheimer -- 16. Academic Freedom and the Subservience to Power, by Noam Chomsky -- 17. Academic Freedom: A Pilot Study of Faculty Views, by Jonathan R. Cole, Stephen Cole, and Christian C. Weiss -- List of Contributors -- Index.
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. As the editors say in their introduction: "No freedom can be taken for granted, even in the most well-functioning of formal democracies. Exposing the tendencies that undermine freedom of inquiry and their hidden sources and widespread implications is in itself an exercise in and for democracy."
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Academic freedom, as distilled from the definition by the American Association of University Professors in 1915 and expanded in 1940, is a bedrock of a free university. However, providing a comprehensive definition hardly spells the end of challenges and controversies. Does academic freedom extend to students? Does it pertain to professorial views beyond the field of expertise and/or the classroom? Assaults and dilemmas come from within as well as from without. These 17 essays, complemented by a survey of Columbia faculty presented with some thorny questions, touch on some in-house issues, including discrimination against new disciplines and their devotees, the heavy hand of institutional review boards looking at live-subject research, and the displeasure of those from above who hire and promote. From outside academia, the authors find political outrage and the demand for "self-discipline," demonstrated in recent years in the debate centering on Israel (with case studies telling of canceled speakers and even of terminated faculty). Given the number of essays, there is some repetition, variation in line of approach, and different views of the enemy. Nevertheless, all authors unite for a sober reminder that while academic freedom may be a "given," its proponents can never rest on their laurels. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers and faculty; general readers. --Joel T. Rosenthal, emeritus, SUNY at Stony BrookNotas de autor provistas por Syndetics
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 Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be Protected .