Title:
Who's afraid of academic freedom? / edited by Akeel Bilgrami &Jonathan R. Cole.
Author:
Bilgrami, Akeel, 1950- editor.
Cole, Jonathan R., editor.
Publication Information:
New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
Call Number:
LC72.2 .W48 2015
Abstract:
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
ISBN:
9780231168809
Physical Description:
xvii, 428 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
A brief history of academic freedom / Truth, balance, and freedom / Academic freedom and its opponents / Academic freedom under fire / Knowledge, power, and academic freedom / Obscurantism and academic freedom / What's so special about academic freedom? / Academic freedom and the Constitution / IRB licensing / To follow the argument where it leads : an antiquarian view of the aim of academic freedom at the University of Chicago / What is academic freedom for? / Academic freedom : some considerations / Academic freedom and the boycott of the Israeli universities / Exercising rights : academic freedom and boycott politics / Israel and academic freedom / Academic freedom and the subservience to power / Academic freedom : a pilot study of faculty views
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