Bilgrami / Cole Who's Afraid of Academic Freedom?

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-53879-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bilgrami, Akeel

Cole, Jonathan

Cole, Jonathan R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Leseproben

Read the introduction by Akeel Bilgrami and Jonathan Cole:

Über Autor(innen)

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.