Who's Afraid of Academic Freedom? / / ed. by Jonathan Cole, Akeel Bilgrami.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Bilgrami, Akeel,; Bromwich, David,; Butler, Judith,; Chomsky, Noam,; Cole, Jonathan R.,; Cole, Stephen,; Elster, Jon,; Fish, Stanley,; Goldstein, Matthew,; Hamburger, Philip,; Mearsheimer, John,; Moody-Adams, Michele,; Post, Robert,; Schaffer, Frederick,; Scott, Joan W.,; Shweder, Richard A.,; Stone, Geoffrey R.,; Weiss, Christopher C.,; Zimmer, Robert J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Bilgrami, Akeel,; Cole, Jonathan,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (448 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 . A Brief History of Academic Freedom
• 2. Truth, Balance, and Freedom
• 3 . Academic Freedom and its Opponents
• 4. Academic Freedom Under Fire
• 5. Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom
• 6. Obscurantism and Academic Freedom
• 7. What 'S so Special About Academic Freedom?
• 8. Academic Freedom and the Constitution
• 9. IRB Licensing
• 10. To Follow The Argument Where It Leads : An Antiquarian View Of The Aim Of Academic Freedom At The University Of Chicago
• 11. What is Academic Freedom For?
• 12. Academic Freedom: Some Considerations
• 1 3 . Academic Freedom and the Boycott of Israeli Universities
• 14. Exercising Rights : Academic Freedom and Boycott Politics
• 15. Israel and Academic Freedom
• 16. Academic Freedom and the Subservience to Power
• 17. Academic Freedom: A Pilot Study of Faculty Views
• Contributors
• Index