Akeel (Hrsg.) Bilgrami

Who's Afraid of Academic Freedom?

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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, where coercion is barely visible a… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Cole, Jonathan R. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-231-16880-9
EAN: 9780231168809
Produktnummer: 16446026
Verlag: Columbia University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 448 S.
Masse: H23.7 cm x B15.8 cm x D3.3 cm 746 g
Gewicht: 746
Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor

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 Indispensible National Role, Why It Must Be Protected.