The future of academic freedom
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The future of academic freedom
University of Chicago Press, c1996
Available at 40 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this text nine leading academics consider the problems confronting the American university in terms of their effect on the future of academic freedom. Whom and what does academic freedom protect? Are restrictions on free speech compatible with the academic freedom of inquiry? Must academic freedom have epistemological foundations, or should it be reconceived as an ethical practice? These and other such questions are discussed and debated throughout the volume.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Linda Ray Pratt 1: The Limits of Academic Freedom Louis Menand 2: Does Academic Freedom Have Philosophical Presuppositions? Richard Rorty 3: Justifying the Rights of Academic Freedom in the Era of "Power/Knowledge" Thomas L. Haskell 4: Academic Freedom and Law: Liberalism, Speech Codes, and Related Problems Cass R. Sunstein 5: Critical Race Theory and Freedom of Speech Henry Louis Gates, Jr 6: Academic Freedom as an Ethical Practice Joan W. Scott 7: We Need a New Interpretation of Academic Freedom Ronald Dworkin 8: Science and Its Critics Evelyn Fox Keller 9: Identity, Authority, and Freedom: The Potentate and the Traveler Edward W. Said Contributors Index
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