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The Concept of Academic Freedom by William van Alstyne; Hugo Adam Bedau; Bertram H Davis; Milton Fisk; Graham Hughes; Hardy E Jones; Alan Pasch; Edmund L Pincoffs; Alexander Ritchie; Amelie Oksenberg Rorty; Rolf Sartorius; T. M Scanlon; Richard Schmitt; John R Searle; Judith Jarvis Thomson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Concept of Academic Freedom about?
Most professors and administrators are aware that academic freedom is in danger of being brushed aside by a public that has little understanding of what is at stake. They may be only marginally aware that the defense of academic freedom is endangered by certain confusions concerning the nature of academic freedom, the criteria for its violation, and the structure of an adequate justification for claims to it. These confusions were enshrined in some of the central documents on the subject, including the 1940 Statement on Academic Freedom and Tenure , agreed upon by the American Association of University Professors and the Association of American Colleges and endorsed by many professional organizations. Careful analysis of them will not do away with debate; it will bring the debate into focus, so that attacks on academic freedom can be appraised as near or far away from the center of the target and can then be appropriately answered. Nearly all the contemporary writing on academic freedom consists of attack or defense. The Concept of Academic Freedom is the first book to deal exclusively with fundamental conceptual issues underlying the battle. In the discussion of these issues, c
Who reads The Concept of Academic Freedom?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- William van Alstyne; Hugo Adam Bedau; Bertram H Davis; Milton Fisk; Graham Hughes; Hardy E Jones; Alan Pasch; Edmund L Pincoffs; Alexander Ritchie; Amelie Oksenberg Rorty; Rolf Sartorius; T. M Scanlon; Richard Schmitt; John R Searle; Judith Jarvis Thomson
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780292766372
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Education