Truth, Balance, and Freedom

• Autores: Akeel Bilgrami
• Localización: Social research: An international quarterly of the social sciences, ISSN 0037-783X, Nº. 2, 2009 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Free Inquiry at Risk: Universities in Dangerous Times, Part I), págs. 417-436
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper looks at standard arguments for freedom in the academy that go back to John Stuart Mill and Oliver Wendell Holmes and finds them to be poor arguments for their conclusion. It then elaborates what are the most subtle and the most entrenched forms of threat to freedom in the academy, and concludes with an argument for imbalance rather than balance in the extra-mural sphere.