Tag: academic freedom
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Opposing Orthodoxy about Heterodoxy
“Whenever I see people engaged in philosophical debate or argument, I want to see people trying to win. I like my philosophy adversarial, aggressive, combative,…
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Administrators, Trustees, Students, and the Future of the Liberal Arts
“The tragedy of the contemporary academy is that even when traditional liberal learning clearly wins with students and donors, it loses with those in…
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Teaching Under Hostile Conditions
“The many sources of harm and hostility we collectively face—as philosophers, as educators, and as humans—seem too numerous to name, let alone to seriously…
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Philosopher Resigns from Naval War College in Protest of Trump’s & Hegseth’s Policies
Pauline M. Shanks Kaurin, a philosopher specializing in military ethics, just war theory, and applied ethics, has resigned from her position as the Admiral…
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Harvard Sues Trump Administration
Today, Harvard University filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the billions of dollars in funding it has cut and threatened to cut…
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Israeli Gov’t Cancels Philosopher Who’s a Grandson of a Holocaust Survivor
Omri Boehm, associate professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research, was scheduled to speak at the Buchenwald concentration camp liberation anniversary…
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Students Protest, a Philosopher is Knifed, and Faculty are Unpaid in Serbia
Natalija Jovanović, dean of the Philosophy Faculty at the University of Niš in Serbia, was attending a student protest when a woman who opposed…