Academic Freedom

Jennifer Lackey, Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University

Jennifer Lackey is the Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Northwestern University. She is the author of Learning from Words: Testimony as a Source of Knowledge (OUP 2010), the editor of Essays in Collective Epistemology (OUP 2014), and a co-editor of The Epistemology of Disagreement: New Essays (OUP 2013) and The Epistemology of Testimony (OUP 2006). Jennifer is the winner of the Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution (2015) and the Young Epistemologist Prize (2005). Her work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities.

Part I: Introduction
1. Academic Freedom, Jennifer Lackey
Part II: The Rationale for Academic Freedom
2. Academic Freedom and the Politics of Truth, Michael P. Lynch
3. Is There a Safe Space for Academic Freedom? Michele Moody-Adams, Michele Moody-Adams
4. Two Concepts of Free Speech, Philip Pettit
Part III: The Parameters of Academic Freedom
5. Realpolitik of Academic Freedom: The Steven Salaita Case, John Protevi
6. Freedom of Research Area, Brian Weatherson
Part IV: Silencing and Beyond: Microaggressions, Content Warnings, and Political Correctness
7. Beyond Just Silencing: A Call for Complexity in Discussions of Academic Free Speech, Jennifer Saul
8. On Political Correctness, Microaggressions, and Silencing in the Academy, Mary Kate McGowan
Part V: Protests, Civil Disobedience, and No Platforming
9. When Protest and Speech Collide, David Estlund
10. Civil Disobedience and Free Speech in the Academy, Martha C. Nussbaum
11. No Platforming, Robert Mark Simpson and Amia Srinivasan