Defending Academic Freedom and Free Inquiry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4188804 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan R Cole (0000-0002-4902-616X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 811-844 |
| Publication date | 2009-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-783X • E-ISSN: 1944-768X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/sor.2009.0009 |
| OpenAlex | W1813534900 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This paper focuses our attention on a few principles that guide great universities. I want to suggest that the United States has not distinguished itself particularly well in preventing episodes of repression and attempts to silence dissent at universities, nor has it produced an extraordinary number of courageous leaders over the past seventy-five years who have come forward to defend the principles of academic freedom. While the US has never reached the level of repression that Germany felt in the 1930s, nor that which was felt by Soviet geneticists at roughly the same time during the Lysenko years, we have nonetheless done significant damage to our system of higher learning because we have failed to understand fully the role that academic freedom and free inquiry play in creating the knowledge that societies depend on for their social and economic, as well as humanistic, progress
Academic freedom · Aesthetics · Dissent · Higher education · Humanism · Political science · Politics · Psychological repression · Silence · Sociology · Academic Freedom and Politics · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |