Recent years have seen growing concerns about threats to academic freedom in light of the changing norms of and demands on the university. This volume brings together contributions from leading philosophers about the latest issues - ranging from safe spaces to social media controversies - and traditional challenges for academic freedom.

• Part I: Introduction


• 1: Jennifer Lackey: Academic Freedom


• Part II: The Rationale for Academic Freedom


• 2: Michael P. Lynch: Academic Freedom and the Politics of Truth


• 3: Michele Moody-Adams: Is There a Safe Space for Academic Freedoma


• 4: Philip Pettit: Two Concepts of Free Speech


• Part III: The Parameters of Academic Freedom


• 5: John Protevi: Realpolitik of Academic Freedom: The Steven Salaita Case


• 6: Brian Weatherson: Freedom of Research Area


• Part IV: Silencing and Beyond: Microaggressions, Content Warnings, and Political Correctness


• 7: Jennifer Saul: Beyond Just Silencing: A Call for Complexity in Discussions of Academic Free Speech


• 8: Mary Kate McGowan: On Political Correctness, Microaggressions, and Silencing in the Academy


• Part V: Protests, Civil Disobedience, and No Platforming


• 9: David Estlund: When Protest and Speech Collide


• 10: Martha C. Nussbaum: Civil Disobedience and Free Speech in the Academy


• 11: Robert Mark Simpson and Amia Srinivasan: No Platforming

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.