Beschreibung:
This book discusses the role of the university in society and that of university teachers in relation to their subjects, students, and wider political commitments.
Preface Alan Montefiore; Part I. Alan Montefiore: 1. Preliminaries; 2. Neutrality, indifference and detachment; 3. Objectivity, impartiality and open-mindedness; 4. Disinterestedness, independence and lack of bias; 5. The concept of the political; 6. The concept of the academic; Part II: 1. Impartiality and bias in economics Andrew Graham; 2. Neutrality and academic values Leszek Kolakowski; 3. 'Le neutre' and philosophical discourse Louis Marin; 4. Neutrality in the university Charles Taylor; 5. Politics in the academe C. L. Ten; 6. The academic and the political W. L. Weinstein; Part III. Alan Montefiore: 1. Kolakowski; 2. Taylor; 3. Marin; 4. The concept of the political again; 5. Weinstein, Graham and Ten; Appendix: the concept of evaluation.