Free Speech on Campus

by Golding, Martin P.

• ISBN13: 9780847687923
• ISBN10: 0847687929
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-09
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

If the university had a constitution, would it contain a free speech provision as the U.S. Constitution does? In Free Speech on Campus, Martin P. Golding confronts this question, examining issues of principle in the debate over campus speech. Golding suggests that the University is a special social institution that has as its goal the dissemination and advancement of knowledge, and he explores some of the implications of this approach, including its implication for faculty hiring. Golding examines the claim that there are academic orthodoxies in the University that inhibit the introduction of new ideas and methods, and he critically discusses in detail arguments that have been advanced for campus speech codes. Students and teachers in every discipline will find this book engaging and illuminating; it is especially relevant for ethicists and philosophers of education.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Campus Speech Issues	1	(14)
The Constitution of Learning	15	(18)
The University as a Marketplace of Ideas	15	(3)
A Constitutional Sine Qua Non: Specialist Faculty	18	(3)
The Pursuit of Knowledge	21	(4)
Is It a Myth?	25	(8)
Campus Speech and Unacceptable Ideas	33	(14)
``Dangerous'' Ideas in the Marketplace of Ideas	33	(3)
Exclusion of Ideas from the University?	36	(1)
An Illustration: The Argument over Sociology	37	(6)
The Academician's Dilemma	43	(4)
Campus Speech Restrictions I	47	(24)
Varieties of Speech Restrictions	47	(1)
Preliminaries on Speech Codes	48	(2)
Words That Wound	50	(1)
Insult as Assault	51	(1)
Some Questions on Delgado's Approach	52	(3)
The Racial Insult as a Message of Subordination	55	(3)
The Stanford Policy	58	(13)
Campus Speech Restrictions II	71	(24)
The Victim's Perspective and Hate Speech	72	(1)
The University as Safe Harbor	73	(5)
Sanitized Racism and Anti-Semitism	78	(5)
Hostile Environment and Verbal Harassment	83	(12)
Appendix A John Doe v. University of Michigan	95	(12)
Appendix B Speech and Speech Acts	107	(8)
Index	115	(3)
About the Author	118