Reading John Stuart Mill in Turkey in 2017

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-232
Author(s):  
Ayşe Kadıoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Free Speech ◽  
John Stuart Mill ◽  
Peaceful Resolution ◽  
Academic Debate ◽  
Coup Attempt

Academic freedom has eroded and continues to erode in an unprecedented magnitude in Turkey especially since the failed coup attempt of July 15, 2016. During this time, thousands of academics were purged from their positions including Academics for Peace who signed a petition calling for an end to the atrocities against Kurdish citizens and a peaceful resolution of the conflict in the southeastern provinces of Turkey. Such authoritarian backsliding was accompanied by a discourse that blurred the distinction between opinion and truth. Academics were increasingly ostracized and viewed as non-members of what came to be referred as New Turkey. A discourse of rejection replaced criticism and an unprecedented dissonance emerged between the current academic debate on free speech as well as academic freedom and the tragic reality faced by academics in Turkey making it impossible for them to continue their vocational existence.

Academic Freedom

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Lackey
Keyword(s):  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Free Speech ◽  
Civil Disobedience ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
The Individual

This chapter provides an introduction to the volume and to each of the individual chapters, and it is divided into three sections. In the first section, the rationale for academic freedom is discussed, focusing particularly on truth-based and justice-based arguments, as well as on the connection between academic freedom and free speech. The parameters of academic freedom are taken up in the second section, where three issues are addressed: the scope of outside threats to academic freedom, whether academic freedom protects extramural speech, and the extent to which academic freedom permits a change to research areas. In the last section, academic freedom is discussed in connection with specific issues, including silencing, microaggressions, content warnings, campus protests, civil disobedience, and no platforming.

John Stuart Mill on free speech

2018 ◽  
pp. 71-87
Author(s):  
Daniel Halliday ◽  
Helen McCabe
Keyword(s):  
Free Speech ◽  
John Stuart Mill

scholarly journals The Relation between Academic Freedom and Free Speech

Ethics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 130 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Mark Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Free Speech

Victimhood, Academic Freedom, and Free Speech

2018 ◽  
pp. 213-248
Author(s):  
Bradley Campbell ◽  
Jason Manning
Keyword(s):  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Free Speech

Two Concepts of Free Speech

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Pettit
Keyword(s):  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Free Speech ◽  
The Gift ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Right

Free speech is sometimes conceptualized as unhindered speech, sometimes as protected speech. On the first view, the protection of the law is just one of many possible means for removing hindrances to speech; on the second it is essential. Free speech is better conceptualized in the second way, albeit the first has become more popular in jurisprudence and politics. In that second conception, you cannot enjoy free speech by the gift or tolerance or indifference of others: to enjoy it is to have the robustly entrenched rights of a free speaker. That ideal fits better with traditional assumptions and has more compelling credentials. Let the right to speak be legally protected and speakers gain a publicly marked status as persons with opinions of their own; silence becomes enfranchised, so that someone’s saying nothing can say a lot; and people cannot easily duck responsibility for what they choose to say or not to say. To illustrate them with a case study, these are benefits that argue, in the context of a suitable culture, for the importance of academic freedom.

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