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No Platforming and Academic FreedomErgo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 10 (n/a). 2023.Much of the popular debate that surrounds no platforming centres on its putatively corrosive impact on free speech. This is apt to give a misleading picture of the particular puzzle that no platforming presents. Focusing on the university specifically, I contend that no platforming is distinctively objectionable not because it necessarily runs counter to general free speech values but when and because it is inconsistent with principles of academic freedom. This is because it conflicts with the s…Read more
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"I'm, Like, a Very Smart Person" On Self-Licensing and Perils of ReflectionOxford Studies in Epistemology. forthcoming.Epistemic trespassing, science denial, refusal to guard against bias, mishandling higher-order evidence, and the development of vice are troubling intellectual behaviors. In this paper, I advance work done by psychologists on moral self-licensing to show how all of these behaviors can be explained in terms of a parallel phenomenon of epistemic self-licensing. The paper situates this discussion at the intersection of three major epistemological projects: epistemic explanation and intervention (th…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Freedom of Speech |
Social Epistemology |
Applied Ethics |