VIRTUAL EVENT: The half-baked idea of a university

For more information and to register for the event, please contact Alison Brady.

Most liberals think that it’s important for university campuses to be places of free speech. But Dr Robert Simpson suggests that there are reasons to think that a free speech culture on campus is less than ideally conducive to the realisation of the university’s defining aims, namely, creating and disseminating knowledge via teaching and research. 

In this talk, Robert will consider what kind of arguments one might make as to how a free speech culture on campus in fact aids in the realisation of the university’s defining epistemic aims.

He suggests that the arguments to this effect are untested hypotheses at best.

PESGB seminar series

The Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB) is a learned society that promotes the study, teaching and application of philosophy of education. Its London Branch hosts seminars every Wednesday in conjunction with Philosophy at the Institute of Education. 

These seminars are led by national and international scholars in the field, covering a wide range of issues of educational and philosophical concern. All are welcome to attend.

Links

• Tweet with #philofed
• Philosophy at the Institute of Education
• Department of Education, Practice and Society

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