From the Vault: Universities, Academia and the academic profession
While Justice Everywhere takes a short break over the summer, we recall some of the highlights from our 2023-24 season.
Here are a few highlights from this year’s posts relating to academia, the modern university, and the academic profession:
- Alexandru Volacu’s discussion of the potentially pernicious impact that the current approach to Open Access has on academia is one of the most-read articles published this season. Georgiana Turculet’s fascinating (partial) response is also worth revisiting.
- For our ongoing “Beyond the Ivory Tower” series, Sanat Sogani spoke to Prof. Martin O’Neill about his work, public philosophy, and the state of modern higher education.
- In an insightful guest post, Louis Larue (Aalborg University) argued for a new way to allocate research grants.
- At the start of the year, Michael Bennett argued that philosophers critiquing consequentialism may be mislead by their misguided desire for theoretical complexity. Sara van Goozen responded, but Michael had the last word.
- Finally, in our ongoing Teaching Philosophy series, Sara argued for the importance of trust in (higher) education settings.
Stay tuned for even more on this topic in our 2024-25 season!
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Justice Everywhere will return in full swing in September with fresh weekly posts by our cooperative of regular authors (published on Mondays), in addition to our Journal of Applied Philosophy series and other special series (published on Thursdays). If you would like to contribute a guest post on a topical justice-based issue (broadly construed), please feel free to get in touch with us at justice.everywhere.blog@gmail.com.
