With Friends Like These: On the Role of Presupposition in Pseudo-Defenses of Free Speech on Campus
1 Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences, East Carolina University, USA
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(this article belongs to the Special Issue Special Issue Censorship in the Sciences)
Received: 20 Feb 2025 / Accepted: 18 Sep 2025 / Published: 27 Oct 2025
Abstract
Some celebrated defenses of free speech, academic freedom, and open inquiry rest on anti-free speech presuppositions. This paper offers an analysis of these pseudo-defenses of campus free speech and explains how they each threaten to undermine their own goals in the long run. The paper closes with a recommendation for a relatively easy fix.
Keywords: freedom of speech; academic freedom; presupposition; Mill; Grice
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Veber, M. With Friends Like These: On the Role of Presupposition in Pseudo-Defenses of Free Speech on Campus. Controversial_Ideas 2025, 5, 4.
Veber M. With Friends Like These: On the Role of Presupposition in Pseudo-Defenses of Free Speech on Campus. Journal of Controversial Ideas. 2025; 5(2):4.
Veber, Michael. 2025. "With Friends Like These: On the Role of Presupposition in Pseudo-Defenses of Free Speech on Campus." Controversial_Ideas 5, no. 2: 4.
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