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Dienstag, 20. November 2018

Journal für kontroverse Ideen mit anonymen Autoren


„Academics who are frightened to explore controversial topics, in case it provokes a backlash, will soon have a safer route to publish such work. An international group of university researchers is planning a new journal which will allow articles on sensitive debates to be written under pseudonyms. They feel free intellectual discussion on tough issues is being hampered by a culture of fear and self-censorship. The Journal of Controversial Ideas will be launched early next year. … 
Jeff McMahan, professor of moral philosophy atUniversity of Oxford,… stressed that the new cross-disciplinary publication will be fully peer-reviewed in line with normal academic standards. … "I think all of us will be very happy if, and when, the need for such a journal disappears, and the sooner the better. "But right now in current conditions something like this is needed."

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