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anonymity is most daring" title="A man walks with a cardboard box on his head"/></div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-file-image-credit"> <div class="field-content">Source: Getty </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-field-body"> <div class="pane-content"> <div class="field field-name-field-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Among the topics in the inaugural issue of the <em>Journal of Controversial Ideas</em>: can the use of force be justified against humans who hurt animals? Could a violent criminal be sentenced to be put into a coma? Can white people ever legitimately use blackface?</p> <p>But for all these provocative subjects, the biggest controversy appears to be over a simple question of academic practice colliding with the culture wars pervading higher education: whether scholars should be publicly accountable for what they write or allowed to remain anonymous to protect them from recrimination.</p> <p>“People say that authors need to be accountable for their ideas. What they mean is that people should expose themselves to the kind of vitriol that you find all over the internet and social media. I don’t think people should be subjected to that,” said Jeff McMahan, White’s professor of moral philosophy at the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211106090507/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/university-oxford" data-mz="" data-module="article-uni-link">University of Oxford</a> and one of the journal’s three co-editors.</p> <p>The journal’s purpose is to provide a place for ideas that are, its editors say, finding it increasingly difficult to get an airing at a time when pressure from both left and right is forcing articles to be retracted, lectures to be cancelled and faculty to contend with demands for their dismissal. And the editors are happy to allow contributors to use pseudonyms if they wish.</p><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><body><div class="the-dfp__in-article-ATD_THE_Video_M the-dfp__in-article--mobile the-dfp__in-article-preload--mobile js-the-dfp__in-article-preload--mobile js-the-dfp__in-article"><div id="ATD_THE_Video_M" data-ad-position="ATD_THE_Video_M"></div></div></body></html> <p>It is the anonymity that has provoked the most debate.</p> <p>“It says something about the current state of academia that people care more about who writes something than the content,” said another of the journal’s editors, Francesca Minerva, a research fellow at the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211106090507/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/university-milan" data-mz="" data-module="article-uni-link">University of Milan</a>.</p><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><body><div class="the-dfp__in-article-ATD_THE_Video_D the-dfp__in-article--desktop the-dfp__in-article-preload--desktop js-the-dfp__in-article-preload--desktop js-the-dfp__in-article"><div id="ATD_THE_Video_D" data-ad-position="ATD_THE_Video_D"></div></div></body></html> <p>But Patrick Stokes, associate professor of philosophy at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211106090507/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/deakin-university" data-mz="" data-module="article-uni-link">Deakin University</a> and a critic of allowing pseudonyms, said academics “can’t pretend we’re not responsible for what we do and for how it impacts others”.</p> <p>There are certainly risks for writers with particularly unpopular views, especially if they are academics at the start of their careers, Dr Stokes said.</p> <p>Letting academics publish anonymously, however, “furthers this idea that research somehow takes place in its own moral universe, instead of being a thing actual flesh-and-blood people do that has consequences for other actual people. You don’t get to stop being an accountable moral agent just because you’re a researcher.”</p> <p>Yet scholars have long used pseudonyms, Dr Minerva responded. “It’s not something we made up.” And requiring that authors use their real names “just makes it easier to cancel that person”.</p> <p>Dr Minerva and the third co-editor, Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp professor of bioethics at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211106090507/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/princeton-university" data-mz="" data-module="article-uni-link">Princeton University</a>, have experience of this: she for a paper that suggested that killing a newborn could be ethically permissible in circumstances similar to those in which abortion was allowed, and he for his writing about voluntary euthanasia, animal ethics and other topics.</p> <p>Both report having received death threats. A scheduled talk by Professor Singer in New Zealand last year was cancelled over his previous suggestion that parents should be able to end the lives of babies with disabilities that would, he said, diminish their quality of life.</p><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><body><div class="the-dfp__in-article-ATD_THE_FC_M the-dfp__in-article--mobile the-dfp__in-article-preload--mobile js-the-dfp__in-article-preload--mobile js-the-dfp__in-article"><div id="ATD_THE_FC_M" data-ad-position="ATD_THE_FC_M"></div></div></body></html> <p>At least one of the authors in the journal’s first issue, Bouke De Vries, a postdoctoral fellow in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211106090507/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/umea-university" data-mz="" data-module="article-uni-link">Umeå University</a>’s department of historical, philosophical and religious studies, said his article arguing that blackface could be justified in some cases had been previously rejected by “a well-known journal in moral and political philosophy”. He said the editor told him the reason was the “very real risk of causing unnecessary offence”.</p> <p>“I suspect that’s not an isolated case,” Dr Minerva said. “I suspect that happens a lot.”</p><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><body><div id="div-gpt-in-article-ad-13-desktop" data-ad-position="the_dfp_in_article_ad" data-ad-size="[300,250]" data-ad-priority="low" data-ad-unit="21841059662/THE_COM/academic/article" data-ad-page="news" class="the-dfp the-dfp__in-article js-the-dfp__in-article the-dfp__in-article-preload--desktop js-the-dfp__in-article-preload--desktop"></div></body></html> <p>The <em>Journal of Controversial Ideas</em> is peer-reviewed and open access. Of the 91 original submissions, 68 were rejected, 10 were accepted and the rest were still being considered, its editors said.</p> <p>The next issue is likely to be published in four or five months, according to Professor McMahan.</p> <p>“The ideas and arguments stand on their own. It doesn’t matter who produced them,” he said. “But that’s contrary to the way a lot of people think now. They think ideas are to be evaluated by the identity of their sources. The obsession with identity, meaning membership in certain groups, is totally irrelevant.”</p> <p>Academics’ race, ethnic and national origin, political views and even long-ago tweets become targets for people who disagree with the scholars’ work, he and Dr Minerva said.</p> <p>“I don’t understand why that’s relevant,” Dr Minerva said. “How can somebody be accountable if holding them accountable means wanting them to get fired? 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discipline) there is a saying "You are not your code". We also say "Critique code instead of people -- be kind to the coder, not to the code". Substitute "ideas" for "code" - disagreeing with an idea or a point of view is NEVER an excuse for abusing the person who expressed it. Those who ask for 'accountability' through being able to identify authors of articles are not interested in debate. They are interested in making personal attacks on people with whom they disagree. Shouting them down rather than proving their ideas to be incorrect. </div></div></div> </div> </div> <a id="comment-64345"></a> <div class="comment clearfix"> <div class="submitted"> #2 Submitted by RJFoote on July 16, 2021 - 6:16pm </div> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Many universities are state funded and are therefore expected to contribute to the enhancement of the welfare of their societies. As such their work should always be made public given the required accountability to governments and the public. Such an issue among others however are likely to continue to arise because surprisingly today's academics and administrators are not revisiting their raisin d'etre, the purpose of the university and the purpose of education. 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