{"id":6666,"date":"2016-02-13T16:07:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T16:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/02\/13\/the-a-p-a-statement-on-bullying-and-harassment\/"},"modified":"2016-02-13T16:07:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T16:07:27","slug":"the-a-p-a-statement-on-bullying-and-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/02\/13\/the-a-p-a-statement-on-bullying-and-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"The A. P. A. Statement on Bullying and Harrassment"},"content":{"rendered":"

The American Philosophical Association has issued a statement<\/a> that condemns  bullying and harrassment.  Who could disagree?  But the following paragraph needs a little more work:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Abusive speech directed at philosophers is not limited to responses by the public to published op-eds. A look at some of the anonymous philosophy blogs also reveals a host of examples of abusive speech by philosophers directed against other philosophers. Disagreement is fine and is not the issue. But bullying and ad hominem harassment of philosophers by other philosophers undermines civil disagreement and discourse and has no place in our community. [. . .]<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Two points.  Why the restriction to anonymous philosophy blogs?  There is a decidedly non-anonymous gossip site run by a philosophy adjunct  that has featured numerous unprovoked attacks on fellow philosophers.  Here<\/a> is a prime example.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Now let's say you have been attacked out of the blue by this fellow, and you respond in kind with mockery and contumely, to give him a taste of his own medicine.  Should it not be pointed out that the same types of actions can be justified as defense that cannot be justified as attack?<\/span><\/p>\n

Civility is a good old conservative virtue.  But it has limits.  Civility is for the civil, not for those whose hypocritical calls for civility serve to mask their aggression.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The American Philosophical Association has issued a statement that condemns  bullying and harrassment.  Who could disagree?  But the following paragraph needs a little more work: Abusive speech directed at philosophers is not limited to responses by the public to published op-eds. A look at some of the anonymous philosophy blogs also reveals a host of … Continue reading “The A. P. A. Statement on Bullying and Harrassment”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,148,158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-brian-leiter","category-invective"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}