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institution2015–

Heterodox Academy

Disciplines:
higher education
higher education/academia
satire/free speech
viewpoint diversity

Summary

Organization co-founded by Jonathan Haidt — which advocates for viewpoint diversity in universities and tracks campus free speech — arguing that ideological homogeneity in academia corrupts research.

Core Contribution

Creates the viewpoint diversity advocacy organization for academia — Heterodox Academy's argument (that ideological homogeneity in social sciences is a scientific problem, not just a fairness one) shifted the campus free speech debate from a legal/political frame to an epistemological one.

Historical Influences

John Stuart Mill Haidt's moral psychology

Intellectual Lineage

Founded 2015 by Jonathan Haidt, Chris Martin, and othersNew York

Allied Works

The Coddling of the American Mind FIRE

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

Campus free speech discourse

Intellectual Posterity

Heterodox Academy Campus viewpoint diversity movement

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