Ethics of Academic Inquiry Workshop Series: "Anxious Epistemology" with Emily Tilton (USC)

The Ethical Limits of Academic Inquiry (ELAI) Working Group provides a space for the systematic, scholarly investigation of this meta-debate. While much recent scholarship has concerned itself with related topics, such as “cancel culture,” “free speech on campus,” and “no-platforming,” the difficult question of which views scholars should debate amongst themselves has received comparatively little attention in professional venues.

In the Spring 2025 semester, the Ethical Limits of Academic Inquiry Working Group (ELAI) is hosting a series of virtual workshops featuring work-in-progress on the ethics of academic inquiry. All sessions are pre-read, and each 90-minute meeting will be spent on in-depth discussion and feedback. Besides providing the featured authors with valuable feedback, the goal of the workshop series is to build connections between scholars with interests in the ethics of academic inquiry. 

If you would like to get involved in shaping cutting edge work on the ethics of academic inquiry or simply to meet other academics who are interested in the topic, we would love for you to attend. Please register for the workshops using the links below (each workshop in the series has its own registration link). Papers will be circulated roughly two weeks prior to each workshop.

The Spring 2025 Ethics of Academic Inquiry Workshop Series is organized by Lucia Schwarz, Co-Director of the PPE Society’s ELAI Working Group and Visiting Faculty Fellow in the Center for Ethics. It serves to build connections among scholars with interests in the ethics of academic inquiry and to provide scholars with valuable feedback on their work in progress. If you have a paper draft on the ethics of academic inquiry (any stage of development is fine) and would like feedback from other scholars interested in this topic, email elai.workinggroup@gmail.com.