Philosophical arguments regarding academic freedom can sometimes appear removed from the real conflicts playing out in contemporary universities. This paper focusses on a set of issues at the front line of these conflicts, namely, questions regarding sex, gender and gender identity. We document the ways in which the work of academics has been affected by political activism around these questions and, drawing on our respective disciplinary expertise as a sociologist and a philosopher, elucidate the costs of curtailing discussion on fundamental demographic and conceptual categories. We discuss some philosophical work that addresses the conceptual distinction between academic freedom and free speech and explore how these notions are intertwined in significant ways in universities. Our discussion elucidates and emphasises the educational costs of curtailing academic freedom.

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性别战争，学术自由与教育

关于学术自由的哲学观点有时可能会从当代大学中发生的实际冲突中消失。本文着眼于这些冲突的最前沿的一系列问题，即有关性别，性别和性别认同的问题。我们记录了围绕这些问题的政治行动主义如何影响学者的工作，并利用我们作为社会学家和哲学家的各自学科专长，阐明了缩减基本人口统计学和概念范畴讨论的成本。我们讨论一些解决学术自由和言论自由之间概念区别的哲学著作，并探讨这些概念如何在大学中以显着方式相互交织。