Quotes by Stanley Fish

Stanley Fish

A pro-choice advocate sees abortion as a decision to be made in accordance with the best scientific opinion as to when the beginning of life, as we know it, occurs.

Abortion

Choices

Decision

Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply.

Agendas

Ideas

Political

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

Belief

Different

Two

Despite the apparent absoluteness of the First Amendment, there are any number of ways of getting around it, ways that are known to any student of law. In general, the strategy is to manipulate the distinction between speech and action which is at bottom a distinction between inconsequential and consequential behavior.

Law

Numbers

Speech

Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of speech is an academic value. Each of these is directly related to the goal of academic inquiry: getting a matter of fact right.

Academic

Freedom Of Speech

Goal

I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.

Abortion

Rights

Support

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

Choices

Pro Life

Should Have

In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.

Doe

Higher Education

Speak

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone’s moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

Assuming

Moral

Philosophical

It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is – although we all think that we are.

Helping

Matter

Thinking

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Abortion

Academic

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Asks

Assessment

Assuming

Athletic

Belief

Choices

Connections

Decision

Deeds

Democracy

Development

Different

Doe

Education

Feelings

Firsts

Floats

Forever

Freedom Of Speech

Giving

Goal

Helping

Higher Education

Ideas

Junk

Language

Law

Looking Forward

Looks

Matter

Mean

Moral

Musical

Numbers

Order

People

Perception

Philosophical

Political

Practice

Pro Life

Reading

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Rights

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Should Have

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Quotes by Stanley Fish

Stanley Fish

A pro-choice advocate sees abortion as a decision to be made in accordance with the best scientific opinion as to when the beginning of life, as we know it, occurs.

Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of speech is an academic value. Each of these is directly related to the goal of academic inquiry: getting a matter of fact right.

I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone’s moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is – although we all think that we are.

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