Sentences with phrase «neutral about certain issues»

Not exact matches

With respect to value issues, no institution of higher education can be either officially neutral or unofficially indifferent without falling into self - contradiction, since there can be no community gathered for humane scholarship apart from the institutionalization of certain values; for example, the value attached to truth - seeking, to ideas, to disinterestedness, to empirical, evidential and rational procedures; or convictions about the nonidiosyncratic and nonunivocal character of truth.

(caveat — I can not say this for certain about Steve McIntyre, who is far more knowledgeable than me about these issues, although some posts I've read suggest to me he is not a neutral commentator — I'm speaking of interlocutors here who are demonstrably not knowledgeable about the issues they are discussing)