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On Divestiture, Steven M. Cahn
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The mission of a college or university is to develop and transmit knowledge. Doing so effectively calls for maintaining an atmosphere of free inquiry in which no one dictates that certain subjects are taboo, that certain methods of inquiry are . . .

The mission of a college or university is to develop and transmit knowledge. Doing so effectively calls for maintaining an atmosphere of free inquiry in which no one dictates that certain subjects are taboo, that certain methods of inquiry are unacceptable, or that certain conclusions are illegitimate. Whether an argument for the existence of God […]

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