Intellectual authority and institutional authority
- 1 June 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Inquiry
- Vol. 35 (2) , 145-181
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00201749208602286
Abstract
This essay offers a defense of ‘intellectual authority’, primarily by pointing out the untoward implications of its conceptual opposite, ‘institutional authority’, in a wide variety of contexts. An opening discussion explores conditions for the possibility of intellectual authority in legal, humanistic, and aesthetic disciplines. Social science literature documenting and describing the biasing influence of institutional authority is then canvassed and analyzed in some detail. A final section assays the theoretical significance of various efforts to eliminate non‐intellectual bias and influence, with special reference to the example of “blind reviewing’ of scholarly manuscripts.Keywords
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