コリン・マッギン(Colin McGinn, 1950年3月10日-)
Resignation[edit] --------------- Further information: University of Miami § Title IX lawsuit
In January 2013 McGinn resigned his position at the University of Miami, effective at the end of the calendar year, after a female graduate student complained that he had been sexually harassing her, including by text and email. He denied any wrongdoing.[5] Represented by Ann Olivarius, the student, Monica Morrison, complained in April 2014 to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that the university had mishandled the case.[6] She filed a lawsuit in October 2015 against the university, McGinn and Edward Erwin, another philosopher at Miami. The complaint accused McGinn of sexual harassment, civil assault and defamation, and Erwin of defamation. It alleged that the university had violated Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (which requires that women have equal access to education) by failing to investigate the student's complaint adequately, and by failing to protect her from retaliation, including from McGinn on his blog before his resignation came into effect.[7][8] McGinn's lawyer, Andrew Berman, said that McGinn "denies the claims and we will vigorously defend against them in the appropriate forum."[7]
The incident triggered a debate about the extent to which sexism remains prevalent in academia, particularly in academic philosophy, and the effect on students and teachers of harassment and harassment-related complaints.[9] In 2014 McGinn was offered a visiting professorship by the philosophy department at East Carolina University, but the offer was reversed by university administrators. McGinn blamed the sexual-harassment allegations for East Carolina's decision.[10]
--------------- When McGinn began blogging about the situation, 93 philosophy academics, including Elizabeth S. Anderson, Nancy Bauer, Anat Biletzki, Susan Brison and Catherine Elgin, signed an open letter, in July 2013, asking that the university "discharge its duty to protect its students from acts that amount to de facto retaliation from professors about whom they have complained."[205][207] Several academics wrote in support of McGinn, including Steven Pinker, Esa Saarinen, Oliver Sacks and Stephen Schiffer.[205] ........................