>PORTLAND, OR – Peter Boghossian, an associate professor who has taught philosophy at Portland State University for the past decade, resigned Wednesday, saying the university has made “intellectual exploration impossible.” > In his resignation letter submitted to Provost Susan Jeffords, Boghossian wrote: > “I never once believed — nor do I now — that the purpose of instruction was to lead my students to a particular conclusion. > Rather, I sought to create the conditions for rigorous thought; to help them gain the tools to hunt and furrow for their own conclusions. This is why I became a teacher and why I love teaching. > “Brick by brick, the university has made this kind of intellectual exploration impossible. > It has transformed a bastion of free inquiry into a social justice factory whose only inputs were race, gender, and victimhood and whose only outputs were grievance and division.” [...]