I think it would be fair to call Stanley Fish is a professor of "critical thinking". The below link connects to a blog that he writes for the New York Times. In this blog posting, he writes about a new book examining the practice of "academic abstention", which denotes the ways in which universities are exempt from oversight of the law.
Although Fish doesn't purport to take up Al-Farabi's concerns about philosophy in relation to religion or law, his account of the relation between academic institutions and judicial oversight bears a clear resemblance to it.
http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/the-rise-and-fall-of-academic-abstinence/
What makes both philosophy and the academy "select", such that they are not/were not held to judgment by the law? Has that principle changed?
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