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71Realism, Reference and Grue (Why Metaphysical Realism Cannot Solve the Grue Paradox)American Philosophical Quarterly 40 (1). 2003.This paper argue that metaphysical realism is insufficient to solve Goodman's grue paradox
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35On Pragmatics, Exercitive Speech Acts and PornographyLodz Papers in Pragmatics 5 (1): 133-155. 2009.On Pragmatics, Exercitive Speech Acts and Pornography Suppose that a suspect being questioned by the police says, "I think I'd better talk to a lawyer." Whether that suspect has invoked her right to an attorney depends on which particular speech act her utterance is. If she is merely thinking aloud about what she ought to do, then she has not invoked that right. If, on the other hand, she has thereby requested a lawyer, she has. Similarly, suppose that an unhappily married man says "I want my wi…Read more
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20Book Review:Reading Putnam Peter Clark, Bob Hale (review)Philosophy of Science 65 (2): 372-. 1998.
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157The ethics of free speechIn John Skorupski (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Ethics, Routledge. pp. 769-780. 2010.This paper clarifies the legal right to free speech, identifies ways that speech can be harmful, and discusses pornography hate speech, and lies. It is also written for a non-technical audience
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84On Silencing and Systematicity: The Challenge of the Drowning CaseHypatia 31 (1): 74-90. 2016.Silencing is a speech-related harm. We here focus on one particular account of silencing offered by Jennifer Hornsby and Rae Langton. According to this account, silencing is systematically generated, illocutionary-communicative failure. We here raise an apparent challenge to that account. In particular, we offer an example—the drowning case—that meets these conditions of silencing but does not intuitively seem to be an instance of it. First, we explore several conditions one might add to the Hor…Read more
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674Debate: On silencing and sexual refusalJournal of Political Philosophy 17 (4): 487-494. 2009.This paper argues that an addressee's failure to recognize a speaker's authority can constitutes another form of silencing.
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238Speech and Harm: Controversies Over Free Speech (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2012.This volume draws on a range of approaches in order to explore the problem and determine what ought to be done about allegedly harmful speech.Most liberal societies are deeply committed to a principle of free speech. At the same time, however, there is evidence that some kinds of speech are harmful in ways that are detrimental to important liberal values, such as social equality. Might a genuine commitment to free speech require that we legally permit speech even when it is harmful, and even whe…Read more
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Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Law |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |