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149The 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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83On 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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638Debate: 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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236Speech 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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165Review: Seana Valentine Shiffrin, Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law (review)Ethics 126 (2): 536-541. 2016.This is a review of Shiffrin's _Speech Matters_
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332On Pornography: MacKinnon, Speech Acts, and "False" ConstructionHypatia 20 (3). 2005.Although others have focused on Catharine MacKinnon's claim that pornography subordinates and silences women, I here focus on her claim that pornography constructs women's nature and that this construction is, in some sense, false. Since it is unclear how pornography, as speech, can construct facts and how constructed facts can nevertheless be false, MacKinnon's claim requires elucidation. Appealing to speech act theory, I introduce an analysis of the erroneous verdictive and use it to make sens…Read more
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31Logic by Laurence Goldstein, Andrew Brennan, Max Deutsch and Joe Y.F. LauPhilosophical Books 47 (3): 272-273. 2006.
Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Law |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |