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18Understanding the Legitimacy of MovementEssays in Philosophy 22 (1): 10-27. 2021.While Spain was conquering new lands in the Americas, foreigners arrived into their own—the Gitanos. Spain imposed a double-standard whereby their crossing into new, occupied, territory was legitimate, but the entry of others into Spanish territory was not. I compare and contrast these historically parallel movements of people using Deleuze and Guattari’s taxonomy of movement. I conclude that the double-standard of movement was due to differences of power between these two groups, understood in …Read more
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1Which Side are You On? The Class Consciousness of PunkCarus Publishing. forthcoming.Book Chapter in _Punk and Philosophy: God Save the Queen (of the Sciences)_, ed. Josh Heter and Richard Greene.
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Hate Speech as Antithetical to Free Speech: The Real PolarityBrill. forthcoming.I claim that hate speech is actually antithetical to free speech. Nevertheless, this claim invokes the misconception that one would be jeopardizing free speech due to a phenomenon known as "false polarization" – a “tendency for disputants to overestimate the extent to which they disagree about whatever contested question is at hand.” The real polarity does not lie between hate speech (as protected free speech) vs. censorship. Rather, hate speech is censorship. It is the censorship of entire sect…Read more
Purdue University
PhD, 2021
APA Eastern Division
Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Normative Ethics |
Philosophy of Race |
Value Theory |