How to Silence Content with Porn, Context and Loaded Questions.
Catharine MacKinnon claimed that pornography silence's women's speech where this speech is protected by free speech legislation. Mac Kinnon's claim was attacked as confused because, so it seemed, pornography is not the kind of thing that can silence speech. Using ideas drawn from John Austin's accou...
| Publicado en: | European Journal of Philosophy Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 498 - 523 |
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