Insults, Free Speech and Offensiveness.

This article examines what is wrong with some expressive acts, 'insults'. Their putative wrongfulness is distinguished from the causing of indirect harms, aggregated harms, contextual harms, and damaging misrepresentations. The article clarifies what insults are, making use of work by Neu and Austin...

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Published in:	Journal of Applied Philosophy Vol. 31; no. 2; pp. 127 - 142
Main Author:	Archard, David
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell May2014
Subjects:	Freedom of speech Hate speech Invective Communication Ethics
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost