Pornography deserves special protections, it is often said, because it qualifies as speech.
Therefore, no matter what we think of its content, we must afford it the protections that we …

It is by now a familiar thought that words can be used to do many things. Famously, Catharine
MacKinnon has argued that one of the many things that words can be used to do is …

In this paper, I focus on a package of views widely held by philosophers of language, and
others. That package consists of the following three views.(1) Assertions are governed by …

1. Introduction In her recent book Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing,
Miranda Fricker sets out to explore the idea that there can be “a distinctively epistemic kind of …

… 9 Extending her own prior work and that of Ishani Maitra, Mary Kate McGowan shows in
this volume—again in terms analytic philosophers of language need—how speech can enact …

This paper begins with the idea that there are sometimes gaps in our shared linguistic/conceptual
resources that make it difficult for us to understand our own social experiences, and to …

In" Against Arguments from Reference," Ron Mallon, Edouard Machery, Shaun Nichols, and
Stephen Stich (hereafter, MMNS) argue that recent experiments concerning reference …

What is it to tell alie? There's along history, going back at least to Augustine, of taking lying
to involve an intention to deceive. On this tradition, one person lies to another only when she …

In this paper, I shall be concerned with the phenomenon that has been labeled silencing in
some of the recent philosophical literature. A speaker who is silenced in this sense is unable …

In a recent article in this journal, Nellie Wieland argues that silencing in the sense put forward
by Rae Langton and Jennifer Hornsby has the unpalatable consequence of diminishing a …