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Free Speech and Free Thinking with Seana Shiffrin
Free Speech and Free Thinking with Seana Shiffrin
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Length:
30 minutes
Released:
Oct 19, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Seana Shiffrin is Professor of Philosophy and Pete Kameron Professor of Law and Social Justice at UCLA. She defends the “thinker theory” of freedom of speech, which holds that a central reason for upholding a moral and legal system of free speech is that such a system is necessary for free thought and reflective action. This view is articulated in her book, Speech Matters:On Lying, Morality, and the Law (Princeton 2014).
The "Why We Argue" podcast is produced by the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut as part of the Humility and Conviction in Public Life project.
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The "Why We Argue" podcast is produced by the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut as part of the Humility and Conviction in Public Life project.
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Released:
Oct 19, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Tore Janson, “The History of Languages: An Introduction” (Oxford UP, 2012): It’s a sobering thought that, but for the spread of English, I wouldn’t be able to do these interviews. In particular, I don’t speak Swedish, and I’m not going to try to speak Latin to a world expert on the subject. Fortunately for my purposes, by New Books in Language