Professor Rae Langton will give the Mind Senior Research Fellow Lecture entitled: "Blocking as Counter-speech".
Wednesday 1 March 2017, 6-7pm. Barbara White Room, Newnham College Abstract: It has been said that 'evil' speech should be fought with more speech, not bans (Brandeis), and this principle has been extended to hate speech and more. There are familiar handicaps on counter-speech, but unnoticed scope as well. Counter-speech can work by retroactively 'undoing', rather than refuting, 'evil' speech: by blocking its presuppositions, and (relatedly) its felicity conditions, thereby disabling its harmful force. This brings out an unnoticed dimension to counter-speech, and to the powers of ordinary hearers and bystanders. This lecture is free and open to the public. There is no need to book. _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
