New Directions in the Ethics and Politics of Speech

This book features new perspectives on the ethics and politics of free speech. Contributors draw on insights from philosophy, psychology, political theory, journalism, literature, and history to respond to pressing problems involving free speech in liberal societies. Recent years have seen an explosion of academic interest inthese topics. However, most recent work has focused on constitutional protections for free speech and on issues related to academic freedom and campus politics. The chapters in this volume set their sights more broadly on the non-state problems that we collectively face in attempting to realize a healthy environment for free discourse. The volume’s contributors share the assumption that threats to free speech do not come exclusively from state sources or bad actors, but from ordinary strategic situations in which all may be acting in good faith. Contributors take seriously the idea that our current cultural moment provides plenty of reason to be concerned about our intellectual climate and offer new insights for how to make things better. New Directions in the Ethics and Politics of Speech will be of interest to researchers and students working in ethics, political philosophy, social theory, and law. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

New Directions, J.P. Messina The Possibility and Defensibility of Nonstate "Censorship", Andrew I. Cohen and Andrew J. Cohen Speech, Sorting, and Discovery, Ryan Muldoon Don’t Block the Exits, Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke Taxation, Ideology, and Higher Education, Hrishikesh Joshi Free Speech, Celebrity Status, and Ethical Obligations, Chris W. Surprenant Rereading Black Like Me: Speech Matters, Context Matters, Kathryn L. Lynch Democracy without the Government: The Importance of Local News to Free Speech, Alice Dreger The Conservative Defense of Free Speech, Luke Sheahan

J.P. Messina received his PhD in philosophy from the University of California, San Diego in 2018. He is currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Orleans. His research investigates conceptions of freedom across philosophical contexts. His book, Private Censorship, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.