Mark Satta (Wayne State University Law School), Étienne Brown (University of Ottawa), and J. P. Messina (Purdue University) have posted Preliminaries for a Philosophy of Free Speech on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This essay, written as the opening for Philosophy of Free Speech: An Introduction, sets the stage for the volume by laying out some basic assumptions broadly shared by the text’s authors and editors. These assumptions concern the meaning of free speech in contemporary legal debates, the limits of free speech as they are commonly understood, and the broad distinction between speech and action. Before offering an overview of what is to come, editors address skeptical objections to free speech, historical and contemporary, and offer some thoughts in response. After providing a chapter overview, the chapter concludes by cataloguing some of the volume’s exclusions and omissions, and providing a list of recommended further reading.
Highly Recommended!
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