Should the state restrict hate speech?
Key readings
- Joel Feinberg, Harmless wrongdoing and offensive nuisances, in Rights, Justice, and the Bounds of Liberty: Essays in Social Philosophy, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1980.
- Catherine MacKinnon, Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1987.
- Mari Matsuda, Public response to racist speech: considering the victim's story, Michigan Law Review, vol. 87, no. 8 (August, 1989), pp. 2320-2381.
Further reading
- Andrew Altman, Liberalism and campus hate speech: a philosophical examination, Ethics, vol. 103, no. 2 (January, 1993), pp. 302-317.
- Edwin Baker, Human Liberty and Freedom of Speech, New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
- Joshua Cohen, Freedom of expression, Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol. 22, no. 3 (Summer, 1993), pp. 207-263.
- Ronald Dworkin, Is there a right to pornography?, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, vol. 1 no. 2 (Summer, 1981), pp. 177-212.
- Joel Feinberg, The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law: Volume 2: Offense to Others, New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
- Owen M. Fiss, The Irony of Free Speech, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1996.
- Ivan Hare & James Weinstein, Extreme Speech and Democracy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Anthony Lewis, Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: a Biography of the First Amendment, New York: Basic Books, 2007.
- Bhikhu Parekh, The Rushdie affair: research agenda for political philosophy, in Will Kymlicka (ed.), The Rights of Minority Cultures, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, ch. 14.
- Tim Scanlon, A theory of freedom of expression, Philosophy and Public Affairs, vol. 1, no. 2 (Winter, 1972), pp. 204-226.
- C. L. Ten, Mill on Liberty, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980, ch. 8.
- Waldron Jeremy, Rushdie and Religion, in Liberal Rights: Collected Papers, 1981-1991, 1993, ch. 6.
- Jonathan Wolff, An Introduction to Political Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, ch. 4.
- Jeremy Waldron, The Harm in Hate Speech, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2012.
- Stuart White, Freedom of association and the right to exclude, Journal of Political Philosophy, vol. 5, no. 4 (December, 1997), pp. 373–391.
- How illuminating is to describe Mill’s justification of freedom of expression as utilitarian in character?
- Does freedom of speech mean that there should be no limits on political advertising?