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Bad Words - Philosophical Perspectives on Slurs (Hardcover)
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Bad Words - Philosophical Perspectives on Slurs (Hardcover)
Series: Engaging Philosophy
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What makes a word bad? Bad Words is a philosophical examination of
slurs and other derogatory and problematic language, by some of the
leading contributors to the field. Slurs are an interesting case
for the philosophy of language. On the one hand, they seem to be
meaningful in something like the way many other expressions are
meaningful - different slurs might seem in some way to refer to
different groups, for example. But on the other hand, it's clear
that slurs also have distinctive practical effects and roles: they
can seem to be just an arbitrary tool for insulting or enabling
harm. How are those aspects related? Just how the use of words is
related to their significance is of course one of the deepest
issues in philosophy of language: slurs not only refine that issue,
by presenting a kind of use that presents novel challenges, but
also give the issue a compelling practical relevance. The Engaging
Philosophy series is a new forum for collective philosophical
engagement with controversial issues in contemporary society.
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