Free Speech and Illocution

Hornsby, Jennifer; Langton, Rae

doi:10.1017/s1352325200000902

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“…I will illustrate how "gendered language" silences professional women. In their wellknown paper, Hornsby and Langton (1998) develop an account of silencing:…”

Section: Silencingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Relevance of Causal Social Construction

Marques

2017

Journal of Social Ontology

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Social constructionist claims are surprising and interesting when they entail that presumably natural kinds are in fact socially constructed. The claims are interesting because of their theoretical and political importance. Authors like Díaz-León argue that constitutive social construction is more relevant for achieving social justice than causal social construction. This paper challenges this claim. Assuming there are socially salient groups that are discriminated against, the paper presents a dilemma: if there were no constitutively constructed social kinds, the causes of the discrimination of existing social groups would have to be addressed, and understanding causal social construction would be relevant to achieve social justice. On the other hand, not all possible constitutively socially constructed kinds are actual social kinds. If an existing social group is constitutively constructed as a social kind K, the fact that it actually exists as a K has social causes. Again, causal social construction is relevant. The paper argues that (i) for any actual social kind X, if X is constitutively socially constructed as K, then it is also causally socially constructed; and (ii) causal social construction is at least as relevant as constitutive social construction for concerns of social justice. For illustration, I draw upon two phenomena that are presumed to contribute towards the discrimination of women: (i) the poor performance effects of stereotype threat, and (ii) the silencing effects of gendered language use.

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“…I will illustrate how "gendered language" silences professional women. In their wellknown paper, Hornsby and Langton (1998) develop an account of silencing:…”

Section: Silencingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Relevance of Causal Social Construction

Marques

2017

Journal of Social Ontology

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“…In Chapter 4, Jenny's identity as a science teacher, with the structural warrant this provides her to say some false things in service of her students' learning needs, is partly what warrants her asserting something she knows to be false. And in Chapter 10, Nancy's identity as 1 Based on a reading of Austin (1962), Langton (1993) and Hornsby and Langton (1998) view it as a failure of hearer uptake , but Kukla (2012) views this as a misdiagnosis. Wyatt (manuscript) argues that Langton and others base their argument on a misreading of Austin's view of uptake.…”

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The Norms of Assertion

McKinnon

2015

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“…Indeed the debate on free speech, pornography and censorship is one of the most remarkable current applications of speech act theory (cf. Hornsby 1993, Hornsby & Langton 1998, Langton 1993, 2009, Bianchi 2008, Langton, Haslanger and Anderson 2012. Catharine MacKinnon's claim that pornography subordinates women (MacKinnon 1987) has been defended by Rae Langton and Jennifer Hornsby in terms of speech acts: works of pornography can be understood as illocutionary acts.…”

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confidence: 99%