Free Speech and Liberal Community

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This essay offers a liberal, neo-Millian account of free speech, which attempts to fix some familiar bugs in Mill's account of free speech by focusing primarily on the right of free association, together with the permissibility of imposing restrictions to deal with, as Mill put it, ‘violations of good manners’ and ‘offences against decency’. It also uncovers a number of more conceptual puzzles with free speech. These can be resolved, it is contended, by regarding free speech as a practice.

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Item Type:	Book Section
Authors/Creators:	Lang, G
Editors:	Fox, C Saunders, J
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© 2019 Taylor & Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Routledge Research in Applied Ethics on 18 Dec 2018, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9781138571921. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy.
Dates:	Published: 18 December 2018 Published (online): 15 January 2019 Accepted: 16 October 2018
Institution:	The University of Leeds
Academic Units:	The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) > School of Philosophy (Leeds)
Depositing User:	Symplectic Publications
Date Deposited:	04 Feb 2019 10:00
Last Modified:	01 Jul 2020 00:38
Published Version:	https://www.routledge.com/9781138571921
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Routledge
Series Name:	Routledge Research in Applied Ethics
Identification Number:	10.4324/9780203702444
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:141925

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