Bad Words Philosophical Perspectives on Slurs,9780198758655

Bad Words Philosophical Perspectives on Slurs

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ISBN13: 9780198758655
ISBN10: 0198758650
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2018-09-26
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Author Biography


David Sosa is Temple Centennial Professor in the Humanities at UT Austin. He has been at Austin since 1997, after spending two years on a postdoctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley. Before that, he completed his PhD at Princeton. Sosa serves as editor of the journal Analytic Philosophy, and he is co-editor of Philosophy of Language (Oxford, 6th edition), Analytic Philosophy: An Anthology (Wiley/Blackwell), and Analytic Philosophy: A Companion (Wiley/Blackwell).

Table of Contents


Introduction, David Sosa
1. Calling, Addressing, and Appropriation, Calling, Addressing, and Appropriation
2. Calling, Addressing, and Appropriation, Elisabeth Camp
3. Loaded Words: On the Semantics and Pragmatics of Slurs, Kent Bach
4. Slurs, Dehumanization, and the Expression of Contempt, Robin Jeshion
5. Pejoratives as Fiction, Christopher Hom and Robert May
6. Pejorative Tone, Ernie Lepore and Matthew Stone
7. How do Slurs Mean?, Mark Richard
8. Slurs and Obscenities: Lexicography, Semantics, and Philosophy, Geoffrey Pullum
9. Nice Words for Nasty Things: Taboo and its Discontents, Laurence Horn

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