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Free Speech and the Pleasure of Being Offended

politicsThe First Amendment has a deep philosophical background where rights are established and protections promised. It involves a distinction (articulated best by J.S. Mill) between harms and offenses. If we want to have free speech, we must tolerate being offended.

Structure: There is a preliminary lecture of about 15 minutes, followed by discussion.

Dena Shottenkirk is an artist/philosopher who is Assistant Professor at Brooklyn College in the Philosophy Department; she has also taught in several different art departments. In both books and in visual work, Shottenkirk has addressed topics that range from nominalism to free speech. She is the founder of the organization The System Project, which sponsors (ir)regular conversations in bars, which are followed up with online posts. This is the Philosophers’ Ontological Party club, POPc for short.

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When: Fri., Nov. 20, 2015 at 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

politicsThe First Amendment has a deep philosophical background where rights are established and protections promised. It involves a distinction (articulated best by J.S. Mill) between harms and offenses. If we want to have free speech, we must tolerate being offended.

Structure: There is a preliminary lecture of about 15 minutes, followed by discussion.

Dena Shottenkirk is an artist/philosopher who is Assistant Professor at Brooklyn College in the Philosophy Department; she has also taught in several different art departments. In both books and in visual work, Shottenkirk has addressed topics that range from nominalism to free speech. She is the founder of the organization The System Project, which sponsors (ir)regular conversations in bars, which are followed up with online posts. This is the Philosophers’ Ontological Party club, POPc for short.

Tickets are $10. More information here.

 

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