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Language as a Mechanism of Control| old_uid | 14896 |
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| title | Language as a Mechanism of Control |
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| start_date | 2015/01/08 |
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| schedule | 14h-16h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | 142, Conférence |
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| details | The Foundations of Social Control” |
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| summary | In recent philosophy of language, there has been a great deal of attention devoted to explicit slur words. But public discourse in liberal democratic societies are guided by what John Rawls has called a norm of “reasonableness”. We do not find explicit slurs in public discourse in societies that follow liberal democratic ideals, and when we do, it is a sign of the break down of such ideals. Instead, we find “code words”; words that function like slurs, but are explicitly not slurs. In this talk, I draw on the two distinct traditions of slurs in analytic philosophy of language, the inferential role tradition, due to Robert Brandom students such as Lynne Tirell and Rebecca Kukla, and the semantic tradition, due to students of David Lewis, such as Rae Langton. I argue that recent tools in semantics and pragmatics allow us to draw these traditions together. And I bring this work to bear on *actual* political discourse in societies that take themselves to follow liberal democratic ideals. I conclude with a discussion of the morals for liberal democratic ideals of public reason. |
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| responsibles | Pacherie, Dokic |
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