Suzanne Whitten
Biographic Data
| ID | 4431989 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suzanne Whitten |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suzanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Whitten |
| SIGNATURE | WHITTEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9467-0838 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Freedom, Work, and the Public Good: Why Academics Are Not Exceptional
Defenders of academic freedom characteristically claim academics ought to be afforded freedoms not afforded those in other roles or occupations on account of the unique, knowledge-generating status of academic activity and its contribution to the public good. Challenging that claim, this paper argues instead that the capacity for all roles and occupations to benefit the public good of knowledge creation provides justification for granting all wor…
Introduction: Work, Democracy, and Freedom”
Work as a domain of life of central significance to the values of democracy and freedom suffered comparative neglect from the 1980s until relatively recently in Anglophone political theory and philosophy.This was due, in part, to influential socio-political imaginaries conceiving work as embedded within an economic system characterised, in contrast to the "communicative lifeworld" realms of the family, civil society, and the public sphere, by a "…
Oppressive expression and the Czech and Slovak communities of Northern Ireland
Feminist philosophers of language have, in the last several decades, demonstrated the usefulness of employing a speech-act theoretical lens to understand how expression works to enact and reinforce oppression. Despite the growing influence of these approaches in the philosophy and political theory literature, however, their use in other disciplines remains severely limited. This is surprising, especially given the real potential of the speech-act…
A Republican Conception of Counterspeech
‘Counterspeech’ is often presented as a way in which individual citizens can respond to harmful speech while avoiding the potentially coercive and freedom-damaging effects of formal speech restrictions. But counterspeech itself can also undermine freedom by contributing to forms of social punishment that manipulate a speaker’s choice set in uncontrolled ways. Specifically, and by adopting a republican perspective, this paper argues that certain k…
Critical Republicanism and the Discursive Demands of Free Speech
A growing body of literature in feminist philosophy exposes the way in which occupying a particular group identity inhibits an affected agent’s ability to engage in communicative exchange effectively. These accounts reveal a fault in standard liberal defences of free speech, showing how, if free speech is a goal worth pursuing, then it must involve both a concern about the legitimate limits of state interference and of the effect of social norms …
A Republican Theory of Free Speech: Critical Civility
Republican Theory of Free Speech: Critical Civility
A recognition-sensitive phenomenology of hate speech
One particularly prominent strand of hate speech theory conceptualizes the harm in hate speech by considering the immediate illocutionary force of a hate speech ‘act’. What appears to be missing from such a conception, however, is how recognition relations and normative expectations present in a speech situation influence the harm such speech causes to its victims. Utilizing a particular real-world example, this paper illustrates how these defini…
Critical Republicanism and the Discursive Demands of Free Speech
A growing body of literature in feminist philosophy exposes the way in which occupying a particular group identity inhibits an affected agent’s ability to engage in communicative exchange effectively. These accounts reveal a fault in standard liberal defences of free speech, showing how, if free speech is a goal worth pursuing, then it must involve both a concern about the legitimate limits of state interference and of the effect of social norms …
A recognition-sensitive phenomenology of hate speech
One particularly prominent strand of hate speech theory conceptualizes the harm in hate speech by considering the immediate illocutionary force of a hate speech ‘act’. What appears to be missing from such a conception, however, is how recognition relations and normative expectations present in a speech situation influence the harm such speech causes to its victims. Utilizing a particular real-world example, this paper illustrates how these defini…
A recognition-sensitive phenomenology of hate speech
One particularly prominent strand of hate speech theory conceptualizes the harm in hate speech by considering the immediate illocutionary force of a hate speech ‘act’. What appears to be missing from such a conception, however, is how recognition relations and normative expectations present in a speech situation influence the harm such speech causes to its victims. Utilizing a particular real-world example, this paper illustrates how these defini…
A Republican Theory of Free Speech: Critical Civility
Republican Theory of Free Speech: Critical Civility
A Republican Conception of Counterspeech
‘Counterspeech’ is often presented as a way in which individual citizens can respond to harmful speech while avoiding the potentially coercive and freedom-damaging effects of formal speech restrictions. But counterspeech itself can also undermine freedom by contributing to forms of social punishment that manipulate a speaker’s choice set in uncontrolled ways. Specifically, and by adopting a republican perspective, this paper argues that certain k…
Critical Republicanism and the Discursive Demands of Free Speech
A growing body of literature in feminist philosophy exposes the way in which occupying a particular group identity inhibits an affected agent’s ability to engage in communicative exchange effectively. These accounts reveal a fault in standard liberal defences of free speech, showing how, if free speech is a goal worth pursuing, then it must involve both a concern about the legitimate limits of state interference and of the effect of social norms …
Oppressive expression and the Czech and Slovak communities of Northern Ireland
Feminist philosophers of language have, in the last several decades, demonstrated the usefulness of employing a speech-act theoretical lens to understand how expression works to enact and reinforce oppression. Despite the growing influence of these approaches in the philosophy and political theory literature, however, their use in other disciplines remains severely limited. This is surprising, especially given the real potential of the speech-act…
Freedom, Work, and the Public Good: Why Academics Are Not Exceptional
Defenders of academic freedom characteristically claim academics ought to be afforded freedoms not afforded those in other roles or occupations on account of the unique, knowledge-generating status of academic activity and its contribution to the public good. Challenging that claim, this paper argues instead that the capacity for all roles and occupations to benefit the public good of knowledge creation provides justification for granting all wor…
Introduction: Work, Democracy, and Freedom”
Work as a domain of life of central significance to the values of democracy and freedom suffered comparative neglect from the 1980s until relatively recently in Anglophone political theory and philosophy.This was due, in part, to influential socio-political imaginaries conceiving work as embedded within an economic system characterised, in contrast to the "communicative lifeworld" realms of the family, civil society, and the public sphere, by a "…
Political science (6 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Free speech (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works)