In “Newsworthiness,” I defend the theory that newsworthiness is a variety of practical significance. Of police violence, naming the dead, and what I call stereotype Then present four new, or newly characteristic, forms of speechĪssociated with MBL, and how they address the challengesįacing the movement: the hashtag and slogan #BlackLivesMatter, videos Movements and to clarify the content of MBL actions. These continuities serve,Īt least for some speakers, to affiliate MBL actions with these past Through an analysis of popular protest chants, I explore the continuities between MBL and past social movements. Movements, and innovates in philosophically interesting ways. Show how the characteristic speech of the Movement for Black Lives (MBL)īoth builds on the speech of past black liberatory and other social In “The Movement for Black Lives and the Language of Liberation,” I I draw out several lessons from the corpus for moral psychology, moral metaphysics, and normative ethics. But when familiar generalizations fail to be true, they fail to be true in interesting ways.

Trying to get at the moral facts? Or does it consist in somethingĮlse? And if so, what does it consist in? I show that moral discourse is disunified - there are few, if any, true, interesting generalizations about all moral discourse or moral language. Their moral beliefs and (at least when they’re being sincere) Only in its topic? That is, does it consist in people expressing Moral discourse like any other type of factual discourse, differing In “How to Moralize: Some Simple Ways,” I use a large, balanced corpus of contemporary spoken American English to address what I call the central question about moral discourse: Is My dissertation is composed of three essays on these topics. My research interests are broad, but currently center on applied philosophy of language, social epistemology, and the philosophy of public philosophy.

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