Neutrality, publicity, and state funding of the arts

Article Abstract:

State funding of the arts is difficult for liberals to justify under the constraints of neutrality and publicity. The neutrality constraint suggests that the government should not intentionally promote certain conceptions of the good over others. Publicity requires that government action should manifestly accord with the requirements of justice. Suspicion is bound to rise regarding the nonneutrality of art funding because it is hard to show that funded projects will benefit the public. Liberal defenders of state funding can give neutral justifications to meet the publicity constraint, reject the neutrality constraint or reject the publicity constraint.

Art and state, Arts policy, Federal aid to the arts, Government aid to the arts

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Freedom of speech acts? A response to Langton

Article Abstract:

Rae Langton attempts to argue that pornography should be censored because it violates women's right to free speech, as Catherine MacKinnon has suggested, but her strategy is unsuccessful. Langton tries to show that pornography literally silences women through 'illocutionary disablement.' However, rape would be impossible if pornography caused illucutionary disablement, as that would mean that competent auditors would believe that women cannot refuse sex. Langton is able to make the silencing argument coherent and literal, but at the cost of its defensibility.

Political aspects, Pornography, Censorship, Rape

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Mill on liberty, speech, and the free society

Article Abstract:

A critique is presented on John Stuart Mill's essay "On Liberty", broadening conventional interpretations of the harm principle as applied to freedom of speech. Topics include paternalism, moral agency, infringement of liberty and exercise of power.

United States, Criticism and interpretation, Philosophers, Liberty, Freedom, On Liberty (Essay), Mill, John Stuart

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