What does it matter if our speech practices abandon truth, license violence, instill fear? Toxic speech has the power not only to shape the social body—our very practices of being and interacting—but also to injure individual bodies. When a political or cult leader, for example, licenses his followers to commit violent crimes against those deemed Other, we see an overt case of speech engendering physical harm. More insidious and ubiquitous are the everyday speech practices that generate harms ranging from physical violence to social exclusion and damaged health. Using tools from both epidemiology and philosophy of language, we can better understand how speech practices can create detrimental social climates and harm individual health.... Read more about Toxic Speech and Damaged Bodies | Composite Bodies with Lynne Tirrell
Simona Capisani received her PhD in Philosophy from the University of California, Irvine in 2018. Her research and teaching interests are in Political... Read more about Simona Capisani
Thiemo Breyer holds Masters degrees in philosophy, cognitive science, and historical and social anthropology from the Universities of Freiburg and... Read more about Thiemo Breyer
Daniela Cammack works primarily on ancient Greek politics and philosophy, though she maintains research and teaching interests in Roman, medieval and modern... Read more about Daniela Cammack
Pannill Camp is Associate Professor and Chair of the Performing Arts Department at Washington University in St. Louis, where he teaches theater history and... Read more about Pannill Camp
Daniel Loick received his Doctorate from Goethe University in Frankfurt, where he is now a junior faculty member in the Philosophy Department. His main... Read more about Daniel Loick
Detlef von Daniels is Academic Coordinator of the research group "International Justice and Institutional Responsibility" at the Berlin-Brandenburg... Read more about Detlef von Daniels
