POLSC401: Ethics and Public Policy

3.1: The First Amendment

• Henry Cohen's "Freedom of Speech and Press: Exceptions to the First Amendment" URL

  Read this article.  

• The Open Univeristy: David Edmonds, Nigel Warburton, and Thomas Scanlon's "Free Speech" URL

  Listen to this lecture.

• Paula Tompkins' "Exploring the Tension between the First Amendment and Ethics in the Case of 'Outing'" URL

  Read this article.

• Cornell University Law School: "Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989)" URL

  Read this case.

• First Amendment Center: Scott Felsenthal's "Profanity and the First Amendment" URL

  Read this article.

• Stanford Encylcopedia of Philosophy: Gerald Gaus and Shane D. Courtland's "Liberalism" URL

  Read this article, which focuses on several debates on liberalism.