Episode five: Freedom of Speech and Responsible Public Debate

Professor Matthew Chrisman discusses his work in this area with Fergus Cleland.

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With any freedom you can associate responsibility. I started thinking about what counts as responsibly engaging, that got me interested in the nature of responsible debate. 

This episode's guests

Prof Matthew Chrisman

Matthew joined the University of Edinburgh as a Lecturer in Philosophy in 2006.

His research and teaching focuses on social-ethical-political theory, epistemology, philosophy of language, and especially the intersections between these.

Fergus Cleland

Fergus Philosophy MSc student interested in moral philosophy. He finished his undergraduate studies here at the University of Edinburgh last year, where he wrote a dissertation about metaethical constructivism. 

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