Should Hate Speech be Free Speech?
In this talk Professor Emeritus Wayne Sumner will explore the boundaries of free expression, using hate speech as a test case. He will discuss the current hate speech legislation in Canada and ask to what extent it represents a justifiable limit on freedom of expression.
$5, $4 for students, FREE for CFI members
Speaker Bio
Wayne Sumner is University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of four books: Abortion and Moral Theory (1981); The Moral Foundation of Rights (1987); Welfare, Ethics, and Happiness (1996); and The Hateful and the Obscene: Studies in the Limits of Free Expression (2004). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and recipient of the 2009 Molson Prize in Social Sciences and Humanities from the Canada Council for the Arts. He currently has a book forthcoming on assisted death.
