Luvell Anderson is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Affiliate Faculty in African American Studies and Women's and Gender Studies at Syracuse University. Before coming to Syracuse, he was an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Memphis and Alain Locke Postdoctoral Fellow at Pennsylvania State University. His research lies principally in Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Humor, and Philosophy of Race. He has published articles on the semantics of racial slurs and racist humor, and is co-editor of the Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race (Routledge Press). Professor Anderson is currently working on a book, The Ethics of Racial Humor, which explores themes of race, humor, and the connection between ethics and aesthetics.


Ernie Lepore is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He has authored numerous books and papers in the philosophy of language, philosophical logic, metaphysics and philosophy of mind, including recently Imagination and Convention (with Matthew Stone, OUP, 2015), and Liberating Content (2016) with Herman Cappelen. He is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Language (with Una Stojnic, 2024) and of the series Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language, with David Sosa.

1. Introduction, Luvell Anderson and Ernie Lepore:
2. Amelioration as Course Correction, Sally Haslanger and Stephen Yablo:
3. A world where many worlds fit, Ángeles Eraña and Axel Barceló
4. Silencing and Assertion: An Account of their Conversational Dynamic, J. L. Dowell:
5. The Pragmatics of Technologically Mediated Online Speech: Don’t @ Me!, Quill R. Kukla:
6. The Truth About Slurs, Robin Jeshion
7. The Truth About Slurs, Una Stojni? and Ernie Lepore
8. On Passive Aggression, Rebecca Roache
9. On Passive Aggression, Timothy Jay
10. Speech-Act Theory in Feminist Thought, Louise Antony:
11. Pornography as Oppressive Speech, Mari Mikkola
12. Pronouns and Gender, Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini and Michael Glanzberg
13. How to Do Things with Gendered Words, E. M. Hernandez and Archie Crowley
14. Beyond Pronouns: Gender Visibility and Neutrality across Languages, Iz González Vázquez, Martina Rosola, and Anna Klieber:
15. Privacy, Critical Definition and Racial Justice, Anita L. Allen
16. Gender-neutrality and family leave policies, Jules Holroyd and Matthew J. Cull
17. In Praise of Spoken Philosophy, Esa Saarinen
18. Boxed Ears and Swiveling Fists: American Sign Language, Audism, and Power, Teresa Blankmeyer Burke
19. Resistance and Reclamation: Notorious Thugs, Luvell Anderson
20. Public Protest and Silencing, José Medina
21. The Contents of Maps, Jeffrey King
22. Map Semantics and the Geography of Meaning, Gabriel Greenberg:
23. The Semantics of Iconography and Code Words, John Kulvicki
24. Visual and Linguistic Dogwhistles, Ray Drainville and Jennifer Saul
25. AI with Alien Content and Alien Metasemantics H, erman Cappelen and Josh Dever
26. Semantic Change in the Language of Technology, Daian Flórez
27. On Retweeting, Eliot Michaelson, Jessica Pepp, and Rachel Sterken
28. Ideology and Intersectionality, Matthew McKeever
29. Shakespeare's Proper Names, Tina Chanter and Andrew Cutrofello
30. Art and Language, Noël Carroll