What should be the rules governing campus speech in a liberal democratic society? On one side are those arguing for maximal protections for campus speech analogous to the First Amendment in the United States. On the other are those promoting stricter regulation of speech through formal and informal speech codes. This paper aims to carve a new path in the conversation. Both sides agree that the mission of the university is the discovery and dissemination of knowledge and that achieving this mission requires tolerant and open-minded students, faculty, and administrators. However, neither side has explicitly connected its advocacy for specific speech policies with these shared goals. Our paper advances the conversation by proposing a series of empirically testable mechanisms for connecting speech policies to the desired outcomes. We also argue that focusing on these mechanisms opens the way towards new and more tractable conceptual and normative debates.

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校园言论自由


自由民主社会中校园言论的规则应该是什么？一方面，有人主张对校园言论进行最大程度的保护，类似于美国的第一修正案。另一方面是通过正式和非正式的言论守则促进更严格的言论监管。本文旨在为对话开辟一条新道路。双方一致认为，大学的使命是发现和传播知识，实现这一使命需要宽容和开放的学生、教师和管理人员。然而，双方都没有明确地将其对具体言论政策的倡导与这些共同目标联系起来。我们的论文通过提出一系列可实证检验的机制来将言论政策与期望的结果联系起来，从而推进对话。我们还认为，关注这些机制将为新的、更容易处理的概念和规范辩论开辟道路。