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Guy Longworth

Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick

Guy Longworth is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick in Coventry, UK. His latest book, co-authored with Jennifer Hornsby, is Reading Philosophy of Language: Selected Texts With Interactive Commentary (2005).

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The ethics of speech acts

It’s one thing to say something. It’s quite another for a person to do (or not do) something because of what you’ve said

Guy Longworth