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Is there any philosophical work about profanity, f-words, dirty words?

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    We discussed 'What are some arguments against insulting being illegal' https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/81070/what-are-some-arguments-against-insulting-being-illegal/81077#81077 & 'Censorship: Why should a word be censored when it is being discussed?' https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/94381/censorship-why-should-a-word-be-censored-when-it-is-being-discussed/94519#94519 – CriglCragl Nov 26 '22 at 16:48

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Bad Words: Philosophical Perspectives on Slurs, essays ed. by David Sosa.

There's a chapter in Questions About Language: Do people swear because they don’t know enough words? From which, this summary Why do people swear?, gives a nice introduction to ideas about purposes of Swearing.

There's an IAI interview: Rebecca Roache On Swearing and Philosophy, & she did a Philosophy Bites podcast episode What, if anything, is wrong with swearing?, and a Practical Ethics: On Swearing lecture at Oxford.

A paper: The Philosophy of Cursing: Heidegger and Wittgenstein on Being-in-the-World and the Language Game of Cursing.

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