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72Virtuous and vicious intellectual self-trustIn Katherine Dormandy (ed.), Trust in Epistemology, Routledge. 2019.
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69In this paper I argue that social networking sites (SNSs) are emotion technologies that promote a highly charged emotional environment where intrinsic emotion regulation is significantly weakened, and people's emotions are more strongly modulated by other people and by the technology itself. I show that these features of social media promote a simplistic emotional outlook which is an obstacle to the development and maintenance of virtue. In addition, I focus on the mechanisms that promote group-…Read more
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65Review of Sharyn Clough, Beyond Epistemology: A Pragmatist Approach to Feminist Science Studies (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (7). 2005.
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64Critical Notice of Bilgrami's Self-knowledge and resentment (review)Philosophical Books 49 (3): 238-245. 2008.No Abstract
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55The mismeasure of the self: a study in vice epistemologyOxford University Press. 2021.The Mismeasure of the Self is dedicated to vices that blight many lives. They are the vices of superiority, characteristic of those who feel entitled, superior and who have an inflated opinion of themselves, and those of inferiority, typical of those who are riddled with self-doubt and feel inferior. Arrogance, narcissism, haughtiness, and vanity are among the first group. Self-abasement, fatalism, servility, and timidity exemplify the second. This book shows these traits to be to vices of self-…Read more
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55Ecological Thinking (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 77 (2): 573-576. 2008.No Abstract
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53Logical aliensIn A. Skodo (ed.), Other Logics: Historical and Philosophical Alternatives to Formal Logic, . pp. 123-47. 2014.
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51[Book Review] of Judith Butler: excitable speech:a politics of the performative (review)Women's Philosophy Review 18 51-53. 1998.
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49Whose language?In Kathleen Lennon & Margaret Whitford (eds.), Knowing the Difference, . pp. 203-16. 1994.
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49The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Humility (edited book)Routledge. 2021.Humility is a vital aspect of political discussion, social media and self-help, whilst recent empirical research has linked humility to improved well-being, open-mindedness and increased accuracy in assessing persuasive messages. It is also a topic central to research and discussion in philosophy, applied ethics and religious studies. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Humility is the first collection to present a comprehensive overview the philosophy of humility, whilst also covering impor…Read more
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47Polarisation, Arrogance, and Dogmatism: Philosophical Perspectives (edited book)Routledge. 2021.Introduction / Alessandra Tanesini and Michael P. Lynch -- Reassessing different conceptions of argumentation / Catarina Dutilh Novaes -- Martial metaphors and argumentative virtues and vices / Ian James Kidd -- Arrogance and deep disagreement / Andrew Aberdein -- Closed-mindedness and arrogance / Heather Battaly -- Intellectual trust and the marketplace of ideas / Allan Hazlett -- Is searching the Internet making us intellectually arrogant? / J. Adam Carter and Emma C. Gordon -- Intellectual hu…Read more
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44Intellectual Autonomy and Its VicesIn Jonathan Matheson & Kirk Lougheed (eds.), Epistemic Autonomy, Routledge. 2021.This chapter argues for three related points. First, answerability is the key to intellectual autonomy. However, in order to enjoy that status that befits an intellectually autonomous subject, other epistemic subjects must also recognize that one is answerable for one’s believing. Second, systemic conditions of social oppression impede recognition since they promote situations in which members of oppressed groups are disabled in their attempts to make themselves answerable for their believing. T…Read more
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44Contemporary debates in epistemology – Matthias Steup and Ernest Sosa (eds) (review)Philosophical Quarterly 57 (227). 2007.
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43Virtues, emotions and fallibilismIn G. Brun, U. Dogluoglu & D. Kuenzle (eds.), Epistemology and the Emotions, . pp. 67-82. 2008.
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42Scaffolding knowledgePhilosophical Issues 32 (1): 367-381. 2022.In this article I argue that often propositional knowledge is acquired and retained by extensive reliance on physical and social scaffolds that create an environment or niche conducive to knowledge. It is incumbent on epistemologists to subject these aids to epistemic assessments. I show that several of the activities involved in the creation of niches within which inquiry can thrive are carried out by whole cultures. New generations benefit from inheriting these niches whilst being able to impr…Read more
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42Caring for Esteem and Intellectual Reputation: Some Epistemic Benefits and HarmsRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 84 47-67. 2018.This paper has five aims: it clarifies the nature of esteem and of the related notions of admiration and reputation ; it argues that communities that possess practices of esteeming individuals for their intellectual qualities are epistemically superior to otherwise identical communities lacking this practice and that a concern for one's own intellectual reputation, and a motivation to seek the esteem and admiration of other members of one's community, can be epistemically virtuous ; it explains …Read more
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42Intellectual Vices in Conditions of Oppression: The Turn to the Political in Virtue EpistemologyIn David Bordonaba Plou, Víctor Fernández Castro & José Ramón Torices (eds.), The Political Turn in Analytic Philosophy: Reflections on Social Injustice and Oppression, De Gruyter. pp. 77-104. 2022.
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41Humility and self-knowledgeIn Mark Alfano, Michael Lynch & Alessandra Tanesini (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Humility, Routledge. pp. 283-291. 2021.
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40Lyotard and Kripke: Essentialisms in DisputeAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 32 (3): 271-8. 1995.
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35Reducing arrogance in public debateIn James Arthur (ed.), Virtues in the Public Sphere: Citizenship, Civic Friendship and Duty, Routledge Press. 2018.Self- affirmation techniques can help reduce arrogant behaviour in public debates. This chapter consists of three sections. The first offers an account of what speakers owe to their audiences, and of what hearers owe to speakers. It also illustrates some of the ways in which arrogance leads to violations of conversational norms. The second argues that arrogance can be understood as an attitude toward the self which is positive but defensive. The final section offers empirical evidence why we sho…Read more
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35Under-represented groups in philosophy (26th-27th November 2010)Humana.Mente Journal of Philosophical Studies 22 243-249. 2012.
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34Speech in non-ideal conditions: On silence and being silencedIn Laura Caponetto & Paolo Labinaz (eds.), Sbisà on Speech as Action, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 2147483647-2147483647. 2023.In this chapter I show that idealizing assumptions can obscure conversational dynamics because they neglect power differentials that are crucial enablers of the successful performance of some speech acts (see, Sbisà, 2020). I examine how silencing is promoted by conversational norms that would defeasibly entitle linguistic agents to presume that silence indicates acceptance. I focus on Goldberg’s (2020) discussion of these phenomena. Goldberg argues in support of a norm of no silent rejections c…Read more
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33Arrogance, Anger and DebateSymposion. Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 5 (2): 213-227. 2018.Alessandra Tanesini ABSTRACT: Arrogance has widespread negative consequences for epistemic practices. Arrogant people tend to intimidate and humiliate other agents, and to ignore or dismiss their views. They have a propensity to mansplain. They are also angry. In this paper I explain why anger is a common manifestation of arrogance in order to understand the...
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