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31Review of Deborah K. Heikes, Rationality and Feminist Philosophy (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2011 (1). 2011.
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29Nietzsche, biology and metaphor. Gregory Moore, 2002, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. [Book Review] (review)European Journal of English Studies 9 (1): 95-6. 2005.
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29Intellectual arrogance: individual, group-based, and corporateSynthese 202 (1): 1-20. 2023.In the article I argue that intellectual arrogance can be an individual, collective and even corporate vice. I show that arrogance is in all these cases underpinned by defensive positive evaluations of epistemic features of the evaluator in the service of buttressing its illegitimate social dominance. Individual arrogance as superbia or as hubris stems from attitudes biased by the motive of self-enhancement. Collective arrogance is underpinned by positive defensive attitudes to a one’s social id…Read more
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28Philosophy of Language a–ZEdinburgh University Press. 2007.These thorough, authoritative yet concise alphabetical guides introduce the central concepts of the various branches of philosophy. Written by established philosophers, they cover both traditional and contemporary terminology.
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27Barry Smith (ed.) Questions of taste: the philosophy of wine [Book Review] (review)International Journal of Philosophical Studies 16 779-82. 2008.By Terence Cuneo Oxford University Press, 2007. pp. 263 £35.00 (hbk). ISBN 978 0 19 921883 7 In this richly argued and highly stimulating monograph, Terence Cuneo develops an argument in favour of...
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24Unlike McDowell Review of Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, On Reason: Rationality in a World of Cultural Conflict and Racism (review)Radical Philosophy 155 56-57. 2009.
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24The New APPS interview with Alessandra Tanesini, Professor of Philosophy at Cardiff University, will run in two parts. Part II is here; Part I was last week. Philosophy and other humanities are under increasing pressure to justify their existence in universities on short-term economic criteria, sometimes in number of majors...
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22Feminist epistemologyIn Mary Evans & Carolyn Williams (eds.), Gender: The Key Concepts, . pp. 81-7. 2012.
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21Today’s New APPS interview is with Alessandra Tanesini, Professor of Philosophy at Cardiff University. This is Part I; Part II will run next week. Thanks very much for doing this interview with us, Alessandra. Let’s start with your personal practice of philosophy. What are the pleasures and pains of philosophy...
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20Review of Peg O'Connor, Oppression and Responsibility: A Wittgensteinian Approach to Social Practices and Moral Theory (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (2). 2003.
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20The "spider's web" and the "tool": Nietzsche vis-a-vis Rorty on metaphorIn Peter Sedgwick (ed.), Nietzsche: A Critical Reader, . pp. 276-93. 1995.
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18Emotion and RationalityCanadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 30 (sup1): 275-295. 2004.This paper is concerned with the roles played by emotions in rationality, a topic which has been generally, but unjustifiably, ignored by epistemologists. Silence on this matter is, we believe, indicative of the overly narrow view that epistemologists have had of their field. Whatever else we might accomplish by considering the rational role of emotions, we hope to motivate a number of questions and philosophical contexts not commonly considered by epistemologists.Everyone knows that rationality…Read more
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18Precis of the Mismeasure of the SelfJournal of Philosophical Research 47 61-66. 2022.In this precis, I offer an overview of The Mismeasure of the Self (2021). The book provides accounts of the psychology and epistemology of virtues and vices of self-evaluation such as humility, arrogance, servility, vanity and timidity. I adopt the social psychological framework of attitudes to explain that these virtues and vices are underpinned by clusters of mental states that are the product of motivated cognition, and which, in turn, promote motivated reasoning. I show that each virtue and …Read more
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13Precis: the mismeasure of the selfInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. 2022.In this precis of The Mismeasure of the Self I summarise and motivate the attitudinal framework adopted in the book. I defend an account of intellectual humility as a virtue of self-evaluation based on attitudes to the self motivated by the need for knowledge. I provide brief descriptions of some intellectual vices of inferiority and superiority and explain that they are underpinned by attitudes serving either ego-defensive or social adjustive functions. Finally, I detail some of the harms cause…Read more
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13Having the measure of self and world: a response to my criticsInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. 2023.In this response I address criticisms raised by Ashton, Battaly, McGlynn and Simion that my account of intellectual humility (hereafter, IH), and of the vices opposed to it, is too internalistic, is insufficiently social and structural, and finally that my proposal for ameliorating vice might be not efficacious.
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11Critique of Love. Wendy Brown's Edgework: Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics (review)Radical Philosophy 139 (139): 51-53. 2006.
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10Alessandra Tanesini on Line Drawings: Defining Women through Feminist Practice by Cressida J. Heyes (review)Women’s Philosophy Review 27 92-95. 2001.
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