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44Contemporary debates in epistemology – Matthias Steup and Ernest Sosa (eds) (review)Philosophical Quarterly 57 (227). 2007.
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40Lyotard and Kripke: Essentialisms in DisputeAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 32 (3): 271-8. 1995.
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79Wittgenstein: a feminist interpretationPolity Press. 2004.In this new book, Alessandra Tanesini demonstrates that feminist thought has a lot to offer to the study of Wittgenstein's philosophical work, and that -at the same time-that work can inspire feminist reflection in new directions. In Wittgenstein, Tanesini offers a highly original interpretation of several themes in Wittgenstein's philosophy. She argues that when we look at his work through feminist eyes we discover that he is not primarily concerned with providing solutions to technical problem…Read more
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92Temporal Externalism: A Taxonomy, an Articulation, and a DefenceJournal of the Philosophy of History 8 (1). 2014.I argue that the semantic content of thoughts and the linguistic meaning of expressions are things with a history in the sense that they can be made fully intelligible only from the point of view of the future. I defend this position by articulating a version of a view known in the philosophy of language as temporal externalism. Temporal externalism about content is the view that the content of a subject’s thoughts and utterances at a time t depends on features of the linguistic practices of her…Read more
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137Collective amnesia and epistemic injusticeImperfect Cognitions. 2016.Alessandra Tanesini is a Professor of Philosophy at Cardiff University working on epistemology and philosophy of language. In this post she summarises some of her recent work on collective amnesia and epistemic injustice.
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92Intentionality and the externalism versus internalism debateAbstracta 4 (S2): 45-53. 2008.In their excellent book The Phenomenological Mind Shaun Gallagher and Dan Zahavi demonstrate that analytic philosophy of mind and cognitive science have much to learn from work conducted in the phenomenological tradition. In particular, they show how discussions about embodied cognition, about the self, and about mind-reading could be greatly enhanced if the lessons of phenomenology were heeded to. However, their discussion of the structure of intentionality is, in my view, less successful in th…Read more
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45Under-represented groups in philosophy (26th-27th November 2010)Humana.Mente Journal of Philosophical Studies 22 243-249. 2012.
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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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458Teaching Virtue: Changing AttitudesLogos and Episteme 7 (4): 503-527. 2016.In this paper I offer an original account of intellectual modesty and some of its surrounding vices: intellectual haughtiness, arrogance, servility and self-abasement. I argue that these vices are attitudes as social psychologists understand the notion. I also draw some of the educational implications of the account. In particular, I urge caution about the efficacy of direct instruction about virtue and of stimulating emulation through exposure to positive exemplars.
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496The Non-Conjunctive Nature of DisjunctivismTeorema: International Journal of Philosophy 29 (1): 95-103. 2010.
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106An Introduction to Feminist EpistemologiesWiley-Blackwell. 1999.Although their positions and arguments differ in several respects, feminists have asserted that science, knowledge, and rationality cannot be severed from their social, political, and cultural aspects
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28Review of Deborah K. Heikes, Rationality and Feminist Philosophy (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2011 (1). 2011.
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Wittgenstein and Gadamer: Towards a Post-Analytic Philosophy of Language (review)Radical Philosophy 135. 2006.
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1On Reason: Rationality in a World of Cultural Conflict and Racism (review)Radical Philosophy 155. 2009.
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Social Epistemology |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |