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1135Nietzsche on the Diachronic Will and the problem of moralityEuropean Journal of Philosophy 20 (4): 652-675. 2012.In this paper I offer an innovative interpretation of Nietzsche's metaethical theory of value which shows him to be a kind of constitutivist. For Nietzsche, I argue, valuing is a conative attitude which institutes values, rather than tracking what is independently of value. What is characteristic of those acts of willing which institute values is that they are owned or authored. Nietzsche makes this point using the vocabulary of self-mastery. One crucial feature of those who have achieved this f…Read more
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49Virtues, emotions and fallibilismIn G. Brun, U. Dogluoglu & D. Kuenzle (eds.), Epistemology and the Emotions, . pp. 67-82. 2008.
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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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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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52[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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2Identity Politics, QueerJudgementsIn Iain Morland & Annabelle Willox (eds.), Queer Theory, Palgrave-macmillan. 2005.
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Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship (review)Radical Philosophy 109. 2001.
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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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78Wittgenstein: 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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93Temporal 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
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Virtue Epistemology |
Social Epistemology |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |