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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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1715Standpoint theory then and nowIn M. Fricker, N. J. L. L. Pedersen, D. Henderson & P. J. Graham (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology, Routledge. 2019.
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723"Calm down, dear": intellectual arrogance, silencing and ignoranceAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 90 (1): 71-92. 2016.In this paper I provide an account of two forms of intellectual arrogance which cause the epistemic practices of conversational turn-taking and assertion to malfunction. I detail some of the ethical and epistemic harms generated by intellectual arrogance, and explain its role in fostering the intellectual vices of timidity and servility in other agents. Finally, I show that arrogance produces ignorance by silencing others (both preventing them from speaking and causing their assertions to misfir…Read more
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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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70Wittgenstein: 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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Social Epistemology |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |