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    Respecting the oppressed in the personal autonomy debate
    Philosophical Studies 178 (8): 2557-2578. 2020.
    It is common in the autonomy literature to claim that some more demanding theories of autonomy disrespect certain individuals by giving the result that those individuals lack autonomy. This claim is often made in the context of the debate between substantive and content-neutral theories of autonomy. Proponents of content-neutral theories often argue that, in deeming certain people non-autonomous—especially certain oppressed people who seem to have internalized their oppression in certain ways—th…Read more
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    Seeing Oneself as a Source of Reasons: Gaslighting, Oppression, and Autonomy
    Southwest Philosophy Review 38 (1): 237-244. 2022.
    In this paper, I provide a novel account of gaslighting according to which gaslighting involves mistakenly failing to see oneself as a source of reasons with respect to some domain. I argue that this account does a nice job of explaining what's gone wrong in various popular examples of gaslighting, and that it captures what different instances of gaslighting have in common even when they are quite different in other respects. I also show how this account of gaslighting explains a common intuitio…Read more