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On SubtweetingIn Patrick Connolly, Sandy Goldberg & Jennifer Saul (eds.), Conversations Online, Oxford University Press. forthcoming.In paradigmatic cases of subtweeting, one Twitter user critically or mockingly tweets about another person without mentioning their username or their name. In this chapter, we give an account of the strategic aims of subtweeting and the mechanics through which it achieves them. We thereby hope to shed light on the distinctive communicative and moral texture of subtweeting while filling in a gap in the philosophical literature on strategic speech in social media. We first specify what subtweets a…Read more
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Pornography and Dehumanization: The Essentialist DimensionAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 98 (4): 703-717. 2020.
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An Essentialist Theory of the Meaning of SlursPhilosophers' Imprint 19. 2019.In this paper, I develop an essentialist model of the semantics of slurs. I defend the view that slurs are a species of kind terms: Slur concepts encode mini-theories which represent an essence-like element that is causally connected to a set of negatively-valenced stereotypical features of a social group. The truth-conditional contribution of slur nouns can then be captured by the following schema: For a given slur S of a social group G and a person P, S is true of P iff P bears the “essence” o…Read more
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Can we perceive mental states?Synthese 197 (5): 2245-2269. 2020.In this paper, I defend Non-Inferentialism about mental states, the view that we can perceive some mental states in a direct, non-inferential way. First, I discuss how the question of mental state perception is to be understood in light of recent debates in the philosophy of perception, and reconstruct Non-Inferentialism in a way that makes the question at hand—whether we can perceive mental states or not—scientifically tractable. Next, I motivate Non-Inferentialism by showing that under the ass…Read more
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