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519Normative Inference TicketsEpisteme 1-27. 2023.We argue that stereotypes associated with concepts like he-said–she-said, conspiracy theory, sexual harassment, and those expressed by paradigmatic slurs provide “normative inference tickets”: conceptual permissions to automatic, largely unreflective normative conclusions. These “mental shortcuts” are underwritten by associated stereotypes. Because stereotypes admit of exceptions, normative inference tickets are highly flexible and productive, but also liable to create serious epistemic and mora…Read more
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2317Busting the Ghost of Neutral CounterpartsErgo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 10 (42): 1187-1242. 2023.Slurs have been standardly assumed to bear a very direct, very distinctive semantic relationship to what philosophers have called “neutral counterpart” terms. I argue that this is mistaken: the general relationship between paradigmatic slurs and their “neutral counterparts” should be assumed to be the same one that obtains between ‘chick flick’ and ‘romantic comedy’, as well a huge number of other more prosaic pairs of derogatory and “less derogatory” expressions. The most plausible general rela…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Ethics of Belief |
Virtue Epistemology |
Meta-Ethics |
Philosophy of Language |
Areas of Interest
Aesthetics |
Feminist Philosophy |
Plato: Political Philosophy |