Public Writing
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(Penultimate version; you can buy the magazine here)
Amusingly, this was for a debate on Woke: For or Against?
I wrote about how a focus on deriding wokeness functions as a dogwhistle: it allows for an appeal to racial resentment, discomfort with shifts in gender norms, etc., while denying that such attitudes are present.
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I argue that we shouldn't worry so much about groupthink, and should focus on promoting collective deliberation instead.
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Gloria Andrada and I make the case for feminist philosophy of mind, following a workshop on the topic we co-organized in Lisbon in July 2023.
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I discuss how reshaping social networks and identities can make us more open to changing our minds. I look at the highs and lows of identity-protective reasoning, identity, formation, group contact, and philosophical imagination.
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A 2,000-word piece for the Women in Philosophy series at the Blog of the American Philosophical Association. I argue that we should not assume that those who disagree with us are stupid and irrational (and should set a high threshold for forming such beliefs). I look both at the moral/political dangers of doing so and at evidence from psychology and political science that indicates that people are not as bad at reasoning as public discourse often suggests.
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A short interview for the Imperfect Cognitions blog about my work. I discuss evidence-resistance, epistemic styles, delusions, schizophrenia, and doing empirically-informed philosophy mind.
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A piece on teaching for the Philosophers’ Cocoon. I argue that we should teach applied social epistemology in critical thinking courses, and provide materials I developed for this purpose.
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An informal interview for the Blog of the APA, where I talk about my grad school philosophical work, my work with Minorities and Philosophy, and some non-philosophical topics.
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I argue that folk psychology has social coordination as its primary function and make puns about ants.