Ian James Kidd
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 461728 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ian James Kidd |
| NOMBRES | Ian James |
| APELLIDO | Kidd |
| FIRMA | KIDD I J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7823-9375 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 50 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Epistemic Corruption and Non-Ideal Epistemology
This world is far from ideal, epistemically as well as morally and politically, and a welcome feature of recent epistemology has been a turn towards these non-ideal realities. A case in point is Ro
Epistemic injustice in psychiatric research and practice
This paper offers an overview of the philosophical work on epistemic injustices as it relates to psychiatry. After describing the development of epistemic injustice studies, we survey the existing literature on its application to psychiatry. We describe how the concept of epistemic injustice has been taken up into a range of debates in philosophy of psychiatry, including the nature of psychiatric conditions, psychiatric practices and research, an…
Is Intellectual Humility Compatible with Political Conviction
Intellectual humility is often proposed, these days, as an antidote to the profound lack of respect, tolerance, and openness to other views in contemporary politics. Moreover, deficiencies of intellectual humility are clearly at work in now-familiar displays, in political discourse, of arrogance, dogmatism and related phenomena, like polarization. Although we agree that there are roles for intellectual humility, we identify two problems. First, p…
Individual Vices and Institutional Failings as Drivers of Vulnerabilisation
This paper explores the phenomenon of vulnerabilisation in relation to the experiences of persons with chronic illnesses. We distinguish a range of kinds of vulnerability, including epistemic vulnerabilities related to epistemic injustices, and describe various interpersonal and institutional processes which can create, exacerbate, and intensify those vulnerabilities. The dynamics of vulnerablisation are related to individual vices and institutio…
‘The Hermeneutic Problem of Psychiatry’ and the Co-Production of Meaning in Psychiatric Healthcare
‘The co-production of meaning’ is a phrase that has become entrenched in the field of public mental health, adopted almost as a slogan within the literature. But what does it actually mean? Current definitions gesture toward the very broad idea that co-production involves a collaboration between ‘service users’ and healthcare professionals, each contributing their knowledge to better understand and treat mental health problems. Yet, terms such as…
Metaphilosophical myopia and the ideal of expansive pluralism
This paper argues for the diversification of university-level philosophy curricula. I defend the ideal of expansionist pluralism and connect it to metaphilosophical myopia—problematically limited or constrained visions of the range of forms taken by philosophy. Expansively pluralist curricula work to challenge metaphilosophical myopia and one of its costs, namely, a specific kind of hermeneutical injustice, perpetrated against the communities and…
Epistemic corruption and the research impact agenda
Contemporary epistemologists of education have raised concerns about the distorting effects of some of the processes and structures of contemporary academia on the epistemic practice and character of academic researchers. Such concerns have been articulated using the concept of epistemic corruption. In this article, we lend credibility to these theoretically motivated concerns using the example of the research impact agenda during the period 2012…
The Predicament of Patients
In this paper we propose that our understanding of pathocentric epistemic injustices can be enriched if they are theorised in terms of predicaments. These are the wider socially scaffolded structures of epistemic challenges, dangers, needs, and threats experienced by ill persons due to their particular emplacement within material, social, and epistemic structures. In previous work we have described certain aspects of these predicaments, such as p…
Institutional Opacity, Epistemic Vulnerability, and Institutional Testimonial Justice
This paper offers an account of institutional testimonial justice and describes one way that it breaks down, which we call institutional opacity. An institution is opaque when it becomes resistant to epistemic evaluation and understanding by its agents and users. When one cannot understand the inner workings of an institution, it becomes difficult to know how to comport oneself testimonially. We offer an account of an institutional ethos to expla…
Mathematical practice and epistemic virtue and vice
What sorts of epistemic virtues are required for effective mathematical practice? Should these be virtues of individual or collective agents? What sorts of corresponding epistemic vices might interfere with mathematical practice? How do these virtues and vices of mathematics relate to the virtue-theoretic terminology used by philosophers? We engage in these foundational questions, and explore how the richness of mathematical practices is enhanced…
Corrupted temporalities, ‘cultures of speed’, and the possibility of collegiality
This paper describes a neglected aspect of the critique of academic ‘cultures of speed’ offered by Maggie Berg and Barbara Seeler in The Slow Professor. I argue internalisation of the values and imperatives of cultures of speed can encourage the erosion of a range of academic virtues while also facilitating the development of a range of academic vices. I focus on the ways that an internalised ‘psychology of speed’ erodes our capacity to exercise …
Epistemic corruption and social oppression
The dominant understanding of vice, virtue, and character needs to be revised in light of the recognition by feminist theorists, among others, that character is not simply a matter of what is inside the individual, for which the individual is wholly and solely responsible, but is also a matter of interpersonal, social, cultural, and political contexts. A key insight of liberatory philosophies is a double connection between character and social op…
Humankind, human nature, and misanthropy
Daoism, humanity, and the Way of Heaven
This article argues for a cross-culturally pluralistic conception of spiritual exemplarity. Three main modes of exemplarity are identified, distinguished by their underlying aspirations, which I label ‘allegiance’, ‘enlightened insight’, and ‘emulation’. After challenging some attempts to privilege the modes of exemplarity characteristic of theistic religions, I argue that perhaps the fullest example of the aspiration to emulation is the form of …
Animals, Misanthropy, and Humanity
David E. Cooper argues that honest reflection on the ways human beings treat and compare with animals encourages a doctrine of misanthropy—a negative, critical verdict or judgment on humankind or human culture, motivated by a perception that our practices and forms of life are infused with a variety of vices and failings that are both ubiquitous and entrenched. Animals and Misanthropy develops two strategies of argumentation in support of a doctr…
Martial metaphors and argumentative virtues and vices
This chapter challenges the common claim that vicious forms of argumentative practice, like interpersonal arrogance and discursive polarisation, are caused by martial metaphors, such as ARGUMENT AS WAR. I argue that the problem isn’t the metaphor, but our wider practices of metaphorising and the ways they are deformed by invidious cultural biases and prejudices. Drawing on feminist argumentation theory, I argue that misogynistic cultures distort …
Vice Epistemology
Private Schools and Queue-jumping
John White defends the UK private school system from the accusation that it allows an unfair form of ‘queue jumping’ in university admissions. He offers two responses to this accusation, one based on considerations of harm, and one based on meritocratic distribution of university places. We will argue that neither response succeeds: the queue-jumping argument remains a powerful case against the private school system in the UK. We begin by briefly…
Philosophy of Nature, written by Paul Feyerabend
Narratives of Adversity and Wisdom in Ancient Ethical and Spiritual Texts
Science, realism, and unconceived alternatives
Inner Virtue
Nicolas Bommarito elegantly argues that ‘someone's inner life [can] make them a morally better or worse person’ (p. 3). Although actions matter morally, so do pleasures, emotions, habits of attention, and other aspects of our inner life, even if they’re never expressed in outer behaviour. Underlying the thesis is moral care, a disposition ‘to care about moral goods’, ‘the only unconditionally good trait one can have’ (p. 172). Our moral cares and…
Expanding transformative experience
We develop a broader, more fine-grained taxonomy of forms of transformative experience, inspired by the work of L. A. Paul. Our vulnerability to such experiences arises, we argue, due to the vulnerability, dependence, and affliction intrinsic to the human condition. We use this trio to distinguish a variety of positively, negatively, and ambivalently valenced forms of epistemically and/or personally transformative experiences. Moreover, we argue …
Adversity, Wisdom, and Exemplarism
Epistemic injustice in psychiatry
It has been argued that those who suffer from medical conditions are more vulnerable to epistemic injustice (a harm done to a person in their capacity as an epistemic subject) than healthy people. This editorial claims that people with mental disorders are even more vulnerable to epistemic injustice than those with somatic illnesses. Two kinds of contributory factors are outlined, global and specific. Some suggestions are made to counteract the e…
Expanding transformative experience
We develop a broader, more fine-grained taxonomy of forms of transformative experience, inspired by the work of L. A. Paul. Our vulnerability to such experiences arises, we argue, due to the vulnerability, dependence, and affliction intrinsic to the human condition. We use this trio to distinguish a variety of positively, negatively, and ambivalently valenced forms of epistemically and/or personally transformative experiences. Moreover, we argue …
Inevitability, contingency, and epistemic humility
Pierre Duhem’s epistemic aims and the intellectual virtue of humility
A pluralist challenge to “integrative medicine”
Corrupted temporalities, ‘cultures of speed’, and the possibility of collegiality
This paper describes a neglected aspect of the critique of academic ‘cultures of speed’ offered by Maggie Berg and Barbara Seeler in The Slow Professor. I argue internalisation of the values and imperatives of cultures of speed can encourage the erosion of a range of academic virtues while also facilitating the development of a range of academic vices. I focus on the ways that an internalised ‘psychology of speed’ erodes our capacity to exercise …
Introduction
Was Sir William Crookes epistemically virtuous
Feyerabend on Science and Education
Journal Article Feyerabend on Science and Education Get access Ian James Kidd Ian James Kidd Correspondence: Ian James Kidd, Department of Philosophy, Durham University, 50 Old Elvet, Durham, County Durham, DH1 3HN, UK. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 47, Issue 3, August 2013, Pages 407–422, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12009 Publ…
Oswald Spengler, Technology, and Human Nature
Oswald Spengler (1880–1936) is a neglected figure in the history of European philosophical thought. This article examines the philosophical anthropology developed in his later work, particularly his Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life (1931). My purpose is twofold: the first is to argue that Spengler's later thought is a response to criticisms of the "pessimism" of his earlier work, The Decline of the West (1919). Man and Tec…
Objectivity, abstraction, and the individual
Individual Vices and Institutional Failings as Drivers of Vulnerabilisation
This paper explores the phenomenon of vulnerabilisation in relation to the experiences of persons with chronic illnesses. We distinguish a range of kinds of vulnerability, including epistemic vulnerabilities related to epistemic injustices, and describe various interpersonal and institutional processes which can create, exacerbate, and intensify those vulnerabilities. The dynamics of vulnerablisation are related to individual vices and institutio…
Introduction
Feyerabend on politics, education, and scientific culture
Method in the Madness – Feyerabend’s Philosophical Pluralism
Pierre Duhem’s epistemic aims and the intellectual virtue of humility
Objectivity, abstraction, and the individual
Feyerabend, Pseudo-Dionysius, and the Ineffability of Reality
Biopiracy and the Ethics of Medical Heritage
The Making of Modern Science
Oswald Spengler, Technology, and Human Nature
Oswald Spengler (1880–1936) is a neglected figure in the history of European philosophical thought. This article examines the philosophical anthropology developed in his later work, particularly his Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life (1931). My purpose is twofold: the first is to argue that Spengler's later thought is a response to criticisms of the "pessimism" of his earlier work, The Decline of the West (1919). Man and Tec…
A phenomenological challenge to ‘enlightened secularism’
This article challenges Philip Kitcher's recent proposals for an ‘enlightened secularism’. I use William James's theory of the emotions and his related discussion of ‘temperaments’ to argue that religious and naturalistic commitments are grounded in tacit, inarticulate ways that one finds oneself in a world. This indicates that, in many cases, religiosity and naturalism are grounded not in rational and evidential considerations, but in a tacit an…
A pluralist challenge to “integrative medicine”
Feyerabend on Science and Education
Journal Article Feyerabend on Science and Education Get access Ian James Kidd Ian James Kidd Correspondence: Ian James Kidd, Department of Philosophy, Durham University, 50 Old Elvet, Durham, County Durham, DH1 3HN, UK. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 47, Issue 3, August 2013, Pages 407–422, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12009 Publ…
Emotion, religious practice, and cosmopolitan secularism
Philip Kitcher has recently proposed a form of ‘cosmopolitan secularism’ which he suggests could enable the members of a future secular society to continue to access and benefit from the moral and existential resources of the world's religions. I criticize this proposal by appeal to contemporary work on the role of emotion and practice in religious commitment. Using the work of John Cottingham and Mark Wynn, two objections are offered to the cosm…
Epistemic injustice in healthcare
Was Sir William Crookes epistemically virtuous
Renewing the Senses
The guiding theme of this rich and subtle study is the intimacy of sensory experience and the pursuit of a spiritual life. Wynn argues that religious thoughts can inform and enrich our experience of the sensory world in a way that is both practically and ethically transformative. Such sensory and spiritual renewal can be guided by the doctrinal and practical structures of religious life and, in its more advanced stages, is a component of a wider …
Beauty, virtue, and religious exemplars
This article explores the beauty of religious exemplars – those special persons whose conduct and comportment marks their life out as one that exemplifies a religious life. Such exemplars are consistently described as beautiful, but it is not clear how or why. I suggest that we can make sense of the aesthetic aspect of religious exemplarity by adopting a ‘virtue-centric’ theory of beauty that understands the beautiful in terms of the expression o…
Nature, mystery, and morality
This article argues that a sense of nature's mystery can inspire and inform ways of experiencing and engaging with natural places and creatures in a way that is deeply morally transformative. Focusing on Daoism, it argues that engagement with natural places and creatures can facilitate the cultivation of receptivity to a sense of nature's mystery in a way that gradually releases a person from stances and conceptions that are morally and ecologica…
Epistemic Injustice and Illness
This article analyses the phenomenon of epistemic injustice within contemporary healthcare. We begin by detailing the persistent complaints patients make about their testimonial frustration and hermeneutical marginalization, and the negative impact this has on their care. We offer an epistemic analysis of this problem using Miranda Fricker's account of epistemic injustice. We detail two types of epistemic injustice, testimonial and hermeneutical,…
Introduction
Inevitability, contingency, and epistemic humility
Feyerabend on politics, education, and scientific culture
Introduction
Epistemic injustice in psychiatry
It has been argued that those who suffer from medical conditions are more vulnerable to epistemic injustice (a harm done to a person in their capacity as an epistemic subject) than healthy people. This editorial claims that people with mental disorders are even more vulnerable to epistemic injustice than those with somatic illnesses. Two kinds of contributory factors are outlined, global and specific. Some suggestions are made to counteract the e…
The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Injustice
Beautiful Bodhisattvas
The world’s spiritual traditions incorporate a variety of types of exemplar, persons who exemplify a life of aspiration to, or attainment of, spiritual goods. Within Buddhism, the range of exemplars includes monastics, bodhisattvas, the Zen masters and the Buddha himself. Spiritual exemplars are typically described as having a distinctive form of bodily beauty, closely related to their ethical and spiritual qualities, that manifests as a form of …
Phenomenology of illness, philosophy, and life
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