Anna Drożdżowicz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1290810 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Drożdżowicz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Drożdżowicz |
| SIGNATURE | DROŻDŻOWICZ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Inland Norway |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0877-6682 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Linguistic understanding: Perception and inference
Consider reading the news about the recent election, taking part in a classroom discussion about injustice, or having a conversation about dinner, with your friend. In these cases, you rely on your capacity for linguistic understanding. How do we come to understand what other people communicate to us on particular occasions? In recent philosophical debates about this question, we find two broad approaches: the perceptual approach, which claims th…
Illusions in speech sound and voice perception
Hearing speech in a particular voice is a common experience in spoken linguistic communication. Nevertheless, the nature and role(s) of that experience are relatively under-theorized in philosophy. What can we learn about auditory experiences of listening to speech in a voice from illusions? In this paper I discuss two illusions and two special effects in speech sound and voice perception: (1) the temporal induction illusion in speech, (2) the ph…
Epistemic injustice and psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is a form of psychological service that involves a collaborative process based on the relationship between a psychotherapist and a client/patient. The epistemic interdependence between psychotherapists and clients raises important questions concerning epistemic authority and power, as well as epistemic injustice, i.e., a kind of injustice that arises when one’s capacity as an epistemic agent is wrongfully denied. In this paper, we c…
Voice, speaker identity, and communication
Voice is a powerful social cue. Upon hearing a speaker’s voice, accent, or manner of speaking, interlocutors may form spontaneous impressions about various speaker characteristics. For example, interlocutors may form an impression that the speaker is of a certain age, that they are competent, or have a certain personality trait. What is the nature of such impressions? And in what ways can they accompany spoken linguistic communication? In this pa…
Conversational pressures at work: Professional roles and communication in mental healthcare settings
What do we owe to each other when communicating? One area where these questions become immediately relevant is that of mental healthcare settings. Mental healthcare relies heavily on communication with patients/clients. However, it has been argued that patients/clients in mental healthcare settings are often vulnerable to various forms of epistemic injustice, e.g., by not being listened to, not being taken seriously, not being considered as a sou…
The complexities of linguistic discrimination
Linguistic discrimination is a complex phenomenon.How should it be investigated?Evidential pool is of key importance.In this paper, we present specific conceptual and methodological challenges in the study of linguistic discrimination, with a focus on linguistic discrimination resulting from implicit attitudes and the steadily growing research on biases and structural approaches to social injustice.We conclude by proposing that a productive and c…
Self-illness ambiguity and anorexia nervosa
Self-illness ambiguity is a difficulty to distinguish the ‘self’ or ‘who one is’ from one's mental disorder or diagnosis. Although self-illness ambiguity in a psychiatric context is often deemed to be a negative phenomenon, it may occasionally have a positive role too. This paper investigates whether and in what sense self-illness ambiguity could have a positive role in the process of recovery and self-development in some psychiatric contexts by …
Experiences of linguistic understanding as epistemic feelings
Language understanding comes with a particular kind of phenomenology. It is often observed that when listening to utterances in a familiar language, competent language users can have experiences of understanding the meanings of these utterances. The nature of such experiences is a much debated topic. In this paper, I develop a new proposal according to which experiences of understanding are a particular kind of epistemic feelings of fluency that …
Linguistic modalities and the sources of linguistic utterances
As an object of philosophical study, language is typically considered as an abstract object rather than a lived phenomenon that comes with rich and varied phenomenology. And yet our modes of engaging with language are complex and many. The first goal of this paper is to illustrate this variety by looking at some of the linguistic modalities and forms of communication. The second goal is to suggest that at least in some specific philosophical deba…
Making it precise—Imprecision and underdetermination in linguistic communication
How good are we at understanding what others communicate? It often seems to us, at least, that we understand quite well what others convey when speaking in a familiar language. However, a growing body of evidence from the psychology of language suggests that in various communicative settings comprehenders routinely form linguistic representations that are underdetermined, “sketchy”, “shallow” or imprecise, often without noticing it. The paper dis…
Epistemic injustice in psychiatric practice: Epistemic duties and the phenomenological approach
Epistemic injustice is a kind of injustice that arises when one’s capacity as an epistemic subject (eg, a knower, a reasoner) is wrongfully denied. In recent years it has been argued that psychiatric patients are often harmed in their capacity as knowers and suffer from various forms of epistemic injustice that they encounter in psychiatric services. Acknowledging that epistemic injustice is a multifaceted problem in psychiatry calls for an adequ…
Bringing back the voice: On the auditory objects of speech perception
When you hear a person speaking in a familiar language you perceive the speech sounds uttered and the voice that produces them. How are speech sounds and voice related in a typical auditory experience of hearing speech in a particular voice? And how to conceive of the objects of such experiences? I propose a conception of auditory objects of speech perception as temporally structured mereologically complex individuals. A common experience is that…
Descriptive ineffability reconsidered
Making it precise—Imprecision and underdetermination in linguistic communication
How good are we at understanding what others communicate? It often seems to us, at least, that we understand quite well what others convey when speaking in a familiar language. However, a growing body of evidence from the psychology of language suggests that in various communicative settings comprehenders routinely form linguistic representations that are underdetermined, “sketchy”, “shallow” or imprecise, often without noticing it. The paper dis…
Descriptive ineffability reconsidered
Bringing back the voice: On the auditory objects of speech perception
When you hear a person speaking in a familiar language you perceive the speech sounds uttered and the voice that produces them. How are speech sounds and voice related in a typical auditory experience of hearing speech in a particular voice? And how to conceive of the objects of such experiences? I propose a conception of auditory objects of speech perception as temporally structured mereologically complex individuals. A common experience is that…
Descriptive ineffability reconsidered
Epistemic injustice in psychiatric practice: Epistemic duties and the phenomenological approach
Epistemic injustice is a kind of injustice that arises when one’s capacity as an epistemic subject (eg, a knower, a reasoner) is wrongfully denied. In recent years it has been argued that psychiatric patients are often harmed in their capacity as knowers and suffer from various forms of epistemic injustice that they encounter in psychiatric services. Acknowledging that epistemic injustice is a multifaceted problem in psychiatry calls for an adequ…
Bringing back the voice: On the auditory objects of speech perception
When you hear a person speaking in a familiar language you perceive the speech sounds uttered and the voice that produces them. How are speech sounds and voice related in a typical auditory experience of hearing speech in a particular voice? And how to conceive of the objects of such experiences? I propose a conception of auditory objects of speech perception as temporally structured mereologically complex individuals. A common experience is that…
Making it precise—Imprecision and underdetermination in linguistic communication
How good are we at understanding what others communicate? It often seems to us, at least, that we understand quite well what others convey when speaking in a familiar language. However, a growing body of evidence from the psychology of language suggests that in various communicative settings comprehenders routinely form linguistic representations that are underdetermined, “sketchy”, “shallow” or imprecise, often without noticing it. The paper dis…
Self-illness ambiguity and anorexia nervosa
Self-illness ambiguity is a difficulty to distinguish the ‘self’ or ‘who one is’ from one's mental disorder or diagnosis. Although self-illness ambiguity in a psychiatric context is often deemed to be a negative phenomenon, it may occasionally have a positive role too. This paper investigates whether and in what sense self-illness ambiguity could have a positive role in the process of recovery and self-development in some psychiatric contexts by …
Experiences of linguistic understanding as epistemic feelings
Language understanding comes with a particular kind of phenomenology. It is often observed that when listening to utterances in a familiar language, competent language users can have experiences of understanding the meanings of these utterances. The nature of such experiences is a much debated topic. In this paper, I develop a new proposal according to which experiences of understanding are a particular kind of epistemic feelings of fluency that …
Linguistic modalities and the sources of linguistic utterances
As an object of philosophical study, language is typically considered as an abstract object rather than a lived phenomenon that comes with rich and varied phenomenology. And yet our modes of engaging with language are complex and many. The first goal of this paper is to illustrate this variety by looking at some of the linguistic modalities and forms of communication. The second goal is to suggest that at least in some specific philosophical deba…
The complexities of linguistic discrimination
Linguistic discrimination is a complex phenomenon.How should it be investigated?Evidential pool is of key importance.In this paper, we present specific conceptual and methodological challenges in the study of linguistic discrimination, with a focus on linguistic discrimination resulting from implicit attitudes and the steadily growing research on biases and structural approaches to social injustice.We conclude by proposing that a productive and c…
Illusions in speech sound and voice perception
Hearing speech in a particular voice is a common experience in spoken linguistic communication. Nevertheless, the nature and role(s) of that experience are relatively under-theorized in philosophy. What can we learn about auditory experiences of listening to speech in a voice from illusions? In this paper I discuss two illusions and two special effects in speech sound and voice perception: (1) the temporal induction illusion in speech, (2) the ph…
Epistemic injustice and psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is a form of psychological service that involves a collaborative process based on the relationship between a psychotherapist and a client/patient. The epistemic interdependence between psychotherapists and clients raises important questions concerning epistemic authority and power, as well as epistemic injustice, i.e., a kind of injustice that arises when one’s capacity as an epistemic agent is wrongfully denied. In this paper, we c…
Voice, speaker identity, and communication
Voice is a powerful social cue. Upon hearing a speaker’s voice, accent, or manner of speaking, interlocutors may form spontaneous impressions about various speaker characteristics. For example, interlocutors may form an impression that the speaker is of a certain age, that they are competent, or have a certain personality trait. What is the nature of such impressions? And in what ways can they accompany spoken linguistic communication? In this pa…
Conversational pressures at work: Professional roles and communication in mental healthcare settings
What do we owe to each other when communicating? One area where these questions become immediately relevant is that of mental healthcare settings. Mental healthcare relies heavily on communication with patients/clients. However, it has been argued that patients/clients in mental healthcare settings are often vulnerable to various forms of epistemic injustice, e.g., by not being listened to, not being taken seriously, not being considered as a sou…
Linguistic understanding: Perception and inference
Consider reading the news about the recent election, taking part in a classroom discussion about injustice, or having a conversation about dinner, with your friend. In these cases, you rely on your capacity for linguistic understanding. How do we come to understand what other people communicate to us on particular occasions? In recent philosophical debates about this question, we find two broad approaches: the perceptual approach, which claims th…
Psychology (12 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Cognitive science (5 works) · Perception (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works)