Mark Satta
Biographic Data
| ID | 1306499 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Satta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Satta |
| SIGNATURE | SATTA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9630-1339 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Moral Grandstanding and the Norms of Moral Discourse
Moral grandstanding is the use of moral talk for self-promotion. Recent philosophical work assumes that people can often accurately identify instances of grandstanding. In contrast, we argue that people are generally unable to reliably recognize instances of grandstanding and that we are typically unjustified in judging that others are grandstanding as a result. From there we argue that, under most circumstances, to judge others as grandstanders …
A Disjunctive Argument Against Conjoining Belief Impermissivism and Credal Impermissivism
Epistemic Exhaustion and the Retention of Power
Epistemic exhaustion is cognitive fatigue generated by efforts to determine, retain, or communicate what one believes under conditions that make doing so especially taxing. I argue that the creation and maintenance of epistemic exhaustion is a tool that the socially and politically powerful can and do use in order to retain power. I consider a variety of conversational tactics and three circumstances—partisan polarization, epistemic chaos, and ep…
Commercial Discrimination as Religious Messaging in 303 Creative v. Elenis
In 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, a web designer sought a legal right to refuse to make wedding websites for same-sex couples while making wedding websites for other couples as a service provided by her business open to the public. The web designer also sought a legal right to post a notice on her business webpage stating that she would refuse to provide such services for same-sex couples' weddings. Here, I argue that 303 Creative marks a fairly rad…
Epistemic Trepassing and Expert Witness Testimony
Epistemic trespassers have competence in one field but pass judgment on matters in other fields where they lack competence. I examine philosophical questions related to epistemic trespassing by expert witnesses in courtroom trials and argue for the following positions. Expert witnesses are required to avoid epistemic trespassing. When testifying as an expert witness, merely qualifying one’s statements to indicate that one is not speaking as an ex…
Evil twins and the multiverse
Is There a Duty-Generating Special Relationship of Creator to Creature
Epistemology for the Rest of the World
The editors and contributors for this excellent and timely volume have provided a great service to epistemology. Over the last thirty years or so, epistemology has taken somewhat of a ‘linguistic turn’. This is perhaps most clearly seen in the development of views like contextualism, contrastivism, and the ambiguity theory of ‘know’, all of which seek to explain certain persistent epistemological puzzles by examining the word ‘know’ in addition t…
Epistemic Exhaustion and the Retention of Power
Epistemic exhaustion is cognitive fatigue generated by efforts to determine, retain, or communicate what one believes under conditions that make doing so especially taxing. I argue that the creation and maintenance of epistemic exhaustion is a tool that the socially and politically powerful can and do use in order to retain power. I consider a variety of conversational tactics and three circumstances—partisan polarization, epistemic chaos, and ep…
Epistemology for the Rest of the World
The editors and contributors for this excellent and timely volume have provided a great service to epistemology. Over the last thirty years or so, epistemology has taken somewhat of a ‘linguistic turn’. This is perhaps most clearly seen in the development of views like contextualism, contrastivism, and the ambiguity theory of ‘know’, all of which seek to explain certain persistent epistemological puzzles by examining the word ‘know’ in addition t…
Is There a Duty-Generating Special Relationship of Creator to Creature
Evil twins and the multiverse
Epistemic Trepassing and Expert Witness Testimony
Epistemic trespassers have competence in one field but pass judgment on matters in other fields where they lack competence. I examine philosophical questions related to epistemic trespassing by expert witnesses in courtroom trials and argue for the following positions. Expert witnesses are required to avoid epistemic trespassing. When testifying as an expert witness, merely qualifying one’s statements to indicate that one is not speaking as an ex…
Commercial Discrimination as Religious Messaging in 303 Creative v. Elenis
In 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, a web designer sought a legal right to refuse to make wedding websites for same-sex couples while making wedding websites for other couples as a service provided by her business open to the public. The web designer also sought a legal right to post a notice on her business webpage stating that she would refuse to provide such services for same-sex couples' weddings. Here, I argue that 303 Creative marks a fairly rad…
Moral Grandstanding and the Norms of Moral Discourse
Moral grandstanding is the use of moral talk for self-promotion. Recent philosophical work assumes that people can often accurately identify instances of grandstanding. In contrast, we argue that people are generally unable to reliably recognize instances of grandstanding and that we are typically unjustified in judging that others are grandstanding as a result. From there we argue that, under most circumstances, to judge others as grandstanders …
A Disjunctive Argument Against Conjoining Belief Impermissivism and Credal Impermissivism
Epistemic Exhaustion and the Retention of Power
Epistemic exhaustion is cognitive fatigue generated by efforts to determine, retain, or communicate what one believes under conditions that make doing so especially taxing. I argue that the creation and maintenance of epistemic exhaustion is a tool that the socially and politically powerful can and do use in order to retain power. I consider a variety of conversational tactics and three circumstances—partisan polarization, epistemic chaos, and ep…
Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Metaphysics (3 works) · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies (2 works)