Natalie A Ashton
Biographic Data
| ID | 1629102 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natalie A Ashton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natalie A |
| FAMILY NAME | Ashton |
| SIGNATURE | ASHTON N A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2885-9576 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Receptive Publics
It is widely accepted that public discourse as we know it is less than ideal from an epistemological point of view. In this paper, we develop an underappreciated aspect of the trouble with public discourse: what we call the Listening Problem. The listening problem is the problem that public discourse has in giving appropriate uptake and reception to ideas and concepts from oppressed groups. Drawing on the work of Jürgen Habermas and Nancy Fraser,…
Measuring the self and measuring the world
I evaluate Tanesini’s attempt to provide a social approach to intellectual vices. I do this in three steps. First, I explain what I mean by a ‘social approach’. Tanesini offers three senses in which her account is social, and I explain each of these before honing in on the one in which I am most interested. Second, I address the extent to which her approach to the causes of intellectual vices can be said to be a social approach. My assessment her…
Feminist Standpoint Theory vs. the Identitarian Ideology of the New Right
The term ‘identity politics’ is used to refer to a wide range of political movements. In this paper, we look at the theoretical ideas underpinning two strongly, mutually opposed forms of identity politics, and identify some crucial differences between them. We critically compare the identitarian ideology of the New Right with feminist standpoint theory, focusing on two issues: relativism and essentialism. In carrying out this critical comparison …
Rethinking the Post‐Truth Polarisation Narrative
This article critically evaluates what we call the ‘popular narrative’ about the state of the public sphere. We identify three elements of this popular narrative (the post‐truth element, the polarisation element and the new technology element), and draw on philosophical work on hinge epistemology and social roles to challenge each one. We propose, instead, that public debate has always depended on non‐evidential commitments, that it has always be…
Extended Rationality
In this interesting book, Annalisa Coliva develops an account of the structure of justification inspired by Wittgenstein's epistemology, and reveals its significance for many contemporary problems. This ‘extended rationality’ view has two key components. The first is moderatism about perceptual warrants, and the second is constitutivism about epistemic rationality. Moderatism is the view that, absent defeaters, the appropriate course of experienc…
Undercutting Underdetermination‐Based Scepticism
According to D uncan P ritchard, there are two kinds of radical sceptical problem; the closure‐based problem, and the underdetermination‐based problem. He argues that distinguishing these two problems leads to a set of desiderata for an anti‐sceptical response, and that the way to meet all of these desiderata is by supplementing a form of W ittgensteinian contextualism (which can undercut the closure‐based problem) with disjunctivist views about …
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Undercutting Underdetermination‐Based Scepticism
According to D uncan P ritchard, there are two kinds of radical sceptical problem; the closure‐based problem, and the underdetermination‐based problem. He argues that distinguishing these two problems leads to a set of desiderata for an anti‐sceptical response, and that the way to meet all of these desiderata is by supplementing a form of W ittgensteinian contextualism (which can undercut the closure‐based problem) with disjunctivist views about …
Extended Rationality
In this interesting book, Annalisa Coliva develops an account of the structure of justification inspired by Wittgenstein's epistemology, and reveals its significance for many contemporary problems. This ‘extended rationality’ view has two key components. The first is moderatism about perceptual warrants, and the second is constitutivism about epistemic rationality. Moderatism is the view that, absent defeaters, the appropriate course of experienc…
Rethinking the Post‐Truth Polarisation Narrative
This article critically evaluates what we call the ‘popular narrative’ about the state of the public sphere. We identify three elements of this popular narrative (the post‐truth element, the polarisation element and the new technology element), and draw on philosophical work on hinge epistemology and social roles to challenge each one. We propose, instead, that public debate has always depended on non‐evidential commitments, that it has always be…
Receptive Publics
It is widely accepted that public discourse as we know it is less than ideal from an epistemological point of view. In this paper, we develop an underappreciated aspect of the trouble with public discourse: what we call the Listening Problem. The listening problem is the problem that public discourse has in giving appropriate uptake and reception to ideas and concepts from oppressed groups. Drawing on the work of Jürgen Habermas and Nancy Fraser,…
Measuring the self and measuring the world
I evaluate Tanesini’s attempt to provide a social approach to intellectual vices. I do this in three steps. First, I explain what I mean by a ‘social approach’. Tanesini offers three senses in which her account is social, and I explain each of these before honing in on the one in which I am most interested. Second, I address the extent to which her approach to the causes of intellectual vices can be said to be a social approach. My assessment her…
Feminist Standpoint Theory vs. the Identitarian Ideology of the New Right
The term ‘identity politics’ is used to refer to a wide range of political movements. In this paper, we look at the theoretical ideas underpinning two strongly, mutually opposed forms of identity politics, and identify some crucial differences between them. We critically compare the identitarian ideology of the New Right with feminist standpoint theory, focusing on two issues: relativism and essentialism. In carrying out this critical comparison …
Epistemology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Skepticism (2 works)