Carolina Flores
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597470 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carolina Flores |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carolina |
| FAMILY NAME | Flores |
| SIGNATURE | FLORES C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3709-7419 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Resistant Beliefs, Responsive Believers
Beliefs can be resistant to evidence. Nonetheless, the orthodox view in epistemology analyzes beliefs as evidence-responsive attitudes. I address this tension by deploying analytical tools on capacities and masking to show that the cognitive science of evidence-resistance supports rather than undermines the orthodox view. In doing so, I argue for the claim that belief requires the capacity for evidence-responsiveness. More precisely, if a subject…
Delusions and epistemic style
Reasoning that leads to delusions—especially in schizophrenia—appears beyond the bounds of sense, profoundly inaccessible. By analyzing empirical research on reasoning that supports delusions in schizophrenia, I demonstrate that such reasoning can be made intelligible at the personal level. Specifically, I propose that these empirical findings can be positively characterized as reflecting a distinctive epistemic style—a characteristic implementat…
Calling trauma, elite capture, and hermeneutical injustice
Not infrequently, members of privileged groups call trauma: by framing a complex situation around the trauma they claim to have endured. What, if anything, is the problem with this? To address this question, I analyse a case study of this phenomenon: culturally prevalent descriptions of Portuguese decolonization in terms of settler trauma. I provide an account of how this appeal to trauma functions as a frame, guiding interpretation of the broade…
Identity-protective reasoning
Identity-protective reasoning – motivated reasoning driven by defending a social identity – is often dismissed as a paradigm of epistemic vice and a key driver of democratic dysfunction. Against this view, I argue that identity-protective reasoning can play a positive epistemic role, both individually and collectively. Collectively, it facilitates an effective division of cognitive labor by enabling groups to test divergent beliefs, serving as an…
Trazando la biografía de la colección Schaefer
Este artículo sintetiza el trabajo de conservación realizado sobre la Colección Schaefer durante los 80 años de existencia del Museo de Antropologías y reflexiona sobre las tomas de decisiones al momento de su patrimonialización y las posteriores gestiones de colecciones que influyeron en la preservación de la misma. Las acciones realizadas sobre la Colección Schaefer a lo largo de los años infligieron daños sobre ella, tales como la disociación …
Playing with labels
Identity labels like "woman", "Black," "mother," and "evangelical" are pervasive in both political and personal life, and in both formal and informal classification and communication. They are also widely thought to undermine agency by essentializing groups, flattening individual distinctiveness, and enforcing discrimination. While we take these worries to be well-founded, we argue that they result from a particular practice of using labels to ri…
Epistemic norms on evidence-gathering
In this paper, we argue that there are epistemic norms on evidence-gathering and consider consequences for how to understand epistemic normativity. Though the view that there are such norms seems intuitive, it has found surprisingly little defense. Rather, many philosophers have argued that norms on evidence-gathering can only be practical or moral. On a prominent evidentialist version of this position, epistemic norms only apply to responding to…
Desde sus Memorias
El siguiente escrito, indaga en la memoria de mujeres y hombres que trabajaron en su infancia en el sistema hacendal, en la comuna de Romeral (VII región). A través de la historia oral, nos aproximamos al trabajo infantil, desde una perspectiva de género, con el objetivo de reconocer las características de este trabajo y a su vez analizar las diversas dinámicas sociales que permitieron que dicho sistema lo legitimara. Sistema que asumía como verd…
Self-segregation strategies through school choice in Chile
Sociological research has shown that marketized educational systems favour middle-class families' self-segregation strategies through school choice and, consequently, the reproduction of their social advantage over poorer families. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of capitals, habitus and strategy, we analyse quantitative and ethnographic data on parents' school choice from Chile to introduce nuances to this argument, evincing more extended …
Epistemic Styles
Epistemic agents interact with evidence in different ways. This can cause trouble for mutual understanding and for our ability to rationally engage with others. Indeed, it can compromise democratic practices of deliberation. This paper explains these differences by appeal to a new notion: epistemic styles. Epistemic styles are ways of interacting with evidence that express unified sets of epistemic values, preferences, goals, and interests. The p…
Delusional evidence-responsiveness
Failed regulations and school composition
This is an exploratory study about pupil selection. Admission regulations are central to understanding issues of school mix, segregation and educational justice. In Chile, student selection has been intensively discussed but scarcely studied. Using a questionnaire for headteachers (N = 581), we explore how school admission processes are organised and implemented within a market-based educational system with a high-stakes testing regime where scho…
Cultura de cohesión e integración en las ciudades chilenas
Esta investigacin plantea que el grado de proximidad espacial y de contacto social entre personas de distinto nivel socioeconmico, moldea las formas de cohesin social, es decir, las normas y valores generadores de actitudes y comportamientos favorables a la supervivencia y desarrollo de una sociedad. La pregunta se centra en las posibilidades para el fortalecimiento de la cohesin social que ofrecen a) las actuales formas de integracin y convivenc…
Failed regulations and school composition
This is an exploratory study about pupil selection. Admission regulations are central to understanding issues of school mix, segregation and educational justice. In Chile, student selection has been intensively discussed but scarcely studied. Using a questionnaire for headteachers (N = 581), we explore how school admission processes are organised and implemented within a market-based educational system with a high-stakes testing regime where scho…
Delusional evidence-responsiveness
Self-segregation strategies through school choice in Chile
Sociological research has shown that marketized educational systems favour middle-class families' self-segregation strategies through school choice and, consequently, the reproduction of their social advantage over poorer families. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of capitals, habitus and strategy, we analyse quantitative and ethnographic data on parents' school choice from Chile to introduce nuances to this argument, evincing more extended …
Playing with labels
Identity labels like "woman", "Black," "mother," and "evangelical" are pervasive in both political and personal life, and in both formal and informal classification and communication. They are also widely thought to undermine agency by essentializing groups, flattening individual distinctiveness, and enforcing discrimination. While we take these worries to be well-founded, we argue that they result from a particular practice of using labels to ri…
Identity-protective reasoning
Identity-protective reasoning – motivated reasoning driven by defending a social identity – is often dismissed as a paradigm of epistemic vice and a key driver of democratic dysfunction. Against this view, I argue that identity-protective reasoning can play a positive epistemic role, both individually and collectively. Collectively, it facilitates an effective division of cognitive labor by enabling groups to test divergent beliefs, serving as an…
Cultura de cohesión e integración en las ciudades chilenas
Esta investigacin plantea que el grado de proximidad espacial y de contacto social entre personas de distinto nivel socioeconmico, moldea las formas de cohesin social, es decir, las normas y valores generadores de actitudes y comportamientos favorables a la supervivencia y desarrollo de una sociedad. La pregunta se centra en las posibilidades para el fortalecimiento de la cohesin social que ofrecen a) las actuales formas de integracin y convivenc…
Failed regulations and school composition
This is an exploratory study about pupil selection. Admission regulations are central to understanding issues of school mix, segregation and educational justice. In Chile, student selection has been intensively discussed but scarcely studied. Using a questionnaire for headteachers (N = 581), we explore how school admission processes are organised and implemented within a market-based educational system with a high-stakes testing regime where scho…
Epistemic Styles
Epistemic agents interact with evidence in different ways. This can cause trouble for mutual understanding and for our ability to rationally engage with others. Indeed, it can compromise democratic practices of deliberation. This paper explains these differences by appeal to a new notion: epistemic styles. Epistemic styles are ways of interacting with evidence that express unified sets of epistemic values, preferences, goals, and interests. The p…
Delusional evidence-responsiveness
Self-segregation strategies through school choice in Chile
Sociological research has shown that marketized educational systems favour middle-class families' self-segregation strategies through school choice and, consequently, the reproduction of their social advantage over poorer families. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of capitals, habitus and strategy, we analyse quantitative and ethnographic data on parents' school choice from Chile to introduce nuances to this argument, evincing more extended …
Epistemic norms on evidence-gathering
In this paper, we argue that there are epistemic norms on evidence-gathering and consider consequences for how to understand epistemic normativity. Though the view that there are such norms seems intuitive, it has found surprisingly little defense. Rather, many philosophers have argued that norms on evidence-gathering can only be practical or moral. On a prominent evidentialist version of this position, epistemic norms only apply to responding to…
Desde sus Memorias
El siguiente escrito, indaga en la memoria de mujeres y hombres que trabajaron en su infancia en el sistema hacendal, en la comuna de Romeral (VII región). A través de la historia oral, nos aproximamos al trabajo infantil, desde una perspectiva de género, con el objetivo de reconocer las características de este trabajo y a su vez analizar las diversas dinámicas sociales que permitieron que dicho sistema lo legitimara. Sistema que asumía como verd…
Playing with labels
Identity labels like "woman", "Black," "mother," and "evangelical" are pervasive in both political and personal life, and in both formal and informal classification and communication. They are also widely thought to undermine agency by essentializing groups, flattening individual distinctiveness, and enforcing discrimination. While we take these worries to be well-founded, we argue that they result from a particular practice of using labels to ri…
Resistant Beliefs, Responsive Believers
Beliefs can be resistant to evidence. Nonetheless, the orthodox view in epistemology analyzes beliefs as evidence-responsive attitudes. I address this tension by deploying analytical tools on capacities and masking to show that the cognitive science of evidence-resistance supports rather than undermines the orthodox view. In doing so, I argue for the claim that belief requires the capacity for evidence-responsiveness. More precisely, if a subject…
Delusions and epistemic style
Reasoning that leads to delusions—especially in schizophrenia—appears beyond the bounds of sense, profoundly inaccessible. By analyzing empirical research on reasoning that supports delusions in schizophrenia, I demonstrate that such reasoning can be made intelligible at the personal level. Specifically, I propose that these empirical findings can be positively characterized as reflecting a distinctive epistemic style—a characteristic implementat…
Calling trauma, elite capture, and hermeneutical injustice
Not infrequently, members of privileged groups call trauma: by framing a complex situation around the trauma they claim to have endured. What, if anything, is the problem with this? To address this question, I analyse a case study of this phenomenon: culturally prevalent descriptions of Portuguese decolonization in terms of settler trauma. I provide an account of how this appeal to trauma functions as a frame, guiding interpretation of the broade…
Identity-protective reasoning
Identity-protective reasoning – motivated reasoning driven by defending a social identity – is often dismissed as a paradigm of epistemic vice and a key driver of democratic dysfunction. Against this view, I argue that identity-protective reasoning can play a positive epistemic role, both individually and collectively. Collectively, it facilitates an effective division of cognitive labor by enabling groups to test divergent beliefs, serving as an…
Trazando la biografía de la colección Schaefer
Este artículo sintetiza el trabajo de conservación realizado sobre la Colección Schaefer durante los 80 años de existencia del Museo de Antropologías y reflexiona sobre las tomas de decisiones al momento de su patrimonialización y las posteriores gestiones de colecciones que influyeron en la preservación de la misma. Las acciones realizadas sobre la Colección Schaefer a lo largo de los años infligieron daños sobre ella, tales como la disociación …
Epistemology (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (4 works) · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies (4 works) · Metaphysics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy of science (3 works)