Jason Stanley
Biographic Data
| ID | 3739879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason Stanley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason |
| FAMILY NAME | Stanley |
| SIGNATURE | STANLEY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-5425-4834 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 31 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Politics of Language
The Politics of Language
Volume 44
How Did We Get Here? Racial Reckoning To Racist RetrenchmentIn the summer of 2020, widespread protests against systemic racism swept the nation and the world in the aftermath of the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.These protests built upon decades and centuries of collective resistance against racial injustice, and they also signaled a shift.People and communities that had never protested before-and had never uttered the words …
Neutrality
Neutrality functions as an ideal in deliberation—we are supposed to have a neutral standpoint in debate, speak without bias or taking sides. We argue against the ideal of neutrality. We sketch how a theory of meaning could avoid commitment even to the coherence of a neutral space of discourse for exchanging reasons. In a model that accepts the ideal of neutrality, what makes propaganda exceptional is its non-neutrality. However, a critique of pro…
How Fascism Works
The mythic past -- Propaganda -- Anti-intellectual -- Unreality -- Hierarchy -- Victimhood -- Law and order -- Sexual anxiety -- Sodom and Gomorrah -- Arbeit Macht Frei
Propaganda’s Role in Liberal Democratic Societies
Stanley and Min discuss how propaganda works in liberal democratic societies. Stanley observes that the inability to address the crisis of liberal democracies can be partially explained by contemporary political philosophy’s penchant for idealized theorizing about norms of justice over transitions from injustice to justice. Whereas ancient and modern political philosophers took seriously propaganda and demagoguery of the elites and populists, con…
Toward a Non-Ideal Philosophy of Language
How Propaganda Works , Precis
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The Emergency Manager
In April 2014, the city of Flint, Michigan, began using water from the Flint River. The official reason to break Flint's long time contract with the Detroit Water and Sewage Department was financial efficiency; it was presented as a cost-cutting measure. Flint residents began immediately complaining about their water, complaints that were ignored. Thanks to the local activists, it was eventually discovered that the water was indeed corrosive, the…
On a Case for Truth‐Relativism
How Propaganda Works
How propaganda works
Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation aren't problems for us--not in the way they were for the totalitarian societies of the mid-twentieth century. In How Propaganda Works, Jason Stanley demonstrates that more attention needs to be paid…
Marx, Karl
Précis of Know How
Replies to Dickie, Schroeder and Stalnaker
Women’s absence from news photos
In 1978, Gaye Tuchman pointed to women’s ‘symbolic annihilation’ from the public sphere as the media focused overwhelmingly on the activities of men. Has anything changed since then? This article presents findings from a longitudinal content analysis of 1252 news photos from two widely read American newspapers – one elite and one non-elite – between 1966 and 2006. Findings show that pictures of men dominated the news in both papers over this peri…
Know How
"The goal of inquiry is to acquire knowledge of truths about the world. In this book, Jason Stanley argues that knowing how to do something amounts to knowing a truth about the world. When you learned how to swim, what happened is that you learned some truths about swimming. Knowledge of these truths is what gave you knowledge of how to swim. Something similar occurred with every other activity that you now know how to do, such as riding a bicycl…
Knowledge and Action
TheMediationofPower - Aeron Davis, The Mediation of Power
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Language in Context
xi, 339 pages : 24 cm
Context and Logical Form
My purpose in this chapter is to defend the thesis that all truth-conditional effects of extra-linguistic context can be traced to logical form.1 But before the import of this thesis can be understood, a few distinctions must be clarified, and some of its opponents introduced.
Précis of Knowledge and Practical Interests
Replies to Gilbert Harman, Ram Neta, and Stephen Schiffer
Knowledge and Practical Interests
The thesis of this book is that whether or not someone knows a proposition at a given time is in part determined by his or her practical interests, i.e., by how much is at stake for that person at that time. Thus, whether a true belief is knowledge is not merely a matter of supporting beliefs or reliability; in the case of knowledge, practical rationality and theoretical rationality are intertwined. This thesis, called Interest-Relative Invariant…
The Emergency Manager
In April 2014, the city of Flint, Michigan, began using water from the Flint River. The official reason to break Flint's long time contract with the Detroit Water and Sewage Department was financial efficiency; it was presented as a cost-cutting measure. Flint residents began immediately complaining about their water, complaints that were ignored. Thanks to the local activists, it was eventually discovered that the water was indeed corrosive, the…
Women’s absence from news photos
In 1978, Gaye Tuchman pointed to women’s ‘symbolic annihilation’ from the public sphere as the media focused overwhelmingly on the activities of men. Has anything changed since then? This article presents findings from a longitudinal content analysis of 1252 news photos from two widely read American newspapers – one elite and one non-elite – between 1966 and 2006. Findings show that pictures of men dominated the news in both papers over this peri…
Replies to Dickie, Schroeder and Stalnaker
Précis of Knowledge and Practical Interests
Toward a Non-Ideal Philosophy of Language
Replies to Gilbert Harman, Ram Neta, and Stephen Schiffer
Persons and their Properties
According to what I call "The Asymmetry Thesis", persons, though they are the direct bearers of the properties expressed by mental predicates, are not the direct bearers of properties such as those expressed by "weighs 135 pounds" or "has crossed legs".A number of different views of persons entail the Asymmetry Thesis.I first argue that the Asymmetry Thesis entails an error theory about our discourse involving person referring terms.I then argue …
Précis of Know How
Complex Demonstratives
Since the late 1970s, the orthodox view of complex 'that' phrases (e.g., 'that woman eating a granola bar') has been that they are contextually sensitive devices of direct reference. In Complex Demonstratives, Jeffrey King challenges that orthodoxy, showing that quantificational accounts not only are as effective as direct reference accounts but also handle a wider range of data. After providing arguments against direct reference accounts of 'tha…
Persons and their Properties
According to what I call "The Asymmetry Thesis", persons, though they are the direct bearers of the properties expressed by mental predicates, are not the direct bearers of properties such as those expressed by "weighs 135 pounds" or "has crossed legs".A number of different views of persons entail the Asymmetry Thesis.I first argue that the Asymmetry Thesis entails an error theory about our discourse involving person referring terms.I then argue …
On Quantifier Domain Restriction
In this paper, we provide a comprehensive survey of the space of possible analyses of the phenomenon of quantifier domain restriction, together with a set of considerations which militate against all but our own proposal. Among the many accounts we consider and reject are the ‘explicit’ approach to quantifier domain restric‐tion discussed, for example, by Stephen Neale, and the pragmatic approach to quantifier domain restriction proposed by Kent …
Context and Logical Form
Knowing How
Complex Demonstratives
Book Review| October 01 2002 Complex Demonstratives: A Quantificational Account Jeffrey C. King, Complex Demonstratives: A Quantificational Account. Cambridge: MIT Press, Bradford Books, 2001. Pp. xiii, 207. Jason Stanley Jason Stanley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (4): 605–609. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-111-4-605 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Mail…
Complex Demonstratives
Since the late 1970s, the orthodox view of complex 'that' phrases (e.g., 'that woman eating a granola bar') has been that they are contextually sensitive devices of direct reference. In Complex Demonstratives, Jeffrey King challenges that orthodoxy, showing that quantificational accounts not only are as effective as direct reference accounts but also handle a wider range of data. After providing arguments against direct reference accounts of 'tha…
Knowledge and Practical Interests
The thesis of this book is that whether or not someone knows a proposition at a given time is in part determined by his or her practical interests, i.e., by how much is at stake for that person at that time. Thus, whether a true belief is knowledge is not merely a matter of supporting beliefs or reliability; in the case of knowledge, practical rationality and theoretical rationality are intertwined. This thesis, called Interest-Relative Invariant…
Language in Context
xi, 339 pages : 24 cm
Context and Logical Form
My purpose in this chapter is to defend the thesis that all truth-conditional effects of extra-linguistic context can be traced to logical form.1 But before the import of this thesis can be understood, a few distinctions must be clarified, and some of its opponents introduced.
Précis of Knowledge and Practical Interests
Replies to Gilbert Harman, Ram Neta, and Stephen Schiffer
Knowledge and Action
TheMediationofPower - Aeron Davis, The Mediation of Power
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Know How
"The goal of inquiry is to acquire knowledge of truths about the world. In this book, Jason Stanley argues that knowing how to do something amounts to knowing a truth about the world. When you learned how to swim, what happened is that you learned some truths about swimming. Knowledge of these truths is what gave you knowledge of how to swim. Something similar occurred with every other activity that you now know how to do, such as riding a bicycl…
Précis of Know How
Replies to Dickie, Schroeder and Stalnaker
Women’s absence from news photos
In 1978, Gaye Tuchman pointed to women’s ‘symbolic annihilation’ from the public sphere as the media focused overwhelmingly on the activities of men. Has anything changed since then? This article presents findings from a longitudinal content analysis of 1252 news photos from two widely read American newspapers – one elite and one non-elite – between 1966 and 2006. Findings show that pictures of men dominated the news in both papers over this peri…
Marx, Karl
How Propaganda Works
How propaganda works
Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation aren't problems for us--not in the way they were for the totalitarian societies of the mid-twentieth century. In How Propaganda Works, Jason Stanley demonstrates that more attention needs to be paid…
The Emergency Manager
In April 2014, the city of Flint, Michigan, began using water from the Flint River. The official reason to break Flint's long time contract with the Detroit Water and Sewage Department was financial efficiency; it was presented as a cost-cutting measure. Flint residents began immediately complaining about their water, complaints that were ignored. Thanks to the local activists, it was eventually discovered that the water was indeed corrosive, the…
On a Case for Truth‐Relativism
How Fascism Works
The mythic past -- Propaganda -- Anti-intellectual -- Unreality -- Hierarchy -- Victimhood -- Law and order -- Sexual anxiety -- Sodom and Gomorrah -- Arbeit Macht Frei
Propaganda’s Role in Liberal Democratic Societies
Stanley and Min discuss how propaganda works in liberal democratic societies. Stanley observes that the inability to address the crisis of liberal democracies can be partially explained by contemporary political philosophy’s penchant for idealized theorizing about norms of justice over transitions from injustice to justice. Whereas ancient and modern political philosophers took seriously propaganda and demagoguery of the elites and populists, con…
Toward a Non-Ideal Philosophy of Language
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