William Tuckwell
Biographic Data
| ID | 6533467 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Tuckwell |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Tuckwell |
| SIGNATURE | TUCKWELL W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles Sturt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1815-4871 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
In defence of bullshit in universities
‘Amplify Marginalized Voices!’ the What, the Why, and the How
Calls to amplify marginalized voices are common. In this paper, we examine these calls by paying close attention to how the structure of online environments shape practices of amplification, and what this means for political communication and digital activism. We develop a conceptual and normative framework for understanding amplification as a technologically mediated practice of digital activism by answering three questions. Firstly, what is amp…
Professionals and the Ethics of Workplace Surveillance
Surveillance, in the broadest sense, is the act of paying close and sustained attention to some entity, individual or group, for some particular reason (Clarke 1988; Lyon 2001; Macnish 2020).1 In a New York Times article, Kantor and Sundaram (2022) describe recent developments in workplace surveillance. Central to these developments is the surge of employers subjecting employees to productivity monitoring and assigning employees productivity scor…
Virtue Signalling to Signal Trustworthiness, Avoid Distrust, and Scaffold Self-Trust
Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke argue that virtue signalling – saying things in order to improve or protect your moral reputation – has a range of bad consequences and that as such there is a strong moral presumption against engaging in it. I argue that virtue signalling also has a range of good consequences, and that as such there is no default presumption either for or against engaging in it. Following from this, I argue that given that virtue s…
Presuppositional epistemic contextualism and non-ideal contexts
Conversational contextualists claim that the truth-conditions of knowledge claims depend upon the dynamics of the conversation in which the knowledge claim is made. However, they have failed to appreciate the ways in which conversational dynamics are influenced by unjust distributions of power. What would the implications be for conversational contextualism if its proponents were not guilty of this oversight? I ask this question for Blome-Tillman…
What is an ally
For all the recent talk of people failing or succeeding as allies to oppressed groups, a well worked out philosophical theory of what it is for someone to be an ally is conspicuously absent. This makes it difficult to evaluate the claims of people failing or succeeding as allies, and consequently diminishes the concept's usefulness to disadvantaged groups by making it difficult to identify who will genuinely help to further their interests. We ai…
The Politics of Relevant Alternatives
The main aim of this article is to use the resources of relevant-alternatives contextualism to provide an account of an unrecognized form of epistemic injustice that I call irrelevance-injustice . Irrelevance-injustice occurs either when a speaker raises an alternative that is not taken seriously when it should be, or when a speaker raises an alternative that is taken seriously when it should not be. Irrelevance-injustice influences what alternat…
Act Consequentialism and the No-Difference Challenge
According to act-consequentialism, only actions that make a difference to an outcome can be morally bad. Yet, there are classes of actions that don’t make a difference, but nevertheless seem to be morally bad. Explaining how such non-difference making actions are morally bad presents a challenge for act-consequentialism: the no-difference challenge. In this chapter we go into detail on what the no-difference challenge is, focusing in particular o…
The Politics of Relevant Alternatives
The main aim of this article is to use the resources of relevant-alternatives contextualism to provide an account of an unrecognized form of epistemic injustice that I call irrelevance-injustice . Irrelevance-injustice occurs either when a speaker raises an alternative that is not taken seriously when it should be, or when a speaker raises an alternative that is taken seriously when it should not be. Irrelevance-injustice influences what alternat…
What is an ally
For all the recent talk of people failing or succeeding as allies to oppressed groups, a well worked out philosophical theory of what it is for someone to be an ally is conspicuously absent. This makes it difficult to evaluate the claims of people failing or succeeding as allies, and consequently diminishes the concept's usefulness to disadvantaged groups by making it difficult to identify who will genuinely help to further their interests. We ai…
Act Consequentialism and the No-Difference Challenge
According to act-consequentialism, only actions that make a difference to an outcome can be morally bad. Yet, there are classes of actions that don’t make a difference, but nevertheless seem to be morally bad. Explaining how such non-difference making actions are morally bad presents a challenge for act-consequentialism: the no-difference challenge. In this chapter we go into detail on what the no-difference challenge is, focusing in particular o…
The Politics of Relevant Alternatives
The main aim of this article is to use the resources of relevant-alternatives contextualism to provide an account of an unrecognized form of epistemic injustice that I call irrelevance-injustice . Irrelevance-injustice occurs either when a speaker raises an alternative that is not taken seriously when it should be, or when a speaker raises an alternative that is taken seriously when it should not be. Irrelevance-injustice influences what alternat…
Virtue Signalling to Signal Trustworthiness, Avoid Distrust, and Scaffold Self-Trust
Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke argue that virtue signalling – saying things in order to improve or protect your moral reputation – has a range of bad consequences and that as such there is a strong moral presumption against engaging in it. I argue that virtue signalling also has a range of good consequences, and that as such there is no default presumption either for or against engaging in it. Following from this, I argue that given that virtue s…
Presuppositional epistemic contextualism and non-ideal contexts
Conversational contextualists claim that the truth-conditions of knowledge claims depend upon the dynamics of the conversation in which the knowledge claim is made. However, they have failed to appreciate the ways in which conversational dynamics are influenced by unjust distributions of power. What would the implications be for conversational contextualism if its proponents were not guilty of this oversight? I ask this question for Blome-Tillman…
What is an ally
For all the recent talk of people failing or succeeding as allies to oppressed groups, a well worked out philosophical theory of what it is for someone to be an ally is conspicuously absent. This makes it difficult to evaluate the claims of people failing or succeeding as allies, and consequently diminishes the concept's usefulness to disadvantaged groups by making it difficult to identify who will genuinely help to further their interests. We ai…
Professionals and the Ethics of Workplace Surveillance
Surveillance, in the broadest sense, is the act of paying close and sustained attention to some entity, individual or group, for some particular reason (Clarke 1988; Lyon 2001; Macnish 2020).1 In a New York Times article, Kantor and Sundaram (2022) describe recent developments in workplace surveillance. Central to these developments is the surge of employers subjecting employees to productivity monitoring and assigning employees productivity scor…
In defence of bullshit in universities
‘Amplify Marginalized Voices!’ the What, the Why, and the How
Calls to amplify marginalized voices are common. In this paper, we examine these calls by paying close attention to how the structure of online environments shape practices of amplification, and what this means for political communication and digital activism. We develop a conceptual and normative framework for understanding amplification as a technologically mediated practice of digital activism by answering three questions. Firstly, what is amp…
Epistemology (5 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies (3 works) · Law and economics (3 works) · Politics (3 works)