Eleanor Gordon-Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 9490630 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eleanor Gordon-Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eleanor |
| FAMILY NAME | Gordon-Smith |
| SIGNATURE | GORDON-SMITH E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1355-0821 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Should Journalists Seek to Promote Civically Useful Attitudes?
Journalists face decisions about which true stories to publish and how to frame the facts in the stories they select. How should they make these decisions? According to what I call the civic attitudes proposal, they should aim to promote civically useful attitudes in their audience. This is a surprisingly popular default view. I argue we should reject it. It imposes informational risks, is anti-egalitarian, and undermines one source of the civic …
The Ethics of Disbelief
Morality seems to object when we believe insulting things of one another, but some worry that admitting this will also mean allowing that morality could sometimes ask us to believe what the evidence would not ordinarily allow. This strikes many as unacceptable. Can we hold that beliefs can wrong, and that this affects what we should believe, without yielding that result? According to the position I call asymmetrical moralism, we can. Morality giv…
Contagious Inquiry
Sometimes the fact that A is inquiring into some question q can strike B as reason for her also to inquire into q. What explains this phenomenon, and is it good epistemic practice? I distinguish between two versions of this phenomenon. In one, B treats A’s inquiry as a peer-disagreement style reason to doubt her existing answer to q. In the other, B adopts an attachment to figuring q out because A has an attachment to figuring out q. I defend the…
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Contagious Inquiry
Sometimes the fact that A is inquiring into some question q can strike B as reason for her also to inquire into q. What explains this phenomenon, and is it good epistemic practice? I distinguish between two versions of this phenomenon. In one, B treats A’s inquiry as a peer-disagreement style reason to doubt her existing answer to q. In the other, B adopts an attachment to figuring q out because A has an attachment to figuring out q. I defend the…
The Ethics of Disbelief
Morality seems to object when we believe insulting things of one another, but some worry that admitting this will also mean allowing that morality could sometimes ask us to believe what the evidence would not ordinarily allow. This strikes many as unacceptable. Can we hold that beliefs can wrong, and that this affects what we should believe, without yielding that result? According to the position I call asymmetrical moralism, we can. Morality giv…
Should Journalists Seek to Promote Civically Useful Attitudes?
Journalists face decisions about which true stories to publish and how to frame the facts in the stories they select. How should they make these decisions? According to what I call the civic attitudes proposal, they should aim to promote civically useful attitudes in their audience. This is a surprisingly popular default view. I argue we should reject it. It imposes informational risks, is anti-egalitarian, and undermines one source of the civic …
Epistemology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Civic engagement (1 work) · Democracy (1 work) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (1 work) · Forgiveness and Related Behaviors (1 work) · Free Will and Agency (1 work) · Intelligence, Security, War Strategy (1 work) · Media Influence and Politics (1 work) · Media Studies and Communication (1 work)