“Gaslighting” Refocused
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21580165 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ripley Stroud (0000-0002-4035-0959, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Pages | 1-18 |
| Publication date | 2026-07-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hypatia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0887-5367 • E-ISSN: 1527-2001 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/hyp.2026.10085 |
| OpenAlex | W7167457408 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
I argue that all extant philosophical accounts of gaslighting overgenerate or undergenerate cases, either because they fail to include the internal felt experience of the gaslit or because they include this internal experience in the wrong way. I contend that some act A counts as gaslighting iff : (1) the gaslighter’s act A expresses disagreement with the gaslit without adequately expressing respect for the gaslit, and this makes it the case that (2) the gaslit in fact comes to believe that there is no hope for their fundamental rational competence, either universally or within some specific domain
Action (physics) · Agnosticism · Extant taxon · Natural (archaeology) · Ridiculous · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy and Theoretical Science
Moral Gaslighting
The Sources of Normativity
Two Kinds of Respect
Epistemic Agency Under Oppression
Dilemmatic gaslighting
Epistemic Coercion
Gaslighting and Peer Disagreement
Gaslighting and Epistemic Competence
Turning Up the Lights on Gaslighting
Gaslighting, First- and Second-Order
Cultural Gaslighting
White Feminist Gaslighting
The Sociology of Gaslighting
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |