Skip to main content

ETHNOS_APP

Home • Search • Journals • List 0

Moral Gaslighting

Bibliographic Data

ID23143271
AuthorsKate Manne (Sage School of Philosophy Cornell University Goldwin Smith Hall Ithaca , NY 14853 , USA, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume97
Issue1
Pages122-145
Publication date2023-06-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0309-7013 • E-ISSN: 1467-8349
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/arisup/akad006
OpenAlexW4380090805
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited11

Philosophers have turned their attention to gaslighting only recently, and have made considerable progress in analysing its characteristic aims and harms. I am less convinced, however, that we have fully understood its nature. I will argue in this paper that philosophers and others interested in the phenomenon have largely overlooked a phenomenon I call moral gaslighting, in which someone is made to feel morally defective—for example, cruelly unforgiving or overly suspicious—for harbouring some mental state to which she is entitled. If I am right about this possibility, and that it deserves to be called gaslighting, then gaslighting is a far more prevalent and everyday phenomenon than has previously been credited. And it can also be a purely structural phenomenon, as well as an interpersonal one, which remains a controversial possibility in the current literature.

Epistemology · Phenomenon · State (computer science) · Computer Science · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

  • Sensitivity and Survival

    Open Access•Kate Manne•Hypatia•2026

  • Just Kidding? Two Roles for the Concept of Joking in Political Speech

    Open Access•Zoe Walker•The Philosophical Quarterly•2023

  • Narrative gaslighting

    Open Access•Regina E Fabry•Philosophical Psychology•2025

  • “Gaslighting” Refocused

    Open Access•Ripley Stroud•Hypatia•2026

  • The Participation Paradox and Infrastructure Planning

    Open Access•Crystal Legacy•Urban Policy and Research•2024

  • Proleptic praise

    Open Access•Jules Holroyd•Noûs•2024

  • Communicative Gaslighting

    Lucy Mcdonald•Australasian Journal of Philosophy•2025

  • On Transformation and Gaslighting

    Crystal Legacy•Planning Theory & Practice•2025

  • On signalling and control in the corporate virtue theatre

    Open Access•Mikael Andéhn, Paul Haynes•Consumption Markets & Culture•2025

  • It’s not a headache! It’s a migraine

    Open Access•Susan Cape•Health An Interdisciplinary…•2026

  • Rules without power, power without rules

    Open Access•Jan Maňas•Cities•2026

  • Nonverbal marginalization

    Open Access•Anne Baker, Austin A Baker•Philosophy and Phenomenological…•2025

  • Gaslighting Urban Planning? On Risk, Public Participation, and the Evolving Structures of Social Licence to Operate

    Open Access•Crystal Legacy, C Gibson et al.•Antipode•2025

  • Infrastructural gaslighting and the crisis of participatory planning

    Open Access•Crystal Legacy, C Gibson et al.•Environment and Planning A…•2024

  • Trust, Distrust, and 'Medical Gaslighting

    Open Access•Elizabeth Barnes•The Philosophical Quarterly•2023

  • Belief and Acceptance

    L Jonathan Cohen, Larry Cohen•Mind•1989

  • Epistemic Coercion

    Sophia Dandelet•Ethics•2021

  • Racial gaslighting

    Angelique M Davis, Rose Ernst•Politics Groups and Identities•2017

  • Turning Up the Lights on Gaslighting

    Open Access•Kate Abramson•Philosophical Perspectives•2014

  • Tracking Epistemic Violence, Tracking Practices of Silencing

    Open Access•Kristie Dotson•Hypatia•2011

  • Cultural Gaslighting

    Open Access•Elena Ruíz•Hypatia•2020

  • The Sociology of Gaslighting

    Open Access•Paige L Sweet•American Sociological Review•2019

Unique citing works15
Citations per year5
Citation span2023 - 2026 (4)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 14

Tools

Open DOI
Ethnos_APP • Open Source Project • MIT License • Frontend v2.0.0 • Privacy and Cookies • API Documentation: api.ethnos.app/docs • API Source Code: GitHub • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17049435 • Frontend Source Code: GitHub • DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17050053 • cruz.rio.br • Expectantes Misericordiae