Jul 2026· Hypatia· pp. 1-18· 0 citations· 17 references
Abstract
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.
Descartes'
cogito
argument is perhaps the most well‐known philosophical argument, the conclusion of which is supposed to be a form of rationalism that allows for contingent
a priori
knowledge of the world. In this short note, I argue that, in fact, the all important statement, ‘I am, I exist’, should be analyse...
Frances Egan argues for a deflationist view of intentionality, on which intentionality is merely part of a pragmatically motivated explanatory “gloss” on theories of mind and behavior. While sympathetic to the project, I worry that the view is inadvertently committed to genuine intentionality: For intentionality to be...
Angela Mendelovici· Mind & Language· 0 citations
Philosophical anarchism claims that states are not legitimate but may still be justifiable in executing many functions we associate with states, especially punishing those who violate the rights of fellow subjects of the state’s authority. I suggest that one cannot hold both claims simultaneously. I argue that approp...
Constructive alternativism, the philosophical position that the universe is always open to alternate interpretations, can be seen as consistent with current political rhetoric stating that conservative operatives are considering “alternative facts”. In this paper, I argue that such an interpretation of constructive alt...
L. Leitner· Personal Construct Theory &a...· 0 citations
Some interpreters hold that, for Aristotle, the pleasant is the primary
de dicto
goal of every vicious person. I argue that this is false and develop an alternative account of vicious motivation by self-interest (
to sumpheron
). In
Nicomachean Ethics
2.3, Aristotle claims that the vicious person errs with re...
In this paper, we critically examine the essay by Shiffrin, Stigler, and Keil (2026) on scientific understanding. We argue that, despite its uncontroversial moral message, the paper largely fails to articulate a compelling thesis. The central notion of an “illusion of understanding” is left insufficiently specified and...
David Kellen, M. S. Spektor· Computational Brain & Behavi...· 0 citations
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