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Iowa State University Summer Symposium on Science Communication

The potential for experts to exploit their positions of authority requires attention to the role ... more The potential for experts to exploit their positions of authority requires attention to the role of epistemic work as part of the social division of labour. Expertise has not become so distant from social hierarchy as we sometimes fancy, and evaluating expertise requires political analysis.

Informal Logic

Book Review of Michael Gilbert's Arguing with People (2014).

Symposion

While anger can derail argumentation, it can also help arguers and audiences to reason together i... more While anger can derail argumentation, it can also help arguers and audiences to reason together in argumentation. Anger can provide information about premises, biases, goals, discussants, and depth of disagreement that people might otherwise fail to recognize or prematurely dismiss. Anger can also enhance the salience of certain premises and underscore the importance of related inferences. For these reasons, we claim that anger can serve as an epistemic resource in argumentation.

Studies in Social Justice

Informal Logic

Popular textbook treatments of the fallacies approach to argument evaluation employ the Adversary... more Popular textbook treatments of the fallacies approach to argument evaluation employ the Adversary Method identified by Janice Moulton (1983) that takes the goal of argumentation to be the defeat of other arguments and that narrows the terms of discourse in order to facilitate such defeat. My analysis of the textbooks shows that the Adversary Method operates as a Kuhnian paradigm in philosophy, and demonstrates that the popular fallacies pedagogy is authoritarian in being unresponsive to the scholarly developments in informal logic and argumentation theory. A progressive evolution for the fallacies approach is offered as an authoritative alternative.

Informal Logic

This special issue of Informal Logic brings together two important areas of philosophy that have ... more This special issue of Informal Logic brings together two important areas of philosophy that have shown significant development in the last three decades: informal logic and feminist philosophy. A significant innovation they both share is new thinking about practices of argumentation and related practices of reasoning. Feminist theorizing supporting social and political change foregrounds “reasoning for change” in a way that draws attention to the contextual and rhetorical dimensions of argument and thus connects with significant developments in informal logic.

Informal Logic

Trudy Govier argues in The Philosophy of Argument that adversariality in argumentation can be kep... more Trudy Govier argues in The Philosophy of Argument that adversariality in argumentation can be kept to a necessary minimum. On her ac-count, politeness can limit the ancillary adversariality of hostile culture but a degree of logical opposition will remain part of argumentation, and perhaps all reasoning. Argumentation cannot be purified by politeness in the way she hopes, nor does reasoning even in the discursive context of argumentation demand opposition. Such hopes assume an idealized politeness free from gender, and reasoners with inhuman or at least highly privileged capabilities and no need to learn from others or share understanding.

Hypatia a Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 2008

Metaphysics and Epistemology, 2016

J Women Polit Policy, 1997

... Without an alliance with standpoint theory, feminist empiricism is impoverished as an epistem... more ... Without an alliance with standpoint theory, feminist empiricism is impoverished as an epistemology for feminism. ... For feminist empiricism, standpoint theory presents an alternative to the traditional standards for assessing the validity of particular perspectives. ...

ABSTRACT: Recent work in feminist and postcolonial rhetoric demonstrates various meanings of sile... more ABSTRACT: Recent work in feminist and postcolonial rhetoric demonstrates various meanings of silence (Glenn 2004). Listening rhetorically in order to comprehend silences (Ratcliffe 2006) is particularly difficult in scientific contexts, I argue, because the common ground for ...

Hypatia A Journal of Feminist Philosophy

Few people get excited about a new book on the science wars, given that the academic battle has p... more Few people get excited about a new book on the science wars, given that the academic battle has persisted for at least thirty years and become quite tired. I am an exception because I work on feminist philosophy of science and face the battle on a daily basis, but I’m also quite exhausted by it all, and almost cynical. So I was encouraged to see Barbara Herrnstein Smith’s Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth, and the Human. A rhetorical analysis by such a distinguished scholar (Braxton Craven Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Duke, and Distinguished Professor of English at Brown) promised fresh insight by taking a step back and considering the debates in a larger historical context. Herrnstein Smith’s historical approach even accounts for the fatigue of the dialogue that has become known as “the science wars.” The tediousness of the debate of traditional and specifically rationalist against newer, radical, and social accounts of scientific knowledge receives a livel...

In academic contexts the appeal to authority is a quite common but seldom tested argument, either... more In academic contexts the appeal to authority is a quite common but seldom tested argument, either because we accept the authority without questioning it, or because we look for alternative experts or reasons to support a different point of view. But, by putting ourselves side by side an already accepted authority, we often rhetorically manoeuvre to displace the burden of the proof to avoid the fear to present our opinions and to allow face saving.

Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis, 2012

Social Epistemology, 2002

Increasing numbers of epistemologists and philosophers of science consider themselves naturalists... more Increasing numbers of epistemologists and philosophers of science consider themselves naturalists, and naturalists come in many different forms; but most common in the recent upswell are methodological naturalists who espouse the use of empirical methods in close conjunction with traditional methods of philosophical re ection, analysis and speculation.(From here on in this paper 'naturalism'and derivatives refer to methodological naturalism.) WV Quine's recommendations that philosophy and science become ...

International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2009

Manju Jaidka 2 CONVERSATIONS What are feminist forms of writing/speaking/viewing and how do they ... more Manju Jaidka 2 CONVERSATIONS What are feminist forms of writing/speaking/viewing and how do they make a difference to international feminist theory, practice and politics? The 'Conversations' section of IFjP offers a place in which to experiment with feminist narrative, dialogical and visual forms. Submissions are sought that make strong theoretical and/or practical contributions to feminist debates without necessarily taking standard academic form. Interviews, poetry, film readings, photo essays and exchanges of letters are some of the forms this section promotes. Submissions and submission enquiries should be directed to both Conversations editors:

Iowa State University Summer Symposium on Science Communication

The potential for experts to exploit their positions of authority requires attention to the role ... more The potential for experts to exploit their positions of authority requires attention to the role of epistemic work as part of the social division of labour. Expertise has not become so distant from social hierarchy as we sometimes fancy, and evaluating expertise requires political analysis.

Informal Logic

Book Review of Michael Gilbert's Arguing with People (2014).

Symposion

While anger can derail argumentation, it can also help arguers and audiences to reason together i... more While anger can derail argumentation, it can also help arguers and audiences to reason together in argumentation. Anger can provide information about premises, biases, goals, discussants, and depth of disagreement that people might otherwise fail to recognize or prematurely dismiss. Anger can also enhance the salience of certain premises and underscore the importance of related inferences. For these reasons, we claim that anger can serve as an epistemic resource in argumentation.

Studies in Social Justice

Informal Logic

Popular textbook treatments of the fallacies approach to argument evaluation employ the Adversary... more Popular textbook treatments of the fallacies approach to argument evaluation employ the Adversary Method identified by Janice Moulton (1983) that takes the goal of argumentation to be the defeat of other arguments and that narrows the terms of discourse in order to facilitate such defeat. My analysis of the textbooks shows that the Adversary Method operates as a Kuhnian paradigm in philosophy, and demonstrates that the popular fallacies pedagogy is authoritarian in being unresponsive to the scholarly developments in informal logic and argumentation theory. A progressive evolution for the fallacies approach is offered as an authoritative alternative.

Informal Logic

This special issue of Informal Logic brings together two important areas of philosophy that have ... more This special issue of Informal Logic brings together two important areas of philosophy that have shown significant development in the last three decades: informal logic and feminist philosophy. A significant innovation they both share is new thinking about practices of argumentation and related practices of reasoning. Feminist theorizing supporting social and political change foregrounds “reasoning for change” in a way that draws attention to the contextual and rhetorical dimensions of argument and thus connects with significant developments in informal logic.

Informal Logic

Trudy Govier argues in The Philosophy of Argument that adversariality in argumentation can be kep... more Trudy Govier argues in The Philosophy of Argument that adversariality in argumentation can be kept to a necessary minimum. On her ac-count, politeness can limit the ancillary adversariality of hostile culture but a degree of logical opposition will remain part of argumentation, and perhaps all reasoning. Argumentation cannot be purified by politeness in the way she hopes, nor does reasoning even in the discursive context of argumentation demand opposition. Such hopes assume an idealized politeness free from gender, and reasoners with inhuman or at least highly privileged capabilities and no need to learn from others or share understanding.

Hypatia a Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 2008

Metaphysics and Epistemology, 2016

J Women Polit Policy, 1997

... Without an alliance with standpoint theory, feminist empiricism is impoverished as an epistem... more ... Without an alliance with standpoint theory, feminist empiricism is impoverished as an epistemology for feminism. ... For feminist empiricism, standpoint theory presents an alternative to the traditional standards for assessing the validity of particular perspectives. ...

ABSTRACT: Recent work in feminist and postcolonial rhetoric demonstrates various meanings of sile... more ABSTRACT: Recent work in feminist and postcolonial rhetoric demonstrates various meanings of silence (Glenn 2004). Listening rhetorically in order to comprehend silences (Ratcliffe 2006) is particularly difficult in scientific contexts, I argue, because the common ground for ...

Hypatia A Journal of Feminist Philosophy

Few people get excited about a new book on the science wars, given that the academic battle has p... more Few people get excited about a new book on the science wars, given that the academic battle has persisted for at least thirty years and become quite tired. I am an exception because I work on feminist philosophy of science and face the battle on a daily basis, but I’m also quite exhausted by it all, and almost cynical. So I was encouraged to see Barbara Herrnstein Smith’s Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth, and the Human. A rhetorical analysis by such a distinguished scholar (Braxton Craven Professor of Comparative Literature and English at Duke, and Distinguished Professor of English at Brown) promised fresh insight by taking a step back and considering the debates in a larger historical context. Herrnstein Smith’s historical approach even accounts for the fatigue of the dialogue that has become known as “the science wars.” The tediousness of the debate of traditional and specifically rationalist against newer, radical, and social accounts of scientific knowledge receives a livel...

In academic contexts the appeal to authority is a quite common but seldom tested argument, either... more In academic contexts the appeal to authority is a quite common but seldom tested argument, either because we accept the authority without questioning it, or because we look for alternative experts or reasons to support a different point of view. But, by putting ourselves side by side an already accepted authority, we often rhetorically manoeuvre to displace the burden of the proof to avoid the fear to present our opinions and to allow face saving.

Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis, 2012

Social Epistemology, 2002

Increasing numbers of epistemologists and philosophers of science consider themselves naturalists... more Increasing numbers of epistemologists and philosophers of science consider themselves naturalists, and naturalists come in many different forms; but most common in the recent upswell are methodological naturalists who espouse the use of empirical methods in close conjunction with traditional methods of philosophical re ection, analysis and speculation.(From here on in this paper 'naturalism'and derivatives refer to methodological naturalism.) WV Quine's recommendations that philosophy and science become ...

International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2009

Manju Jaidka 2 CONVERSATIONS What are feminist forms of writing/speaking/viewing and how do they ... more Manju Jaidka 2 CONVERSATIONS What are feminist forms of writing/speaking/viewing and how do they make a difference to international feminist theory, practice and politics? The 'Conversations' section of IFjP offers a place in which to experiment with feminist narrative, dialogical and visual forms. Submissions are sought that make strong theoretical and/or practical contributions to feminist debates without necessarily taking standard academic form. Interviews, poetry, film readings, photo essays and exchanges of letters are some of the forms this section promotes. Submissions and submission enquiries should be directed to both Conversations editors: