Publications

Call-Outs and Call-Ins (Forthcoming)

Journal of the American Philosophical Association, with Kelly Herbison

Call-outs and call-ins function in really strange ways as norm regulators...

Manne, Moral Gaslighting, and the Politics of Methodology (Forthcoming)

Logos & Episteme

It's not clear whether moral gaslighting is indeed a kind of gaslighting

Conceptual Engineering and the Ethics of Virtual Reality (Forthcoming)

Ethics and Information Technology, with Tom Montefiore

A genealogy-inspire conceptual engineering framework is a particularly useful for thinking about the ethics of VR

Is Artificial Intelligence Really 'Out of Control?' (Invited)

Springer Collection on AI, with Ines Hipolito

Kind of, but not really. Just power-imbued social relations get in the way of change.

Moving in the Right Way: Social Movement and their Obligations (Forthcoming)

Studies in Social Philosophy, Springer, with William Tuckwell.

Social movements do in fact have obligations... but its tricky.

Fanaticism in the Manosphere (2023)

The History and Philosophy of Fanaticism, Routledge, with Mark Alfano.

It's weird how the RedPill community is so good at conceptual engineering...

On the Non-Knowing of Animal Suffering (2023)

Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective

Non-human animals can indeed suffer from hermeneutical injustice, and gatekeeping epistemic injustice is advised against.

Can Conceptual Engineering Actually Promote Social Justice? (2022)

Synthese

Only one approach to conceptual engineering appears to be able to do what we expect to promote social justice.

Don't Count Truth Out Just Yet: A Response to Isaac (Forthcoming)

Inquiry

Truth and knowledge are significant for the conceptual engineering of ideological concepts.

Agency, Power, and Injustice in Metalinguistic Disagreement (2021)

The Philosophical Quarterly

Unjust power often affects the kinematics of metalinguistic disagreement, and this results in distinctive forms of epistemic and linguistic injustice.

Rethinking Epistemic Appropriation (2021)

Episteme

Epistemic appropriation often involves obscuring the epistemic resources of marginalised communities (owing to active ignorance).

Gaslighting, First and Second Order (2020)

Hypatia

Second-order gaslighting occurs when there is a disagreement over which concept should be used in a context, and the disagreement causes a speaker to doubt their interpretive abilities in virtue of doubting the accuracy of their concept.

Revision, Endorsement, and the Analysis of Meaning (2020)

Analysis, with Kai Tanter.

Conceptual engineering is consistent with the idea that meaning claims are prescriptions for usage.

Privileged Groups and Obligation: Engineering Oppressive Concepts (2019)

Journal of Applied Philosophy

Privileged groups have an obligation to significantly aid in the processes that give rise to the amelioration of oppressive concepts.

Ideology and Normativity: Constraints on Conceptual Engineering (2019)

Inquiry

Epistemic loss in conceptual engineering is permissible when the ameliorated concept can causally influence the world to make itself accurate.

What Defines a Conceptual Resource? (2019)

Ergo

What relationship must hold for a set of concepts to be the conceptual resource of a group of people…?

Can Non-Human Animals Suffer From Hermeneutical Injustice? (2018)

Journal of Animal Ethics

Non-human animals can suffer from other-oriented hermeneutical injustice.

The Difference Between Killing Humanely and a Humane Killing (2018)

Journal of Animal Ethics

The meat-eating industry employs moral language to exploit our moral sensibilities.

There’s No Such Thing As Conceptual Competence Injustice (2017)

Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, Co-Authored with William Tuckwell.

There are three reasons for thinking that conceptual competence injustice is not in fact a novel form of epistemic injustice.

How To Keep Minorities Out of Philosophy (2020)

Overland, Co-Authored with Kelly Herbison.