Musing: Spectral Phenomenologies: Dwelling Poetically in Professional Philosophy

Ruíz, Elena

doi:10.1111/hypa.12066

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“…I explore whether embracing the idea of art as a counter to the monolithic ideals of science can illuminate the perception of artistic values within the global context. Ruíz (2014) writes that "professional philosophy sleepwalks; its somnambulatory practices stroll silently, policing checkpoints without the burden of consciousness of its actions and practices" (p. 199). I would like to take this as a call to action, urging critical examination of established norms and traditions.…”

Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Value of Sexuality

Kauppala

2023

RAE

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Relying upon feminist and queer theory, this article explores feminist pedagogy in art education practices. More specifically, the research investigates how engaging with sexuality and gender in education relates to the uncovering of social structures, power dynamics, and normativity. This arts-based action research dives into the praxis of the three-day course entitled Sexuality and Art with university student participants from degree programs in art education, graphic design, applied visual arts, and industrial design. By integrating values from feminist pedagogy, such as ethics, agency, contextuality, and the interconnectedness of individuals, art education can create equitable environments that challenge dominant societal narratives.

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The Value of Sexuality

Kauppala

2023

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“…Elena Ruíz further conceives of gaslighting as something that occurs not only at structural scales but at a prestructural one as well (Ruíz 2012; 2014; 2020). In “Theorizing Multiple Oppressions through Colonial History,” Ruíz shows how European colonization disrupted precolonial ways of knowing in what is now identified as Latin America and tracks how colonial lineages create public policies, institutions, and political structures that reify and solidify settler epistemologies as the only legitimate form of knowledge (Ruíz 2012).…”

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White Feminist Gaslighting

Berenstain

2020

Hypatia

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Structural gaslighting arises when conceptual work functions to obscure the nonaccidental connections between structures of oppression and the patterns of harm they produce and license. This article examines the role that structural gaslighting plays in white feminist methodology and epistemology using Miranda Fricker's discussion of hermeneutical injustice as an illustration (Fricker 2007). Fricker's work produces structural gaslighting through several methods: i) the outright denial of the role that structural oppression plays in producing interpretive harm, ii) the use of single-axis conceptual resources to understand intersectional oppression, and iii) the failure to recognize the legacy of women of color's epistemic resistance work surrounding the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace. I argue that Fricker's whitewashed discussion of epistemic resistance to sexual harassment in the United States is a form of structural gaslighting that fails to treat women of color as knowers and exemplifies the strategic forgetting that is a central methodological tactic of white feminism.

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“…These factors are not unique to philosophy and negatively influence climates in other disciplines that have poor gender balance and an underrepresentation of people of color (Beattie, Cohen, & McGuire 2013;MossRacusin, Dovidio, Brescoll, Graham, & Handelsman 2013). Dotson (2012) and Ruíz (2014) have also identified several methodological and cultural norms within philosophy that function to reify certain modes of thought as the domain of philosophy proper while excluding from the discipline alternative ways of engaging philosophically with the world. Dotson critiques what she calls academic philosophy's "culture of justification," namely, its preoccupation with legitimation narratives that requires the constant defense of those projects and practices that, while philosophical in nature, are not widely recognized as such within the discipline (2012: 5).…”

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Implicit Bias and the Idealized Rational Self

Berenstain¹

2018

Ergo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy

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The underrepresentation of women, people of color, and especially women of colorand the corresponding overrepresentation of white men-is more pronounced in philosophy than in many of the sciences. I suggest that part of the explanation for this lies in the role played by the idealized rational self, a concept that is relatively influential in philosophy but rarely employed in the sciences. The idealized rational self models the mind as consistent, unified, rationally transcendent, and introspectively transparent. I hypothesize that acceptance of the idealized rational self leads philosophers to underestimate the influence of implicit bias on their own judgments and prevents them from enacting the reforms necessary to minimize the effects of implicit bias on institutional decision-making procedures. I consider recent experiments in social psychology that suggest that an increased sense of one's own objectivity leads to greater reliance on bias in hiring scenarios, and I hypothesize how these results might be applied to philosophers' evaluative judgments. I discuss ways that the idealized rational self is susceptible to broader critiques of ideal theory, and I consider some of the ways that the picture functions as a tool of active ignorance and color-evasive racism.

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Musing: Spectral Phenomenologies: Dwelling Poetically in Professional Philosophy

Cited by 9 publications

References 6 publications

The Value of Sexuality

The Value of Sexuality

White Feminist Gaslighting

Implicit Bias and the Idealized Rational Self

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