Intellectual arrogance: individual, group-based, and corporate

Tanesini, Alessandra ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6250-471X 2023. Intellectual arrogance: individual, group-based, and corporate. Synthese 202 , 6. 10.1007/s11229-023-04224-0

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Abstract

In the article I argue that intellectual arrogance can be an individual, collective and even corporate vice. I show that arrogance is in all these cases underpinned by defensive positive evaluations of epistemic features of the evaluator in the service of buttressing its illegitimate social dominance. Individual arrogance as superbia or as hubris stems from attitudes biased by the motive of self-enhancement. Collective arrogance is underpinned by positive defensive attitudes to a one’s social identity that seeks to maintain its unwarranted social dominance. Finally, corporations are arrogant when their attitudes are the aggregation of the arrogant dispositions of its managers or when these corporations have inherited structures and policies that are defensive of its illegitimately dominant social status.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General)
Publisher:	Springer
ISSN:	0039-7857
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	31 May 2023
Date of Acceptance:	6 June 2023
Last Modified:	12 Jul 2023 17:38
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/160081

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