'Calm down, dear': intellectual arrogance, silencing and ignorance

Tanesini, Alessandra ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6250-471X 2016. 'Calm down, dear': intellectual arrogance, silencing and ignorance. Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 90 (1) , pp. 71-92. 10.1093/arisup/akw011

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Abstract

In this paper I provide an account of two forms of intellectual arrogance which cause the epistemic practices of conversational turn-taking and assertion to malfunction. I detail some of the ethical and epistemic harms generated by intellectual arrogance, and explain its role in fostering the intellectual vices of timidity and servility in other agents. Finally, I show that arrogance produces ignorance by silencing others (both preventing them from speaking and causing their assertions to misfire) and by fostering self-delusion in the arrogant themselves.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General)
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	0309-7013
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	3 June 2019
Last Modified:	06 Nov 2023 21:58
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/82439

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