Professor Alessandra Tanesini
(she / they)
Professor
School of English, Communication and Philosophy
- Tanesini@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 29208 75663
- John Percival Building, Room 1.47, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
I am part of the School's Philosophy research group.
Publication
2024
- Tanesini, A. 2024. Emulative trait envy is not a virtue. APA Studies on Feminism and Philosophy 23(2), pp. 38-42.
- Tanesini, A. 2024. Precis: The mismeasure of the self. Inquiry 67(2), pp. 727-737. (10.1080/0020174X.2022.2156922)
- Tanesini, A. 2024. Having the measure of self and world: A response to my critics. Inquiry 67(2), pp. 798-809. (10.1080/0020174X.2023.2177885)
- Tanesini, A. 2024. Affective polarization, wholeheartedness, and fanaticism. In: Peels, R. and Horgan, J. eds. Extreme Belief and Action: Mapping the Terrain. New York: Oxford University Press
2023
- Tanesini, A. 2023. Intellectual arrogance: individual, group-based, and corporate. Synthese 202, article number: 6. (10.1007/s11229-023-04224-0)
- Tanesini, A. 2023. Speech in non-ideal conditions: On silence and being silenced. In: Caponetto, L. and Labinaz, P. eds. Sbisà on Speech as Action. Cham: Palgrave McMillan, pp. 221-243., (10.1007/978-3-031-22528-4_10)
- Tanesini, A. 2023. The politics of resentment: Hope, mistrust, and polarization. In: Samaržija, H. and Cassam, Q. eds. The Epistemology of Democracy. New York: Routledge, pp. 115-134., (10.4324/9781003311003)
- Hanel, P. H. P., Roy, D., Taylor, S., Franjieh, M., Heffer, C., Tanesini, A. and Maio, G. R. 2023. Using self-affirmation to increase intellectual humility in debate. Royal Society Open Science 10(2), article number: 220958. (10.1098/rsos.220958)
2022
- Tanesini, A. 2022. Precis of the mismeasure of the self. Journal of Philosophical Research 47, pp. 61-66. (10.5840/jpr20221024193)
- Tanesini, A. 2022. Scaffolding knowledge. Philosophical Issues 32(1), pp. 367-381. (10.1111/phis.12234)
- Tanesini, A. 2022. Affective polarisation and emotional distortions on social media. Philosophy 92, pp. 87-109. (10.1017/S1358246122000261)
- Tanesini, A. 2022. Mindshaping and intellectual virtues. In: Alfano, M., Klein, C. and de Ridder, J. eds. Social Virtue Epistemology. New York: Routledge, pp. 140-160., (10.4324/9780367808952-19)
- Tanesini, A. 2022. Intellectual vices in conditions of oppression: the turn to the political in virtue epistemology. In: Bordonaba Plou, D., Fernández Castro, V. and Torices Vidal, J. R. eds. The Turn to the Political in Analytic Philosophy. Bordonaba Plou, D., Fernández Castro, V. and Torices Vidal, J. R. De Gruyter Academic Publishing, pp. 77-103., (10.1515/9783110612318-006)
- Tanesini, A. 2022. Attitude psychology and virtue epistemology: a new framework. In: Ballantyne, N. and Dunning, D. eds. Reason, Bias, and Inquiry: New Perspectives from the Crossroads of Epistemology and Psychology. Oxford University Press, pp. 274-296.
- Tanesini, A. 2022. Replies to Vrinda Dalmiya and Stacey McElroy-Hetzel. Journal of Philosophical Research 47, pp. 95-99. (10.5840/jpr20221024194)
2021
- Tanesini, A. 2021. Epistemic autonomy and its vices. In: Lougheed, K. and Matheson, J. eds. Epistemic Autonomy. New York and London: Routledge, pp. 231-249.
- Tanesini, A. 2021. Anger, moral address and claimant injustice. In: Snow, N. E. and Vaccarezza, M. S. eds. Virtues, Democracy, and Online Media: Ethical and Epistemic Issues. Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory New York and London: Routledge, pp. 134-148.
- Tanesini, A. 2021. The mismeasure of the self: a study in vice epistemology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Tanesini, A. 2021. Passionate speech: on the uses and abuses of anger in public debate. Philosophy 89, pp. 153-176. (10.1017/S1358246121000047)
- Tanesini, A. 2021. Virtues and vices in public and political debate. In: Hannon, M. and De Ridder, J. eds. The Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology. New York and London: Routledge, pp. 325-335.
2020
- Tanesini, A. 2020. Blaming the intellectually vicious: A critical discussion of Cassam’s account of blameworthiness and reprehensibility for epistemic vice. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 23, pp. 851-859. (10.1007/s10677-020-10092-1)
- Tanesini, A. 2020. The gift of testimony. Episteme 17(SI3), pp. 331-348. (doi.org/10.1017/epi.2019.52)
- Tanesini, A. 2020. Vices of the Mind, by Quassim Cassam [Book Review]. Mind 129(515), pp. 959-964. (10.1093/mind/fzz044)
- Tanesini, A. and Lynch, M. P. eds. 2020. Polarisation, arrogance, and dogmatism: philosophical perspectives. London: Routledge.
- Tanesini, A. 2020. Arrogance, polarisation and arguing to win. In: Tanesini, A. and Lynch, M. P. eds. Polarisation, Arrogance, and Dogmatism: Philosophical Perspectives. London: Routledge, pp. 158-174.
- Alfano, M., Lynch, M. P. and Tanesini, A. eds. 2020. The Routledge handbook of the philosophy of humility. London: Routledge.
- Tanesini, A. 2020. Humility and self-knowledge. In: Alfano, M., Lynch, M. P. and Tanesini, A. eds. The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Humility. London: Routledge, (10.4324/9781351107532)
2019
- Tanesini, A. 2019. Virtuous and vicious intellectual self-trust. In: Dormandy, K. ed. Trust in Epistemology. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 218-238.
- Tanesini, A. 2019. Silencing and assertion. In: Goldberg, S. ed. The Oxford Handbook of Assertion. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190675233.013.31)
2018
- Tanesini, A. 2018. Reducing arrogance in public debate. In: Arthur, J. ed. Virtues in the Public Sphere: Citizenship, Civic Friendship and Duty. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 23-38.
- Tanesini, A. 2018. Caring for esteem and intellectual reputation: some epistemic benefits and harms. Philosophy 84, pp. 47-67. (10.1017/S1358246118000541)
- Tanesini, A. 2018. Intellectual servility and timidity. [Online]. Imperfect Cognitions. Available at: http://imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2018/11/intellectual-servility-timidity.html
- Tanesini, A. 2018. Addressing a culture of disrespect: Arrogance and anger in debate. [Online]. Humility & Conviction in Public Life Blog. Available at: https://humilityandconviction.uconn.edu/hc-the-blog/
- Tanesini, A. 2018. Collective amnesia and epistemic injustice. In: Carter, A. . J. et al. eds. Socially Extended Epistemology. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 195-219., (10.1093/oso/9780198801764.003.0011)
- Tanesini, A. 2018. Intellectual servility and timidity. Journal of Philosophical Research 43, pp. 21-41. (10.5840/jpr201872120)
- Tanesini, A. 2018. Epistemic vice and motivation. Metaphilosophy 49(3), pp. 350-367. (10.1111/meta.12301)
- Tanesini, A. 2018. Intellectual humility as attitude. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 96(2), pp. 399-420. (10.1111/phpr.12326)
- Tanesini, A. 2018. Eloquent silences: silence and dissent. In: Johnson, C. R. ed. Voicing Dissent: The Ethics and Epistemology of Making Disagreement Public. Routledge, pp. 109-128.
- Tanesini, A. 2018. Arrogance, anger and debate. Symposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences [Special issue on Skeptical Problems in Political Epistemology, edited by Scott Aikin and Tempest Henning] 5(2), pp. 213-227. (10.5840/symposion20185217)
- Tanesini, A. 2018. ‘Are we all suffering from collective amnesia?’. [Online]. Iai news: Institute of Arts and Ideas. Available at: https://iainews.iai.tv/articles/are-we-all-suffering-from-historical-collective-amnesia-auid-1048
2017
- Tanesini, A. 2017. Reducing arrogance in public debate. Presented at: Virtues in the Public Sphere,, Oriel College, Oxford, UK, 4-6 January 2018.
- Tanesini, A. 2017. Standpoint then and now. In: Fricker, M. et al. eds. Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology. London: Routledge, (10.4324/9781315717937-33)
- Tanesini, A. 2017. Doing Philosophy. In: D'Oro, G. and Overgaard, S. eds. The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 13-31.
2016
- Tanesini, A. 2016. 'Calm down, dear': intellectual arrogance, silencing and ignorance. Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 90(1), pp. 71-92. (10.1093/arisup/akw011)
- Tanesini, A. 2016. Collective amnesia and epistemic injustice. [Online]. Imperfect Cognitions Network. Available at: http://imperfectcognitions.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/collective-amnesia-and-epistemic.html
- Tanesini, A. 2016. Teaching virtue: changing attitudes. Logos & Episteme 7(4), pp. 503-527. (10.5840/logos-episteme20167445)
2015
- Byrne, A. and Tanesini, A. 2015. Instilling new habits: addressing implicit bias in healthcare professionals. Advances in Health Sciences Education 20(5), pp. 1255-1262. (10.1007/s10459-015-9600-6)
- Tanesini, A. 2015. Spatial attention and perception: seeing without paint. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 14, pp. 433-454. (10.1007/s11097-014-9349-z)
- Tanesini, A. 2015. Epistemologie e filosofie femministe della scienza. Aphex 11, article number: 31012015.
2014
- Tanesini, A. 2014. Temporal externalism: a taxonomy, an articulation, and a defence. Journal of the Philosophy of History 8(1), pp. 1-19. (10.1163/18722636-12341263)
- Tanesini, A. 2014. Logical aliens. In: Skodi, A. ed. Other Logics: Historical and Philosophical Alternatives to Formal Logic. Brill, pp. 123-147.
- Tanesini, A. 2014. Feminist epistemology and philosophy of science. Oxford Bibliographies (10.1093/OBO/9780195396577-0158)
2013
- Tanesini, A. 2013. It's easy if you try, Review of Sally Haslanger's Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique [Book Review]. Radical Philosophy 181, pp. 60-62.
2012
- Tanesini, A. 2012. Feminist epistemology. In: Evans, M. and Williams, C. eds. Gender: The Key Concepts. Routledge Key Guides London: Routledge, pp. 81-87.
- Holroyd, J. and Tanesini, A. 2012. Under-represented groups in philosophy (26th-27th November 2010). Humana Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies 22, pp. 243-249.
- Tanesini, A. 2012. Nietzsche on the Diachronic Will and the problem of morality. European Journal of Philosophy n/a (10.1111/j.1468-0378.2012.00564.x)
2011
- Tanesini, A. and Protevi, J. 2011. New APPS interview: Alessandra Tanesini - Part II. [Online]. New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science. Available at: http://www.newappsblog.com/2011/10/new-apps-interview-alessandra-tanesini-part-i.html#more
- Tanesini, A. and Protevi, J. 2011. New APPS interview: Alessandra Tanesini - Part I. [Online]. New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science. Available at: http://www.newappsblog.com/2011/10/new-apps-interview-alessandra-tanesini-part-i-1.html#more
- Tanesini, A. 2011. Feminist epistemology. In: Bernecker, S. and Pritchard, D. eds. Routledge Companion to Epistemology. Routledge Philosophy Companions London: Routledge, pp. 885-895.
- Tanesini, A. 2011. Walk this way: Susan Hekman, The Material of Knowledge: Feminist Disclosures, Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 2010. xi + 148 pp., £45.00 hb., £14.99 pb., 978 0 25335 467 9 hb., 978 0 25322 196 4 pb. [Book Review]. Radical Philosophy 166, pp. 44-45.
- Tanesini, A. 2011. Heikes, Deborah K. Rationality and feminist philosophy - 173pp, Continuum, 2010, £65.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781441161277 [Book Review]. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
2010
- Gray, R. and Tanesini, A. 2010. Perception and action: The taste test. Philosophical Quarterly 60(241), pp. 718-734. (10.1111/j.1467-9213.2009.651.x)
- Tanesini, A. 2010. Naturalism and normativity: Rorty and Barad. In: Janack, M. ed. Feminist Interpretations of Richard Rorty. Re-Reading the Canon University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, pp. 199-216.
- Tanesini, A. 2010. The non-conjunctive nature of disjunctivism : a critical notice of Byrne, A. and Logue, H. Disjunctivism: contemporary readings and Haddock, A.and MacPherson, F. Disjunctivism: perception, action and knowledge. Teorema 29(1), pp. 95-103.
- Tanesini, A. 2010. Feminist philosophy. Oxford Bibliographies Online (10.1093/OBO/9780195396577-0152)
2009
- Tanesini, A. 2009. The Canon: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. By Ludwig Wittgenstein. Times Higher Education 3(9), pp. 49.
- Tanesini, A. 2009. Reviews of Ram Neeta and Duncan Pritchard (eds.) Arguing about Knowledge; Kevin Timpe (ed.) Arguing about Religion; Matt Zwolinski (ed.) Arguing about Political Philosophy; Michael C. Rae (ed.) Arguing about Metaphysics (Routledge, 2009). Times Higher Education: Textbook Guide, pp. viii-ix.
- Tanesini, A. 2009. Oggettivitá. In: Vassallo, N. ed. Donna M'Apparve. Turin: Codice Edizioni, pp. 103-15.
- Tanesini, A. 2009. Donna non si nasce, lo si diventa. Diogene 16, pp. 47-49.
- Tanesini, A. 2009. Unlike McDowell. Radical Philosophy 155, pp. 56-57.
2008
- Tanesini, A. 2008. Barry Smith (ed.) Questions of taste: the philosophy of wine [Book Review]. International Journal of Philosophical Studies 16(5), pp. 779-782. (10.1080/09672550802504334)
- Tanesini, A. 2008. Ecological thinking: the politics of epistemic location [Book Review]. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 77(2), pp. 573-576. (10.1111/j.1933-1592.2008.00207.x)
- Tanesini, A. 2008. Self-knowledge and resentment. Philosophical Books 49(3), pp. 238-245. (10.1111/j.1468-0149.2008.00465.x)
- Tanesini, A. 2008. Virtues, emotions and fallibilism. In: Brun, G., Doguoglu, U. and Kuenzle, D. eds. Epistemology and the emotions. Ashgate Epistemology and Mind series Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 67-82.
- Tanesini, A. 2008. Intentionality and the externalism versus internalism debate. Abstracta 2008(SI2), pp. 45-53.
- Tanesini, A. 2008. Questions of taste: the philosophy of wine [Book Review]. International Journal of Philosophical Studies 16(5), pp. 779-782.
2007
- Tanesini, A. 2007. Contemporary debates in epistemology – Matthias Steup and Ernest Sosa (eds) [Book Review]. The Philosophical Quarterly 57(227), pp. 303-306.
- Tanesini, A. 2007. Contemporary debates in epistemology – Matthias Steup and Ernest Sosa (eds)[Book Review]. Philosophical Quarterly 57(227), pp. 303-306. (10.1111/j.1467-9213.2007.486_4.x)
- Tanesini, A. 2007. Philosophy of language A-Z. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
2006
- Tanesini, A. 2006. Bringing about the normative past. American Philosophical Quarterly 43(3), pp. 191-206.
- Tanesini, A. 2006. Language-play: Chris Lawn, Wittgenstein and Gadamer: towards a post-analytic philosophy of language [Book Review]. Radical Philosophy 135, pp. 42-44.
- Tanesini, A. 2006. The nature and content of experience in Luca Malatesti and Michael Peckitt (eds), Symposium on The World, The Flesh and the Subject by Paul Gilbert and Kathleen Lennon. SWIF Philosophy of Mind Review, pp. 24-31.
- Tanesini, A. 2006. The nature and content of experience: The World, The Flesh and the Subject by Paul Gilbert and Kathleen Lennon [Commentary]. SWIF Philosophy of Mind Review 5, pp. 24-31.
- Tanesini, A. 2006. Wendy Brown, Edgework: critical essays on knowledge and politics [Book Review]. Radical Philosophy 139, pp. 51-53.
- Tanesini, A. 2006. Chris Lawn, Wittgenstein and Gadamer: towards a post-analytic philosophy of language [Book Review]. Radical Philosophy 135, pp. 42-44.
- Tanesini, A. 2006. Straw poll: should the airwaves be policed?. The Philosopher's Magazine 34, pp. 10. (10.5840/tpm20063467)
2005
- Tanesini, A. 2005. Review of Sharyn Clough, Beyond Epistemology: A Pragmatist Approach to Feminist Science Studies. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, article number: 24831.
- Tanesini, A. 2005. A theory of assertives. In: Heather, B. and Michael, P. L. eds. Perspectives on the Philosophy of William P. Alston. Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 239-49.
- Lance, M. and Tanesini, A. 2005. Emotion and rationality. In: Ezcurdia, M., Stainton, R. and Viger, C. D. eds. New Essays in Philosophy of Language and Mind. University of Calgary Press, pp. 275-95.
- Tanesini, A. 2005. Nietzsche, biology and metaphor. Gregory Moore, 2002, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. [Book Review]. European Journal of English Studies 9(1), pp. 95-96. (10.1080/13825570500068182)
- Tanesini, A. 2005. Review of Rachel Alsop, Annette Fitzsimons and Kathleen Lennon, theorizing gender. Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics 22, pp. 90-92.
2004
- Tanesini, A. 2004. Wittgenstein: A feminist interpretation. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Tanesini, A. and Lance, M. 2004. Emotions and rationality. In: Ezcurdia, M., Stainton, R. and Viger, C. eds. New Essays in Philosophy of Language and Mind: Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume., Vol. 30. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, pp. 275-295.
2003
- Tanesini, A. 2003. Quiet despair: Bernard Williams, Truth and truthfulness: an essay in genealogy [Book Review]. Radical Philosophy 121, pp. 51-53.
- Tanesini, A. 2003. Review of Peg O'Connor, oppression and responsibility: A Wittgensteinian approach to social practices and moral theory. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
2002
- Tanesini, A. 2002. Talking feminist politics: conversations on law, science, and the postmodern. By Eloise A. Buker. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999. 240p. $60.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. / The future of differences: truth and method in feminist theory. By Susan J. Hekman. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1999. 173p. $66.95 cloth, $29.95 paper. [Book Review]. American Political Science Review 96(4), pp. 799-801. (10.1017/S0003055402250467)
- Tanesini, A. 2002. Unreachable: Wendy Brown, Politics out of history [Book Review]. Radical Philosophy 114, pp. 43-45.
- Tanesini, A. 2002. Review of Eloise A. Buker, talking feminist politics and Susan J. Hekman, the future of differences. American Political Science Review 96(4), pp. 799-801. (10.1017/S0003055402000382)
2001
- Tanesini, A. 2001. In search of community: Mouffe, Wittgenstein and Cavell. Radical Philosophy 110, pp. 12-19.
- Tanesini, A. 2001. The Tebbit tendency: Will Kymlicka, Politics in the vernacular: nationalism, multiculturalism and citizenship [Book Review]. Radical Philosophy 109, pp. 39-42.
- Tanesini, A. 2001. Cressida Heyes, Defining women through feminist practice [Book Review]. Women's Philosophy Review 27, pp. 92-95.
2000
- Lance, M. N. and Tanesini, A. 2000. Identity judgements, queer politics. Radical Philosophy 100, pp. 42-51.
- Tanesini, A. 2000. Genes and gays: the irrelevance of biology to queer identities. The Philosopher's Magazine 11, pp. 51-52. (10.5840/tpm20001124)
1999
- Tanesini, A. 1999. David Theo Goldberg, Racial subjects: writing on race in America, Routledge, New York and London, 1997. xi + 259 pp., £45.00 hb., £ 13.99 pb., 0 415 91830 8 hb., 0 415 91831 6 pb. [Book Review]. Radical Philosophy 95, pp. 61.
- Tanesini, A. 1999. Drawing the colour line: K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann, Color conscious: the political morality of race [Book Review]. Radical Philosophy 95, pp. 46-48.
- Tanesini, A. 1999. David Theo Goldberg, Racial subjects: writing on race in America [Book Review]. Radical Philosophy 95, pp. 61.
- Tanesini, A. 1999. An introduction to feminist epistemologies. Oxford: Blackwell.
- Tanesini, A. 1999. The power of words: feminism and philosophy of language. Women's Philosophy Review 21, pp. 26-46.
1998
- Tanesini, A. 1998. The culture of biotechnology: Donna J. Haraway, Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium. FemaleMan (c)_Meets_OncoMouse (TM): Feminism and technoscience [Book Review]. Radical Philosophy 91, pp. 41-42.
- Tanesini, A. 1998. Real knowing and real norms. Social Epistemology 12(3), pp. 241-251. (10.1080/02691729808578882)
- Tanesini, A. 1998. Review of Adriana Cavarero, Tu che mi guardi, Tu che mi racconti. Women's Philosophy Review 15, pp. 64-65.
- Tanesini, A. 1998. [Book Review] of Judith Butler: excitable speech:a politics of the performative. Women's Philosophy Review 18(1), pp. 51-53.
- Tanesini, A. 1998. Troubling philosophy: an interview with Judith Butler. Women's Philosophy Review 18, pp. 7-21.
1997
- Tanesini, A. 1997. Identity without an entity. Surfaces 7(107), pp. 1-10.
- Tanesini, A. 1997. Ethics without foundations: the question of universalism. Surfaces 7(114), pp. 1-9.
- Tanesini, A. 1997. The philosopher's bookshelf: Wittgenstein's philosophical investigations. Women's Philosophy Review 17, pp. 73-74.
1996
- Tanesini, A. 1996. Whose language?. In: Garry, A. and Pearsall, M. eds. Women, knowledge and reality: explorations in feminist philosophy. Routledge, pp. 353-365.
- Tanesini, A. 1996. Diotima, Oltre L'Uguaglianza: Le Radici Femininili dell'Autorità [Book Review]. Women's Philosophy Review 15, pp. 20-21.
1995
- Tanesini, A. 1995. The "spider's web" and the "tool": Nietzsche vis-a-vis Rorty on metaphor. In: Sedgwick, P. ed. Nietzsche: A Critical Reader. Blackwell Critical Reader London: Blackwell, pp. 276-293.
- Sedgwick, P. and Tanesini, A. 1995. Lyotard and Kripke: essentialisms in dispute. American Philosophical Quarterly 32(3), pp. 271-278.
- Tanesini, A. 1995. Nietzsche's theory of truth. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 73(4), pp. 548-559. (10.1080/00048409512346891)
1989
- Dale, A. J. and Tanesini, A. 1989. Why are Italians more reasonable than Australians?. Analysis 49(4), pp. 189-194. (10.1093/analys/49.4.189)
1988
- Tanesini, A. 1988. On Mackie's solution to semantic paradoxes. Logique et Analyse 31, pp. 223-226.
Articles
- Tanesini, A. 2024. Emulative trait envy is not a virtue. APA Studies on Feminism and Philosophy 23(2), pp. 38-42.
- Tanesini, A. 2024. Precis: The mismeasure of the self. Inquiry 67(2), pp. 727-737. (10.1080/0020174X.2022.2156922)
- Tanesini, A. 2024. Having the measure of self and world: A response to my critics. Inquiry 67(2), pp. 798-809. (10.1080/0020174X.2023.2177885)
- Tanesini, A. 2023. Intellectual arrogance: individual, group-based, and corporate. Synthese 202, article number: 6. (10.1007/s11229-023-04224-0)
- Hanel, P. H. P., Roy, D., Taylor, S., Franjieh, M., Heffer, C., Tanesini, A. and Maio, G. R. 2023. Using self-affirmation to increase intellectual humility in debate. Royal Society Open Science 10(2), article number: 220958. (10.1098/rsos.220958)
- Tanesini, A. 2022. Precis of the mismeasure of the self. Journal of Philosophical Research 47, pp. 61-66. (10.5840/jpr20221024193)
- Tanesini, A. 2022. Scaffolding knowledge. Philosophical Issues 32(1), pp. 367-381. (10.1111/phis.12234)
- Tanesini, A. 2022. Affective polarisation and emotional distortions on social media. Philosophy 92, pp. 87-109. (10.1017/S1358246122000261)
- Tanesini, A. 2022. Replies to Vrinda Dalmiya and Stacey McElroy-Hetzel. Journal of Philosophical Research 47, pp. 95-99. (10.5840/jpr20221024194)
- Tanesini, A. 2021. Passionate speech: on the uses and abuses of anger in public debate. Philosophy 89, pp. 153-176. (10.1017/S1358246121000047)
- Tanesini, A. 2020. Blaming the intellectually vicious: A critical discussion of Cassam’s account of blameworthiness and reprehensibility for epistemic vice. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 23, pp. 851-859. (10.1007/s10677-020-10092-1)
- Tanesini, A. 2020. The gift of testimony. Episteme 17(SI3), pp. 331-348. (doi.org/10.1017/epi.2019.52)
- Tanesini, A. 2020. Vices of the Mind, by Quassim Cassam [Book Review]. Mind 129(515), pp. 959-964. (10.1093/mind/fzz044)
- Tanesini, A. 2018. Caring for esteem and intellectual reputation: some epistemic benefits and harms. Philosophy 84, pp. 47-67. (10.1017/S1358246118000541)
- Tanesini, A. 2018. Intellectual servility and timidity. Journal of Philosophical Research 43, pp. 21-41. (10.5840/jpr201872120)
- Tanesini, A. 2018. Epistemic vice and motivation. Metaphilosophy 49(3), pp. 350-367. (10.1111/meta.12301)
- Tanesini, A. 2018. Intellectual humility as attitude. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 96(2), pp. 399-420. (10.1111/phpr.12326)
- Tanesini, A. 2018. Arrogance, anger and debate. Symposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences [Special issue on Skeptical Problems in Political Epistemology, edited by Scott Aikin and Tempest Henning] 5(2), pp. 213-227. (10.5840/symposion20185217)
- Tanesini, A. 2016. 'Calm down, dear': intellectual arrogance, silencing and ignorance. Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 90(1), pp. 71-92. (10.1093/arisup/akw011)
- Tanesini, A. 2016. Teaching virtue: changing attitudes. Logos & Episteme 7(4), pp. 503-527. (10.5840/logos-episteme20167445)
- Byrne, A. and Tanesini, A. 2015. Instilling new habits: addressing implicit bias in healthcare professionals. Advances in Health Sciences Education 20(5), pp. 1255-1262. (10.1007/s10459-015-9600-6)
- Tanesini, A. 2015. Spatial attention and perception: seeing without paint. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 14, pp. 433-454. (10.1007/s11097-014-9349-z)
- Tanesini, A. 2015. Epistemologie e filosofie femministe della scienza. Aphex 11, article number: 31012015.
- Tanesini, A. 2014. Temporal externalism: a taxonomy, an articulation, and a defence. Journal of the Philosophy of History 8(1), pp. 1-19. (10.1163/18722636-12341263)
- Tanesini, A. 2014. Feminist epistemology and philosophy of science. Oxford Bibliographies (10.1093/OBO/9780195396577-0158)
- Tanesini, A. 2013. It's easy if you try, Review of Sally Haslanger's Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique [Book Review]. Radical Philosophy 181, pp. 60-62.
- Holroyd, J. and Tanesini, A. 2012. Under-represented groups in philosophy (26th-27th November 2010). Humana Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies 22, pp. 243-249.
- Tanesini, A. 2012. Nietzsche on the Diachronic Will and the problem of morality. European Journal of Philosophy n/a (10.1111/j.1468-0378.2012.00564.x)
- Tanesini, A. 2011. Walk this way: Susan Hekman, The Material of Knowledge: Feminist Disclosures, Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 2010. xi + 148 pp., £45.00 hb., £14.99 pb., 978 0 25335 467 9 hb., 978 0 25322 196 4 pb. [Book Review]. Radical Philosophy 166, pp. 44-45.
- Tanesini, A. 2011. Heikes, Deborah K. Rationality and feminist philosophy - 173pp, Continuum, 2010, £65.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781441161277 [Book Review]. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
- Gray, R. and Tanesini, A. 2010. Perception and action: The taste test. Philosophical Quarterly 60(241), pp. 718-734. (10.1111/j.1467-9213.2009.651.x)
- Tanesini, A. 2010. The non-conjunctive nature of disjunctivism : a critical notice of Byrne, A. and Logue, H. Disjunctivism: contemporary readings and Haddock, A.and MacPherson, F. Disjunctivism: perception, action and knowledge. Teorema 29(1), pp. 95-103.
- Tanesini, A. 2010. Feminist philosophy. Oxford Bibliographies Online (10.1093/OBO/9780195396577-0152)
- Tanesini, A. 2009. The Canon: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. By Ludwig Wittgenstein. Times Higher Education 3(9), pp. 49.
- Tanesini, A. 2009. Reviews of Ram Neeta and Duncan Pritchard (eds.) Arguing about Knowledge; Kevin Timpe (ed.) Arguing about Religion; Matt Zwolinski (ed.) Arguing about Political Philosophy; Michael C. Rae (ed.) Arguing about Metaphysics (Routledge, 2009). Times Higher Education: Textbook Guide, pp. viii-ix.
- Tanesini, A. 2009. Donna non si nasce, lo si diventa. Diogene 16, pp. 47-49.
- Tanesini, A. 2009. Unlike McDowell. Radical Philosophy 155, pp. 56-57.
- Tanesini, A. 2008. Barry Smith (ed.) Questions of taste: the philosophy of wine [Book Review]. International Journal of Philosophical Studies 16(5), pp. 779-782. (10.1080/09672550802504334)
- Tanesini, A. 2008. Ecological thinking: the politics of epistemic location [Book Review]. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 77(2), pp. 573-576. (10.1111/j.1933-1592.2008.00207.x)
- Tanesini, A. 2008. Self-knowledge and resentment. Philosophical Books 49(3), pp. 238-245. (10.1111/j.1468-0149.2008.00465.x)
- Tanesini, A. 2008. Intentionality and the externalism versus internalism debate. Abstracta 2008(SI2), pp. 45-53.
- Tanesini, A. 2008. Questions of taste: the philosophy of wine [Book Review]. International Journal of Philosophical Studies 16(5), pp. 779-782.
- Tanesini, A. 2007. Contemporary debates in epistemology – Matthias Steup and Ernest Sosa (eds) [Book Review]. The Philosophical Quarterly 57(227), pp. 303-306.
- Tanesini, A. 2007. Contemporary debates in epistemology – Matthias Steup and Ernest Sosa (eds)[Book Review]. Philosophical Quarterly 57(227), pp. 303-306. (10.1111/j.1467-9213.2007.486_4.x)
- Tanesini, A. 2006. Bringing about the normative past. American Philosophical Quarterly 43(3), pp. 191-206.
- Tanesini, A. 2006. Language-play: Chris Lawn, Wittgenstein and Gadamer: towards a post-analytic philosophy of language [Book Review]. Radical Philosophy 135, pp. 42-44.
- Tanesini, A. 2006. The nature and content of experience in Luca Malatesti and Michael Peckitt (eds), Symposium on The World, The Flesh and the Subject by Paul Gilbert and Kathleen Lennon. SWIF Philosophy of Mind Review, pp. 24-31.
- Tanesini, A. 2006. The nature and content of experience: The World, The Flesh and the Subject by Paul Gilbert and Kathleen Lennon [Commentary]. SWIF Philosophy of Mind Review 5, pp. 24-31.
- Tanesini, A. 2006. Wendy Brown, Edgework: critical essays on knowledge and politics [Book Review]. Radical Philosophy 139, pp. 51-53.
- Tanesini, A. 2006. Chris Lawn, Wittgenstein and Gadamer: towards a post-analytic philosophy of language [Book Review]. Radical Philosophy 135, pp. 42-44.
- Tanesini, A. 2006. Straw poll: should the airwaves be policed?. The Philosopher's Magazine 34, pp. 10. (10.5840/tpm20063467)
- Tanesini, A. 2005. Review of Sharyn Clough, Beyond Epistemology: A Pragmatist Approach to Feminist Science Studies. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, article number: 24831.
- Tanesini, A. 2005. Nietzsche, biology and metaphor. Gregory Moore, 2002, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. [Book Review]. European Journal of English Studies 9(1), pp. 95-96. (10.1080/13825570500068182)
- Tanesini, A. 2005. Review of Rachel Alsop, Annette Fitzsimons and Kathleen Lennon, theorizing gender. Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics 22, pp. 90-92.
- Tanesini, A. 2003. Quiet despair: Bernard Williams, Truth and truthfulness: an essay in genealogy [Book Review]. Radical Philosophy 121, pp. 51-53.
- Tanesini, A. 2003. Review of Peg O'Connor, oppression and responsibility: A Wittgensteinian approach to social practices and moral theory. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
- Tanesini, A. 2002. Talking feminist politics: conversations on law, science, and the postmodern. By Eloise A. Buker. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999. 240p. $60.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. / The future of differences: truth and method in feminist theory. By Susan J. Hekman. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1999. 173p. $66.95 cloth, $29.95 paper. [Book Review]. American Political Science Review 96(4), pp. 799-801. (10.1017/S0003055402250467)
- Tanesini, A. 2002. Unreachable: Wendy Brown, Politics out of history [Book Review]. Radical Philosophy 114, pp. 43-45.
- Tanesini, A. 2002. Review of Eloise A. Buker, talking feminist politics and Susan J. Hekman, the future of differences. American Political Science Review 96(4), pp. 799-801. (10.1017/S0003055402000382)
- Tanesini, A. 2001. In search of community: Mouffe, Wittgenstein and Cavell. Radical Philosophy 110, pp. 12-19.
- Tanesini, A. 2001. The Tebbit tendency: Will Kymlicka, Politics in the vernacular: nationalism, multiculturalism and citizenship [Book Review]. Radical Philosophy 109, pp. 39-42.
- Tanesini, A. 2001. Cressida Heyes, Defining women through feminist practice [Book Review]. Women's Philosophy Review 27, pp. 92-95.
- Lance, M. N. and Tanesini, A. 2000. Identity judgements, queer politics. Radical Philosophy 100, pp. 42-51.
- Tanesini, A. 2000. Genes and gays: the irrelevance of biology to queer identities. The Philosopher's Magazine 11, pp. 51-52. (10.5840/tpm20001124)
- Tanesini, A. 1999. David Theo Goldberg, Racial subjects: writing on race in America, Routledge, New York and London, 1997. xi + 259 pp., £45.00 hb., £ 13.99 pb., 0 415 91830 8 hb., 0 415 91831 6 pb. [Book Review]. Radical Philosophy 95, pp. 61.
- Tanesini, A. 1999. Drawing the colour line: K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann, Color conscious: the political morality of race [Book Review]. Radical Philosophy 95, pp. 46-48.
- Tanesini, A. 1999. David Theo Goldberg, Racial subjects: writing on race in America [Book Review]. Radical Philosophy 95, pp. 61.
- Tanesini, A. 1999. The power of words: feminism and philosophy of language. Women's Philosophy Review 21, pp. 26-46.
- Tanesini, A. 1998. The culture of biotechnology: Donna J. Haraway, Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium. FemaleMan (c)_Meets_OncoMouse (TM): Feminism and technoscience [Book Review]. Radical Philosophy 91, pp. 41-42.
- Tanesini, A. 1998. Real knowing and real norms. Social Epistemology 12(3), pp. 241-251. (10.1080/02691729808578882)
- Tanesini, A. 1998. Review of Adriana Cavarero, Tu che mi guardi, Tu che mi racconti. Women's Philosophy Review 15, pp. 64-65.
- Tanesini, A. 1998. [Book Review] of Judith Butler: excitable speech:a politics of the performative. Women's Philosophy Review 18(1), pp. 51-53.
- Tanesini, A. 1998. Troubling philosophy: an interview with Judith Butler. Women's Philosophy Review 18, pp. 7-21.
- Tanesini, A. 1997. Identity without an entity. Surfaces 7(107), pp. 1-10.
- Tanesini, A. 1997. Ethics without foundations: the question of universalism. Surfaces 7(114), pp. 1-9.
- Tanesini, A. 1997. The philosopher's bookshelf: Wittgenstein's philosophical investigations. Women's Philosophy Review 17, pp. 73-74.
- Tanesini, A. 1996. Diotima, Oltre L'Uguaglianza: Le Radici Femininili dell'Autorità [Book Review]. Women's Philosophy Review 15, pp. 20-21.
- Sedgwick, P. and Tanesini, A. 1995. Lyotard and Kripke: essentialisms in dispute. American Philosophical Quarterly 32(3), pp. 271-278.
- Tanesini, A. 1995. Nietzsche's theory of truth. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 73(4), pp. 548-559. (10.1080/00048409512346891)
- Dale, A. J. and Tanesini, A. 1989. Why are Italians more reasonable than Australians?. Analysis 49(4), pp. 189-194. (10.1093/analys/49.4.189)
- Tanesini, A. 1988. On Mackie's solution to semantic paradoxes. Logique et Analyse 31, pp. 223-226.
Book sections
- Tanesini, A. 2024. Affective polarization, wholeheartedness, and fanaticism. In: Peels, R. and Horgan, J. eds. Extreme Belief and Action: Mapping the Terrain. New York: Oxford University Press
- Tanesini, A. 2023. Speech in non-ideal conditions: On silence and being silenced. In: Caponetto, L. and Labinaz, P. eds. Sbisà on Speech as Action. Cham: Palgrave McMillan, pp. 221-243., (10.1007/978-3-031-22528-4_10)
- Tanesini, A. 2023. The politics of resentment: Hope, mistrust, and polarization. In: Samaržija, H. and Cassam, Q. eds. The Epistemology of Democracy. New York: Routledge, pp. 115-134., (10.4324/9781003311003)
- Tanesini, A. 2022. Mindshaping and intellectual virtues. In: Alfano, M., Klein, C. and de Ridder, J. eds. Social Virtue Epistemology. New York: Routledge, pp. 140-160., (10.4324/9780367808952-19)
- Tanesini, A. 2022. Intellectual vices in conditions of oppression: the turn to the political in virtue epistemology. In: Bordonaba Plou, D., Fernández Castro, V. and Torices Vidal, J. R. eds. The Turn to the Political in Analytic Philosophy. Bordonaba Plou, D., Fernández Castro, V. and Torices Vidal, J. R. De Gruyter Academic Publishing, pp. 77-103., (10.1515/9783110612318-006)
- Tanesini, A. 2022. Attitude psychology and virtue epistemology: a new framework. In: Ballantyne, N. and Dunning, D. eds. Reason, Bias, and Inquiry: New Perspectives from the Crossroads of Epistemology and Psychology. Oxford University Press, pp. 274-296.
- Tanesini, A. 2021. Epistemic autonomy and its vices. In: Lougheed, K. and Matheson, J. eds. Epistemic Autonomy. New York and London: Routledge, pp. 231-249.
- Tanesini, A. 2021. Anger, moral address and claimant injustice. In: Snow, N. E. and Vaccarezza, M. S. eds. Virtues, Democracy, and Online Media: Ethical and Epistemic Issues. Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory New York and London: Routledge, pp. 134-148.
- Tanesini, A. 2021. Virtues and vices in public and political debate. In: Hannon, M. and De Ridder, J. eds. The Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology. New York and London: Routledge, pp. 325-335.
- Tanesini, A. 2020. Arrogance, polarisation and arguing to win. In: Tanesini, A. and Lynch, M. P. eds. Polarisation, Arrogance, and Dogmatism: Philosophical Perspectives. London: Routledge, pp. 158-174.
- Tanesini, A. 2020. Humility and self-knowledge. In: Alfano, M., Lynch, M. P. and Tanesini, A. eds. The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Humility. London: Routledge, (10.4324/9781351107532)
- Tanesini, A. 2019. Virtuous and vicious intellectual self-trust. In: Dormandy, K. ed. Trust in Epistemology. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 218-238.
- Tanesini, A. 2019. Silencing and assertion. In: Goldberg, S. ed. The Oxford Handbook of Assertion. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190675233.013.31)
- Tanesini, A. 2018. Reducing arrogance in public debate. In: Arthur, J. ed. Virtues in the Public Sphere: Citizenship, Civic Friendship and Duty. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 23-38.
- Tanesini, A. 2018. Collective amnesia and epistemic injustice. In: Carter, A. . J. et al. eds. Socially Extended Epistemology. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 195-219., (10.1093/oso/9780198801764.003.0011)
- Tanesini, A. 2018. Eloquent silences: silence and dissent. In: Johnson, C. R. ed. Voicing Dissent: The Ethics and Epistemology of Making Disagreement Public. Routledge, pp. 109-128.
- Tanesini, A. 2017. Standpoint then and now. In: Fricker, M. et al. eds. Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology. London: Routledge, (10.4324/9781315717937-33)
- Tanesini, A. 2017. Doing Philosophy. In: D'Oro, G. and Overgaard, S. eds. The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 13-31.
- Tanesini, A. 2014. Logical aliens. In: Skodi, A. ed. Other Logics: Historical and Philosophical Alternatives to Formal Logic. Brill, pp. 123-147.
- Tanesini, A. 2012. Feminist epistemology. In: Evans, M. and Williams, C. eds. Gender: The Key Concepts. Routledge Key Guides London: Routledge, pp. 81-87.
- Tanesini, A. 2011. Feminist epistemology. In: Bernecker, S. and Pritchard, D. eds. Routledge Companion to Epistemology. Routledge Philosophy Companions London: Routledge, pp. 885-895.
- Tanesini, A. 2010. Naturalism and normativity: Rorty and Barad. In: Janack, M. ed. Feminist Interpretations of Richard Rorty. Re-Reading the Canon University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, pp. 199-216.
- Tanesini, A. 2009. Oggettivitá. In: Vassallo, N. ed. Donna M'Apparve. Turin: Codice Edizioni, pp. 103-15.
- Tanesini, A. 2008. Virtues, emotions and fallibilism. In: Brun, G., Doguoglu, U. and Kuenzle, D. eds. Epistemology and the emotions. Ashgate Epistemology and Mind series Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 67-82.
- Tanesini, A. 2005. A theory of assertives. In: Heather, B. and Michael, P. L. eds. Perspectives on the Philosophy of William P. Alston. Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 239-49.
- Lance, M. and Tanesini, A. 2005. Emotion and rationality. In: Ezcurdia, M., Stainton, R. and Viger, C. D. eds. New Essays in Philosophy of Language and Mind. University of Calgary Press, pp. 275-95.
- Tanesini, A. and Lance, M. 2004. Emotions and rationality. In: Ezcurdia, M., Stainton, R. and Viger, C. eds. New Essays in Philosophy of Language and Mind: Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume., Vol. 30. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, pp. 275-295.
- Tanesini, A. 1996. Whose language?. In: Garry, A. and Pearsall, M. eds. Women, knowledge and reality: explorations in feminist philosophy. Routledge, pp. 353-365.
- Tanesini, A. 1995. The "spider's web" and the "tool": Nietzsche vis-a-vis Rorty on metaphor. In: Sedgwick, P. ed. Nietzsche: A Critical Reader. Blackwell Critical Reader London: Blackwell, pp. 276-293.
Books
- Tanesini, A. 2021. The mismeasure of the self: a study in vice epistemology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Tanesini, A. and Lynch, M. P. eds. 2020. Polarisation, arrogance, and dogmatism: philosophical perspectives. London: Routledge.
- Alfano, M., Lynch, M. P. and Tanesini, A. eds. 2020. The Routledge handbook of the philosophy of humility. London: Routledge.
- Tanesini, A. 2007. Philosophy of language A-Z. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Tanesini, A. 2004. Wittgenstein: A feminist interpretation. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Tanesini, A. 1999. An introduction to feminist epistemologies. Oxford: Blackwell.
Conferences
- Tanesini, A. 2017. Reducing arrogance in public debate. Presented at: Virtues in the Public Sphere,, Oriel College, Oxford, UK, 4-6 January 2018.
Websites
- Tanesini, A. 2018. Intellectual servility and timidity. [Online]. Imperfect Cognitions. Available at: http://imperfectcognitions.blogspot.com/2018/11/intellectual-servility-timidity.html
- Tanesini, A. 2018. Addressing a culture of disrespect: Arrogance and anger in debate. [Online]. Humility & Conviction in Public Life Blog. Available at: https://humilityandconviction.uconn.edu/hc-the-blog/
- Tanesini, A. 2018. ‘Are we all suffering from collective amnesia?’. [Online]. Iai news: Institute of Arts and Ideas. Available at: https://iainews.iai.tv/articles/are-we-all-suffering-from-historical-collective-amnesia-auid-1048
- Tanesini, A. 2016. Collective amnesia and epistemic injustice. [Online]. Imperfect Cognitions Network. Available at: http://imperfectcognitions.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/collective-amnesia-and-epistemic.html
- Tanesini, A. and Protevi, J. 2011. New APPS interview: Alessandra Tanesini - Part II. [Online]. New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science. Available at: http://www.newappsblog.com/2011/10/new-apps-interview-alessandra-tanesini-part-i.html#more
- Tanesini, A. and Protevi, J. 2011. New APPS interview: Alessandra Tanesini - Part I. [Online]. New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science. Available at: http://www.newappsblog.com/2011/10/new-apps-interview-alessandra-tanesini-part-i-1.html#more
- Tanesini, A. 2022. Scaffolding knowledge. Philosophical Issues 32(1), pp. 367-381. (10.1111/phis.12234)
- Tanesini, A. 2022. Affective polarisation and emotional distortions on social media. Philosophy 92, pp. 87-109. (10.1017/S1358246122000261)
- Tanesini, A. 2022. Mindshaping and intellectual virtues. In: Alfano, M., Klein, C. and de Ridder, J. eds. Social Virtue Epistemology. New York: Routledge, pp. 140-160., (10.4324/9780367808952-19)
- Tanesini, A. 2022. Intellectual vices in conditions of oppression: the turn to the political in virtue epistemology. In: Bordonaba Plou, D., Fernández Castro, V. and Torices Vidal, J. R. eds. The Turn to the Political in Analytic Philosophy. Bordonaba Plou, D., Fernández Castro, V. and Torices Vidal, J. R. De Gruyter Academic Publishing, pp. 77-103., (10.1515/9783110612318-006)
- Tanesini, A. 2021. Epistemic autonomy and its vices. In: Lougheed, K. and Matheson, J. eds. Epistemic Autonomy. New York and London: Routledge, pp. 231-249.
- Tanesini, A. 2021. Anger, moral address and claimant injustice. In: Snow, N. E. and Vaccarezza, M. S. eds. Virtues, Democracy, and Online Media: Ethical and Epistemic Issues. Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory New York and London: Routledge, pp. 134-148.
- Tanesini, A. 2021. The mismeasure of the self: a study in vice epistemology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Tanesini, A. 2021. Passionate speech: on the uses and abuses of anger in public debate. Philosophy 89, pp. 153-176. (10.1017/S1358246121000047)
- Tanesini, A. 2020. The gift of testimony. Episteme 17(SI3), pp. 331-348. (doi.org/10.1017/epi.2019.52)
- Tanesini, A. and Lynch, M. P. eds. 2020. Polarisation, arrogance, and dogmatism: philosophical perspectives. London: Routledge.
- Alfano, M., Lynch, M. P. and Tanesini, A. eds. 2020. The Routledge handbook of the philosophy of humility. London: Routledge.
- Tanesini, A. 2019. Virtuous and vicious intellectual self-trust. In: Dormandy, K. ed. Trust in Epistemology. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 218-238.
- Tanesini, A. 2019. Silencing and assertion. In: Goldberg, S. ed. The Oxford Handbook of Assertion. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190675233.013.31)
- Tanesini, A. 2018. Reducing arrogance in public debate. In: Arthur, J. ed. Virtues in the Public Sphere: Citizenship, Civic Friendship and Duty. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 23-38.
- Tanesini, A. 2018. Caring for esteem and intellectual reputation: some epistemic benefits and harms. Philosophy 84, pp. 47-67. (10.1017/S1358246118000541)
- Tanesini, A. 2018. Intellectual servility and timidity. Journal of Philosophical Research 43, pp. 21-41. (10.5840/jpr201872120)
- Tanesini, A. 2018. Epistemic vice and motivation. Metaphilosophy 49(3), pp. 350-367. (10.1111/meta.12301)
- Tanesini, A. 2018. Intellectual humility as attitude. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 96(2), pp. 399-420. (10.1111/phpr.12326)
- Tanesini, A. 2018. Eloquent silences: silence and dissent. In: Johnson, C. R. ed. Voicing Dissent: The Ethics and Epistemology of Making Disagreement Public. Routledge, pp. 109-128.
- Tanesini, A. 2016. 'Calm down, dear': intellectual arrogance, silencing and ignorance. Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 90(1), pp. 71-92. (10.1093/arisup/akw011)
- Tanesini, A. 2016. Teaching virtue: changing attitudes. Logos & Episteme 7(4), pp. 503-527. (10.5840/logos-episteme20167445)
- Byrne, A. and Tanesini, A. 2015. Instilling new habits: addressing implicit bias in healthcare professionals. Advances in Health Sciences Education 20(5), pp. 1255-1262. (10.1007/s10459-015-9600-6)
- Tanesini, A. 2015. Spatial attention and perception: seeing without paint. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 14, pp. 433-454. (10.1007/s11097-014-9349-z)
- Tanesini, A. 2012. Nietzsche on the Diachronic Will and the problem of morality. European Journal of Philosophy n/a (10.1111/j.1468-0378.2012.00564.x)
- Gray, R. and Tanesini, A. 2010. Perception and action: The taste test. Philosophical Quarterly 60(241), pp. 718-734. (10.1111/j.1467-9213.2009.651.x)
- Tanesini, A. 2010. Naturalism and normativity: Rorty and Barad. In: Janack, M. ed. Feminist Interpretations of Richard Rorty. Re-Reading the Canon University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, pp. 199-216.
- Tanesini, A. 2009. Oggettivitá. In: Vassallo, N. ed. Donna M'Apparve. Turin: Codice Edizioni, pp. 103-15.
- Tanesini, A. 2008. Virtues, emotions and fallibilism. In: Brun, G., Doguoglu, U. and Kuenzle, D. eds. Epistemology and the emotions. Ashgate Epistemology and Mind series Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 67-82.
- Tanesini, A. 2007. Philosophy of language A-Z. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- Tanesini, A. 2006. Bringing about the normative past. American Philosophical Quarterly 43(3), pp. 191-206.
- Tanesini, A. 2005. A theory of assertives. In: Heather, B. and Michael, P. L. eds. Perspectives on the Philosophy of William P. Alston. Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 239-49.
- Lance, M. and Tanesini, A. 2005. Emotion and rationality. In: Ezcurdia, M., Stainton, R. and Viger, C. D. eds. New Essays in Philosophy of Language and Mind. University of Calgary Press, pp. 275-95.
- Tanesini, A. 2004. Wittgenstein: A feminist interpretation. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Tanesini, A. and Lance, M. 2004. Emotions and rationality. In: Ezcurdia, M., Stainton, R. and Viger, C. eds. New Essays in Philosophy of Language and Mind: Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume., Vol. 30. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, pp. 275-295.
- Tanesini, A. 1999. An introduction to feminist epistemologies. Oxford: Blackwell.
- Tanesini, A. 1995. Nietzsche's theory of truth. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 73(4), pp. 548-559. (10.1080/00048409512346891)
- Dale, A. J. and Tanesini, A. 1989. Why are Italians more reasonable than Australians?. Analysis 49(4), pp. 189-194. (10.1093/analys/49.4.189)
- Tanesini, A. 1988. On Mackie's solution to semantic paradoxes. Logique et Analyse 31, pp. 223-226.
Research
My current work lies at the intersection of ethics, the philosophy of language, and epistemology and focuses on epistemic vice, silencing, prejudice and ignorance. My latest book is The Mismeasure of the Self: A Study in Vice Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 2021).
Research interests
- virtue and vice epistemology
- social epistemology
- epistemic injustice and the epistemology of ignorance
- silencing
- anger and affective polarization
Teaching
Teaching interests
- social and virtue epistemology
- feminist philosophy
- epistemic injustice
Biography
I did my undergraduate work at Bologna University (Italy) and gained my PhD on Quine at the University of Hull (UK). In the meantime I studied and taught for a couple of years at Syracuse University (US) before coming to Cardiff in 1992.
In 1996 I was a Visiting Senior Lecturer in School of Philosophy (General Philosophy) at the University of Sydney, and in 1997 I was Visiting Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Georgetown University (US).
Supervisions
I am available to supervise PhD students on topic related to
- Social epistemology
- Virtue and vice Epistemology
- Epistemic injustice
- The epistemology of ignorance
- Feminist Philosophy
Current supervision
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