Kate Manne is an associate professor at the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University. She has written two books: “Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny” and “Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women.” Professor Manne has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, New York Magazine/The Cut, Huffington Post, and The Boston Review, as well as other public and academic venues. Before coming to Cornell in 2013 as an assistant professor, she was a graduate student at MIT and a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Professor Manne did her graduate work at MIT (2006–2011) and her undergraduate work at the University of Melbourne (2001–2005), where she studied philosophy, logic, and computer science.
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He Said, She Listened
Mansplaining, Gaslighting, and Epistemic Entitlement
Friday, February 19, 2021, 4:15pm EST
Event Overview
What are the underlying causes of misogyny? In many cases, it stems from a wrongheaded sense of moral entitlement to a woman’s sexual, emotional, reproductive, and material labor.
In this session, writer and philosopher Kate Manne will introduce another form of entitlement that can be thought of as epistemic: a sense of entitlement to be the designated knower or informant, or the agent who issues authoritative explanations. Professor Manne will connect the notion of epistemic entitlement with a variety of problematic behaviors, including mansplaining, gaslighting, and misogynistic anger at the expert testimony of women.
In this session, writer and philosopher Kate Manne will introduce another form of entitlement that can be thought of as epistemic: a sense of entitlement to be the designated knower or informant, or the agent who issues authoritative explanations. Professor Manne will connect the notion of epistemic entitlement with a variety of problematic behaviors, including mansplaining, gaslighting, and misogynistic anger at the expert testimony of women.
What You'll Learn
- How to understand paradigm cases of mansplaining
- How to understand paradigm cases of gaslighting
- The ways in which mansplaining and gaslighting are connected and explained by epistemic entitlement
- How epistemic entitlement negatively affects people in marginalized social positions, including women, people of color, and women of color in particular
Speaker
Kate Manne
Associate Professor, Sage School of Philosophy
Cornell College of Arts & Sciences
Associate Professor, Sage School of Philosophy, Cornell College of Arts & Sciences
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