Arianna Falbo
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Published Work 

 
Est-ce que vous compute? Code-switching, Cultural Identity, and AI (co-authored with Travis LaCroix)
Feminist Philosophical Quarterly (Forthcoming). 
Special Issue: Feminism, Social Justice, and AI
  • Building upon Dotson's (2014) analysis of testimonial smothering, we discuss and analyze how emerging technologies in AI can reinforce and give rise to epistemic oppression, and specifically, a form of self-silencing that we call 'cultural smothering'. 
 Inquiring Minds Want to Improve
Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2022). 
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  • Develops a more expansive framework for inquiry on which the aim of inquiry is epistemic improvement, broadly construed. 
Hermeneutical Injustice: Distortion and Conceptual Aptness
Hypatia (2022).  
  • Argues that hermeneutical injustice doesn't necessarily involve conceptual gaps, and proposes a broader analysis which better respects the dynamic relationship between hermeneutical resources and social and political contexts in which they are implemented.
Inquiry and Confirmation
Analysis (2021). 
  • ​Responds to a puzzle proposed by Millson (2020). Argues for the possibility of rationally inquiring into a question, Q, while knowing the answer to Q. This suggests that inquiry aims at epistemic improvement, and also that the inquiring attitudes can take interrogative and propositional forms. 
Slurs, Neutral Counterparts, and What You Could Have Said
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Analytic Philosophy (2021).  ​ 
  • Against a key assumption of many pragmatic accounts (especially, Bolinger 2017, and Nunberg 2018), this paper argues that a speaker's choice to use a slur instead of a neutral counterpart plays no role in accounting for why slurs are offensive. 
Analyzing the Wrongfulness of Lying: A Defence of Pluralism
Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review/Revue canadienne de philosophie​ (2017). ​
Winner of the 2017 Canadian Philosophical Association Graduate Essay Prize 
  • Defends the view that lying can be morally objectionable in diverse ways, and argues for dialectical shift towards a pluralist approach to the wrongfulness of lying.
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Review 
Spitting Out the Kool-Aid: A Review of Kate Manne’s Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective (2018). 


Public Philosophy 
Fitting in is human: forcing someone to fit in is oppression
Aeon+Psyche Magazine (2021). 


As Editor (with Heather Stewart) 
Outsiders Within: Reflections on Being a Low-Income and/or First-Generation Philosopher
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Special Issue: APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy (Spring 2021).  
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Works in Progress (email me for drafts) 
  • A paper on inquiry and epistemic oppression. ​​
  • A paper on inquiry's relationship to normative epistemology.
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