BRIANA TOOLE
RESEARCH
My research interests lie at the intersections of epistemology, feminist theory, and philosophy of race. I study the role of features presumed to be irrelevant in discussions surrounding knowledge, features like social identity and personal interests. My work aims to show that these features play a significant role in inquiry and knowledge acquisition.
PUBLICATIONS
On Standpoint Epistemology and Epistemic Peerhood: A Defense of Epistemic Privilege
(2024), JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION, 10(3), 409 - 426
Objectivity in Feminist Epistemology
(2022), PHILOSOPHY COMPASS, 17 (11)
Demarginalizing Standpoint Epistemology
(2022), EPISTEME, 19 (1), 47 - 65
Recent Work in Standpoint Epistemology
(2021) ANALYSIS, 81 (2), 338 – 350
What Lies Beneath: The Epistemic Roots of White Supremacy
(2021) IN ELIZABETH EDENBERG AND MICHAEL HANNON (EDS.), POLITICS & TRUTH: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN POLITICAL EPISTEMOLOGY. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.
Believing is Seeing: Feminist Philosophy, Knowledge, and Perception
(2021) IN ELLY VINTIADIS (ED.), PHILOSOPHY BY WOMEN: 22 PHILOSOPHERS REFLECT ON PHILOSOPHY AND ITS VALUE. ROUTLEDGE.
From Standpoint Epistemology to Epistemic Oppression
(2019) ​HYPATIA 34 (4), 598 - 618
Masculine Foes, Feminist Woes: A Response to Down Girl
(2019) ​APA NEWSLETTER ON FEMINISM AND PHILOSOPHY 18 (2), 10 - 14
IN PROGRESS*
Title Redacted (Under Review)
A paper that aims to unpack the epistemic significance of consciousness-raising by proposing that we understand it in terms of a transformative experience.
By the Roots: How We Reclaim the Radical Power of Resistance
(under contract, Oxford University Press)
The aim of this project is to draw attention to the epistemic difficulties that beset resistance, and to show that these difficulties are in tension with fundamental (according to Rawls) elements of resistance. More broadly, the aim is to think about what this means for resistance, and how, given these epistemic difficulties, to best work together to bring about social and political change.
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