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Knowing your past: Trauma, stress, and mnemonic epistemic injustice (2024)
Journal Article
Puddifoot, K., & Sandelind, C. (2025). Knowing your past: Trauma, stress, and mnemonic epistemic injustice. Journal of Social Philosophy, 56(2), 261-281. https://doi.org/10.1111/josp.12557

There is strong psychological evidence suggesting that social and institutional structures can cause people to experience trauma and stress that leads to memory distortion and disorganisation. We argue that these outcomes can constitute a mnemonic fo... Read More about Knowing your past: Trauma, stress, and mnemonic epistemic injustice.

Implicit Bias and Epistemic Oppression in Confronting Racism (2022)
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Holroyd, J., & Puddifoot, K. (2022). Implicit Bias and Epistemic Oppression in Confronting Racism. Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 8(3), 476-495. https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2021.12

Motivating reforms to address discrimination and exclusion is important. But what epistemic practices characterise better or worse ways of doing this? Recently, the phenomena of implicit biases have played a large role in motivating reforms. We argue... Read More about Implicit Bias and Epistemic Oppression in Confronting Racism.

Disclosure of Mental Health: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives (2019)
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Puddifoot, K. (2019). Disclosure of Mental Health: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives. Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, 26(4), 333-348. https://doi.org/10.1353/ppp.2019.0048

Should people with mental health conditions ‘come out proud’, disclosing information about their condition(s)? Recent research highlights how disclosing this information can promote empowerment and decrease self-stigma. However, many people with ment... Read More about Disclosure of Mental Health: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives.

Re-evaluating the credibility of eyewitness testimony: the misinformation effect and the overcritical juror (2018)
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Puddifoot, K. (2020). Re-evaluating the credibility of eyewitness testimony: the misinformation effect and the overcritical juror. Episteme, 17(2), 255-279. https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2018.42

Eyewitnesses are susceptible to recollecting that they experienced an event in a way that is consistent with false information provided to them after the event. The effect is commonly called the misinformation effect. Because jurors tend to find eyew... Read More about Re-evaluating the credibility of eyewitness testimony: the misinformation effect and the overcritical juror.

Epistemic innocence and the production of false memory beliefs (2018)
Journal Article
Puddifoot, K., & Bortolotti, L. (2019). Epistemic innocence and the production of false memory beliefs. Philosophical Studies, 176(3), 755-780. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-018-1038-2

Findings from the cognitive sciences suggest that the cognitive mechanisms responsible for some memory errors are adaptive, bringing benefits to the organism. In this paper we argue that the same cognitive mechanisms also bring a suite of significant... Read More about Epistemic innocence and the production of false memory beliefs.

Dissolving the epistemic/ethical dilemma over implicit bias (2017)
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Puddifoot, K. (2017). Dissolving the epistemic/ethical dilemma over implicit bias. Philosophical Explorations, 20(sup1), 73-93. https://doi.org/10.1080/13869795.2017.1287295

It has been argued that humans can face an ethical/epistemic dilemma over the automatic stereotyping involved in implicit bias: ethical demands require that we consistently treat people equally, as equally likely to possess certain traits, but if our... Read More about Dissolving the epistemic/ethical dilemma over implicit bias.

Stereotyping: The Multifactorial View (2017)
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Puddifoot, K. (2017). Stereotyping: The Multifactorial View. Philosophical Topics, 45(1), 137-156. https://doi.org/10.5840/philtopics20174518

This paper proposes and defends the multifactorial view of stereotyping. According to this view, multiple factors determine whether or not any act of stereotyping increases the chance of an accurate judgment being made about an individual to whom the... Read More about Stereotyping: The Multifactorial View.

Accessibilism and the Challenge from Implicit Bias (2015)
Journal Article
Puddifoot, K. (2016). Accessibilism and the Challenge from Implicit Bias. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 97(3), 421-434. https://doi.org/10.1111/papq.12056

Recent research in social psychology suggests that many beliefs are formed as a result of implicit biases in favour of members of certain groups and against members of other groups. This article argues that beliefs of this sort present a counterexamp... Read More about Accessibilism and the Challenge from Implicit Bias.

A defence of epistemic responsibility: why laziness and ignorance are bad after all (2014)
Journal Article
Puddifoot, K. (2014). A defence of epistemic responsibility: why laziness and ignorance are bad after all. Synthese, 191(14), 3297-3309. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-014-0445-y

It has been suggested, by Michael Bishop, that empirical evidence on human reasoning poses a threat to the internalist account of epistemic responsibility, which he takes to associate being epistemically responsible with coherence, evidence-fitting a... Read More about A defence of epistemic responsibility: why laziness and ignorance are bad after all.