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#BelieveWomen and the ethics of belief
Bolinger, Renée Jorgensen
Bolinger, Renée Jorgensen
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[Extract] How should we understand the social project of the “#BelieveWomen” campaign? and what does the presumption of innocence even mean outside legal contexts? Kimberly Ferzan’s chapter in this volume (“#BelieveWomen and the Presumption of Innocence: Clarifying the Questions for Law and Life”) pursues both questions with rigor and clarity, and my contribution will engage closely with hers. Obviously, a slogan can be used to mean many things, and undoubtedly there’s substantial variation in what those who tweet #BelieveWomen actually mean. I’m pursuing a partly reconstructive, rather than purely descriptive project: I seek a charitable interpretation that construes the demand made in the most reasonable and well-grounded way consistent with (many but not all) of the ways the tag is actually used.
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ethics, belief, #believewomen, presumption of innocence
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2021
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Truth and evidence
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109-145
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Dianoia Institute of Philosophy
Faculty of Theology and Philosophy
Faculty of Theology and Philosophy
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