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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">The School of Liberal Arts, University of Wollongong invites you to attend the<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Agora Speaker Series<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Thursday 18 May, 3.30 to 5.00pm
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</span>This is an in-person event at the University of Wollongong - <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/6dHdCVARKgC25ZVAgcGYkWK?domain=uow.au1.qualtrics.com">
Register here</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Dr Regina Fabry</b> (Macquarie University)<b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b>Narrative Gaslighting </b><br>
Self-narration, many philosophers argue, makes important contributions to our sense of self. Orthodox accounts describe self-narration as an internalistic and individualistic process, which relies on implicit mental organising principles (Schechtman, 1996)
or a particular mode of thinking (Goldie, 2012). More recently, however, communicative-interactive accounts have emphasised the crucial roles of communicative exchange and social interaction for self-narration (e.g., Hutto, 2016; McConnell, 2016). On one such
account, interlocutors influence the unfolding of self-narration to varying degrees, ranging from linguistic and paralinguistic expressions of active engagement to proper co-narration (Fabry, 2023). While these accounts have many advantages, they face problems
that their internalistic-individualistic rivals can avoid. As McConnell (2016) notes, once we allow for the possibility that interlocutors contribute to self-narration, self-narrators can become targets of malicious manipulation and nefarious interference.
In this talk, I will explore one such problem: narrative gaslighting. Gaslighting, following Abramson’s (2014) analysis, can be defined as a kind of communicative act that destroys the target’s standing as a cognitive and moral agent. This destruction proceeds
by undermining the target’s conception of themself as a subject who remembers, interprets, and responds to their own lived experience in ways that are reliable and reasonable. In many cases, I will argue, gaslighting can be described as a malicious and nefarious
form of co-narration, one in which the interlocutor continuously undermines the target’s self-narrative competence, and thereby their cognitive and moral agency. I will conclude by considering the implications of my description of narrative gaslighting for
communicative-interactive accounts of self-narration.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Agora Speaker Series is proudly hosted by<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">University of Wollongong <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NSW 2522 Australia<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">SOLA Enquiries <a href="mailto:sola-enquiries@uow.edu.au">sola-enquiries@uow.edu.au</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">T +61 2 4221 4160<o:p></o:p></p>
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