Please join us for “What is gaslighting and how do we decide?” on Wednesday, October 1 from 4:30-6 pm in the LSC University Ballroom with Dr. Kate Abramson.

Everyone’s talking about gaslighting these days, but it’s often not clear that they’re even talking about the same subject! How do we decide what we should and shouldn’t call “gaslighting”? And why does it matter? To answer these questions, we need to think about what other words  we might use to describe certain experiences, about moral considerations that enter into the question of what we should call “gaslighting”, and about what features our everyday interactions must have if they are to have any hope of going well. Together, these considerations point us towards a particular conception of gaslighting and an answer to the question of why it matters what we call gaslighting.

Register for What is gaslighting and how do we decide? on October 1

KATE ABRAMSON is Mahlon-Powell Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University- Bloomington. Her research interests span contemporary ethical theory, character, moral psychology and the 18th century philosophers David Hume and Adam Smith Most recently, she is the author of On Gaslighting (2024), a philosophical monograph that has received wide cross-over attention in positive reviews in The New York Times and The New Yorker, among other venues.