https://hdl.handle.net/10680/430 2023-02-27T12:55:20Z https://hdl.handle.net/10680/2019 Stratfordian Epistemology and the Ethics of Belief Dudley, Michael This article considers belief in the traditional biography of Shakespeare -- that he was the "man from Stratford" -- in terms of belief ethics, to determine whether or not it is ethical and praiseworthy, or unethical and blameworthy. Pre-publication proof. 2022-09-08T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10680/1861 With Swinish Phrase Soiling Their Addition: Epistemic Injustice, Academic Freedom, and the Shakespeare Authorship Question Dudley, Michael This chapter argues that the near-universal exclusion from the academy of the Shakespeare Authorship Question (or SAQ) represents a significant but little-understood example of an internal threat to academic freedom. Using an epistemological lens, this chapter examines and critiques the invidious and marginalizing rhetoric used to suppress such research by demonstrating the extent to which it constitutes a pattern of epistemic vice: that, by calling skeptics “conspiracy theorists” and comparing them to Holocaust deniers rather than addressing the substance of their claims, orthodox Shakespeare academics risk committing acts of epistemic vice, injustice and oppression, as well as foreclosing potentially productive lines of inquiry in their discipline. To better understand this phenomenon and its implications, the chapter subjects selected statements to external criteria in the form of the Association of College and Research Libraries’ 2015 Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, which provides a set of robust normative dispositions and knowledge practices for understanding the nature of the scholarly enterprise. The analysis reveals that the proscription against the Shakespeare Authorship Question constitutes an unwarranted infringement on the academic freedom not only of those targeted by this rhetoric, but – by extension – of all Shakespeare scholars as well. 2020-11-23T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10680/1832 莎士比亚是一个Ramist吗?(审查的理性Shakespeare: Peter Ramus, Edward de Vere, and the Question of Authorship. By Michael Wainwright.) Dudley, Michael Book review essay discussing Michael Wainwright's book "The Rational Shakespeare: Peter Ramus, Edward de Vere, and the Question of Authorship" 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10680/1742 Necessary Mischief: Exploring the Shakespeare Authorship Question (Book Review) Dudley, Michael Book review of Bonner Miller Cutting's 2018 book, Necessary Mischief: Exploring the Shakespeare Authorship Question. 2019-09-01T00:00:00Z