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Kate Abramson's "On Gaslighting" Receives Favorable Reviews, Popular Reception

Thursday, September 12, 2024

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Mahlon Powell Associate Professor of Philosophy Kate Abramson

On Gaslighting has earned favorable reviews from the New York Times, who called it “helpful and enlightening,” the New Yorker, National Public Radio, numerous other media, as well as quick translations into three special editions. Abramson, the Mahlon Powell Associate Professor of Philosophy within the College of Arts of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, was surprised by the wide interest in her book, because “I’ve spent much of my academic career writing about eighteenth century Scottish philosopher David Hume,” she noted.

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