The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Dr. M. Giulia Napolitano with an individual NWO Veni grant. The NWO Veni grant, of up to 320.000 euros, is awarded to excellent junior researchers to conduct independent research and develop their ideas for a period of three years. Laureates are at the start of their scientific career and display a striking talent for scientific research.
Giulia Napolitano is currently an assistant professor at Erasmus School of Philosophy. Before joining Erasmus University Rotterdam, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Applied Epistemology Project at UNC Chapel Hill. She has received her PhD in philosophy from the University of California, Irvine in 2022. Giulia’s research focuses on epistemology, especially social, collective, and applied epistemology, social and political philosophy, and related issues in philosophy of mind and language
About the three-year NWO Veni project
The three-year NWO Veni project is titled ‘Rethinking Stereotypes’. Stereotypes are sticky. They are hard to change, even when counterexamples are easy to find. This project aims to understand why stereotypes—especially gender stereotypes—are so difficult to change, and how we can more effectively do so. I will explore the possibility that stereotypes’ stickiness is due to their specific explanatory content, rather than to the irrationality of those who stereotype. This shift in perspective will lead to rethinking stereotypes and their resistance to evidence, contributing to a better understanding of stereotype change and to more effectively challenging harmful gender stereotypes in society.
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For more information, please contact Eddie Adelmund (adelmund@esphil.eur.nl).
