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Gaslit individuals are made to believe their epistemic faculties are defective. They are made to doubt their sense perception, reasoning, and memory. How exactly does this happen? I argue that gaslighting should be understood as involving a kind of weaponized skepticism. Gaslighting involves the unjust manipulation of another’s epistemic context, making it the case that one must take seriously difficult-to-rule-out possibilities, like the possibility that one’s memory is faulty. This is an important way in which a person’s epistemic agency can be undermined.

Have you ever thought why some people choose to travel by car, others by public transport and others by bike? There are numerous factors affecting mode choice behaviour and all other mobility-related decisions. How to capture, understand, model, and predict them? Why is this at all important? These as well as some more answers in this trip around urban mobility research.