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20Power, activity, and beingIn Brad Inwood (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Xxxv: Winter 2008, Oxford University Press. pp. 35--293. 2008.
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197Feminist history of philosophyStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2008.The past twenty five years have seen an explosion of feminist writing on the philosophical canon, a development that has clear parallels in other disciplines like literature and art history. Since most of the writing is, in one way or another, critical of the tradition, a natural question to ask is: Why does the history of philosophy have importance for feminist philosophers? This question assumes that the history of philosophy is of importance for feminists, an assumption that is warranted by t…Read more
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14Colloquium 7Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 11 (1): 249-266. 1995.
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126Aristotle on Deformed Animal KindsOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 43 83. 2012.There is a surprising number of deformed animal kinds mentioned in Aristotle’s biological works. The number is surprising because, according to the standard understanding of deformed animals in Aristotle, it should be zero. And the number is significant because there are just too many deformed kinds at too many classificatory levels mentioned in too many works to dismiss them as a minor aberration or as an infiltration of folk belief into biology proper. This paper has two goals. The first is to…Read more
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48Substance among Other CategoriesPhilosophical Review 105 (4): 562. 1996.This book develops an account of what substance is in terms of the notion of independence. As the authors note, there is a tradition of defining substance as independent that begins with Aristotle. But what notion of independence can provide an adequate definition of substance? The authors find traditional attempts to define independence, including Aristotle’s, inadequate on a number of grounds, and they propose an alternative account. As a preface to this undertaking, the authors consider and r…Read more
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69Aristotle’s Theory of Substance (review)Philosophical Review 111 (1): 98-101. 2002.Aristotle's doctrines about accidental predication, Accidental identity, Etc., Can be understood as an attempt to state the same view as russell put forward in his theory of descriptions. "a" is predicated accidentally of b when "a to b" has the sense "something that is a is b." this permits scope distinctions which can solve puzzles like that of the masked man, And sophisms involving tense. Aristotle's claim that accidental being is akin to nonexistence resembles russell's account of the presen…Read more
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195The Metaphysics of GenderOup Usa. 2011.The Metaphysics of Gender is a book about gender essentialism: what it is and why it might be true.
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3Powers and possibilities: Aristotle vs. the MegariansProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 11 249-266. 1995.
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222Feminist Metaphysics: Explorations in the Ontology of Sex, Gender and the Self (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2010.Feminist Metaphysics is the first collection of articles addressing metaphysical issues from a feminist perspective.
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