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457Epistemic IdentitiesEpisteme 7 (2): 128-137. 2010.This paper explores the significant strengths of Fricker's account, and then develops the following questions. Can volitional epistemic practice correct for non-volitional prejudices? How can we address the structural causes of credibility-deflation? Are the motivations behind identity prejudice mostly other-directed or self-directed? And does Fricker aim for neutrality vis-à-vis identity, in which case her account conflicts with standpoint theory?
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71Discourses of Sexual Violence in a Global FrameworkPhilosophical Topics 37 (2): 123-139. 2009.In this paper I make a preliminary analysis of Western (or global North) discourses on sexual violence, focusing on the important concepts of “consent” and “victim.” The concept of “consent” is widely used to determine whether sexual violence has occurred, and it is the focal point of debates over the legitimacy of statutory offenses and over the way we characterize sex work done under conditions involving economic desperation. The concept of “victim” is shunned by many feminists and nonfeminist…Read more
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24Comparative EpistemologyPhilosophy East and West 69 (3): 849-856. 2019.Caring to Know by Vrinda Dalmiya is a remarkable, and remarkably original, work. It develops a significant extension of the care-ethical framework for epistemology, builds on as well as critiques Western feminist philosophy, and offers an original interpretation of the Mahābhārata's implication for epistemic norms. But perhaps most importantly, it invents an entirely original epistemology unlike anything, really, in English. The revolutionary dimensions of the book are clear from the beginning: …Read more
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28Adorno’s Dialectical RealismSymposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 14 (2): 45-65. 2010.The idea that Adorno should be read as a “realist” of any sort may indeed sound odd. And unpacking from Adorno’s elusive prose a credible and useful normative reconstruction of epistemology and metaphysics will take some work. But we argue that he should be added to the growing group of epistemologists and metaphysicians who have been developing post-positivist versions of realism such as contextual, internal, pragmatic and critical realisms. These latter realisms, however, while helpfully showi…Read more
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29Letters to the EditorProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 72 (2). 1998.
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7What Would it Mean to Decolonize Pedagogy?: Enrique Dussel’s Pedagogics of LiberationPhilosophy of Education 72 19-31. 2016.
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276Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the SelfOup Usa. 2006.Visible Identities critiques the critiques of identity and of identity politics and argues that identities are real but not necessarily a political problem. Moreover, the book explores the material infrastructure of gendered identity, the experimental aspects of racial subjectivity for both whites and non-whites, and in several chapters looks specifically at Latio identity
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The Southern White Worker QuestionIn Shannon Sullivan (ed.), Thinking the US South: contemporary philosophy from Southern perspectives, Northwestern University Press. 2021.
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21Feminism, Speaking for Others, and the Role of the PhilosopherStance 9 (1): 85-105. 2020.Article published in Stance by Linda Martin Alcoff.
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25Book review: Drucilla Cornell. Just cause: Freedom, identity, and rights. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000 (review)Hypatia 19 (3): 225-228. 2004.
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46Is conferralism descriptively adequate?European Journal of Philosophy 31 (1): 289-296. 2022.This paper will develop a set of concerns about a central feature of Ásta's account of social categories that she calls “conferralism.” I argue that generalist approaches to social categories such as Ásta provides are inadequate as a way of understanding the diverse formations of diverse categories, and that conferralism overemphasizes the power of top-down forces (what she calls “persons with standing”) to confer social identities. This approach then underplays the horizontal and bottom-up infl…Read more
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43Lugones's World-MakingCritical Philosophy of Race 8 (1-2): 199-211. 2020.This article reflects on the worlds that María Lugones has made and has transformed, particularly for the doing of feminist theory. Thus this article will be more exploratory than argumentative: to explore the lessons that Lugones's work holds, especially her work on pluralist feminism, world-traveling, the uses of anger, boomerang perception, and the multiplicitousness of both our selves and our communities, for our twenty-first-century challenges. This article argues that Lugones's work addres…Read more
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208Identities: Race, Class, Gender, and Nationality (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2003.This anthology provides the definitive theoretical sources of contemporary thinking about identity, including explorations of race, class, gender, and nationality. Explores the long and rich tradition of philosophical analysis and debate over the genesis, contours, and political effects of identity categories. Provides the definitive theoretical sources and contemporary debates by leading theorists such as selections from Hegel, Marx, Freud, DuBois, Beauvoir, Lukács, Fanon, Hall, Guha, Hobsbawm,…Read more
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17St. Paul Among the Philosophers (edited book)Indiana University Press. 2009.In his epistles, St. Paul sounded a universalism that has recently been taken up by secular philosophers who do not share his belief in Christ, but who regard his project as centrally important for contemporary political life. The Pauline project—as they see it—is the universality of truth, the conviction that what is true is true for everyone, and that the truth should be known by everyone. In this volume, eminent New Testament scholars, historians, and philosophers debate whether Paul's promis…Read more
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2Decolonizing Feminist Theory: Latina Contributions to the DebateIn Andrea J. Pitts, Mariana Ortega & José Medina (eds.), Theories of the Flesh: Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance, Oxford University Press. pp. 11-28. 2020.This chapter suggests an approach to decolonial feminism drawing from Latina feminist theory and practice. Rejecting an imperial feminism involves something else besides “going local”: it requires a genuine reorientation of feminist theory toward the everyday. This chapter considers how this affects the central debates about gender identities and gender liberation. How might we approach gender questions in the context of learning from, rather than teaching, lo cotidiano of the impoverished? This…Read more
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46The Radical Future of #MeToo: The Effects of an Intersectional AnalysisSocial Philosophy Today 37 33-48. 2021.When feminist movements develop intersectional analyses of the problems they are addressing, especially to include race and class as well as other dimensions of society, their analyses of sexism will shift, and their demands will as a result become more structural, systemic, and radical. This paper will focus primarily on sexual harassment, with the understanding that harassment often escalates to coercive sex. I will argue that the future of the #MeToo movement not only should become more radic…Read more
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17Singing in the Fire: Stories of Women in Philosophy (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2003.This is a unique, groundbreaking collection of autobiographical essays by leading women in philosophy. It provides a glimpse at the experiences of the generation that witnessed, and helped create, the remarkable advances now evident for women in the field.
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21Thinking From the Underside of History: Enrique Dussel's Philosophy of Liberation (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2000.Enrique Dussel's writings span the theology of liberation, critiques of discourse ethics, evaluations of Marx, Levinas, Habermas, and others, but most importantly, the development of a philosophy written from the underside of Eurocentric modernist teleologies, an ethics of the impoverished, and the articulation of a unique Latin American theoretical perspective. This anthology of original articles by U.S. philosophers elucidating Dussel's thought, offers critical analyses from a variety of persp…Read more
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310A Zoom discussion about racism and ableism in philosophy.
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21Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Scientific Reason, by Gary Gutting (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (4): 956-958. 1991.
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22Epistemology: The Big Questions (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 1991.As well as including the classic papers from the history of epistemology, this distinctive, wide-ranging anthology provides essential coverage of key contemporary challenges to that tradition.
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
Continental Philosophy |
Philosophy of the Americas |
Areas of Interest
19th Century Philosophy |