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33Feminism, Sexuality, and the Return of Religion (edited book)Indiana University Press. 2011.Feminist theory and reflections on sexuality and gender rarely make contact with contemporary continental philosophy of religion. Where they all come together, creative and transformative thinking occurs. In Feminism, Sexuality, and the Return of Religion, internationally recognized scholars tackle complicated questions provoked by the often stormy intersection of these powerful forces. The essays in this book break down barriers as they extend the richness of each philosophical tradition. They …Read more
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32ResponsePhilosophical Studies 177 (2): 311-320. 2020.In this response to the comments on my book, Rape and Resistance: Understanding the Complexities of Sexual Violation, I offer a futher elaboration of the crucial concept of sexual subjectivity put forward as a way to approach the normative evaluation of sexual practices. This concept makes possible a healthy pluralism without retreating to a facile libertarian view that would render consent sufficient to determine morally unproblematic sex. The concept of sexual subjectivity sanctions experiment…Read more
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32Identity politics reconsidered (edited book)Palgrave-Macmillan. 2006.Based on the ongoing work of the agenda-setting Future of Minority Studies national research project, Identity Politics Reconsidered reconceptualizes the scholarly and political significance of social identity. It focuses on the deployment of “identity” within ethnic-, women’s-, disability-, and gay and lesbian studies in order to stimulate discussion about issues that are simultaneously theoretical and practical, ranging from ethics and epistemology to political theory and pedagogical practice.…Read more
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30The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race (edited book)Routledge. 2017.For many decades, race and racism have been common areas of study in departments of sociology, history, political science, English, and anthropology. Much more recently, as the historical concept of race and racial categories have faced significant scientific and political challenges, philosophers have become more interested in these areas. This changing understanding of the ontology of race has invited inquiry from researchers in moral philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of scienc…Read more
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29Letters to the EditorProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 72 (2). 1998.
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26Fraser on Redistribution, Recognition, and IdentityEuropean Journal of Political Theory 6 (3): 255-265. 2007.This article analyzes Nancy Fraser's account of the contrasting social movements for recognition versus those for redistribution. In her most recent analysis, only those forms of recognition struggles that she equates with identity politics are subject to critique. I argue that identity politics does not have an inevitable logic to it that destines it to fracture, border patrol, internal conservatism, etc., and further that the very redistribution claims she proposes require identity politics.
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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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25Dangerous Pleasures: Foucault and the Politics of PedophiliaIn Susan Hekman (ed.), Feminist Interpretations of Foucault, Pennsylvania State Press. 1996.This paper develops a critique of Foucault's treatment of child sexual abuse in relation to his theory of the relationship between discourse and experience.
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24Are 'old wives' tales' justifiedIn Linda Alcoff & Elizabeth Potter (eds.), Feminist Epistemologies, Routledge. pp. 217--244. 1993.
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23Epistemology: 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.
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23Comparative 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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23Linda Martín Alcoff: Real Knowing: New Versions of the Coherence TheoryContinental Philosophy Review 32 (1): 71-87. 1999.
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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
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22To Possess the Power to SpeakRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 89 51-64. 2021.I argue here that first person speech on sexual violence remains an important dimension of the movement for social change in regard to sexual violence, and that the public speech of survivors faces at least three groups of obstacles: 1) the problem of epistemic injustice, that is, injustice in the sphere of knowledge 2) the problem of language and power, and 3) the problem of dominant discourses. I explain and develop these points and end with a final argument concerning the critical importance …Read more
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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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21Philosophie und Race als IdentitätDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 67 (4): 589-603. 2019.In her article, Alcoff argues for the need to examine the reality of race philosophically. According to Alcoff, liberal notions of universality as well as the postmodern critique of essentialism make it difficult to address race and its ongoing significance in social life. By engaging with authors like Charles W. Mills and Paul Gilroy, Alcoff aims to show that it is possible to develop an account of race as social and historical reality without essentializing the category of race.
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21The Philosophical I: Personal Reflections on Life in Philosophy (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2002.Philosophy is shaped by life and life is shaped by philosophy. This is reflected in The Philosophical I, a collection of 16 autobiographical essays by prominent philosophers
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20“Merleau-Ponty and Feminist Theory on Experience.”In Fred Evans Leonard Lawlor (ed.), Chiasm, Merleau-Ponty's Notion of Flesh, Suny Press. 2000.
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19Singing 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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18St. 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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17Feminism, Speaking for Others, and the Role of the PhilosopherStance 9 (1): 85-105. 2020.Article published in Stance by Linda Martin Alcoff.
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
Continental Philosophy |
Philosophy of the Americas |
Areas of Interest
19th Century Philosophy |