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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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17The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2006._The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy_ is a definitive introduction to the field, consisting of 15 newly-contributed essays that apply philosophical methods and approaches to feminist concerns. Offers a key view of the project of centering women’s experience. Includes topics such as feminism and pragmatism, lesbian philosophy, feminist epistemology, and women in the history of philosophy
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1019Epistemic 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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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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8On Judging Epistemic Credibility: Is Social Identity Relevant?In Naomi Zack (ed.), On Judging Epistemic Credibility: Is Social Identity Relevant?, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 235-262. 2000.
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682The problem of speaking for othersCultural Critique 20 5-32. 1991.This was published in Cultural Critique (Winter 1991-92), pp. 5-32; revised and reprinted in Who Can Speak? Authority and Critical Identity edited by Judith Roof and Robyn Wiegman, University of Illinois Press, 1996; and in Feminist Nightmares: Women at Odds edited by Susan Weisser and Jennifer Fleischner, (New York: New York University Press, 1994); and also in Racism and Sexism: Differences and Connections eds. David Blumenfeld and Linda Bell, Rowman and Littlefield, 1995.
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207This volume is an act of talking back, of talking heresy. To reclaim the term “realism,” to maintain the epistemic significance of identity, to defend any version of identity politics today is to swim upstream of strong academic currents in feminist theory, literary theory, and cultural studies. It is to risk, even to invite, a dismissal as naive, uninformed, theoretically unsophisticated. And it is a risk taken here by people already at risk in the academy, already assumed more often than not t…Read more
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110Apparently, Latinos are “taking over.” 1 With news that Latinos have become the largest minority group in the United States, the public airwaves are filled with concerned voices about the impact that a non-English dominant, Catholic, non-white, largely poor population will have on “American” identity. Aside from the hysteria, Latino identity poses some authentically new questions for the standard way in which minority identities are conceptualized. Are Latinos a race, an ethnicity, or some combi…Read more
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67The metaphysics of gender and sexual differenceIn Barbara S. Andrew, Jean Clare Keller & Lisa H. Schwartzman (eds.), Feminist Interventions in Ethics and Politics: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2005.“It is certainly true, as nominalists have been concerned to acknowledge, that judgements about kinds are determined in part by human interests, projects, and practices. But the possibility that human interests, projects, and practices sometimes develop as they do because the real (physical or social) world is as it is suggests that this sort of dependence is not by itself an argument against essentialism.”.
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46Political concerns about the importance of social identity are voiced equally across left, liberal, and right wing perspectives. Moreover, the suspicion of identity is not relegated to the discourse of intellectuals but is also manifest in the mainstream as a widespread public attitude, and not only among white communities.
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35Historicism and Knowledge, by Robert D'Amico (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (1): 241-243. 1992.
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Gender and ReproductionAsian Journal of Women's Studies 14 (4): 7-27. 2008.This paper provides a materialist approach to defining gender identity.
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79Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the SelfOxford University Press USA. 2006.In the heated debates over identity politics, few theorists have looked carefully at the conceptualizations of identity assumed by all sides. Visible Identities fills this gap. Drawing on both philosophical sources as well as theories and empirical studies in the social sciences, Martín Alcoff makes a strong case that identities are not like special interests, nor are they doomed to oppositional politics, nor do they inevitably lead to conformism, essentialism, or reductive approaches to judging…Read more
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3Epistemologies of ignoranceIn Shannon Sullivan & Nancy Tuana (eds.), Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance, State Univ of New York Pr. 2007.
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11Cultural feminism versus post-structuralism: The identity crisis in feminist theorySigns 13 (3): 405--436. 1988.
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2Philosophy Matters (review)Signs 25 (3): 841-882. 2000.This paper provides an overview of feminist philosophy published in the 1990's, covering work in epistemology, the history of philosophy, social philosophy, and metaphysics.
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25Are 'old wives' tales' justifiedIn Linda Alcoff & Elizabeth Potter (eds.), Feminist Epistemologies, Routledge. pp. 217--244. 1992.
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292Introduction: When feminisms intersect epistemologyIn Linda Alcoff & Elizabeth Potter (eds.), Feminist Epistemologies, Routledge. pp. 1--14. 1992.
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
Continental Philosophy |
Philosophy of the Americas |
Areas of Interest
19th Century Philosophy |