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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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272Visible 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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44Is 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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42Lugones'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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212Identities: 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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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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2Decolonizing Feminist Theory: Latina Contributions to the DebateIn Andrea 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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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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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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53Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Scientific Reason, by Gary Gutting (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (4): 956-958. 1991.
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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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16The 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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1322Epistemic 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.), Women of Color and Philosophy: A Critical Reader, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 235-262. 2000.
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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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730The 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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202Apparently, 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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149The 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.”.
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
Continental Philosophy |
Philosophy of the Americas |
Areas of Interest
19th Century Philosophy |