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30Review of Slavoj iek, Rex Butler (ed.), Scott Stephens (ed.), Interrogating the Real (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (4). 2006.
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8Book ReviewJoseph Rouse, How Scientific Practices Matter: Reclaiming Philosophical Naturalism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press , 336 pp., $49.00 (review)Philosophy of Science 71 (2): 216-219. 2004.
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72Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture, and Mothers' BodiesRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2005.Mass Hysteria examines the medical and cultural practices surrounding pregnancy, new motherhood, and infant feeding. Late eighteenth century transformations in these practices reshaped mothers' bodies, and contemporary norms and routines of prenatal care and early motherhood have inherited the legacy of that era. As a result, mothers are socially positioned in ways that can make it difficult for them to establish and maintain healthy and safe boundaries and appropriate divisions between public a…Read more
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234A paramount narrative: Exploring space on the starship enterpriseJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 57 (2): 177-191. 1999.
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29How to get an interpretivist committedProtoSociology 14 180-221. 2000.I argue that interpretivists ought to broaden and enrich the constitutive standards of interpretability and epistemic agency that they have inherited from classic Davidsonian theory. Drawing heavily upon John Haugeland’s recent account of objective truth- telling, I claim that in order to be an interpretable epistemic agent at all, a being must have various kinds of practical commitments that cannot be reduced to combinations of beliefs and desires.On the basis of this claim, I argue that radica…Read more
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14Editorial NoteKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 26 (2). 2016.This quarter’s issue of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal is unusual, because it hosts a symposium focused Brian Earp’s provocative and groundbreaking article, “Between Moral Relativism and Moral Hypocrisy: Reframing the Debate on ‘FGM.’” Along with Earp’s article, we are presenting critical responses by Richard Shweder, Robert Darby, and Jamie Nelson. Earp tackles the ethics of female genital cutting or “mutilation”. This is a difficult topic that brings on board gender inequity, the inte…Read more
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168Leave the Gun; Take the Cannoli! The Pragmatic Topography of Second-Person CallsEthics 123 (3): 456-478. 2013.
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42Ethics and Ideology in Breastfeeding Advocacy CampaignsHypatia 21 (1): 157-180. 2006.Mothers serve as an important layer of the health-care system, with special responsi-bilities to care for the health of families and nations. In our social discourse, we tend to treat maternal “choices” as though they were morally and causally Self-contained units of influence with primary control over children's health. In this essay, I use infant feeding as a lens for examining the ethical contours of mothers’ caretaking practices and responsibilities, as they are situated within cultural mean…Read more
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253The Antinomies of Impure Reason: Rousseau and Kant on the Metaphysics of Truth‐TellingInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 48 (3). 2005.Truth-telling is a project that is both gripping and problematic for Rousseau, as he is both captured by an ideal of telling as complete, undistorted discernment, documentation and communication, and also haunted by the fear that telling can never be this innocent. For Rousseau, as for Kant, telling does not leave the told untouched; rather, telling gives us a type of contact with objects that is marked and mediated by the process of telling itself, and hence the possibility of immediately grasp…Read more
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151Objectivity and perspective in empirical knowledgeEpisteme 3 (1-2): 80-95. 2006.Epistemologists generally think that genuine warrant that is available to anyone must be available to everyone who is exposed to the relevant causal inputs and is able and willing to properly exercise her rationality. The motivating idea behind this requirement is roughly that an objective view is one that is not bound to a particular perspective. In this paper I ask whether the aperspectivality of our warrants is a precondition for securing the objectivity of our claims. I draw upon a Sellarsia…Read more
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98Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant's Critical Philosophy (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2006.This volume explores the relationship between Kant's aesthetic theory and his critical epistemology as articulated in the Critique of Pure Reason and the Critique of the Power of Judgment. The essays, written specially for this volume, explore core elements of Kant's epistemology, such as his notions of discursive understanding, experience, and objective judgment. They also demonstrate a rich grasp of Kant's critical epistemology that enables a deeper understanding of his aesthetics. Collectivel…Read more
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25Joseph Rouse: How Scientific Practices Matter: Reclaiming Philosophical Naturalism (review)Philosophy of Science 71 (2): 216-219. 2004.
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50Gender Identity, Gendered Spaces, and Figuring Out What You LoveInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 9 (2): 183-189. 2016.Three years ago, as my fortieth birthday disappeared into the far distance in my rearview mirror, driven by a combination of vanity and fear of my own mortality and decrepitude, I committed to getting in shape.I’ve always been fairly active: I have always walked a lot, commuted by bike when that was plausible, avoided driving whenever possible, and just generally been high energy. But a childhood full of failure at team sports and a lack of innate gifts in the coordination department scared me o…Read more
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27Editorial NoteKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 25 (4). 2015.This issue of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal continues two conversations that have been developing in this journal over the last few years, and introduces a new and timely one. Kevin Elliot and Paul Mushak’s paper, “Structured Development and Promotion of a Research Field: Hormesis in Biology, Toxicology, and Environmental Regulatory Science,” continues an ongoing debate in this journal over the role of values in shaping scientific methodology and communication, and how this role should…Read more
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212The ontology and temporality of conscienceContinental Philosophy Review 35 (1): 1-34. 2002.Philosophers have often posited a foundational calling voice, such that hearing its call constitutes subjects as responsive and responsible negotiators of normative claims. I give the name ldquo;transcendental conscience to that which speaks in this founding, constitutive voice. The role of transcendental conscience is not – or not merely – to normatively bind the subject, but to constitute the possibility of the subject's being bound by any particular, contentful normative claims in the first p…Read more