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149. Prostitution and the Case for DecriminalizationIn Jessica Spector (ed.), Prostitution and Pornography: Philosophical Debate About the Sex Industry, Stanford University Press. pp. 240-246. 2006.
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8Equal opportunityIn Alison M. Jaggar & Iris Marion Young (eds.), A companion to feminist philosophy, Blackwell. 1998.In the post‐civil rights era in the United States, it is common to see included in a job announcement a declaration of the following sort: “we are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.” The ideal of equal opportunity has a complex relationship to the idea and practice of affirmative action, which is taken for granted in a typical job ad. I will explore the notion of equal opportunity insofar as it has figured in feminist philosophical writings about practical agendas and programs for…Read more
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1SexualityIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The Oxford handbook of practical ethics, Oxford University Press. 2003.
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Two Types of Semantic AmbiguityDissertation, University of California, San Diego. 1983.This thesis examines procedures for ascribing ambiguity to particular sentences and words of a language. My discussion focuses on theories advanced by Keith Donnellan, Saul Kripke and David Kaplan regarding the alleged referential/attributive ambiguity of definite descriptions, and on arguments offered by Paul Ziff, David Wiggins and Jerrold Katz concerning the ambiguity of the word 'good'. I distinguish two kinds of semantic ambiguity, which I call "strong" and "weak", and develop a theoretical…Read more
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Jane Flax, Thinking Fragments: Psycholanalysis, Feminism, and Postmodernism in the Contemporary West Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 11 (2): 98-99. 1991.
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Areas of Interest
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |