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56Fleshing Gender, Sexing the Body: Refiguring the Sex/gender DistinctionSouthern Journal of Philosophy 35 (S1): 53-71. 1997.
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55Feminist Perspectives on ScienceHypatia 3 (1). 1988.In this issue of Hypatia there is a consensus that science is not value-neutral and that cultural/political concerns enter into the epistemology, methodology and conclusions of scientific theory and practice. In future dialogues the question that needs to be further addressed is the precise role political concerns should play in the formulation of a feminist theory and practice of science.
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55Quinn on Duhem: An emendationPhilosophy of Science 45 (3): 456-462. 1978.In recent years there has been a rebirth of interest in the philosophy of Pierre Duhem. Although I applaud the spirit of this movement, one finds the critics of Duhem frequently lacking in a basic understanding of Duhem's tenets, sometimes to the extent that one doubts a familiarity with the Duhemian text. One of the few papers which is designed to remedy this state of affairs is that of Philip Quinn entitled “What Duhem Really Meant.” Quinn is to be applauded for his meticulous and rigorous exe…Read more
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52The Less Noble Sex: Scientific, Religious, and Philosophical Conceptions of Woman's NatureIndiana University Press. 1989.Physically frail, badly educated girls, brought up to lead useless lives as idle gentlewomen, married to dominant husbands, and relegated to "separate spheres" of life—these phrases have often been used to describe Victorian upper-middle-class women. M. Jeanne Peterson rejects such formulations and the received wisdom they embody in favor of a careful examination of Victorian ladies and their lives. Focusing on a network of urban professional families over three generations, this book examines t…Read more
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51Climate change and human rightsIn Thomas Cushman (ed.), Handbook of human rights, Routledge. pp. 410. 2012.
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49Woman and the history of philosophyParagon House. 1992.Studys the philosophy of Aristotle, Plato, Descartes, Rousseau, Kant, Hume, Locke, and Hegel and examines their underlying assumptions about women
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48Revealing Male Bodies (edited book)Indiana University Press. 2002.Revealing Male Bodies is the first scholarly collection to directly confront male lived experience. There has been an explosion of work in men's studies, masculinity issues, and male sexuality, in addition to a growing literature exploring female embodiment. Missing from the current literature, however, is a sustained analysis of the phenomenology of male-gendered bodies. Revealing Male Bodies addresses this omission by examining how male bodies are physically and experientially constituted by t…Read more
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41Border Arte Philosophy: Altogether Beyond PhilosophyJournal of Speculative Philosophy 32 (1): 70-91. 2018.ABSTRACT We are concerned with borders and their crucial importance in people's lives. Throughout we place emphasis on liberatory critique and knowledge and on the importance of the forces lineages exercise in the ways we live. How might we speak of whatever is bordered and allow that of which we speak its manifest differences? How are we able to engage differences and maintain our own differences? How might we, as philosophers, speak philosophically about what is beyond philosophy? Such speakin…Read more
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41From a Lifeboat Ethic to Anthropocenean SensibilitiesEnvironmental Philosophy 17 (1): 101-123. 2020.To claim that “humans have become a geological agent,” to worry that “humans are interrupting, refashioning, and accelerating natural processes” is to reinforce metaphysical divides—humans and nature, the cultural and the natural. It is furthermore to reinforce all the narratives from which these divides are animated: modernity, colonialization, enlightenment with their attendant discourses of progress, control, and purity. In its place I advocate Anthropocenean sensibilities. Sensibilities in w…Read more
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36What Is Feminist Philosophy?In George Yancey (ed.), Philosophy in Multiple Voices, . pp. 21--21. 2007.
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36An Infused Dialogue, Part 2: The Power of Love Without ObjectivityJournal of Speculative Philosophy 30 (1): 15-26. 2016.Human desire usually has an object of longing or hope. The more intense the desire, the more singularly prominent its object. Sides, after all, means “heavenly body.” When people desire, they want, crave, and even covet the desired, whether the desired is ice cream, a professorship, or another’s body. What is intensely desired, even if it is not heavenly, has the status of an object with exceptional and immediate meaning and draw. When simple desire finds satisfaction, the desired’s attraction w…Read more
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35Nepantla: Writing (from) the In-BetweenJournal of Speculative Philosophy 31 (1): 1-15. 2017.ABSTRACT The primary goal of this article is to find an interplay of concepts that will help us to write about the broad transformative potential of Gloria Anzaldúa's experiences of what she calls nepantla in her posthumously published Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality. We want to integrate these concepts into our reading of her account of nepantla and to allow her language to further animate the force and meaning of the concepts' interactive connectio…Read more
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34The Weaker Seed. The Sexist Bias of Reproductive TheoryHypatia 3 (1): 35-59. 1988.This history of reproductive theories from Aristotle to the preformationists provides an excellent illustration of the ways in which the gender /science system informs the process of scientific investigation. In this essay I examine the effects of the bias of woman's inferiority upon theories of human reproduction. I argue that the adherence to a belief in the inferiority of the female creative principle biased scientific perception of the nature of woman's role in human generation.
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30Mission-oriented climate change research is often unverifiable. Therefore, many stakeholders look to peer-reviewed climate change research for trustworthy information about deeply uncertain and impactful phenomena. This is because peer-review signals that research has been vetted for scientific standards like reproducibility and replicability. Here we evaluate the transparency of research methodologies in mission-oriented computational climate research. We find that only five percent of our samp…Read more
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30The Hidden Structure of Quine’s Attack on AnalyticitySouthern Journal of Philosophy 20 (2): 257-262. 1982.
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24Ethics, Indifference, and Social ConcernEpoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 17 (1): 5-6. 2012.
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21An Infused Dialogue, Part 1: Borders, Fusions, InfluenceJournal of Speculative Philosophy 30 (1): 1-14. 2016.We begin at the site of borders, the demarcations between us, between: my body and your body, humans and nonhuman animals, habits of thought and institutional structures, nature and culture, subject and object. We find ourselves between the devil and the deep blue sea. Differences, distinctions, and borders are key to knowing and acting responsibly. Yet we are “held captive” by particular habits of understanding that police such borders with unbecoming fervor. We desire to trouble these borders …Read more
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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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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
General Philosophy of Science |