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13Objective reality, male reality, and social constructionWomen, Knowledge, and Reality 84. forthcoming.
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886Humean supervenience and enduring thingsAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 72 (3). 1994.This Article does not have an abstract
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320Distinguished Lecture: Social structure, narrative and explanationCanadian Journal of Philosophy 45 (1): 1-15. 2015.Recent work on social injustice has focused on implicit bias as an important factor in explaining persistent injustice in spite of achievements on civil rights. In this paper, I argue that because of its individualism, implicit bias explanation, taken alone, is inadequate to explain ongoing injustice; and, more importantly, it fails to call attention to what is morally at stake. An adequate account of how implicit bias functions must situate it within a broader theory of social structures and st…Read more
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163Persistence: Contemporary Readings (edited book)Bradford. 2006.How does an object persist through change? How can a book, for example, open in the morning and shut in the afternoon, persist through a change that involves the incompatible properties of being open and being shut? The goal of this reader is to inform and reframe the philosophical debate around persistence; it presents influential accounts of the problem that range from classic papers by W. V. O. Quine, David Lewis, and Judith Jarvis Thomson to recent work by contemporary philosophers. The auth…Read more
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Feminist Philosophy |
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