•  161
    Analyzing Ideology (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2023.
  •  159
    Persistence: 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
  •  150
    Cognition as a Social Skill
    Tandf: Australasian Philosophical Review 3 (1): 5-25. 2019.
    Much contemporary social epistemology takes as its starting point individuals with sophisticated propositional attitudes and considers (i) how those individuals depend on each other to gain (or lose) knowledge through testimony, disagreement, and the like and (ii) if, in addition to individual knowers, it is possible for groups to have knowledge. In this paper I argue that social epistemology should be more attentive to the construction of knowers through social and cultural practices: soci…Read more
  •  144
    I’ll start by giving a very brief summary of Sider’s position and will identify some points on which my own position differs from his. I’ll then raise four issues, viz., how to articulate the 3-dimensionalist view, the trade-offs between Ted’s stage view of persistence and endurance with respect to intrinsic properties, the endurantist’s response to the argument from vagueness, and finally more general questions about what’s at stake in the debate. I don’t believe that anything I say raises insu…Read more
  •  141
    Ideology in practice: what does ideology do?
    Marquette University Press. 2021.
    This paper offers an account of ideology in terms of social meanings. Such meanings - constituting a cultural technē - are public, conflicting, and fragmented; yet because they guide our practices, they frame our agency and identities. A cultural technē is ideological when it perpetuates unjust subordination; ideology critique offers liberating alternatives.
  •  140
    In response to commentaries by Esa Díaz León, Jennifer Saul, and Ra- chel Sterken, I develop more fully my views on the role of structure in social and metaphysical explanation. Although I believe that social agency, quite generally, occurs within practices and structures, the relevance of structure depends on the sort of questions we are asking and what interventions we are considering. The emphasis on questions is also relevant in considering metaphysical and meta-metaphysical is- sues about r…Read more
  •  134
    In this debate-format book, four philosophers--Joshua Glasgow, Sally Haslanger, Chike Jeffers, and Quayshawn Spencer--articulate contrasting views on race. Each author presents a distinct viewpoint on what race is, and then replies to the others, offering theories that are clear and accessible to undergraduates, lay readers, and non-specialists, as well as other philosophers of race.
  •  119
    Theorizing feminisms: a reader (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2006.
    "What is sexist oppression?" "What should be done about it?" Organized around these questions, Theorizing Feminisms: A Reader provides an overview of theoretical feminist writing about the quest for gender justice. Incorporating both classic and cutting-edge material, the reader takes into account the full diversity of women, highlighting the effects of race, ethnicity, nationality, class, sexuality, and religion on women's experience. Theorizing Feminisms is organized into four sections and inc…Read more
  •  107
    Bodies That Matter (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 30 (4): 107-109. 1998.
  •  103
    Defining Knowledge
    The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 8 41-55. 2000.
    With some notable exceptions, feminist epistemologists have not focused (like many contemporary analytic epistemologists) on the the semantics of claims to know: What are the truth conditions of claims of the form S knows that p? My goal in this paper is to suggest a way of approaching the task of specifying the truth conditions for knowledge while (hopefully) making clear how a broad range of feminist work that is often deemed irrelevant to the philosophical inquiry into knowledge is, in fact, …Read more
  •  102
    Reproducing Social Hierarchy
    Philosophy of Education 77 (2): 185-222. 2021.
  •  96
    Ontology and Pragmatic Paradox
    Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 92. 1992.
    Sally Haslanger; XIV*—Ontology and Pragmatic Paradox, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 92, Issue 1, 1 June 1992, Pages 293–314, https://doi.org/1.
  •  93
    Practice Theory as a Tool for Critical Social Theory
    Analyse & Kritik 45 (1): 157-176. 2023.
    What is the best method for undertaking critical social theory, and what are its ontological and normative commitments? Andreas Reckwitz has developed compelling answers to these questions drawing on practice theory. As a practice theorist myself, I am very sympathetic to his approach. This paper sketches a social theory that extends the reach of practice theory to include non-human animals and allows us to discriminate between importantly different kinds of social formations. In doing so, I arg…Read more
  •  92
    • Ongoing concerns about time to acceptance/rejection and time to publication. o NB: Schemas kick in when people are rushed. How does this affect the refereeing process? Does it matter for desk rejections, which may be quick and based on nonanonymized papers? Does it also affect referees? How?
  •  77
    Autonomy, Identity, and Social Justice. Appiah’s The Lies that Bind. A Review
    Philosophy and Public Issues - Filosofia E Questioni Pubbliche. forthcoming.
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  •  74
    Future Genders? Future Races?
    Philosophic Exchange 34 (1): 1-24. 2004.
    Gender is the social meaning of a person’s sex, and race is the social meaning of a person’s color. This paper reviews some accounts of these social meanings. It is argued that there are important differences between race and gender that count against treating them as parallel.
  •  71
    Gender, patriotism, and the events of 9/11
    Peace Review 15 (4): 457-461. 2003.
    In the weeks after 9/11/01, the events of that day were described in many ways. One of the most significant "spins" came from the government: initially the events were described as "a terrorist attack," but not long after they became an "act of war". We were told that what occurred was not a crime to be addressed by punishing the perpetrators, but an attack on a nation-state which requires us to take up arms against the enemy.
  •  69
    Agency within Structures and Warranted Resistance: Response to Commentators
    Tandf: Australasian Philosophical Review 3 (1): 109-121. 2019.
    Volume 3, Issue 1, March 2019, Page 109-121.
  •  54
    On being objective and being objectified
    In Louise Antony & Charlotte Witt (eds.), A Mind of One's Own, Westview Press. pp. 209--53. 2002.
  •  47
    If You Are Committed to Justice, Why Aren't You an Activist? Comments on Allen Buchanan
    Journal of Applied Philosophy 38 (5): 747-752. 2021.
    ABSTRACT In response to Buchanan's argument that ideologies function as doxastic immune systems, I invite him to expand on three issues. (1) What does it mean to have a perfect grasp of the principles of justice, and why should we think that someone with such a grasp should be in a position (even if unable) to act justly? (2) What is required to be fully epistemically responsible when in the grip of an ideology? (3) Might we learn more from contemporary Critical Theory about the workings of ‘dox…Read more
  •  36
    Failures of Methodological Individualism: The Materiality of Social Systems
    Journal of Social Philosophy 53 (4): 512-534. 2020.
    Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
  •  34
    Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays (edited book)
    Cornell University Press. 2005.
    Introduction : kith, kin, and family / Sally Haslanger and Charlotte Witt Adoption and its progeny : rethinking family law, gender, and sexual difference / Drucilla Cornell Open adoption is not for everyone / Anita L. Allen Methods of adoption : eliminating genetic privilege / Jacqueline Stevens Several steps behind : gay and lesbian adoption / Sarah Tobias A child of one’s own : property, progeny, and adoption / Janet Farrell Smith Family resemblances : adoption, personal identity, and genetic …Read more
  •  26
    Methods of Social Critique
    In Anne Siegetsleitner, Andreas Oberprantacher, Marie-Luisa Frick & Ulrich Metschl (eds.), Crisis and Critique: Philosophical Analysis and Current Events: Proceedings of the 42nd International Wittgenstein Symposium, De Gruyter. pp. 139-156. 2021.
  •  24
    Failures of Methodological Individualism: The Materiality of Social Systems
    Journal of Social Philosophy 53 (4): 512-534. 2020.
    Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.