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245Arguments Against Metaphysical Indeterminacy and VaguenessPhilosophy Compass 5 (11): 953-964. 2010.In this article, I survey some of the major arguments against metaphysical indeterminacy and vagueness and outline potential responses.
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1511A Theory of Metaphysical IndeterminacyIn Karen Bennett & Dean W. Zimmerman (eds.), Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Volume 6, Oxford University Press. pp. 103-148. 2011.If the world itself is metaphysically indeterminate in a specified respect, what follows? In this paper, we develop a theory of metaphysical indeterminacy answering this question.
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166The Minority Body: A Theory of DisabilityOxford University Press. 2016.Disability is primarily a social phenomenon -- a way of being a minority, a way of facing social oppression, but not a way of being inherently or intrinsically worse off. This is how disability is understood in the Disability Rights and Disability Pride movements; but there is a massive disconnect with the way disability is typically viewed within analytic philosophy. The idea that disability is not inherently bad or sub-optimal is one that many philosophers treat with open skepticism, and somet…Read more
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497Going Beyond the Fundamental: Feminism in Contemporary MetaphysicsProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 114 (3pt3): 335-351. 2014.Much recent literature in metaphysics attempts to answer the question, ‘What is metaphysics?’ In this paper I argue that many of the most influential contemporary answers to this question yield the result that feminist metaphysics is not metaphysics. I further argue this result is problematic
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746Valuing Disability, Causing DisabilityEthics 125 (1): 88-113. 2014.Disability rights activists often claim that disability is not—by itself—something that makes disabled people worse off. A popular objection to such a view of disability is this: were it correct, it would make it permissible to cause disability and impermissible to cause nondisability. The aim of this article is to show that these twin objections don’t succeed
University of St. Andrews
PhD, 2007
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |