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589Ontic Vagueness: A Guide for the PerplexedNoûs 44 (4): 601-627. 2010.In this paper I develop a framework for understanding ontic vagueness. The project of the paper is two-fold. I first outline a definitional account of ontic vagueness – one that I think is an improvement on previous attempts because it remains neutral on other, independent metaphysical issues. I then develop one potential manifestation of that basic definitional structure. This is a more robust (and much less neutral) account which gives a fully classical explication of ontic vagueness via modal…Read more
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237Arguments 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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1481A Theory of Metaphysical IndeterminacyIn Karen Bennett & Dean W. Zimmerman (eds.), Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Volume 6, Oxford University Press Uk. 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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160The 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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495Going 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
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 |