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17European and American PhilosophersIn Robert L. Arrington (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophers, Blackwell. 2017.Peter Abelard (1079–1142 ce) was the most wide‐ranging philosopher of the twelfth century. He quickly established himself as a leading teacher of logic in and near Paris shortly after 1100. After his affair with Heloise, and his subsequent castration, Abelard became a monk, but he returned to teaching in the Paris schools until 1140, when his work was condemned by a Church Council at Sens. His logical writings were based around discussion of the “Old Logic”: Porphyry's Isagoge, aristotle'S Categ…Read more
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20The Morality of Corporate PersonsSouthern Journal of Philosophy 55 (S1): 126-148. 2017.This essay provides a genealogy of corporate personhood as it exists currently in US law and places moral personhood in a similar genealogical context. This treatment demonstrates that the two are inextricably intertwined in both conception and institutionalized practices. We would do well to dismantle both; meanwhile, however, corporate personhood's implicit illiberal notion of collective mentality and responsibility may suggest possibilities for establishing collective counterforces to oppose …Read more
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155Sex, race, and biopower: A foucauldian genealogyHypatia 19 (3): 38-62. 2004.: For many years feminists have asserted an "intersection" between sex and race. This paper, drawing heavily on the work of Michel Foucault, offers a genealogical account of the two concepts showing how they developed together and in relation to similar political forces in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Thus it attempts to give a concrete meaning to the claim that sex and race are intersecting phenomena
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40Governmentality, Biopower, and the Debate over Genetic EnhancementJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 34 (4): 409-437. 2009.Although Foucault adamantly refused to make moral pronouncements or dictate moral principles or political programs to his readers, his work offers a number of tools and concepts that can help us develop our own ethical views and practices. One of these tools is genealogical analysis, and one of these concepts is “biopower.” Specifically, this essay seeks to demonstrate that Foucault's concept of biopower and his genealogical method are valuable as we consider moral questions raised by genetic en…Read more
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29Letters to the EditorProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 72 (2). 1998.
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Southern Land: Indigeneity, Genocide, and Racialization in Whitened LineagesIn Shannon Sullivan (ed.), Thinking the US South: contemporary philosophy from Southern perspectives, Northwestern University Press. 2021.
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9Racial Imperatives: Discipline, Performativity, and Struggles Against SubjectionCritical Philosophy of Race 1 (2): 242-247. 2013.
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49 Racism and ResponsibilityIn Shannon Sullivan & Dennis J. Schmidt (eds.), Difficulties of ethical life, Fordham University Press. pp. 147-161. 2008.
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17Sodomites, witches, and Indians: Another look at Foucault’s history of sexuality, volume onePhilosophy and Social Criticism 47 (8): 907-920. 2021.Does Foucault’s work on sexuality open toward the possibility of a genealogy of sex understood as binary anatomical and genetic sexual difference? I believe that it does. I argue that, if we take s...
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7Racism, Eugenics, and Ernst Mayr’s Account of SpeciesPhilosophy Today 54 (Supplement): 200-207. 2010.
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46Foucault's Genealogy of HomosexualityBulletin de la Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Française 6 (1-2): 44-58. 1994.none.
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16Foucault's Genealogy of HomosexualityJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy 6 (1-2): 44-58. 1994.none.
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65Where do white people come from? A Foucaultian critique of Whiteness StudiesPhilosophy and Social Criticism 31 (5-6): 533-556. 2005.Over the past 15 years we have seen the rise of a field of inquiry known as Whiteness Studies. Two of its major tenets are (1) that white identity is socially constructed and functions as a racial norm and (2) that those who occupy the position of white subjectivity exercise ‘white privilege’, which is oppressive to non-whites. However, despite their ubiquitous use of the term ‘norm’, Whiteness Studies theorists rarely give any detailed account of how whiteness serves to normalize. A case is mad…Read more
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22Radical Parody American Culture and Critical Agency After Foucault (review)International Studies in Philosophy 25 (3): 139-139. 1993.
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6Culture or Nature? The Function of the Term Body in the Work of Michel Foucault in Eighty-sixth Annual Meeting American Philosophical Association, Eastern DivisionJournal of Philosophy 86 (11): 608-614. 1989.
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26Racism, Eugenics, and Ernst Mayr’s Account of SpeciesPhilosophy Today 54 (Supplement): 200-207. 2010.
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Michel Foucault, Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984. Lawrence D. Kritzman, ed. Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 10 (9): 352-356. 1990.
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60Heidegger and the Earth: Issues in Environmental Philosophy (edited book)Univ Publ Assn. 1991.Problems and solutions are given from a Heideggerian point of view for saving the earth
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43Decapitating PowerFoucault Studies 12 77-96. 2011.In “Society Must Be Defended” Foucault examines 17th century race war discourse not so much in order to understand 20th century racism or concepts of race but primarily because it constitutes an historical example of an attempt to think power without a head or king. This essay examines his account of race war discourse and the sources he used to construct it. It then takes issue with his claim that early race war discourse can be separated from 18th and 19th century racisms. Finally, it returns …Read more
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13Review of Johanna Oksala, Foucault on Freedom (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (11). 2005.
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38Book review: Johanna Brenner. Women and the politics of class. New York: Monthly review press, 2000 (review)Hypatia 18 (2): 237-239. 2003.
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28Pleasure in AtrocityJournal of Speculative Philosophy 30 (1): 104-114. 2016.On the morning of February 11, 2015, the lead editorial in the New York Times was entitled “Lynching as Racial Terrorism.” I took great pleasure in it. I did not actually read the editorial. What gave me pleasure was the title, which affirmed the analytic and genealogical position I took on lynching in my last book: Lynching in the early twentieth century in this country, I argued, was a technique not of sovereign power but of disciplinary power; its exercise was decentralized, and its terrifyin…Read more