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    Reading Cavell (edited book)
    Routledge. 2006.
    Alongside Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam and Jacques Derrida, Stanley Cavell is arguably one of the best-known philosophers in the world. In this state-of-the-art collection, Alice Crary explores the work of this original and interesting figure who has already been the subject of a number of books, conferences and Phd theses. A philosopher whose work encompasses a broad range of interests, such as Wittgenstein, scepticism in philosophy, the philosophy of art and film, Shakespeare, and philosophy o…Read more
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    Wittgenstein and Ethical Naturalism
    In Guy Kahane, Edward Kanterian & Oskari Kuusela (eds.), Wittgenstein and His Interpreters, Blackwell. 2007.
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    Cognitive Disability and Moral Status
    In Adam Cureton & David Wasserman (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability, Oxford University Press, Usa. pp. 450-466. 2018.
    This chapter provides a roadmap of ongoing conversations about cognitive disability and moral status. Its aim is to highlight the political stakes of these conversations for advocates for the cognitively disabled while at the same time bringing out how a fundamental point of divergence within the conversations has to do with what count as appropriate methods of ethics. The main divide is between thinkers who take ethical neutrality to be a regulative ideal for doing empirical justice to the live…Read more
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    “Stories to Meditate On”: Animals in Gaita’s Narrative Philosophy
    In Ana Falcato & Antonio Cardiello (eds.), Philosophy in the Condition of Modernism, Springer Verlag. pp. 153-164. 2018.
    Narrative philosophy is the Australian philosopher Raimond Gaita’s answer to the question of how to philosophize in a manner that directly informs efforts to answer the classic philosophical question of ‘how best to live’. Gaita claims, provocatively, that getting the world in view in a manner relevant to arriving at an answer involves challenges that, far from being merely theoretical, are such that we can only meet them by working on ourselves or, alternately, by reshaping our sense of what ma…Read more
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    The Good It Promises, The Harm It Does: Critical Essays on Effective Altruism (edited book)
    with Carol J. Adams and Lori Gruen
    Oxford University Press. 2023.
    Deeply rooted structures of racism, ableism, misogyny, ageism, and transphobia hurt great numbers of people, exposing them to intolerance, economic exclusion, and physical harm around the globe. Billions of land animals suffer and die annually in concentrated feeding operations and slaughterhouses. Our planet and all who live here are in perilous straights as the climate changes. In the face of such grievous problems, people who want to find positive ways to respond often grapple with difficult …Read more
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    A Radical Perfectionist: Revisiting Cavell in the Light of Kant
    Journal of Aesthetic Education 48 (3): 87-98. 2014.
    Stanley Cavell is widely regarded as a major philosophical figure, and he is generally recognized to have devoted a great deal of his writing to ethical themes. Nevertheless, it is not an exaggeration to say that his work has not for the most part been received within Anglo-American analytic ethics. There is an impressively large body of commentary on Cavell’s contribution to moral philosophy, but most of it gets generated and discussed outside analytic circles. Paul Guyer’s remarks here on the …Read more
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    Alice Crary is a moral and social philosopher who has written widely on issues in metaethics, moral psychology and normative ethics, philosophy and feminism, critical animal studies, critical disability studies, critical philosophy of race, philosophy and literature, and Critical Theory. She has written on philosophers such as John L. Austin, Stanley Cavell, Cora Diamond, John McDowell, Iris Murdoch and Ludwig Wittgenstein. This is the first of two parts of the interview with Crary conducted in …Read more
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    For too long the questions of how we treat animals and how we treat our fellow human beings have been considered separately. But the contours of the current animal crisis make it clear – the harms we are inflicting on the nonhuman world have devastating impacts on humans: zoonotic diseases caused by habitat destruction and animal exploitation have brought human life to a standstill; mass production of animals for food is poisoning the ground and contributing to catastrophic climate change. Anima…Read more
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    This is the second of two parts of an interview with Alice Crary conducted in a single exchange in the first weeks of January 2022, where she discusses ordinary language philosophy and feminism, Wittgenstein’s conception of mind and its relation to feminist ethics, the link between Wittgenstein and Critical Theory, and her own views about efforts to bring about social and political transformations. The first part on “Wittgenstein and Feminism” is published in the NWR Special Issue “Wittgenstein …Read more
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    Neutrality, Critique, and Social Visibility
    Philosophical Topics 49 (1): 187-194. 2021.
    This piece continues an exchange between David Beaver and Jason Stanley, on the one hand, and Alice Crary, on the other, to which Beaver’s and Stanley’s “Neutrality” (immediately above) is a contribution. All three authors agree that the critique of ideology, propaganda, and oppressive structures should not be conceived as eliminating socially-situated perspectives and subjectively-mediated sensibilities from an allegedly neutral discursive space. Their exchange began with Crary’s 2018 article, …Read more
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    Social Visibility: Theory and Practice
    Philosophical Topics 49 (1): 1-11. 2021.
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    Seeing Animal Suffering
    In Maria Balaska (ed.), Cora Diamond on Ethics, Springer Verlag. pp. 127-147. 2021.
    The suffering of non-human animals is great and omnipresent. This is because animals are vulnerable to disease, disfigurement, injury, predation, age-related physical decline and death, and—today—it is also because human beings are subjecting animals to unprecedented violence in two different domains. Human activities and their byproducts are devastating wild animal habitats at such a fantastic rate that we are obliged to speak of a “sixth mass extinction”, and, while the crisis is typically mea…Read more
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    What Do Feminists Want in an Epistemology?
    Women in Philosophy Journal 1 22-40. 2001.
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    Objectivity
    In James Conant & Sebastian Sunday (eds.), Wittgenstein on Philosophy, Objectivity, and Meaning, Cambridge University Press. pp. 47-61. 2019.
    A core philosophical use of the term “objectivity” is to talk about a central metaphysical ideal. The term is employed to pick out aspects of the world that are there in the sense that any thinker who fails to register them can be said to be missing something. If we speak in this connection of a guiding concept of objectivity, we can ask what can be said about the nature of the things that fall under it. We might then speak in this further connection of different possible conceptions of objectiv…Read more
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    How Philosophy and Sociology Need Each Other
    with Steven Lukes
    Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 40 (1): 81-99. 2019.
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    Introduction
    Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 39 (2): 317-339. 2018.
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    Wittgenstein Goes to Frankfurt
    Nordic Wittgenstein Review 7 (1): 7-41. 2018.
    This article aims to shed light on some core challenges of liberating social criticism. Its centerpiece is an intuitively attractive account of the nature and difficulty of critical social thought that nevertheless goes missing in many philosophical conversations about critique. This omission at bottom reflects the fact that the account presupposes a philosophically contentious conception of rationality. Yet the relevant conception of rationality does in fact inform influential philosophical tre…Read more
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    Putnam and Propaganda
    Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 38 (2): 385-398. 2017.
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    Why Can’t Moral Thought Be Everything It Seems?
    Philosophical Forum 33 (4): 373-391. 2002.
  • The New Wittgenstein
    Philosophy 78 (305): 425-430. 2003.
  • The Role of Feeling in Moral Thought
    Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh. 1999.
    This dissertation is concerned with how feelings figure in the moral life. Within contemporary ethics, attempts to characterize how they do so typically take for granted a set of constraints on ways in which they can inform moral thought---constraints determined by: a traditional philosophical conception of objectivity on which a property, in order to be objective in the familiar sense of being qualified to figure as the subject-matter of a judgment to which no decisive objections can be raised,…Read more
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    Concluding Comment
    In Inside Ethics: On the Demands of Moral Thought, Harvard University Press. pp. 272-274. 2016.
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    Wittgenstein's pragmatic strain
    Social Research: An International Quarterly 70 (2): 369-391. 2003.
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    Austin and the Ethics of Discourse
    In Alice Crary & Sanford Shieh (eds.), Reading Cavell, Routledge. pp. 42--67. 2006.