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1Common Knowledge and the Theory of InteractionDissertation, University of Pittsburgh. 1988.The dissertation examines the concept and current theory of common knowledge, with special emphasis on its significance for interaction. I begin by examining the rational choice theory of interaction more broadly, arguing for specific desiderata of the model. I then discuss the current rational choice model of interaction, which is non-cooperative game theory, and argue that common knowledge is an essential assumption on which game theoretic explanations of interaction hinge. Game theory's accou…Read more
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84Game Theory and the History of Ideas about Rationality: An Introductory SurveyEconomics and Philosophy 9 (1): 101-133. 1993.Although it may seem from its formalism that game theory must have sprung from the mind of John von Neumann as a corollary of his work on computers or theoretical physics, it should come as no real surprise to philosophers that game theory is the articulation of a historically developing philosophical conception of rationality in thought and action. The history of ideas about rationality is deeply contradictory at many turns. While there are theories of rationality that claim it is fundamentally…Read more
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142Multiculturalism as a Cognitive Virtue of Scientific PracticeHypatia 13 (3). 1998.I argue that science will be better, by its own criteria, if it pursues multiculturalism, by which I mean an ethnic- and gender-diverse set of scientists. I argue that minority and women scientists will be more likely to recognize false, prejudiced assumptions about race and gender that infect theories. And the kinds of changes that society will undergo in pursuing multiculturalism will help reveal these faulty assumptions to scientists of all races and genders
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21Conventional Foundationalism and the Origin of NormsSouthern Journal of Philosophy 28 (4): 485-504. 1990.
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22Preference, rationality, and democratic theoryIn Robert L. Simon (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Social and Political Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2002.The prelims comprise: Introduction Structural Problems with Democracy as Mechanism of Social Choice Reasons to Override Individual Preferences Should Individual Preference Determine Social Decisions? Conclusion Notes Bibliography.
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66Truly humanitarian intervention: considering just causes and methods in a feminist cosmopolitan frameJournal of Global Ethics 9 (3): 359-375. 2013.In international law, ‘humanitarian intervention’ refers to the use of military force by one nation or group of nations to stop genocide or other gross human rights violations in another sovereign nation. If humanitarian intervention is conceived as military in nature, it makes sense that only the most horrible, massive, and violent violations of human rights can justify intervention. Yet, that leaves many serious evils beyond the scope of legal intervention. In particular, violations of women's…Read more
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14Review of Marilyn Friedman (ed.), Women and Citizenship (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (4). 2006.
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26Missionary PositionsHypatia 20 (4): 164-182. 2005.Postcolonial feminist scholars have described some Western feminist activism as imperialistic, drawing a comparison to the work of Christian missionaries from the West, who aided in the project of colonization and assimilation of non-Western cultures to Western ideas and practices. This comparison challenges feminists who advocate global human rights ideals or objective appraisals of social practices, in effect charging them with neocolonialism. This essay defends work on behalf of universal hum…Read more
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39Thinking about Sexual Harassment (review)Philosophical Review 112 (1): 121-123. 2003.Margaret Crouch offers a balanced, comprehensive introduction to the philosophical, legal, and empirical issues surrounding the vexed topic of sexual harassment. The book is divided into two parts. The first discusses the competing conceptual schemes under which sexual harassment has been defined, the history of case law surrounding sexual harassment claims, and empirical measures of the extent and common beliefs about sexual harassment. The second part of the book treats philosophical and legal…Read more
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31Sporting Metaphors: Competition and the Ethos of CapitalismJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 34 (1): 52-67. 2007.No abstract
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1Peter Vallentyne, ed., Contractarianism and Rational Choice: Essays on David Gauthier's Morals by Agreement Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 12 (4): 299-301. 1992.
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50Review of Nancy J. Hirschmann, The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (3). 2003.
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16Missionary PositionsHypatia 20 (4): 164-182. 2000.Postcolonial feminist scholars have described some Western feminist activism as imperialistic, drawing a comparison to the work of Christian missionaries from the West, who aided in the project of colonization and assimilation of non-Western cultures to Western ideas and practices. This comparison challenges feminists who advocate global human rights ideals or objective appraisals of social practices, in effect charging them with neocolonialism. This essay defends work on behalf of universal hum…Read more
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37The Paradox of Genocidal Rape Aimed at Enforced PregnancySouthern Journal of Philosophy 46 (S1): 176-189. 2008.
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70Sensationalized Philosophy: A Reply to Marquis's "Why Abortion is Immoral"Journal of Philosophy 87 (5): 262. 1990.
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52Rape and Enforced Pregnancy as Femicide: Comments on Claudia Card's “The Paradox of Genocidal Rape Aimed at Enforced Pregnancy”Southern Journal of Philosophy 46 (S1): 190-199. 2008.
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17Book ReviewsDavid Boonin,. A Defense of Abortion.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 350. $27.99Ethics 116 (4): 781-785. 2006.
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42Taking drugs seriously: liberal paternalism and the rationality of preferencesPublic Affairs Quarterly 4 (1): 17-31. 1990.
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40Review of Debra Satz, Rob Reich (eds.), The Political Philosophy of Susan Moller Okin (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (11). 2009.
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73Strikes, Housework, and the Moral Obligation to ResistJournal of Social Philosophy 29 (1): 20-36. 1998.
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223How to explain oppression: Criteria of adequacy for normative explanatory theoriesPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 35 (1): 20-49. 2005.This article discusses explanatory theories of normative concepts and argues for a set of criteria of adequacy by which such theories may be evaluated. The criteria offered fall into four categories: ontological, theoretical, pragmatic, and moral. After defending the criteria and discussing their relative weighting, this article uses them to prune the set of available explanatory theories of oppression. Functionalist theories, including Hegelian recognition theory and Foucauldian social theory, …Read more
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164Analytic Feminism: A Brief IntroductionHypatia 10 (3): 1-6. 1995.This essay introduces the subject of this special issue by offering a characterization of analytic feminism in terms of its context, methods, and problem areas. I argue that analytic feminism is a legitimate subfield both of feminism and of analytic philosophy. I then summarize the problems addressed by the essays of this issue
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