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Adaptive Preferences: An Empirical Investigation of Feminist PerspectivesIn Hugo Viciana, Antonio Gaitán & Fernando Aguiar (eds.), Experiments in Moral and Political Philosophy, Routledge. 2023.Adaptive preferences have been extensively studied in decision theory and feminist political theory, but not in experimental philosophy. In feminist contexts, the term is used to discuss cases in which women seem to accept abusive treatment and other conditions of oppression. According to one class of theories, women who accept abusive behavior are cognitively deficient: irrational, lacking autonomy, or not acting in accordance with their identity. Other theories deny this, saying that under cer…Read more
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13Discovering disagreement: The story of an undergraduate Wartime Quartet reading groupJournal of Philosophy of Education 56 (6). 2022.This paper describes and analyses the experience of the participants of an undergraduate reading group on ‘The Wartime Quartet’. In the first section, I explain the set-up of the reading group. In the second section, I discuss what the participants shared and the trends we noticed in our experiences as women and marginalised genders studying undergraduate philosophy In the third section, I explain why the philosophy of the Quartet was itself vital to our development and how it enabled us to begi…Read more
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9An Interview with Rianna WalcottSymposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 7 (2): 139-148. 2020.This is an interview with Rianna Walcott, the co-founder of Project Myopia – a student-led initiative to decolonise university curricula. The discussion explores the difference between ‘diversity’ and ‘decolonisation’: how these two concepts relate to and contradict one another. Walcott outlines some of the recent student efforts to ‘decolonise’ the university and we discuss the extent to which this represents a paradoxical ambition, as well as the limitations of attempting to change the univers…Read more
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60In Defence of Different VoicesSymposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 7 (2): 149-177. 2020.Louise Antony draws a now well-known distinction between two explanatory models for researching and addressing the issue of women’s underrepresentation in philosophy – the ‘Different Voices’ (DV) and ‘Perfect Storm’ (PS) models – and argues that, in view of PS’s considerably higher social value, DV should be abandoned. We argue that Antony misunderstands the feminist framework that she takes to underpin DV, and we reconceptualise DV in a way that aligns with a proper understanding of the metaphi…Read more
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46Diversity in PhilosophySymposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 7 (2): 113-116. 2020.
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8An Interview with Rianna WalcottSymposion. Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences. forthcoming.Anne-Marie McCallion ABSTRACT: This is an interview with Rianna Walcott, the co-founder of Project Myopia – a student-led initiative to decolonise university curricula. The discussion explores the difference between ‘diversity’ and ‘decolonisation’: how these two concepts relate to and contradict one another. Walcott outlines some of the recent student efforts to ‘decolonise’ the university and …
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32In Defence of Different VoicesSymposion. Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences. forthcoming.Helen Beebee, Anne-Marie McCallion ABSTRACT: Louise Antony draws a now well-known distinction between two explanatory models for researching and addressing the issue of women’s underrepresentation in philosophy – the ‘Different Voices’ and ‘Perfect Storm’ models – and argues that, in view of PS’s considerably higher social value, DV should be abandoned. We argue …
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22Diversity in Philosophy: Editors’ IntroductionSymposion. Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences. forthcoming.Helen Beebee, Anne-Marie McCallion Download PDF.
Areas of Specialization
Feminist Philosophy |
Feminist Epistemology |
Marxist and Socialist Feminism |
Social and Political Philosophy |