• I argue in this chapter that we should not be quick to dismiss Hilary Putnam’s account of truth as (idealized) rational acceptability. Putnam defends the view that the role values play in facts and vice versa. What I argue for here does not amount to a full-blooded defense of Putnam’s account, but of an important component of a pragmatist theory of truth more generally. I defend the value of usability as particularly important and show how Jane Addams and subsequent feminist philosophers argue f…Read more
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    The Diversity and Inclusivity Survey: Final Report
    with Carolyn Dicey Jennings, Regino Fronda, M. A. Hunter, Zoe Johnson King, and Sharai Wilson
    APA Grants. 2019.
    In 2018 Academic Placement Data and Analysis ran a survey of doctoral students and recent graduates on the topics of diversity and inclusivity in collaboration with the Graduate Student Council and Data Task Force of the American Philosophical Association. We submitted a preliminary report in Fall 2018 that describes the origins and procedure of the survey [1]. This is our final report on the survey. We first discuss the demographic profile of our survey participants and compare it to the United…Read more
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    Sommers, Tamler. Why Honor Matters (review)
    Reason Papers 40 (2): 88-94. 2018.
    In Why Honor Matters, Tamler Sommers argues for reviving honor culture as a means to reduce many of the social ills we face today. A.C. Spivey’s review examines Sommers’s arguments, in particular how a revived honor culture might have an impact on the criminal justice system. Spivey finds several theoretical and practical problems in Sommers’s account, but argues that the book is still worth reading, at least in part, because of the case it makes for restorative justice.