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    Beyond Providing Accommodations: How to be an Effective Instructor and Ally to Students with Learning Disabilities
    American Association of Philosophy Teachers Studies in Pedagogy 3 8-32. 2017.
    In this essay, I provide some insights on how to instruct students with learning disabilities. The first half of this essay deals with the theoretical issue of equal opportunity. I begin by examining the question of access and consider the various ways philosophy remains inaccessible to students with learning disabilities. Then, I use the legal definition of accommodation to argue that it is possible to make philosophy courses accessible to students with learning disabilities without fundamental…Read more
  • Performative Trauma Narratives: Imperfect Memories and Epistemic Harms
    Revista de Humanidades de Valparaíso 26 27-50. 2024.
    In this paper, I suggest that individuals who suffer trauma are often forced to reproduce that for material gain. After noting the key features of what I define as ‘performing trauma narratives’, I argue that the environments in which these narratives are told place undue epistemic burdens on the victims and fail to account for the differential understanding of listeners and the difficulties in conveying the descriptive and normative features with accuracy and integrity. I argue that this result…Read more