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    How to dress like a feminist: a relational ethics of non-complicity
    Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. 2023.
    Feminists have always been concerned with how the clothes women wear can reinforce and reproduce gender hierarchy. However, they have strongly disagreed about what to do in response: some have suggested that the key to feminist liberation is to stop caring about how one dresses; others have replied that the solution is to give women increased choices. In this paper, we argue that neither of these dominant approaches is satisfactory and that, ultimately, they have led to an impasse that pervades …Read more
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    Living the Life of the Mind: Mind the Gap
    The Philosophers' Magazine 99 6-9. 2023.
  •  5
    Living the Life of the Mind
    The Philosophers' Magazine 98 6-9. 2022.
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    Living the Life of the Mind
    The Philosophers' Magazine 96 6-8. 2022.
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    Living the Life of the Mind
    The Philosophers' Magazine 95 6-8. 2021.
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    European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 1183-1186, December 2021.
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    An important question confronting feminist philosophers is why women are sometimes complicit in their own subordination. The dominant view holds that complicity is best understood in terms of adaptive preferences. This view assumes that agents will naturally gravitate away from subordination and towards flourishing as long as they do not have things imposed on them that disrupt this trajectory. However, there is reason to believe that ‘impositions’ do not explain all of the ways in which complic…Read more
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    Articulating Understanding: A Phenomenological Approach to Testimony on Gendered Violence
    International Journal of Philosophical Studies 29 (4): 448-472. 2021.
    ABSTRACT Testimony from victims of gendered violence is often wrongly disbelieved. This paper explores a way to address this problem by developing a phenomenological approach to testimony. Guided by the concept of ‘disclosedness’, a tripartite analysis of testimony as an affective, embodied, communicative act is developed. Affect indicates how scepticism may arise through the social moods that often attune agents to victims’ testimony. The embodiment of meaning suggests testimony should not be a…Read more
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    Living the Life of the Mind
    The Philosophers' Magazine 94 14-17. 2021.
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    Living the Life of the Mind
    The Philosophers' Magazine 93 16-18. 2021.
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    In cases of complicity in one’s own unfreedom and in structural injustice, it initially appears that agents are only vicariously responsible for their complicity because of the roles circumstantial and constitutive luck play in bringing about their complicity. By drawing on work from the phenomenological tradition, this paper rejects this conclusion and argues for a new responsive sense of agency and responsibility in cases of complicity. Highlighting the explanatory role of stubbornness in case…Read more
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    Living the Life of the Mind
    The Philosophers' Magazine 92 13-15. 2021.
    On doing philosophy and looking good. An analysis of philosophers' complex relationship with clothes. A freely accessible copy of the article can be found in the link below.
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    Philosophy and the Maternal
    Studies in the Maternal 13 (1): 1-8. 2020.
    Reflections on the role and position of maternal relations within philosophy as a practical discipline, as a metaphor for philosophical practice, and as a subject of philosophical investigation.
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    Living the Life of the Mind
    The Philosophers' Magazine 91 13-15. 2020.
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    Living the Life of the Mind
    The Philosophers' Magazine 90 8-10. 2020.
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    This chapter offers a reinterpretation of Heidegger’s conception of the social world in order to overcome the tension between its conflicting positive and negative characterisations in Being and Time. Rejecting a purely positive or a purely negative reading of das Man, the chapter follows Stephen Mulhall in carving out a middle ground between the two. The chapter takes seriously Heidegger’s claim that it is possible for das Man to undergo an authentic transformation, exploring how best to concei…Read more
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    Living the Life of the Mind
    The Philosophers' Magazine 89 8-11. 2020.
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    Living the Life of the Mind
    The Philosophers' Magazine 88 11-14. 2020.
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    Living the Life of the Mind
    The Philosophers' Magazine 87 6-8. 2019.
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    This chapter offers a reinterpretation of Heidegger’s conception of the social world (das Man) in order to overcome the tension between its conflicting positive and negative characterisations in Being and Time. Rejecting a purely positive or a purely negative reading of das Man, the chapter follows Stephen Mulhall in carving out a middle ground between the two. The chapter takes seriously Heidegger’s claim that it is possible for das Man to undergo an authentic transformation, exploring how best…Read more
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    In this paper I argue that from a feminist perspective well-being is most productively defined in relation to freedom, and it is with regard to questions of freedom that well-being should be pursued. Pursuing well-being from a starting point of oppression and working towards an ideal of freedom, involves two things: a reconception of the self as fundamentally relational and an emphasis on the importance of self-understanding for well-being. The former is something that has been widely acknowledg…Read more
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    Winter News
    The Philosophers' Magazine 84 6-9. 2019.
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    Spring News
    The Philosophers' Magazine 77 6-9. 2017.
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    Summer News
    The Philosophers' Magazine 74 6-8. 2016.
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    Living the Life of the Mind
    The Philosophers' Magazine 86 6-9. 2019.
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    Heidegger and the source of meaning
    South African Journal of Philosophy 32 (4): 327-338. 2013.
    Sandra Lee Bartky criticises the account of meaning contained in Heidegger's ontology in Being and Time. In her view, Heidegger must choose between the claim that meaning is received and the claim that it is created, but is unable to do so. This paper argues that Bartky's criticism is misconceived, by showing that meaning, as Heidegger understands it, is necessarily both created and received. According to a number of influential commentators, the ultimate source of meaning is das Man – Heidegger…Read more
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    God’s Not Dead But Reason Might Be
    The Philosophers' Magazine 76 9-15. 2017.
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    Autumn News
    The Philosophers' Magazine 75 6-8. 2016.