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    Feminist Reflections on the History of Philosophy (edited book)
    Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2004.
    Feminist work in the history of philosophy has come of age as an innovative field in the history of philosophy. This volume marks that accomplishment with original essays by leading feminist scholars who ask basic questions: What is distinctive of feminist work in the history of philosophy? Is there a method that is distinctive of feminist historical work? How can women philosophers be meaningfully included in the history of the discipline? Who counts as a philosopher? This collection is a uniqu…Read more
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    Feminist Metaphysics is the first collection of articles addressing metaphysical issues from a feminist perspective.
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    Hylomorphism in Aristotle
    Journal of Philosophy 84 (11): 673-679. 1987.
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    Aristotle's defense of Dunamis -- Power and potentiality -- Rational and nonrational powers -- The priority of actuality -- Ontological hierarchy, normativity, and gender
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    Feminist history of philosophy
    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2008.
    The past twenty five years have seen an explosion of feminist writing on the philosophical canon, a development that has clear parallels in other disciplines like literature and art history. Since most of the writing is, in one way or another, critical of the tradition, a natural question to ask is: Why does the history of philosophy have importance for feminist philosophers? This question assumes that the history of philosophy is of importance for feminists, an assumption that is warranted by t…Read more
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    The Metaphysics of Gender
    Oup Usa. 2011.
    The Metaphysics of Gender is a book about gender essentialism: what it is and why it might be true.
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    Substance and Essence in Aristotle: An Interpretation of Metaphysics VII-IX
    with S. Marc Cohen
    Philosophical Review 101 (4): 838. 1992.
    Review of Substance and Essence in Aristotle: an Interpretation of Metaphysics VII-IX, by Charlotte Witt (Cornell University Press: 1989)
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    Aristotle on Deformed Animal Kinds
    Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 43 83. 2012.
    There is a surprising number of deformed animal kinds mentioned in Aristotle’s biological works. The number is surprising because, according to the standard understanding of deformed animals in Aristotle, it should be zero. And the number is significant because there are just too many deformed kinds at too many classificatory levels mentioned in too many works to dismiss them as a minor aberration or as an infiltration of folk belief into biology proper. This paper has two goals. The first is to…Read more
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    Aristotelian essentialism revisited
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 27 (2): 285-298. 1989.
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    Charlotte Witt extracts from this text a coherent and provocative view about sensible substance by focusing on Aristotle's account of form or essence.
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    Tragic Error and Agent Responsibility
    Philosophic Exchange 35 (1). 2005.
    The characters of tragedy are in some sense responsible for their errors. However, given their ignorance of the consequences of their actions, it seems that they ought not be held responsible by others for what they have done. This is a paradox. The way to resolve the paradox is to distinguish two kinds of agent responsibility: accountability and culpability. Being accountable is primarily a private affair, whereas being culpable entails the possibility of just punishment.
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    Aristotle’s Theory of Substance (review)
    Philosophical Review 111 (1): 98-101. 2002.
    Aristotle's doctrines about accidental predication, Accidental identity, Etc., Can be understood as an attempt to state the same view as russell put forward in his theory of descriptions. "a" is predicated accidentally of b when "a to b" has the sense "something that is a is b." this permits scope distinctions which can solve puzzles like that of the masked man, And sophisms involving tense. Aristotle's claim that accidental being is akin to nonexistence resembles russell's account of the presen…Read more
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    Symposia on Gender, Race and Philosophy
    Symposia on Gender, Race, and Philosophy 8 (2). 2012.
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    Aristotle
    Teaching Philosophy 11 (3): 100-102. 1988.
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    Substances and Universals in Aristotle's Metaphysics (review)
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 34 (2): 292-293. 1996.
    292 JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY 34:2 APRIL ~996 Huffman gives an excellent discussion of Philolaus' place in the development of Presocratic discussions of archai and hypotheses; and he reconstructs Philolaus' cosmogony and embryology, showing how Philolaus generates the cosmos and individ- ual living things within it from analogous principles, the central fire of the cosmos and the vital heat of an animal. Huffman places Philolaus' "literally eccentric world-view" in the context of this…Read more
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    when it is actually heating water; an object is perceptible only when it is actually being 1 perceived-- and so on. But, it is part of the notion of a causal power that it exists whether or not it is active. In order to respond to this challenge Aristotle draws a distinction between two ways of being a power; when it is active the power exists actually; when it is inactive it exists potentially. Contemporary writers have noted that we need a way of understanding powers that includes their presen…Read more
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    Substance among Other Categories
    Philosophical Review 105 (4): 562. 1996.
    This book develops an account of what substance is in terms of the notion of independence. As the authors note, there is a tradition of defining substance as independent that begins with Aristotle. But what notion of independence can provide an adequate definition of substance? The authors find traditional attempts to define independence, including Aristotle’s, inadequate on a number of grounds, and they propose an alternative account. As a preface to this undertaking, the authors consider and r…Read more
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    Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays (edited book)
    with Sally Anne Haslanger
    Cornell University Press. 2005.
    Introduction : kith, kin, and family / Sally Haslanger and Charlotte Witt Adoption and its progeny : rethinking family law, gender, and sexual difference / Drucilla Cornell Open adoption is not for everyone / Anita L. Allen Methods of adoption : eliminating genetic privilege / Jacqueline Stevens Several steps behind : gay and lesbian adoption / Sarah Tobias A child of one’s own : property, progeny, and adoption / Janet Farrell Smith Family resemblances : adoption, personal identity, and genetic …Read more
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    Aristotelian Explorations (review)
    Philosophical Review 107 (4): 597-600. 1998.
    At one point in this engaging collection of essays, G. E. R. Lloyd describes Aristotle's "sense of the interdependence of philosophical analysis and detailed empirical investigation", a description which fits the author himself. Lloyd is sensitive to the peculiarities of Aristotle's texts without sinking so deeply into their oddities that they lose focus and theoretical interest. With admirable lucidity Lloyd lays out the complex requirements of Aristotle's "official" theory of scientific demons…Read more
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    Aristotle on Female Animals: A Study of the Generation of Animals by Sophia M. Connell
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 55 (1): 157-158. 2017.
    “How can it be that the female is both functional and a failure?”. Sophia Connell’s response comes in the form of a careful, thorough, and philosophically sensitive interpretation of Aristotle’s treatise on animal generation. By pursuing the topic of what Aristotle says about female animals and their role in reproduction, Connell casts light into many difficult corners of his theory: What does it mean to say that the male is the “hê archê [tês] kinêseos” of the generation? How should we think of…Read more