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118On Judging Epistemic Credibility: Is Social Identity Relevant?Philosophic Exchange 29 (1). 1999.On what basis should we make an epistemic assessment of another’s authority to impart knowledge? Is social identity a legitimate feature to take into account when assessing epistemic reliability? This paper argues that, in some cases, social identity is a relevant feature to take into account in assessing a person’s credibility.
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1Lewis Gordon, Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 17 (2): 95-99. 1997.
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55Epistemologies of ignorance: Three typesIn Shannon Sullivan & Nancy Tuana (eds.), Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance, State Univ of New York Pr. 2007.
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73Reconsidering identity politics: An introductionIn Identity politics reconsidered, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 1--9. 2006.
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45Gadamer's Feminist EpistemologyIn Lorraine Code (ed.), Feminist Interpretations of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Pennsylvania State University Press. 2003.
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42Abromeit, John. Max Horkheimer and the Foundations of the Frankfurt School. Cambridge-New York: Cam-bridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xiii+ 441. Cloth, $95.00. Acosta, Emiliano. Schiller versus Fichte: Schillers Begriff der Person in der Zeit und Fichtes Kategorie der Wech-selbestimmung im Widerstreit. Fichte Studien Supplementa, Band 27. Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi, 2011. Pp. x+ 302. Paper, $87.00 (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 50 (2): 305-307. 2012.
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43Review of Arnold Davidson, The Emergence of Sexuality: Historical Epistemology and the Formation of Concepts (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (9). 2003.
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29First, we should separate out the two distinct realms of discourse that are operative in this scandal: the formal legal one, from the informal public one. Each realm has different standards of judgment, and plays a different role. The formal, legal realm is organized to determine the legal guilt of innocence of the individuals accused, while it should be clear that the public realm—that diffuse and loose amalgam of both formal and informal communications—cannot determine individual legal guilt o…Read more
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1The Future of WhitenessPolity Books. 2015.White identity is in ferment. White, European Americans living in the United States will soon share an unprecedented experience of slipping below 50% of the population. The impending demographic shifts are already felt in most urban centers and the effect is a national backlash of hyper-mobilized political, and sometimes violent, activism with a stated aim that is simultaneously vague and deadly clear: 'to take our country back.' Meanwhile the spectre of 'minority status' draws closer, and the m…Read more
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8Feminist epistemologies (edited book)Routledge. 1993."First Published in 1992, Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company."
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Alien and AlienatedIn George Yancy (ed.), Reframing the Practice of Philosophy: Bodies of Color, Bodies of Knowledge, State University of New York Press. pp. 23-43. 2012.
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2Merleau-Ponty and Feminist Theory on ExperienceIn Professor Fred Evans, Fred Evans, Leonard Lawlor & Professor Leonard Lawlor (eds.), Chiasms: Merleau-Ponty's Notion of Flesh, Suny Press. pp. 251-271. 2000.
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13The Future Of WhitenessIn Emily S. Lee (ed.), Living Alterities: Phenomenology, Embodiment, and Race, State University of New York Press. pp. 255-281. 2014.
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1'Becoming an Epistemologist'In E. A. Grosz (ed.), Becomings: explorations in time, memory, and futures, Cornell University Press. 1999.
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74The roots (and routes) of the epistemology of ignoranceCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 27 (1): 9-28. 2024.This paper elaborates on the idea of the epistemology of ignorance developed in Charles Mills’s work beginning in the 1980s and continuing throughout his writings. I I argue that his account developed initially from experiences of racism in north America as well as certain methods of organizing within parts of the Caribbean left. Essentially the epistemic practice of ignorance causes knowers to discredit or push away knowledge they in fact have. But this gives us cause for hope, for restoring ex…Read more
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40Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race in AmericaRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2016.Drawing from the lives of Ossie Davis, Frantz Fanon, Malcolm X, and W. E. B. Du Bois, as well as his own experience, and fully updated to account for what has transpired since the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, Yancy provides an invaluable resource for students and teachers of courses in African American Studies, African American History, Philosophy of Race, and anyone else who wishes to examine what it means to be Black in America.
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12The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race (edited book)Routledge. 2017.For many decades, race and racicsm have been common areas of study in departments of sociology, history, politcal science, English, and athropology. Much more recently, as the historical concept of race and racial categories have faced signifcant scientific and politcal challenges, philosophers have become more interested in these areas. This changing understanding of the ontology of race has invited inquiry from researchers in moral philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science, …Read more
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30The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race (edited book)Routledge. 2017.For many decades, race and racism have been common areas of study in departments of sociology, history, political science, English, and anthropology. Much more recently, as the historical concept of race and racial categories have faced significant scientific and political challenges, philosophers have become more interested in these areas. This changing understanding of the ontology of race has invited inquiry from researchers in moral philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of scienc…Read more
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33Feminism, Sexuality, and the Return of Religion (edited book)Indiana University Press. 2011.Feminist theory and reflections on sexuality and gender rarely make contact with contemporary continental philosophy of religion. Where they all come together, creative and transformative thinking occurs. In Feminism, Sexuality, and the Return of Religion, internationally recognized scholars tackle complicated questions provoked by the often stormy intersection of these powerful forces. The essays in this book break down barriers as they extend the richness of each philosophical tradition. They …Read more
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The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2007._The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy_ is a definitive introduction to the field, consisting of 15 newly-contributed essays that apply philosophical methods and approaches to feminist concerns. Offers a key view of the project of centering women’s experience. Includes topics such as feminism and pragmatism, lesbian philosophy, feminist epistemology, and women in the history of philosophy
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12Latin American Perspectives on Globalization: Ethics, Politics, and Alternative Visions (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2002.From the most prominent thinkers in Latin American philosophy, literature, politics, and social science comes a challenge to conventional theories of globalization. The contributors to this volume imagine a discourse in which revolution requires no temporalized march of progress or takeovers of state power but instead aims at local control and the material conditions for human dignity.
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84Constructing the Nation: A Race and Nationalism Reader (edited book)SUNY Press. 2009.What is the norm of Americanness today, how has it changed, and how pluralistic is it in reality? from the Introduction In this volume philosophers and social ...
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48The Blackwell guide to feminist philosophy (edited book)Blackwell. 2007.The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy is a definitive introduction to the field, consisting of 15 newly-contributed essays that apply philosophical methods and approaches to feminist concerns. Offers a key view of the project of centering women’s experience. Includes topics such as feminism and pragmatism, lesbian philosophy, feminist epistemology, and women in the history of philosophy.
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44Surviving Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality by Jorge J. E. Gracia; Mapping the Boundaries of Race, Ethnicity, and NationalityInternational Philosophical Quarterly 48 (2): 231-238. 2008.
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63The Persistent Power of Cultural RacismPhilosophy 98 (3): 249-271. 2023.Abstract‘Cultural racism’ is central to understanding racism today yet has receded into the background behind the focus on attitudinal racism. Even the turn to structural racism is largely circumscribed to inclusion without substantive challenge to existing processes or profit margins. When portions of the racist public are targeted, it is often the least elite members of society. Without question, the concept of cultural racism requires some clarification, but it will help bring the continued i…Read more
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11Reclaiming TruthIn José Medina & David Wood (eds.), Truth, Blackwell. 2005-01-01.This chapter contains section titled: Suggested Reading.
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6RacismIn Alison M. Jaggar & Iris Marion Young (eds.), A companion to feminist philosophy, Blackwell. 1998.Feminist philosophy has been concerned with race and racism since its inception for both historical and conceptual reasons. Historically, the struggle against sexism consistently followed in the footsteps of the struggle against slavery and racism, both in the nineteenth as well as the twentieth centuries. Women who resisted slavery and racism began to rethink common beliefs about women's role, and took inspiration from the abolitionist and civil rights struggles. Nineteenth‐century transcendent…Read more
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16Foucault's Normative EpistemologyIn Christopher Falzon, Timothy O'Leary & Jana Sawicki (eds.), A Companion to Foucault, Wiley-blackwell. 2013.Epistemology was a central concern of Michel Foucault. By denying the conflation of knowledge with power, and consistently maintaining a dyadic relationship (“power/knowledge”) rather than a relationship in which power eclipses knowledge, Foucault maintains that knowledge requires its own analysis irreducible to the strategic maneuvers of power. “Epistemology,” by this caricature, has to approach the question of knowledge as a transcendent entity, akin to Plato's Ideal Forms. Foucault's work on …Read more
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
Continental Philosophy |
Philosophy of the Americas |
Areas of Interest
19th Century Philosophy |