•  2258
    In this paper I argue that the distinction between epistemic privilege and epistemic authority is an important one for feminist epistemologists who are sympathetic to feminist standpoint theory, I argue that, while the first concept is elusive, the second is really the important one for a successful feminist standpoint project.
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    Dilemmas of objectivity
    Social Epistemology 16 (3). 2002.
    This Article does not have an abstract
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    Why has James been relatively absent from the neopragmatist revival of the past twenty years? I argue that part of the reason is that his psychological projects seem to hold little promise for a socially and culturally progressive philosophical project, and that his concern with religious issues makes him seem like a religious apologist. Bringing together James's psychological writings with his philosophical writings shows these assumptions to be wrong. I offer a reading of “The Will to Believe”…Read more
  •  413
    The Politics and the Metaphysics of Experience
    In Charlotte Witt (ed.), Feminist Metaphysics, Springer Verlag. pp. 159--178. 2011.
  •  298
    This article takes up Rorty’s advice to feminists to abandon philosophizing (and appeals to truth and reality) in favor of using language to create a new logical space for feminist politics. The argument focuses on the rhetorical role of appeals to truth and reality, the role of linguistic innovatio..
  •  89
    Feminist epistemology
    Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2004.
  •  82
    The Problem of Experience
    International Studies in Philosophy 40 (2): 33-46. 2008.
  •  81
    Feminist Interpretations of Richard Rorty (edited book)
    Pennsylvania State University Press. 2010.
    "A discussion of issues raised by Richard Rorty's engagement with feminist philosophy.
  •  46
    In this paper I argue that the distinction between epistemic privilege and epistemic authority is an important one for feminist epistemologists who are sympathetic to feminist standpoint theory, I argue that, while the first concept is elusive, the second is really the important one for a successful feminist standpoint project.
  •  34
    Struggling for Common Ground (review)
    Social Theory and Practice 25 (2): 325-335. 1999.
  •  22
    Fashion Emergency!
    with Michelle LaRocque
    Philosophy Now 33 9-11. 2001.
  •  20
    What We Mean by Experience
    Stanford University Press. 2012.
    Social scientists and scholars in the humanities all rely on first-person descriptions of experience to understand how subjects construct their worlds. The problem they always face is how to integrate first-person accounts with an impersonal stance. Over the course of the twentieth century, this problem was compounded as the concept of experience itself came under scrutiny. First hailed as a wellspring of knowledge and the weapon that would vanquish metaphysics and Cartesianism by pragmatists li…Read more
  •  17
    Introduction
    Contemporary Pragmatism 14 (3): 271-276. 2017.
    introduction to a special issue on Richard Rorty (based on the Rorty Society Conference at Hamilton College)
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    Introduction
    In Feminist Interpretations of Richard Rorty, Pennsylvania State University Press. 2010.
    This introduction includes a short summary discussion of all the articles included in the volume. In addition to reprints of Rorty's essays about pragmatism and feminism, the volume includes essays by John C. Adams, Linda Martín Alcoff, Sharyn Clough, Nancy Fraser, Sabina Lovibond, Alessandra Tanesini, Georgia Warnke, and Steven Yarbrough
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    Rorty on Feminism, Language, and Prophecy
    In Martin Müller (ed.), Handbuch Richard Rorty, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. pp. 431-442. 2023.
    This chapter focuses on Rorty’s two major published works on feminist theory and practice: his essay “Feminism and Pragmatism” and his essay “Feminism, Ideology, and Deconstruction: A Pragmatist View.” The first essay takes up issues about the ontological integrity of the term “woman” and defends forms of feminist discourse that are based in radical feminist political discourse, arguing that the hopes and visions projected by the prophetic nature of such discourse can be assisted by pragmatism b…Read more
  •  6
    Rorty’s Metaphilosophical Positions
    In Martin Müller (ed.), Handbuch Richard Rorty, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. pp. 569-580. 2023.
    Rorty has made many comments about the nature of philosophy and its professionalized status throughout his career, and these comments often reflect his worries about the extent to which philosophy as a discipline has become irrelevant to contemporary social and political problems and to human lives. This essay focuses on his ideas about philosophy as a kind of writing, a way of tracing a tradition, and on the questions about what makes philosophy like and unlike poetry and prophecy.
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    Book review (review)
    with Michael L. Harrington, Robert Barnard, and Heather D. Battaly
    Social Epistemology 12 (3): 307-318. 1998.
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    Chapter 1 discusses John Dewey's pragmatism and his reasons for rejecting a picture of the world which disallows human interest, striving, and concerns. Chapter 2 discusses the work of Richard Rorty's anti-foundationalism and attempts to reconstruct philosophy as hermeneutics. Chapter 3 discusses the work of Helen Longino, Lynn Hankinson Nelson, and Sandra Harding all of whom represent feminist attempts to reconstruct a concept of objectivity which is answerable to feminist concerns and which is…Read more