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    Relation and Rupture at the End of Life
    Journal of Speculative Philosophy 38 (1): 31-46. 2024.
    ABSTRACT This article considers three kinds of relations: being-there-alongside, waiting, and staying, that come into focus at or after the end of life. The first relation is explored in light of Heidegger’s and Levinas’s contrasting accounts of responsibility, the second in terms of Bergson’s notion of hesitation, and the third in relation to Winnicott’s description of a “holding environment.” The work serves as a plea for spaces and practices that support more generous, open-ended, and nuanced…Read more
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    This book highlights, scrutinizes, and deploys Bernstein’s philosophical research as it has intersected and impacted American and European philosophy. The chapters show the breadth and scope of his work while expanding key insights into new contexts and testing his work against thinkers outside the canon of his own scholarship.
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    7 Habit, Relaxation, and the Open Mind James and the Increments of Ethical Freedom
    In Erin C. Tarver & Shannon Sullivan (eds.), Feminist interpretations of William James, The Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 165-188. 2015.
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    Effect of distance and size of standard object on the development of shape constancy
    with Dale W. Kaess, S. Dziurawiec Haynes, S. C. Pearson, and J. Greenwell
    Journal of Experimental Psychology 102 (1): 17. 1974.
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    Intervention and the Ideal of Perpetual Peace
    Women in Philosophy Journal 1 8-21. 2001.
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    Drawing as Devotional Attention
    Journal of Speculative Philosophy 36 (4): 399-416. 2022.
    ABSTRACT This article investigates drawing as a form of devotional attention. Engaging with the work of María Lugones and examples from Josef Albers, Corita Kent, Franz Opalka, Georgia O’Keeffe, and William Kentridge, each section revolves around drawing in relation to embodied practices of being together with others. In addition to a personal account of memories and rituals of drawings, this article examines the degree to which drawing hones a pragmatic sense for fallibility, fluidity, and open…Read more
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    James and Deleuze: Trains and Planes
    Contemporary Pragmatism 18 (4): 393-406. 2021.
    This essay examines the relationship between William James’s radical empiricism and Gilles Deleuze’s transcendental empiricism by considering how dominant technologies of locomotion and travel in their respective historical times influenced their thinking and the style of their prose. Highlighting the imagery of trains and ground movement in James and planes and flight in Deleuze, I suggest that each constructs an empiricism that resonates with and reacts to the emerging forms of mass movement i…Read more
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    Fearing Animals
    Journal of Speculative Philosophy 35 (3): 257-272. 2021.
    This article explores nonpathological fear in relation to nonhuman animal encounters in the wild. Critiquing a contemporary, philosophical romance with animal life, Craig turns to Cora Diamond to consider alternative styles of thinking and writing about animals and experiences that defy ready-made paradigms. Diamond diagnoses the tendency for philosophers to deflect from reality. The author follows Diamond in seeking methods to forestall or delay deflection in favor of an open-ended examination …Read more
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    John Lysaker
    Philosophy Today 64 (2): 515-525. 2020.
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    On the Side of the Angels
    Women in Philosophy Journal 2 39-43. 2002.
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    Sidewalks and Frames: Sites of Contact, Sites of Hope
    Journal of Speculative Philosophy 33 (2): 145-161. 2019.
    ABSTRACT This article brings together Toni Morrison, Jane Jacobs, and Howard Hodgkin to consider the stress they each place on “contact,” albeit through their distinctive media of literature, urban planning, and oil paint, respectively. The article begins with Morrison's account of the stranger as not foreign or unusual but “random.” Morrison views literature as a means of bringing readers into controlled contact with others and especially with those others one might fear, avoid, or overlook. Mo…Read more
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    The Language of Stones
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology 5 (2): 119-137. 2018.
    ABSTRACTThis article examines works by the American-born, Paris-based artist Sheila Hicks and her sense of the universal communicability of thread. Hicks bridges cultures and resists simple identification with any single nationality, media, or art historical paradigm. For these reasons and others, it is timely to examine her work and its relevance for pluralistic, feminist thought. The article situates Hicks in relation to Sarah Ruhl’s 2008 play Eurydice, to Heidegger’s essay “The Origin of the …Read more
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    Learning to Live with Derrida and Levinas
    Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 39 (1): 3-36. 2018.
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    Susan Kozel: Closer: Performance, technologies, phenomenology (review)
    Human Studies 33 (1): 103-108. 2010.
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    Play, Laugh, Love: Cynthia Willett’s Challenge to Philosophy
    philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 5 (1): 59-69. 2015.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Play, Laugh, LoveCynthia Willett’s Challenge to PhilosophyMegan CraigIt is an honor to respond to Cynthia Willett’s work, which has been an inspiration for me personally as well as a crucial corrective to the biases and blind spots of Western philosophy. Reading her entails reviewing some of the most basic features of one’s life: the place you call home, the people you live with, your mother or primary caregiver, the words you utter,…Read more
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    Narrative Threads: Philosophy as Storytelling
    Journal of Speculative Philosophy 28 (4): 438-453. 2014.
    This article is about the relationship between philosophy and storytelling. It also ends up being about animals, communication, sympathy, and imagination. Many contemporary philosophers have written about the relationship between literature and philosophy , but, for two reasons, I will frame my remarks by referencing the American philosopher Cora Diamond. The first reason that I want to focus on Diamond is that she has argued for the importance of literature in the development and education of w…Read more
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    Looking Back from the Year 2117: America, Philosophy, and Hope
    Journal of Speculative Philosophy 32 (1): 21-34. 2018.
    ABSTRACT This article employs Richard Rorty's 1996 text “Looking Backwards from the Year 2096” as a model for examining the state of America, education, and philosophy from the year 2117. The imaginative engagement explores how past and present structures might yield to future forms with a focus on early childhood education, guns, literacy, higher education and the state of the university, and the relationships between professional philosophy and social activism in America. Arguing for a shift i…Read more
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    Locked in
    Journal of Speculative Philosophy 22 (3). 2008.
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    Levinas and James: Toward a Pragmatic Phenomenology
    Indiana University Press. 2010.
    Bringing to light new facets in the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas and William James, Megan Craig explores intersections between French phenomenology and American pragmatism.
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    Being with Others: Levinas and the Ethics of Autism
    philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 7 (2): 305-336. 2017.
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    Deleuze and the Force of Color
    Philosophy Today 54 (Supplement): 177-185. 2010.