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15The Problem with the Problems of Philosophy : Challenging European ModernityIn Synne Myrebøe, Valgerður Pálmadóttir & Johanna Sjöstedt (eds.), Feminist Philosophy: Time, History and the Transformation of Thought, Södertörn University. pp. 67-80. 2023.The Problem with the Problems of Philosophy : Challenging European Modernity.
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83Letters to the EditorProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 65 (7). 1992.
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27Engenderings: Constructions of Knowledge, Authority and PrivilegePhilosophical Review 104 (3): 460. 1995.
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18The case for rage: Why anger is essential to anti‐racist struggle. By Myisha Cherry. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2021, 203pp. £14.99/$19.95, ISBN 978‐0‐19‐755734‐1 (review)European Journal of Philosophy 31 (2): 524-527. 2023.European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
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13Disrupting Demands: Messy Challenges to Analytic MethodologyJournal of Social Philosophy 53 (4): 473-493. 2020.Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
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13Disrupting Demands: Messy Challenges to Analytic MethodologyJournal of Social Philosophy 53 (4): 473-493. 2020.Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
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45Empowering canaries: Sustainability, vulnerability, and the ethics of epistemologyInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 7 (1): 169. 2014.Research ethics has typically been shaped by a conception of science as intrinsically ethics-free. I argue, instead, for a conception of research ethics grounded in an ethics of epistemology, specifically for a norm of epistemic sustainability: research methods and practices that cultivate, rather than undermine, the ground on which especially less privileged others can successfully pursue knowledge, meeting their epistemic needs as they define them. I further argue that objects of knowledge are…Read more
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39Disrupting Demands: Messy Challenges to Analytic MethodologyJournal of Social Philosophy 53 (4): 473-493. 2020.Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
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4Engenderings: Constructions of Knowledge, Authority, and PrivilegeRoutledge. 1993.Naomi Scheman argues that the concerns of philosophy emerge not from the universal human condition but from conditions of privilege. Her books represent a powerful challenge to the notion that gender makes no difference in the construction of philosophical reasoning. At the same time, it criticizes the narrow focus of most feminist theorizing and calls for a more inclusive form of inquiry.
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657Anger and the Politics of NamingIn N. Furman, R. Borker & S. McConnell-Ginet (eds.), Women & Language in Literature & Society, Praeger. pp. 22-35. 1980.
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15Shifting Ground: Knowledge and Reality, Transgression and TrustworthinessOxford University Press. 2011.This book joins epistemic and socio-political issues, using Wittgenstein and diverse liberatory theories to reorient epistemology as an explicitly political endeavor, with trustworthiness at its heart. Each essay was an attempt to grasp a particular set of problems, and they appear together as a model of passionate philosophical engagement.
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50Interpreting the Personal: Expression and the Formation of FeelingsPhilosophical Review 109 (1): 118. 2000.One of Adrian Piper’s “reactive guerrilla performances” dealing with issues of race and racism was a calling card that she handed out to individuals who made racist remarks that they would not have made if they had taken themselves to be in the presence of a person of color. The card reads.
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32Missing Mothers/Desiring Daughters: Framing the Sight of WomenCritical Inquiry 15 (1): 62-89. 1988.Connecting the issues of the female gaze and of the female narrative is the issue of desire. As [Stanley] Cavell repeatedly stresses, a central theme of these films is the heroine’s acknowledgment of her desire of its true object—frequently the man from whom she mistakenly thought she needed to be divorced. The heroine’s acknowledgment of her desire, and of herself as a subject of desire, is for Cavell what principally makes a marriage of equality achievable. It is in this achievement that Cavel…Read more
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Feeling our way toward moral objectivityIn L. May, Michael Friedman & A. Clark (eds.), Mind and Morals: Essays on Ethics and Cognitive Science, Mit Press. 1996.
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25Queering the center by centering the queer: Reflections on transsexuals and secular JewsIn Diana T. Meyers (ed.), Feminists Rethink the Self, Westview Press. pp. 124--62. 1997.
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28Jewish Lesbian Writing: A Review EssayHypatia 7 (4). 1992.Recent writing by Jewish lesbians is characterized by challenging and evocative reflection on themes of home and identity, family and choice, tradition and transformation. This essay is a personal journey through some of this writing. An exploration of the obvious and troubling tensions between lesbian or feminist and Jewish identities leads to the paradoxical but ultimately unsurprising suggestion that lesbian identity and eroticism can provide a route of return to and affirmation of Jewish ide…Read more
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46Feminist Interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein (edited book)Pennsylvania State University Press. 2002.The original essays in this volume, while written from diverse perspectives, share the common aim of building a constructive dialogue between two currents in philosophy that seem not readily allied: Wittgenstein, who urges us to bring our words back home to their ordinary uses, recognizing that it is our agreements in judgments and forms of life that ground intelligibility; and feminist theory, whose task is to articulate a radical critique of what we say, to disrupt precisely those taken-for-gr…Read more
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81Reply to Louise AntonyHypatia 11 (3). 1996.In her discussion of Naomi Scheman's "Individualism and the Objects of Psychology" Louise Antony misses the import of an unpublished paper of Scheman's that she cites. That paper argues against token identity theories on the grounds that only the sort of psycho-physical parallelisms that token identity theorists, such as Davidson and Fodor, reject could license the claim that each mental state or event is some particular physical state or event
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56Narrative, complexity, and context: Autonomy as an epistemic valueIn Hilde Lindemann, Marian Verkerk & Margaret Urban Walker (eds.), Naturalized Bioethics: Toward Responsible Knowing and Practice, Cambridge University Press. 2008.Those masterful images because complete Grew in pure mind, but out of what began? A mound of refuse or the sweepings of a street, Old kettles, old bottles, and a broken can, Old iron, old bones, old rags, that raving slut Who keeps the till. Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all the ladders start In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.
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2Feminist Skepticism and the Maleness of Philosophy in Eighty-Fifth Annual Meeting American Philosophical Association, Eastern DivisionJournal of Philosophy 85 (11): 619-631. 1988.
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37This book joins epistemic and socio-political issues, using Wittgenstein and diverse liberatory theories to reorient epistemology as an explicitly political endeavor, with trustworthiness at its heart. Each essay was an attempt to grasp a particular set of problems, and they appear together as a model of passionate philosophical engagement.
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9Literary Knowledge: Humanistic Inquiry and the Philosophy of SciencePhilosophical Review 100 (4): 665. 1991.Paisley Livingston here addresses contemporary controversies over the role of "theory" within the humanistic disciplines. In the process, he suggests ways in which significant modern texts in the philosophy of science relate to the study of literature. Livingston first surveys prevalent views of theory, and then proposes an alternative: theory, an indispensable element in the study of literature, should be understood as a Cogently argued and informed in its judgments, this book points the way to…Read more
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133Feminism in philosophy of mind: Against physicalismIn Miranda Fricker & Jennifer Hornsby (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 49--67. 2000.
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20Symposium: Feminist epistemology: “Feminist epistemology”: Reply to AntonyMetaphilosophy 26 (3): 199-200. 1995.
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Non-negotiable demands: Metaphysics, politics, and the discourse of needsIn Juliet Floyd & Sanford Shieh (eds.), Future Pasts: The Analytic Tradition in Twentieth-Century Philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2001.
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