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18Existence, Freedom, and the FestivalIn Shannon M. Mussett & William S. Wilkerson (eds.), Beauvoir and Western Thought From Plato to Butler, State University of New York Press. pp. 35-54. 2012.In this paper, I argue that Simone de Beauvoir’s discussion of festivals appropriates Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s own account of the festival and its place in understanding freedom. I begin with a brief summary of Rousseau’s conflicting accounts of the festival from his Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Among Mankind and the Letter to M. D’Alembert. The contrast of these two texts reveals Rousseau’s conception of freedom as circumscribed by the community. Although Rousseau has an idealized vi…Read more
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9Trust in SolidarityRivista di Estetica 82 16-29. 2023.This article examines the relationship between trust and solidarity. Juxtaposing trust and solidarity reveals how they are different and how they recursively build on each other. By looking specifically at trust in political solidarity, I argue for an account of trust within solidarity movements for social change, one that suggests avenues for creating and building trust, rather than merely presuming it. Finally, reflecting on the interplay between trust and solidarity, I end with a nod to the t…Read more
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7Solidarity across GenerationsGlobal Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric 14 (1): 28-52. 2024.Transgenerational political solidarity disrupts the dominant framing that identifies conflict between generations-the “problem of generations”-as the driver of social change. Political solidarity across generations offers a way of thinking about social justice movements as contributing elements to global social justice efforts through their work in acknowledging the historical rootedness of structural injustice and their commitment to continually reimagine solidarities. Attending to features of …Read more
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33Political Solidarity and the More-Than-Human WorldEthics and the Environment 18 (2): 81-99. 2013.In Political Solidarity, I argue that political solidarity is a relation between humans against an injustice that is human in origin. I further argue that political solidarity requires a decision-making model that acknowledges differences in social and epistemological privilege while also seeking to understand the situation of oppression or injustice and acknowledging “multiple, overlapping, and at times contradictory knowledge claims.” However, because of unequal commitments to solidaristic aim…Read more
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7The Power of LiteratureIn Laura Hengehold & Nancy Bauer (eds.), A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir, Wiley. 2017.Simone de Beauvoir's Les Mandarins is a moving chronicle of post‐World War II France. It explores the role of the intellectual in movements for social change and questions the power of literature. Les Mandarins is also a vivid example of Beauvoir's conception of the metaphysical novel, evoking the ambiguity of existence and communicating lived experience with the reader. This chapter offers an interpretation of Les Mandarins in light of Beauvoir's thoughts on the metaphysical novel.
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19How to be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for FulfillmentThe Philosophers' Magazine 99 84-86. 2023.
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5The Sexual Abuse Scandal in the ChurchPraxis: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Faith and Justice 4 55-76. 2021.Although blame for systemic sexual abuse in the Catholic church primarily rests with the perpetrators and institutional actors who engaged in cover-up, regular people also failed in their duties, both their secular or civil duties and their moral and religious duties. Using the language of social sin, this article examines responsibility for social sin and the structures of sin that contributed to the abuse of children within the church community. Using the tools of Catholic social teaching—espe…Read more
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12Sexual Violence in Conflict Situations as Structural InjusticeWashington University Review of Philosophy 2 43-61. 2022.Jus post bellum, a relatively new addition to the just war tradition, offers a set of principles to ensure a just peace. The jus post bellum principles establish important guidelines for punitive and transitional justice in the wake of unjust aggression. However, sexual violence during conflict highlights some of the limits of relying solely on a rights-based approach to jus post bellum. Using the jus post bellum principles, I offer some suggestions for what might be required regarding punishmen…Read more
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19Solidarity and the Sexual Abuse Scandal in the ChurchPraxis: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Faith and Justice 2 (2): 126-133. 2019.Solidarity is one of the primary principles of Catholic Social Teaching. Pope Francis invoked it and called for prayer and fasting in his August 20, 2018 letter addressing the sexual abuse scandal and attendant cover-up in the church. Offering some thoughts regarding what the duty of solidarity requires in light of the Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal and subsequent cover-up, this article suggests a number of concrete things that lay Catholics can do in claiming our place as church.
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22Graduate Seminars and the Climate Problem in PhilosophyTeaching Philosophy 46 (1): 41-63. 2023.Designing a successful graduate seminar should account for more than just the content to be conveyed and the completion of the standard seminar paper. This article dissects the seminar structure, revealing some of what is obscured by the “hidden curriculum” of graduate education, with an eye toward transforming the climate in philosophy. I begin with a brief review of literature on graduate teaching and inclusive teaching in philosophy. I then examine four components of a typical graduate semina…Read more
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9AIDD, Autonomy, and Military EthicsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 21 (7): 1-3. 2021.In “Artificial Intelligence, Social Media and Depression,” Laacke and colleagues consider the ethical implications of artificial intelligence depression detector tools to assist pract...
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49The Teaching DemonstrationTeaching Philosophy 43 (3): 331-356. 2020.This article seeks to shine some light on the teaching demonstration from the perspective of observers using three guiding attributes of effective teaching: connection, commitment, and coachability. Discussing what observers are looking for and how observers interpret what is seen, the article presents the basic forms, common myths, and practical wisdom for teaching demonstrations. By reframing the goals of the teaching demonstration, the article demystifies a key part of the campus interview fo…Read more
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29Solidarity as a Human RightProceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 72 135-138. 2018.I argue that the right to solidarity may be understood as the negative right not to be hindered by social vulnerabilities in the exercise of citizen rights. I define social vulnerabilities as those vulnerabilities that result from structures of society. As a negative right, the right to solidarity shifts attention away from what is necessary for basic flourishing, and toward what is social structures that hinder full participation in other civic or political obligations and rights.
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16Moral Implications of the Battered Woman SyndromeThe Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 42 134-139. 1998.The Battered Woman Syndrome, like the Cycle Theory of Violence, helps to illuminate the situation of the person victimized by domestic violence. However, it may also contribute to the violence of the battering situation. In this paper, I explore some of the implications of the Battered Woman Syndrome for domestic violence cases wherein an abused woman kills her abuser. I begin by delineating some of the circumstances of a domestic violence situation. I then discuss the particular moral issue of …Read more
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20Solidarity, Social Risk, and Community EngagementAmerican Journal of Bioethics 20 (5): 75-77. 2020.Volume 20, Issue 5, June 2020, Page 75-77.
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8Revolutionary Hope: Essays in Honor of William L. Mcbride (edited book)Lexington Books. 2013.Over the course of the last four decades, William Leon McBride has distinguished himself as one of the most esteemed and accomplished philosophers of his generation. This volume—which celebrates the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday—includes contributions from colleagues, friends, and formers students and pays tribute to McBride’s considerable achievements as a teacher, mentor, and scholar
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30The Critical Pragmatism of Alain Locke: A Reader on Value Theory, Aesthetics, Community, Culture, Race, and Education (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1999.In its comprehensive overview of Alain Locke's pragmatist philosophy this book captures the radical implications of Locke's approach within pragmatism, the critical temper embedded in Locke's works, the central role of power and empowerment of the oppressed and the concept of broad democracy Locke employed
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49Philosophical Perspectives on Democracy in the 21st Century (edited book)Springer. 2013.Chapter. 1. Philosophical. Perspectives. on. Democracy. in. the. Twenty-First. Century: Introduction. Ann E. Cudd and Sally J. Scholz Abstract Recent global movements, including the Arab Spring, the Occupy Movement, as well as polarizing ...
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22Mara Marin, Connected by Commitment: Oppression and Our Responsibility to Undermine ItEthics 129 (2): 408-412. 2018.
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42Iris Marion Young on responsible intervention: reimagining humanitarian interventionJournal of Global Ethics 13 (1): 70-89. 2017.Iris Marion Young took a strong stance against humanitarian intervention and other so-called legitimate instances of what she calls ‘official violence’. Nevertheless, she was also aware that there may be some situations for which military humanitarian intervention should at least be considered. Young was concerned that some states will use their obligation to defend against human rights violations as a mechanism in securing or maintaining global dominance. In addition, she recognized that what c…Read more
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106Political Solidarity and Violent ResistanceJournal of Social Philosophy 38 (1): 38-52. 2007.This article examines the particular moral obligations of solidarity focusing on the solidary commitment against injustice or oppression. I argue that political solidarity entails three relationships—to other participants in action, to a cause or goal, and to those outside the unity of political solidarity. These relationships inform certain obligations. Activism is one of those obligations and I argue that violent activism is incompatible with the other relations and duties of solidarity. Ac…Read more
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19From Global Justice to Global SolidarityJournal for Peace and Justice Studies 17 (1): 2-8. 2008.
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12Human Rights, Radical Feminism, and Rape in WarSocial Philosophy Today 21 207-224. 2005.This paper looks at some prominent discussions of rape in war as a violation of human rights within Radical Feminism. I begin with a brief overview of United Nations declarations and actions on the subject of rape in war. I then look at some radical feminist accounts of rape in war as a violation of human rights with particular emphasis on the discussions of Susan Brownmiller and Catharine MacKinnon. I conclude the paper with a critical analysis of these radical feminist accounts and show how ou…Read more
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The Legitimating Function of the Dichotomy of the Public and the Private in Systemic OppressionDissertation, Purdue University. 1993.In this dissertation I argue that the dichotomy of the public and the private legitimates the marginalization and/or exclusion of individuals identified as members of oppressed social groups from active participation in the public sphere. I begin by delineating the conditions of systemic oppression and the role of the dichotomy of the public and the private in that particular form of oppression. Next, I critique a traditional usage of the dichotomy based on the systemic exclusion of women in the…Read more
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20The Public/Private Dichotomy in Systemic OppressionJournal for Peace and Justice Studies 6 (1): 1-14. 1995.
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27Resurrecting Language through Social CriticismSocial Philosophy Today 17 203-216. 2001.Social criticism can take on many forms ranging from theoretical exposition to non-violent protests. This paper considers literary art as a form of social criticism and uses Morrison's novel Paradise as the exemplary case to show that the confrontation of unjust ideas through social criticism is essential in building non-oppressive relations open to diversity. In this sense, social criticism is a paradigm of communication that, although often entailing conflict, ultimately aims at reconciliation…Read more
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Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |