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30From ‘Intersex’ to ‘DSD’: a case of epistemic injusticeSynthese 196 (11): 4429-4447. 2019.The 2005 International Consensus Conference on Intersex resulted in a substantive revision of the lexicon and guidelines for treating intersex conditions. The speed with which the new treatment protocol has been adopted by healthcare practitioners and providers is considered unprecedented. However, a number of intersex people and advocacy groups have complained that the recommended revisions are inadequately informed by the testimony of intersex people. In this paper, I argue that such complaint…Read more
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Frege's Distinction Between Concepts and Objects: A Descendant of Kant's Distinction Between Concepts and IntuitionsDissertation, University of California, Irvine. 2004.Gottlob Frege is a significant figure in the philosophy of mathematics and logic insofar as he is the founder of modern symbolic logic and the articulator of the key distinctions and problems that have come to define much of contemporary analytic philosophy. Frege's concept-object distinction plays a major role in underwriting his thesis that numbers must be objects of a particular kind. Fregean numbers are generally interpreted as archetypal abstract objects, demanding some explanation as to ho…Read more
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661What Frege Meant When He Said: Kant is Right about GeometryPhilosophia Mathematica 14 (1): 44-75. 2006.This paper argues that Frege's notoriously long commitment to Kant's thesis that Euclidean geometry is synthetic _a priori_ is best explained by realizing that Frege uses ‘intuition’ in two senses. Frege sometimes adopts the usage presented in Hermann Helmholtz's sign theory of perception. However, when using ‘intuition’ to denote the source of geometric knowledge, he is appealing to Hermann Cohen's use of Kantian terminology. We will see that Cohen reinterpreted Kantian notions, stripping them …Read more
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Chapter Fifteen Naturalism: A Crude Instrument in the Search for a Beloved? By Teri MerrickIn Thomas Jay Oord (ed.), The Many Facets of Love: Philosophical Explorations, Cambridge Scholars Press. pp. 131. 2007.Generally speaking, naturalism is the view that the methods of empirical science are our best, perhaps only, methods for obtaining knowledge. Merrick reshapes this debate by introducing a new question: Is naturalism compatible with fostering appreciative love for the created order? She argues the naturalism's operating paradigm for evaluating explanations is well-tailored to achieve the goal of scientific inquiry championed by Francis Bacon in the 17th century. But it systematically weeds out e…Read more
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744From ‘Intersex’ to ‘DSD’: a case of epistemic injusticeSynthese 1-19. 2017.The 2005 International Consensus Conference on Intersex resulted in a substantive revision of the lexicon and guidelines for treating intersex conditions. The speed with which the new treatment protocol has been adopted by healthcare practitioners and providers is considered unprecedented. However, a number of intersex people and advocacy groups have complained that the recommended revisions are inadequately informed by the testimony of intersex people. In this paper, I argue that such complaint…Read more
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