The Argument for Gender Essentialism
in The Metaphysics of Gender
October 2011; published online January 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: feminist philosophy. 11005 words.
This chapter argues that gender is the principle of normative unity for social individuals. First, it explains further what a principle of normative unity is and why social individuals might need...
Arguments for the Existence of God
in Philosophy
Published online May 2012.
Article. Subjects: philosophy; aesthetics and philosophy of art; epistemology; feminist philosophy; history of Western philosophy; metaphysics; moral philosophy; non-Western philosophy; philosophy of language; philosophy of law; philosophy of mathematics and logic; philosophy of mind; philosophy of religion; philosophy of science; social and political philosophy. 10782 words.
Philosophical discussion of arguments for the existence of God appeared to have become extinct during the heyday of logical positivism and ordinary language philosophy. However, since...
Assertion
in Philosophy
Published online June 2011.
Article. Subjects: philosophy; aesthetics and philosophy of art; epistemology; feminist philosophy; history of Western philosophy; metaphysics; moral philosophy; non-Western philosophy; philosophy of language; philosophy of law; philosophy of mathematics and logic; philosophy of mind; philosophy of religion; philosophy of science; social and political philosophy. 4631 words.
Assertion is one of the central kinds of speech act, typically carried out by the utterance of a declarative sentence, such as the very sentences you are reading now. It might be defined...
Atheism
in Philosophy
Published online May 2010.
Article. Subjects: philosophy; aesthetics and philosophy of art; epistemology; feminist philosophy; history of Western philosophy; metaphysics; moral philosophy; non-Western philosophy; philosophy of language; philosophy of law; philosophy of mathematics and logic; philosophy of mind; philosophy of religion; philosophy of science; social and political philosophy. 7301 words.
The term “atheist” describes a person who does not believe that God or a divine being exists. The sort of divine being that has received the most attention in atheological arguments has...
AUTHORITY AND TRANSPARENCY
in Moral Understandings
January 2008; published online September 2007.
Chapter. Subjects: feminist philosophy. 11124 words.
In an age of moral skepticism, moral philosophers are often casual about their own positions to represent moral life in societies segmented by gender, race, class, and other differences. Drawing on...
Autonomy and Its Discontents
in Autonomy, Gender, Politics
February 2003; published online February 2006.
Chapter. Subjects: feminist philosophy. 12814 words.
Feminists, communitarians, and other social theorists have raised numerous challenges to the very possibility of the ideal of personal autonomy and its alleged value. This chapter offers a negative...
Autonomy and Social Relationships: Rethinking the Feminist Critique
in Autonomy, Gender, Politics
February 2003; published online February 2006.
Chapter. Subjects: feminist philosophy. 8099 words.
This chapter surveys prominent feminist writings that call for a relational conception of autonomy and that criticize the philosophical mainstream for lacking such an account. It shows that prominent...
Autonomy, Gender, Politics
February 2003; published online February 2006.
Book. Subjects: feminist philosophy. 0 pages.
Women have historically been prevented from living autonomously by systematic injustice, subordination, and oppression. The lingering effects of these practices have prompted many feminists to view...
Autonomy in Relation
in Out from the Shadows
March 2012; published online May 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: feminist philosophy. 9868 words.
This essay identifies a connection between the capacities required for individual autonomy and the capacities required for a particular form of shared agency. Like other feminist philosophers, I hold...
Autonomy, Social Disruption, and Women
in Autonomy, Gender, Politics
February 2003; published online February 2006.
Chapter. Subjects: feminist philosophy. 7024 words.
This chapter develops a point made in preceding chapters that autonomy, although socially grounded, has an individualizing dimension — a dimension that is defend against the worries of critics. The...