Action
in Philosophy
Published online May 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. 6260 words.
The philosophy of action shares with its topic a certain uncertainty of location. Is action located inside the mind or outside the mind—or does it in some way belong to both domains...
Active Ignorance, Epistemic Others, and Epistemic Friction
in The Epistemology of Resistance
February 2013; published online January 2013.
Chapter. Subjects: feminist philosophy. 14140 words.
Focusing on racial and sexual oppression and their interrelation, chapter 1 provides an analysis of active ignorance and of three epistemic vices that support it: epistemic arrogance, laziness, and...
Adaptive Preferences and Agency: The Selective Effects of Adaptive Preference
in Adaptive Preferences and Women's Empowerment
September 2011; published online January 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: feminist philosophy. 13371 words.
The deliberative perfectionist approach says that the existing values of people with adaptive preferences should shape development interventions. It will be difficult to endorse it if we believe that...
Adaptive Preferences and Choice: Are Adaptive Preferences Autonomy Deficits?*
in Adaptive Preferences and Women's Empowerment
September 2011; published online January 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: feminist philosophy. 14520 words.
This chapter contains the central arguments against conceiving adaptive preferences as autonomy deficits. Attempts to define adaptive preferences as procedural autonomy deficits—despite their...
Adaptive Preferences and Women's Empowerment
September 2011; published online January 2012.
Book. Subjects: feminist philosophy. 264 pages.
Women and other oppressed and deprived people sometimes collude with the forces that perpetuate injustice against them. Women’s acceptance of their lesser claim on household resources like food,...
Aesthetic Surgery, Aesthetic Ethics
in Self-Transformations
October 2007; published online September 2007.
Chapter. Subjects: feminist philosophy. 12146 words.
This chapter shows how cosmetic surgery has evolved to becoming regarded as part of the “normal” process in the quest for identity transformation, arguing that an inner self is externalized so that...
Afterword
in Unpopular Privacy
November 2011; published online January 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: feminist philosophy. 1299 words.
This book argues that we have things we should hide. The book of Matthew from the Christian Bible, exhorts us to hide our goodness‐‐hide our charity, our prayerfulness and our piety. But why? Where...
The Amoralist
in The Moral Skeptic
March 2009; published online May 2009.
Chapter. Subjects: feminist philosophy. 17437 words.
This chapter examines and rejects several internalist arguments defending the view that we need not address the skeptic who believes that amoralism is a tenable position for the reason that the...
An Egalitarian Overview
in Bioethics and Women
December 2006; published online September 2006.
Chapter. Subjects: feminist philosophy. 10841 words.
After critiquing principle-based and case-based approaches to bioethics, this chapter develops and defends a conception of gender justice, as central to analyses of issues in women’s health care....
“An Eye for an Eye”: The Question of Revenge
in Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity
November 2012; published online January 2013.
Chapter. Subjects: feminist philosophy. 14807 words.
This chapter engages with an essay that Beauvoir wrote in 1946, at time of the trial and execution of Robert Brasillach, a French intellectual who had collaborated with the Nazis. Beauvoir’s...