Dismantling Kantian Frames: Notes toward a Feminist Politics of Location and Accountability
Kant’s philosophical system is one of those master discourses in the discipline of philosophy (and beyond) – a whole architecture – that everyone, including...
Are They All Stupid and Irrational?
Why do people believe the election was rigged, refuse to wear face masks, suspect vaccines are a government plot, or vote for politicians who...
Ask a Senior Woman Philosopher: Building on Work in the Face of Anonymous Review
I’ve reached this awkward stage of my publishing career where I find myself building on previously published work without being able to expressly say...
The Politics And Metaphysics Of Freedom: Does Oppression Undermine Autonomy?
In Burwell v. Hobby Lobby (2014), the United States Supreme Court considered whether religious corporations could refuse to abide by the contraceptive mandate in...
A Tribute to Karen Warren
When Karen Warren died last year, friends and colleagues agreed that we had lost a compassionate, bold, and radical scholar, an award-winning teacher, and...
G.I. JANE: For Feminists, Language is Half the Battle
Discussions of feminism and its practical social and political goals often take on a military language and framework: feminists say that we need to...
Writing on the Threshold: Philosophy for Girls
Philosophy for Girls: An Invitation to the Life of Thought is an unusual philosophy book. It straddles academic and general audiences, is intended to...
Questions of Belonging: Living and Growing as a Feminist Philosopher
The political struggle then becomes: to find a better way of answering questions, ways of questioning the questions, so that the world that makes...
Bat-Ami Bar On: In Memoriam
Teacher. Mentor. Friend. The fortunate among us would use these words to characterize our relationships with our dissertation directors. Working closely with them over...
Uncovering Deaf Women Philosophers
When I was in graduate school, I started keeping a notebook with all of the references to deaf people and the experience of being...