…while Bentham and Mill often figure in my undergraduate courses. What does it mean to teach these canonical figures of the Western philosophical tradition to students in India? I have…
Sexing the Caribbean: Gender, Race and Sexual Labour
…local residents and tourists, Kamala Kempadoo offers a vivid account of what life is like in the world of sex tourism as well as its entrenched roots in colonialism and…
Diffusion Models and Fashion: A Reassessment
…Changes in the relationships between fashion organizations and their publics have affected what is diffused, how it is diffused, and to whom. Originally, fashion design was centered in Paris; designers…
When Caring Is Just and Justice is Caring: Justice and Mental Retardation
…advocated for so that they can be seen as having important entitlements to public resources and claims to justice. To this end, Kittay proposes a conception of personhood that is…
Whistleblowing and Professional Responsibility
Abstract: Individuals who would blow the whistle by making public disclosure of impropriety in their own organizations face choices of public v private good. These dilemmas, along with institutional and…
Some group matters: Intersectionality, situated standpoints, and Black feminist thought
…Black emancipation in the United States, so might a collective Black women’s standpoint be seen as essential for Black feminist praxis. Since Black women, like African-Americans overall, are oppressed as…
Enactive Affectivity, Extended
In this paper I advance an enactive view of affectivity that does not imply that affectivity must stop at the boundaries of the organism. I first review the enactive notion…
Humean Heroism: Value Commitments and the Source of Normativity
…in this paper is one according to which desires, or more generally, proattitudes, do constitute values and provide rational justifications of actions when they are organized in the right way….
Gender and Aesthetics: An Introduction
…It is ideal for anyone coming to the topic for the first time. Organized thematically, the book introduces in clear language the most important topics within feminist aesthetics: Why were…
Moral orientation and moral development
…one initially sees it in only one way. Yet even after seeing it in both ways, one way often seems more compelling. This phenomenon reflects the laws of perceptual organization…