Recent criticism of feminist philosophy poses a dilemma. Feminism is taken to be a substantive set of empirical claims and political commitments, whereas philosophy is taken to be a discipline…
The enactive naturalization of normativity: from self-maintenance to situated interactions
…understanding of normativity as self-maintenance, autopoietic enactivism defends a continuity between biological, cognitive, and social norms. The self-maintenance of an agent’s sensorimotor identity establishes the cognitive norms that regulate its…
The Body Social: An Enactive Approach to the Self
…with others. I argue that the human self is a social existence that is organized in terms of a back and forth between social distinction and participation processes. On this…
The Declaration of Interdependence! Feminism, Grounding and Enactivism
…that social injustices are justified and sustained through hidden structures which oppress some while privileging others. Some feminists (Haslanger and Sveinsdóttir, Feminist metaphysics. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), Stanford encyclopedia…
Extended Sex: An Account of Sex for a More Just Society
…propose an externalist account of sex, elaborating on extended and distributed approaches to cognition that capitalize on the natural capacity of organisms to couple with environmental resources. We introduce the…
Pregnant Agencies: Movement and Participation in Maternal-Fetal Interactions
…participate in pregnancy. Pregnancy then emerges as a relational developmental organization that anchors and holds its developing participants. We end the paper with reflections on ethical implications of this proposal,…
Enriching the Knowledge of the Other Through an Epistemology of Intercourse
…a distance. Furthermore, this condition presents some rigid boundary between episteme (the knowledge) and doxa (the opinions), between the “self” and the “other,” between reality and appearance, between noumena and…
The Moral Limits of Markets: The Case of Human Kidneys
…some to sell their kidneys can have external effects on those who do not want to do so, constraining the options that are now open to them. I believe that…