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I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism

Posted on January 22, 2022June 26, 2025 by Simon Fokt

I Am Woman represents my personal struggle with womanhood, culture, traditional spiritual beliefs and political sovereignty, written during a time when that struggle was not over. My original intention was…

Tagged colonialism, de-colonizing feminity, healing, liberation, sexual desire, struggle, womanhoodLeave a comment

What’s Normative Got to Do with It?: Toward Indigenous Queer Relationality

Posted on January 22, 2022June 26, 2025 by Simon Fokt

This article considers the queer problem of Indigenous studies that exists in the disjunctures and disconnections that emerge when queer studies, Indigenous studies, and Indigenous feminisms are brought into conversation….

Tagged grounded normativity, grounded relationality, indigeneity, Indigenous feminisms, queer Indigenous studiesLeave a comment

Making Love and Relations Beyond Settler Sexuality

Posted on January 22, 2022June 26, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Lecture as part of the Social Justice Institute Noted Scholars Lecture Series, co-presented by the Ecologies of Social Difference Research Network at the University of British Columbia.

Tagged anti-colonialism, ethical non-monogamy, kinship, natal justice, politics of monogamy, population ethics, sustainabilityLeave a comment

Indigenous Inclusion/Black Exclusion: Race, Ethnicity, and Multicultural Citizenship in Latin America

Posted on June 20, 2022May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…the greater success of indians in winning collective rights to differences in population size, higher levels of indigenous group identity or higher levels of organisation of the indigenous movement, it…

Tagged african diaspora, afro-latinidad, afro-latinx, black aesthetics, collective rights, indigenism, mestizaje, multiculturalismLeave a comment

Moral Psychology and the Unity of the Virtues

Posted on June 2, 2015May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Abstract: The ancient Greeks subscribed to the thesis of the Unity of Virtue, according to which the possession of one virtue is closely related to the possession of all the…

Tagged holism, moral knowledge, moral psychology, virtueLeave a comment

On Epistemology

Posted on March 2, 2016June 26, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…in highly accessible and affordable volumes. These books will prove valuable to philosophy teachers and their students as well as to other readers who share a general interest in philosophy….

Tagged epistemic value, epistemology, Gettier, intellectual virtue, scepticismLeave a comment

On the Value of Acting From the Motive of Duty

Posted on July 20, 2017May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

…what Kant intended in his discussion of those actions he credits with moral worth. […] An action has moral worth if it is required by duty and has as its…

Tagged duty, ethics, good, Kant, motivationLeave a comment

The Philosopher’s Defence of Morality

Posted on November 19, 2019May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Introduction: Philosophers are often asked whether they can provide a defence against hostile theories which are said to be “undermining the foundations of morality,” and they often try to do…

Tagged amoralism, moral judgement, moral relativismLeave a comment

Doing Non-Ideal Theory About Gender in the Global Context

Posted on January 30, 2023May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

This paper elaborates and renders explicit some of the views about political philosophical methodology that underlie the author’s arguments in Decolonizing Universalism: A Transnational Feminist Ethic. It shows how the…

Tagged decolonial feminism, global justice, nonideal theory, oppression, postcolonial feminism, transnational feminismLeave a comment

Multiple realizability revisited: Linking cognitive and neural states

Posted on May 16, 2016May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Abstract: The claim of the multiple realizability of mental states by brain states has been a major feature of the dominant philosophy of mind of the late 20th century. The…

Tagged cognitive, mind, neural, psychology, scienceLeave a comment

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