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Transforming the inner circle: Dorothy Smith’s challenge to sociological theory

Posted on January 20, 2020May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Abstract: “Women have been largely excluded from the work of producing the forms of thought and the images and symbols in which thought is expressed and ordered,” suggests sociologist Dorothy…

Posted in Epistemology, Feminist Epistemology, Feminist Philosophy of Religion, General Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics & Epistemology, Philosophy of Gender Race and Sexuality, Philosophy of Social Science, Philosophy of Sociology, Science Logic & Mathematics, Social Epistemology, Sociology of Science, Value TheoryTagged Dorothy Smith, feminisim, sociologyLeave a comment

The study of women in antiquity: Past, present, and future

Posted on January 20, 2020May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Abstract: The publication of Arethusa 6 in 1973 inaugurated the serious study of women in antiquity in our time. Classics was one of many disciplines to begin developing a subfield…

Posted in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy, Feminist History of Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, History of Western Philosophy, Philosophy of Gender Race and Sexuality, Value TheoryTagged history of women philosophers, women in antiquityLeave a comment

Uses of value judgments in science: A general argument, with lessons from a case study of feminist research on divorce

Posted on March 6, 2021May 13, 2025 by Simon Fokt

Abstract: The underdetermination argument establishes that scientists may use political values to guide inquiry, without providing criteria for distinguishing legitimate from illegitimate guidance. This paper supplies such criteria. Analysis of…

Posted in Feminist Philosophy of Science, General Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Social Science General Works, Philosophy of Sociology, Science and Values, Science Logic & Mathematics, Topics in Philosophy of Social ScienceTagged bias, divorce, valueLeave a comment

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…

Posted in Indigenous Feminism, Indigenous Philosophy of the Americas, Philosophical Traditions, Philosophy of Gender, Philosophy of Gender Race and Sexuality, Philosophy of Sexuality, Philosophy of the Americas, SexualityTagged 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….

Posted in Indigenous Philosophy of the Americas, Philosophical Traditions, Philosophy of Gender, Philosophy of Gender Race and Sexuality, Philosophy of Sexuality, Philosophy of the Americas, Queer Theory, SexualityTagged 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.

Posted in Colonialism and Postcolonialism, Indigenous Philosophy of the Americas, Philosophical Traditions, Philosophy of Gender, Philosophy of Gender Race and Sexuality, Philosophy of Sexuality, Philosophy of the Americas, SexualityTagged 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

This article analyses the causes of the disparity in collective rights gained by indigenous and Afro-Latin groups in recent rounds of multicultural citizenship reform in Latin America. Instead of attributing…

Posted in Aesthetics and Race, Group Rights, Indigenous Philosophy of the Americas, Latin American Philosophy of Race and Ethnicity, Multiculturalism, Philosophy of Gender Race and Sexuality, Philosophy of Race, Rights, Social and Political Philosophy, Value TheoryTagged 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…

Posted in Ethics and Cognitive Science, Moral Character, Moral Psychology, Normative Ethics, Value TheoryTagged 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….

Posted in Epistemic Value, Epistemic Virtue, Epistemology, Ethics of Belief, Metaphysics & EpistemologyTagged 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…

Posted in Metaethics, Moral Motivation, Moral Worth, Normative Ethics, The Good Will and Moral Worth, Value TheoryTagged duty, ethics, good, Kant, motivationLeave a comment

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