2018 Reading list

June 20: Metaphysics
Quayshawn Spencer, "Racial Realism II: Are Folk Races Real?"
Elizabeth Barnes, "Going Beyond the Fundamental: Feminism in Contemporary Metaphysics"
Mari Mikkola, "Doing Ontology and Doing Justice: What Feminist Philosophy Can Teach Us About Meta-metaphysics"

July 3: Epistemology
Charles Mills, "White Ignorance" (in Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance)
Alexis Shotwell, Chapter 2 from Knowing Otherwise
Penny Weiss, "The Politics of Ignorance: Christine de Pizan"

July 18: Epistemology II
Patricia Hill Collins, "Toward an Afrocentric Feminist Epistemology"
Patricia Hill Collins, "Mammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images"
Jennifer Lackey, "Knowing From Testimony"

August 1: Social Justice
Kyle Whyte "Food Sovereignty, Justice, and Indigenous Peoples"
Samantha Brennan, "Reconciling Feminist Ethics and Politics on the Issue of Rights"
Iris Marion Young, "Activist Challenges to Deliberative Democracy"
Alexis Shotwell, Chapter 4 from Against Purity

August 15: Assorted Ethics
Stramondo and Campbell, "The Complicated Relationship of Disability and Well-Being"
Virginia Held, "Feminist Transformations of Moral Theory"
Ryan Preston-Roedder, "A Better World"

2017 Reading List

June 6: Disability, etc. 
Shelley Tremain, “On the government of disability”
Elizabeth Barnes, “Disability, Minority, and Difference”
Deaf Bioethics: A Case Study (at http://deafbioethics.weebly.com/)
Carol Adams, Chapter 1, The Sexual Politics of Meat
 
June 20: Solidarity I
Rachel McKinnon, “Allies Behaving Badly: Gaslighting as Epistemic Injustice”
Rachel McKinnon, “Stereotype Threat and Attributional Ambiguity for Trans Women”
Linda Alcoff, “The Problem of Speaking for Others”
 
July 5: Queer philosophy
C. Riley Snorton, "On the Question of Who's Out in Hip Hop"
Sara Ahmed, Chapter 2, Queer Phenomenology 
Rachel McKinnon, “Trans*formative Experiences”

July 18: Mental Illness, etc.
Ian James Kidd and Havi Carel, "Epistemic Injustice and Illness"
Gail Weiss, "The Abject Borders of the Body Image"
Ashley Taylor, "The Discourse of Pathology: Reproducing the Able Mind through Bodies of Color"
Alisa Bierria, "Missing in Action: Violence, Power, and Discerning Agency"

August 1: Solidarity II
Selections from The Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report
Bonita Lawrence, "Gender, Race, and the Regulation of Native Identity in Canada and the United States: An Overview"
Maria Lugones, “Playfulness, ‘World’-Travelling, and Loving Perception”

Past Readings (sorted by topic)

20TH CENTURY CONTINENTAL

1. HANNAH ARENDT, “THINKING AND MORAL CONSIDERATIONS” IN SOCIAL RESEARCH 38.3 (1971): 417-446.
2. EXCERPTS FROM FRANTZ FANON’S BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASKS.
3. IRIS MARION YOUNG, “THROWING LIKE A GIRL: A PHENOMENOLOGY OF FEMININE BODILY ​COMPORTMENT MOTILITY AND SPATIALITY” IN HUMAN STUDIES 3.2 (1980): 137-156.

​BIOETHICS

1. ELIZABETH ANDERSON, “ANIMAL RIGHTS AND THE VALUES OF NON-HUMAN LIFE” IN ANIMAL RIGHTS: CURRENT DEBATES AND NEW DIRECTIONS, ED. CASS R. SUNSTEIN AND MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM (OXFORD: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2004), 277-298.
2. MELISSA SEYMOUR FAHMY, “ON THE SUPPOSED MORAL HARM OF SELECTING FOR DEAFNESS” IN BIOETHICS 25.3 (2011): 128-36.
3. DOROTHY ROBERTS “DEBATING THE CAUSE OF HEALTH DISPARITIES” IN CAMBRIDGE QUARTERLY OF HEALTHCARE ETHICS 21.3 (2012): 332-41.

​EPISTEMOLOGY

1. LINDA MARTIN ALCOFF, "SOTOMAYOR'S REASONING" 
2. VRINDA DALMIYA, “WHY SHOULD A KNOWER CARE?” IN HYPATIA 17.1 (2002): 34-52.
3. KRISTIE DOTSON, "TRACKING EPISTEMIC VIOLENCE, TRACKING PRACTICES OF SILENCING"
4. MIRANDA FRICKER, EPISTEMIC INJUSTICE, CHAPTER ONE
5. OTTO MADURO, INTRODUCTION TO MAPS FOR A FIESTA
6. BARBARA MONTERO, "A DANCER REFLECTS"
7. NISHI SHAH, “HOW TRUTH GOVERNS BELIEF” IN PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW 112.4 (2003): 447-482.
8. SELECTIONS FROM LINDA ZAGZEBSKI’S ON EPISTEMOLOGY.

ETHICS

1. SARA AHMED, "KILLING JOY: FEMINISM AND THE HISTORY OF HAPPINESS"
2. ANITA ALLEN "MENTAL DISORDERS AND THE 'SYSTEM OF JUDGMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY'" 
3. BERNARD BOXILL, "SELF RESPECT AND PROTEST"
4. CHESIRE CALHOUN, "STANDING FOR SOMETHING"
5. ​CAROL GILLIGAN "MORAL ORIENTATION AND MORAL DEVELOPMENT"
6. RAE LANGTON, "DUTY AND DESOLATION"
7. MARTHA NUSSBAUM "PLATO ON COMMENSURABILITY AND DESIRE"​​

​​HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY, EARLY MODERN PERIOD

1. CATHERINE TROTTER COCKBURN’S ‘A DEFENSE OF MR. LOCKE’S ESSAY OF HUMAN UNDERSTANDING.’ 
2. CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN DESCARTES AND PRINCESS ELIZABETH
3. ALICE SOWAAL, "MARY ASTELL’S SERIOUS PROPOSAL: MIND, METHOD, AND CUSTOM"

​METAPHYSICS

1. PATRICIA CHURCHLAND "THE IMPACT OF NEUROSCIENCE ON PHILOSOPHY"
2. ANNE FAUSTO-STERLING, “HOW TO BUILD A MAN”
3. ​CHARLES MILLS, “BUT WHAT ARE YOU REALLY? THE METAPHYSICS OF RACE"
4. ADINA ROSKIES "NEUROSCIENTIFIC CHALLENGES TO FREE WILL AND RESPONSIBILITY"
5. SUSAN WOLF: "ASYMMETRICAL FREEDOM" ​​

​PERSONAL IDENTITY AND THE SELF​​

1. SUSAN BRISON, "OUTLIVING ONESELF"
2. JOSE MEDINA, "IDENTITY TROUBLE"
3. MARINA OSHANA, "BEING ONESELF"
4. DEAN SPADE, "MUTILATING GENDER"

​PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE

1. SARAH JANE LESLIE, “CARVING UP THE SOCIAL WORLD WITH GENERICS” IN OXFORD STUDIES IN EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY, VOLUME I, ED. JOSHUA KNOBE, TANIA LOMBROZO, AND SHAUN NICHOLS (OXFORD: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2014), 208-232.
2. ISHANI MAITRA, “SILENCING SPEECH” IN CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY 39.2 (2009): 309-338.
3. GILLIAN RUSSELL, “THE ANALYTIC/SYNTHETIC DISTINCTION” IN PHILOSOPHY COMPASS 5.2 (2007): 712-729.

​SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY​

1. ANITA ALLEN "ATMOSPHERICS: ABORTION LAW AND PHILOSOPHY"
2. H.E. BABER, "ADAPTIVE PREFERENCE" 
3. ​SEYLA BENHABIB, “THE LEGITIMACY OF HUMAN RIGHTS” IN DAEDALUS 137.3 (2008): 94-104.
4. SUSAN BORDO "ANOREXIA NERVOSA: PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AS THE CRYSTALLIZATION OF CULTURE"
5. JOHN D'EMILIO "CAPITALISM AND GAY IDENTITY" 
6. MARILYN FRYE, "OPPRESSION"
7. ERIN KELLY AND LIONEL MCPHERSON, "ON TOLERATING THE UNREASONABLE"
8. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., "THE SWORD THAT HEALS​"
9. SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS, “THE SEVEN LOOSE PIECES OF THE GLOBAL JIGSAW PUZZLE” IN ¡YA BASTA!: TEN YEARS OF THE ZAPATISTA UPRISING – WRITINGS OF SUCOMANDANTE INSURGENTE MARCOS (OAKLAND, AK PRESS, 2004), 257-278.
10. ​JENNIFER MORTON, "CULTURAL CODE-SWITCHING: STRADDLING THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP"
11. JOSE-ANTONIO OROSCO, "W.E.B. DU BOIS AND THE MORAL DIMENSIONS OF US AMERICAN DEMOCRACY"
12. SELECTIONS FROM CAROLE PATEMAN'S THE SEXUAL CONTRACT
13. KOK-CHOR TAN, "THE NEED FOR COSMOPOLITAN JUSTICE"
14. “THE BURDENS OF POLITICAL RESISTANCE” FROM LISA TESSMAN’S BURDENED VIRTUES: VIRTUE ETHICS FOR LIBERATORY STRUGGLES (OXFORD: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2005).​
15. IRIS MARION YOUNG, "FIVE FACES OF OPPRESSION" ​​