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Philosophy Faculty Research
This collection contains some of the work undertaken by faculty in the Department of Philosophy.
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Recent Submissions
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Russell, Camisha
(Philosophy Today, 2020)
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Russell, Camisha
(Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 2021)
In this essay, I argue that bioethicists have a thus-far unfulfilled role to play in helping life scientists, including medical doctors and researchers, think about race. I begin with descriptions of how life scientists ...
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Russell, Camisha
(Journal of Pan African Studies, 2014)
With The Equality of Human Races , Haitian intellectual Anténor Firmin offered the world its first sustained, philosophical, book-length response to scientific European racism. With the publication of the English translation ...
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Russell, Camisha
(Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 2015)
This paper explores the limitations of epistemic scientism for understanding the role the concept of race plays in assisted reproductive technology (ART) practices. Two major limitations center around the desire to use ...
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Russell, Camisha
(Journal for Peace and Justice Studies, 2009)
In this essay I argue for the role of positive, community-based black identities (in the plural) in the creation and maintenance of black solidarity. I argue against Tommie Shelby’s attempts to reduce the notion of black ...
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Russell, Camisha
(Philosophy Compass, 2016)
Philosophers working in bioethics often hope to identify abstract principles and universal values to guide professional practice, relying on ideals of objectivity and impartiality, and on the power of rational (individual, ...
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Russell, Camisha
(Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online, 2018)
A thriving North American industry has emerged designed to help gay men become biological parents through surrogacy and egg donation. Taking as given that gay men have the same ethical right to pursue such reproductive ...
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Russell, Camisha
(Hypatia, 2019)
This essay is a response to the events surrounding Hypatia's publication of “In Defense of Transracialism.” It does not take up the question of “transracialism” itself, but rather attempts to shed light both on what some ...
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Unknown author (Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online, 2021)
The most recent Black Lives Matter moment provides an important opportunity for consideration of the interlocking social and political systems that contribute to ongoing racism and racial inequality. What does this mean ...
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Russell, Camisha
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2021)
In this article, I begin by describing what I call this Black Lives Matter moment in the US. I then offer three reasons for considering racism as a bioethical issue, the least discussed of which is the way in which racism ...
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Zack, Naomi, 1944-
(Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS), 2006-04)
Philosophers have traditionally written from the perspective of ordinary people and they are as vulnerable to fear as other members of the public. Academic philosophers can contribute to the multi-disciplinary field of ...
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Toadvine, Ted, 1968-
(Trivium Publications, 2004)
To what extent can meaning be attributed to nature, and what is the relationship between such “natural sense”and the meaning of linguistic and artistic expressions? To shed light on such questions, this essay lays the ...
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Zack, Naomi, 1944-
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002)
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Mann, Bonnie
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003)
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Mann, Bonnie
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002)
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Johnson, Mark, 1949-
(MIT Press, 1996)
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Zack, Naomi, 1944-
(2005-12)
Race and gender are not ontologically or epistemologically symmetrical. Ontologies of
human races are more recent historical ideas than male-female taxonomies of gender, although ontologies of gender that include intersexuals, ...
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Johnson, Mark, 1949-
(Brooklyn [Brooklyn Law School], 2002)
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Zack, Naomi, 1944-
(Temple University Press, 1993)
In the first philosophical challenge to accepted racial classifications in the United States, Naomi Zack uses philosophical methods to criticize their logic. Tracing social and historical problems related to racial identity, ...
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Pratt, Scott L.
(Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 1998-06)
In an environment characterized by the emergence of new and diverse (and often opposed) philosophical efforts, there is a need for a conception of philosophy that will promote the exchange and critical consideration of ...
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