Published Work
Est-ce que vous compute? Code-switching, Cultural Identity, and AI (co-authored with Travis LaCroix)
Feminist Philosophical Quarterly (Forthcoming).
Special Issue: Feminism, Social Justice, and AI
Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2022).
Hypatia (2022).
Analysis (2021).
Analytic Philosophy (2021).
Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review/Revue canadienne de philosophie (2017).
Winner of the 2017 Canadian Philosophical Association Graduate Essay Prize
Review
Spitting Out the Kool-Aid: A Review of Kate Manne’s Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective (2018).
Public Philosophy
Fitting in is human: forcing someone to fit in is oppression
Aeon+Psyche Magazine (2021).
As Editor (with Heather Stewart)
Outsiders Within: Reflections on Being a Low-Income and/or First-Generation Philosopher
Special Issue: APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy (Spring 2021).
Works in Progress (email me for drafts)
Est-ce que vous compute? Code-switching, Cultural Identity, and AI (co-authored with Travis LaCroix)
Feminist Philosophical Quarterly (Forthcoming).
Special Issue: Feminism, Social Justice, and AI
- Building upon Dotson's (2014) analysis of testimonial smothering, we discuss and analyze how emerging technologies in AI can reinforce and give rise to epistemic oppression, and specifically, a form of self-silencing that we call 'cultural smothering'.
Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2022).
- Develops a more expansive framework for inquiry on which the aim of inquiry is epistemic improvement, broadly construed.
Hypatia (2022).
- Argues that hermeneutical injustice doesn't necessarily involve conceptual gaps, and proposes a broader analysis which better respects the dynamic relationship between hermeneutical resources and social and political contexts in which they are implemented.
Analysis (2021).
- Responds to a puzzle proposed by Millson (2020). Argues for the possibility of rationally inquiring into a question, Q, while knowing the answer to Q. This suggests that inquiry aims at epistemic improvement, and also that the inquiring attitudes can take interrogative and propositional forms.
Analytic Philosophy (2021).
- Against a key assumption of many pragmatic accounts (especially, Bolinger 2017, and Nunberg 2018), this paper argues that a speaker's choice to use a slur instead of a neutral counterpart plays no role in accounting for why slurs are offensive.
Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review/Revue canadienne de philosophie (2017).
Winner of the 2017 Canadian Philosophical Association Graduate Essay Prize
- Defends the view that lying can be morally objectionable in diverse ways, and argues for dialectical shift towards a pluralist approach to the wrongfulness of lying.
Review
Spitting Out the Kool-Aid: A Review of Kate Manne’s Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective (2018).
Public Philosophy
Fitting in is human: forcing someone to fit in is oppression
Aeon+Psyche Magazine (2021).
As Editor (with Heather Stewart)
Outsiders Within: Reflections on Being a Low-Income and/or First-Generation Philosopher
Special Issue: APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy (Spring 2021).
Works in Progress (email me for drafts)
- A paper on inquiry and epistemic oppression.
- A paper on inquiry's relationship to normative epistemology.
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