Research Interests
My research interests include feminist ethics, moral and political philosophy, social epistemology, and the metaphysics of gender.
Publications
"A Social Location Theory of Gender: How Gender Borders Create the Category 'Woman.'" In The Empire of Disgust: Prejudice, Discrimination and Policy in India and the U.S., Oxford University Press: New Delhi. (August 2018).
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Papers in Progress
"Emancipatory Violence and Revenge" - An analysis of the philosophical treatment of revenge, with particular emphasis on Fanon and de Beauvoir. I provide a novel account of revenge and argue for its emancipatory potential under enduring conditions of injustice.
"Why Does This Humpback Whale Sing? Animal Rationality and the Study of Animal Behavior" – An investigation of animal individuality, anthropomorphism, and the ways in which the biological study of animal behavior ignores central features of cognitively complex species' interior lives. Download here.
"Why Does This Humpback Whale Sing? Animal Rationality and the Study of Animal Behavior" – An investigation of animal individuality, anthropomorphism, and the ways in which the biological study of animal behavior ignores central features of cognitively complex species' interior lives. Download here.