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Philosophy of the Social Sciences
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September 1, 2025
I engage with Åsa Burman’s new book. While largely in agreement with Burman, I put pressure on her distinction between nonideal and emancipatory social ontology and suggest some ways to further develop her notion of telic power. ...
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Social Epistemology
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January 1, 2025
Social construction is involved in various forms of injustice that have been in focus in recent years, such as testimonial and discursive injustice. There is also injustice that is distinctly metaphysical and involves acting and being, and recent work has ...
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Journal of Social Ontology
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October 4, 2024
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European Journal of Philosophy
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March 1, 2023
The author of Categories We Live By replies to critics Linda Martín Alcoff, Judith Butler, and Abraham Sesshu Roth. ...
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Southern Journal of Philosophy
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September 1, 2022
Conferralism about race is a version of social constructivism about race, where the agents of construction seem to be individual agents. However, an important aspect of racism is systemic or structural, and seemingly not about the behavior of individual ag ...
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Journal of Social Ontology
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March 11, 2020
AbstractThe project of Categories We Live By is to offer a metaphysics of social categories. The strategy is to give a theory of social properties of individuals. The main components of the theory ...
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Journal of Social Ontology
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March 11, 2020
AbstractThis is a response to the critical comments by Åsa Burman, Esa Díaz-León, Aaron Griffith, and Katharine Jenkins. ...
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy
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December 13, 2019
Abstract here. ...
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Journal of Social Philosophy
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December 1, 2019
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Philosophy Compass
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December 1, 2015
What is social construction? This essay offers a survey of the various ways in which something could be socially constructed and then addresses briefly the questions whether social constructionism involves an untenable anti-realism and what, if anything, u ...
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Philosophical Studies
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October 1, 2013
Realist essentialists face a prima facie challenge in accounting for our knowledge of the essences of things, and in particular, in justifying our engaging in thought experiments to gain such knowledge. In contrast, conferralist essentialism has an attract ...
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Hypatia
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September 1, 2013
Social construction theorists face a certain challenge to the effect that they confuse the epistemic and the metaphysical: surely our conceptions of something are influenced by social practices, but that doesn't show that the nature of the thing in questio ...
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European Journal of Philosophy
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March 1, 2010
I argue that a response-dependence account of a concept can yield metaphysical results, and not merely epistemological or semantical results, which has been a prevalent view in the literature on response-dependence. In particular, I show how one can argue ...
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Philosophical Studies
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July 1, 2008
In this article I introduce a certain kind of anti-realist account of what makes a property essential to an object and defend it against likely objections. This account, which I call a 'conferralist' account, shares some of the attractive features of other ...
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