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Publications in academic journals

Structural Explanation, applied:


A Structural Explanation of Injustice in Conversations: It's About Norms, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 99(4): 726-748, 2018 https://doi.org/10.1111/papq.12244
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Speech Affordances: A Structural Take on How Much We Can Do With Our Words
, European Journal of Philosophy 24(2), 2016, pp. 879-891. doi 10.1111/ejop.12186

Explaining Speech Injustice: Individualistic vs. Structural Explanation, in D.C. Noelle, R. Dale, A.S. Warlaumont, J. Yoshimi, T. Matlock, C.D. Jennings, and P.P. Maglio (eds.) Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, 2015; co-authored with Nadya Vasilyeva
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Science & Science Communication

Sex Categorization in Medical Contexts: A Cautionary Tale, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 28(3): 243-280. 2018. co-authored with Lauren Freeman.
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The Placental Microbiome: A New Site for Policing Women's Bodies, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Vo. 9 No. 1 Spring 2016; co-authored with Lauren Freeman.

The Road to HEAVEN Is Paved With Good Intentions: Transplanting Heads, Manipulating Selves, and Reassigning Genders. The American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience (8)4: 223-225, 2017; commentary co-authored with Russell DiSilvestro, Chong Choe-Smith, and Timothy Houk.

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Conversational dynamics

Responsibility for Silence, Journal of Social Philosophy 47(3): 256-272, 2016; co-authored with Nadya Vasilyeva. doi 10.1111/josp.12151

Reflections on the philosophy profession

Foreigners and Inclusion in Academia. Hypatia 33(2): 325-342 2018. doi: 10.1111/hypa.12376 - 2018
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Philosophy and the Non-Native Speaker Condition, American Philosophical Association Newsletter in Feminism and Philosophy 14(2), Spring 2015.

Philosophy of Mind, applied

Sexual Orientation and Choice. Journal of Social Ontology 3 (2) 249-265, 2017. doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/jso-2016-0015
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Extended Sex: An Account of Sex for a More Just Society, Hypatia 30(4), 2015; co-authored with Nadya Vasilyeva.
doi 10.1111/hypa.12180
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Cognitive Externalism Meets Bounded Rationality, Philosophical Psychology 27(1), 2014; co-authored with Eric Arnau and Thomas Sturm.

On the Possibility of an Extended, Yet Reductionist Mind, in M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (eds.) Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society, 2013.

Superfunctionalizing the Mind, Teorema XXIX, 2010.

Embodying Cognition: a Morphological Perspective, in Jordi Vallverdú (ed) Thinking Machines and the Philosophy of Computer Science: Concepts and Principles, IGI Global, USA, 2010; co-authored with David Casacuberta and Jordi Vallverdú.

Gender

(Philosophizing about) Gender-Open Children. Newsletter on Philosophy & Feminism. Volume 19, number 2 (spring 2020)

Resistance

“El activismo que no apreciamos: Su señoría kent, mi madre es feminista y vota aunque no sepa que está oprimida”. Quaderns de Filosofia, Vol. 9 Num. 2 2022 (in Spanish).
 https://ojs.uv.es/index.php/qfilosofia


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book chapters
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“Hermeneutical Injustice and Conceptual Landscaping: The Benefits and Responsibilities of Expanding Conceptual Landscaping beyond Failure Reparation”. In David Bordonaba Plou, Víctor Fernández Castro and José Ramón Torices Vidal (eds): The Political Turn in Analytic Philosophy. DeGruyter 2022.

"Affordances, Discursividad y Resistencia Politica”, in Affordances y Ciencia Cognitiva, edited by Manuel Heras-Escribano, Lorena Lobo Navas, and Jesús Vega Encabo. 
Madrid, Tecnos, 2022 (in Spanish).

With Esa Díaz-León:
“On Language and Sexuality: Demisexuals, Polyamorous, Bambi Lesbians, and Other Queers”, to appear in the book Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language, edited by Rachel Sterken and Justin Khoo. Routledge, 2021
 

“Outing Foreigners: Accent in Conversations”, In L. Freeman & J. Weekes Schroer (eds) Microaggressions and Philosophy. Routledge, 2020.


with Erin Beeghly:
“Explaining Injustice: Structural Analysis, Bias, and Individuals” in
Erin Beegly & Alex Madva (eds) An Introduction to Implicit Bias: Knowledge, Justice, and the Social Mind. Routledge, 2020

with Nadya Vasilyeva:
”Structural Thinking and Epistemic Injustice”, In B. Sherman & S. Goguen (eds) Overcoming Epistemic Injustice: Social and Psychological Perspectives, Washington, DC:  Rowman & Littlefield. 2019: 63-85.



public philosophy - outreach

English patrol at the borders of philosophy. Philosopher blog, June 18,2017

Explanations, Causes and Intervention. Comments on Alex Madva’s “A Plea for Anti-Anti Individualism” work, Ergo Symposium organized at the Brains Blog, March 6, 2017.

Sex, Witches & Phlogiston. Dance of Reason blog, April 2, 2017.

Science and Communication: The dangers of oversimplifying microbiome studies, Interview for Nature Partner Journals, with Lauren Freeman, October 7, 2016.
   
One of the many problems with the science of sex differences: surplus of descriptions, shortage of explanations, The Conversation, Science + Technology, May 2014; co-authored with Nadya Vasilyeva
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Jean-ethic (correlation/causation), in Peter Worley (ed.) The Philosophy Shop: ideas, activities and questions to get people, young and old, thinking philosophically, Crown House Publishing Ltd., a project by the Philosophy Foundation, 2012.

Translation into Spanish of Riddles of Existence: A Guided Tour of Metaphysics by Earl Conee and Theodore Sider, Oxford University Press, 2005, for Alianza Editorial, Madrid, 2013.

Book reviews

Review of Scientists Making a Difference by Robert J. Sternberg, Susan T. Fiske, Donald J. Foss (eds). Metascience
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-018-0316-0

Review of Implicit Bias and Philosophy: Metaphysics and Epistemology Vol. 1 by Michael Brownstein and Jennifer Saul, Hypatia Reviews Online.
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Review of Classify and Label: The Unintended Marginalization of Social Groups by Matt L. Drabek, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, May 18, 2015.
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