Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Anita L. Allen is the Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also a fellow in the Department of Bioethics and an advisor to the Women Studies Program. She has been a visiting professor at Princeton, Yale, and Harvard universities. Her books include Privacy Law and Society (2007), The New Ethics (2004), Why Privacy Isn't Everything (2003), Debating Democracy's Discontent (co-edited with M. Regan, 1998), and Uneasy Access (1988). She has published dozens of articles in scholarly journals, and also writes for newspapers and magazines. She lectures widely and often appears on television and radio. (aallen@law. upenn.edu)
Judith Andre is a philosopher in the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences at Michigan State University. Her work with virtue theory includes Bioethics as Practice (2002) and "Humility Reconsidered," in Margin of Error: The Ethics of Mistakes in the Practice of Medicine, ed. Susan B. Rubin and Laurie Zoloth (2000). (andre@msu.edu)
Bat-Ami Bar On is Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Binghamton University (SUNY). An Israeli in origin, she specializes in political theory and is especially concerned with violence. She is the author of The Subject of Violence: Arendtean Exercises in Understanding (2002). Her recent essays include the forthcoming "From Hegelian Terror to Everyday Courage" and "War/Terror/Politics." (ami@binghamton.edu)
Sigal Ben-Porath is Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Her areas of interest include political theory, educational philosophy, ethics, and gender. She is the author of Citizenship under Fire: Democratic Education in Times of Conflict (2006). Her recent articles include "Against the Law: On Government Regulation of Intimate Life," published in Constellations in 2004. She is currently writing on choice, paternalism, and social policy. (sigalbp@gse.upenn.edu)
Debra B. Bergoffen is Professor of Philosophy and a member of the Women's Studies and Cultural Studies programs at George Mason University. The author of The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Gendered Phenomenologies, Erotic Generosities (1997), her recent essays include "Failed Friendship, Forgotten Genealogies: Simone de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray," "From Genocide to [End Page 224] Justice: Women's Bodies as Legal Writing Pads," and "Between the Ethics and Politics of Innocence." (dbergoff@gmu.edu)
Sharyn Clough is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University. She uses a contemporary pragmatist approach to semantics as a tool to investigate the role of feminist and other values in scientific practice. She is the author of Beyond Epistemology: A Pragmatist Approach to Feminist Science Studies (2003), and the editor of Siblings under the Skin: Feminism, Social Justice, and Analytic Philosophy (2003). In addition, she has written a number of essays and reviews for journals such as Studies in the History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Social Epistemology, and Hypatia. (sharyn.clough@oregonstate.edu)
Margaret Denike is Associate Professor of Human Rights and the Coordinator of the Human Rights Program at Carleton University. Her research and writing cover such topics as feminist and equality theory and philosophy; constitutional equality jurisprudence; state-sanctioned discrimination, persecution, and terrorism; and the human rights of sexual and racial minorities. Her recent publications include the edited Making Equality Rights Real: Securing Substantive Equality under the Charter (with Fay Faraday and M. Kate Stephenson). (margaret_denike@carleton.ca)
Marian Eide is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University. Her area of interest is twentieth-century literature in English with a focus on gender studies and ethical theory. She is the author of Ethical Joyce (2002). She currently is writing on literatures of political violence in the twentieth century. (meide@tamu.edu)
Sally Haslanger is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT and is an affiliate faculty in the Women's and Gender Studies Program. Her primary interests are in metaphysics, epistemology, ancient philosophy (especially Aristotle), and feminist theory. She has written on objectivity and objectification, and on the social construction of gender and race. With Charlotte Witt, she has co-edited Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays (2005); with Elizabeth Hackett she has co-edited Theorizing Feminisms (2005); and with...
