Philosophy Faculty and Staff

Books

Straw Man Arguments: A Study in Fallacy Theory. (with Scott Aikin) 2022. Bloomsbury.

Read a review of Straw Man Arguments in the Times Literary Supplement.

REcent Articles and essays

“What About Whataboutism?” (with Scott Aikin) Social Epistemology. Forthcoming.

“The Ambitious and the Modest Meta-Argumentation Theses” (with Scott Aikin), Res Philosophica, Vol. 101, No. 1, , pp. 163–170, 2024

“Knock Knock: Meta-Argumentative Humor, Who?” (with Scott Aikin), Inquiry: Critical Thinking across the Disciplines. 2023.

“On Halting Meta-Argument with Para-Argument” (with Scott Aikin). Argumentation. 37, 323–340, 2023.

“Free Speech Fallacies as Meta-Argumentative Errors.” (with Scott Aikin). Argumentation 37, 295–305, 2023.

“Asking Before Arguing? Consent in Argumentation” (with Katharina Stevens). Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. 2023. 

“Fallacies of Meta-Argumentation.” (with Scott Aikin) Philosophy & Rhetoric. Volume 55, Number 4, 2022, pp. 360-385.

“What I fear about living most is wasting my time” Southwest Journal of Philosophy. 38 (2) July 2022. 

“How to have better arguments” (with Scott Aikin). Psyche. 2022.

“Beliefs, commitments, and ad baculum arguments.” Languages 7: 107. 2022. 

“Argumentation and the Problem of Agreement” (with Scott Aikin). Synthese. 200. 2022.

“Bothsiderism” (with Scott Aikin). Argumentation. 36; 249–268, 2022.

"No place for compromise: Resisting the shift to negotiation." (with David Godden). Argumentation. 2020. 

“Adversariality and Argumentation.” Informal Logic. 40 (1) 77-108. 2020,

Books

Overcoming Epistemic Injustice: Social and Psychological Perspectives. Co-edited with Benjamin Sherman. Rowman & Littlefield. 2019. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786607058/Overcoming-Epistemic-Injustice-Social-and-Psychological-Perspectives

Recent Articles and essays

“Hermeneutical Backlash: Trans Youth Panics as Epistemic Injustice.” Co-Written with B. R. George (Carnegie Mellon). Feminist Philosophy Quarterly. 7(4): 1-34. 2021. https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/fpq/article/view/13518

“Is Asking What Women Want the Right Question? Underrepresentation in philosophy and differences in interests.” Dialogue. 57(2): 409-441. 2018. https://philpapers.org/rec/GOGIAW

“Stereotype Threat, Epistemic Injustice, and Rationality” in Implicit Bias and Philosophy, Volume I. Michael Brownstein and Jennifer Saul, eds. Oxford University Press. 2016. https://academic.oup.com/book/3272?login=false

"Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy" (Open Court Press)

"Radiohead and Philosophy" (Open Court Press)

“‘the end was in the beginning’: Melville, Ellison and the Democratic Death of Progress in Typee,” Jason Frank, ed. The Political Companion to Herman Melville, University of Kentucky Press, January 2014

“Interpretation, Political Theory, and the Hegemony of Normative Theorizing,” Becoming Plural: The Political Thought of William E. Connolly, Alan Finlayson, ed., Routledge, October 2009

“Facts, Values and ‘Real’ Numbers: Making Sense In and Of Political Science,” with Stephen G. Engelmann and Elizabeth Rose Wingrove, The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and Its Epistemological Others, George Steinmetz, ed., Duke University Press, 2005

“Neoliberalism and the Jurisprudence of Privacy: An Experiment in Feminist Theorizing,” Feminist Theory, 9(2), August 2008

"Values and Creativity", "Moral Values and AIDS", "Gender Education in Bulgaria", "Education of Philosophy: A View from Inside".

“Gender Education in Bulgarian Schools”, Education (Sofia), No 4, 1998

“Education: A View from Inside”, Education (Sofia), No 5, 1997

“Values and Creativity”, Annual Records of Medical Academy, Sofia 1990