We are delighted to announce that Suki Finn, lecturer in Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, has selected and edited a collection of transcripts of Philosophy Bites interviews with women. This is to be published by Oxford University Press as Women of Ideas on 22nd April 2021. This is the fourth book of interviews from Philosophy Bites.
From Amia Srinivasan on gender to Mary Warnock on public philosophy, from Martha Naussbaum on disgust to Onora O’Neill on consent, this new volume features interviews with leading women philosophers on some of the pressing issues in the world today.
Here is a list of the interviews included in Women of Ideas:
Amia Srinivasan: What is a Woman?
Janet Radcliffe Richards: Men's and Women's Natures
Patricia Smith Churchland: What neuroscience can teach us about morality
Christine M. Korsgaard: The Status of Animals
Ashwini Vasanthakumar: Do victims have obligations too?
Miranda Fricker: Blame and Historic Injustice
Kimberley Brownlee: Social Deprivation
Sarah Fine: The Right to Exclude
Anne Phillips: Multiculturalism and Liberalism
Jennifer Saul: Implicit Bias
Martha C. Nussbaum: Disgust
Elisabeth Schellekens: Disagreement about Taste
Emma Borg: Language and Context
Rebecca Roache: Swearing
Teresa M. Bejan: Civility
Katherine Hawley: Trustworthiness
Onora O'Neill: Medical Consent
Katalin Farkas: Knowing a Person
Jennifer Nagel: Intuitions about Knowledge
Susan James: Michel Foucault and Knowledge
Kate Kirkpatrick: The Life and Work of Simone de Beauvoir
Katherine J. Morris: Merleau-Ponty on the Body
Alison Gopnik: Hume and Buddhism
Katrin Flikschuh: Philosophy in Africa
Angie Hobbs: Plato on War
Helen Beebee: Possible Worlds
Tamar Szabó Gendler: Why Philosophers use Examples
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: Progress in Philosophy
Mary Warnock: Philosophy and Public Life
About the editor:
Suki Finn is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London. She researches in the areas of metametaphysics, the philosophy of logic, the metaphysics of pregnancy, the epistemology of love, and feminist and queer theory. Suki has published her work in various philosophy journals, edited collections, and in the online magazine Aeon. Women of Ideasis Suki’s first book. Suki is on the Executive Committee for the Society for Women in Philosophy UK, and on the Council for the Royal Institute of Philosophy. In her other life, Suki is a musician. Suki is represented by Ben Clark at the Soho Agency.
Women of Ideas is already available for pre-order:
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