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Pronouns they, she

Division Humanities Division

Department/College/Unit Philosophy Department

Title Assistant Professor

Affiliation Faculty

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation Feminist Studies Department

Faculty Type Regular Faculty

Areas of Expertise Philosophy
History of Philosophy
Aesthetics
Ethics
Feminist Theory

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Primary Office Location Cowell College Faculty Office Addition
110

Mail Stop Philosophy

Biography, Education and Training

Prior to arriving in Santa Cruz, I was at Brown doing postdoctoral research funded by SSHRC. I have received my PhD from the University of Alberta. I work on contemporary issues in value theory, in particular moral psychology and aesthetics, its intersection with philosophy of mind, as well as on the history of these fields.

Summary of Expertise

Kant, Aesthetics, Moral Psychology, and Early Modern Philosophy

Selected Publications

Books

• Imaginative Resistance, in progress, under contract with Oxford University Press.
• Kantian Art Criticism, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

Articles

• “Bias Reduction as an Aesthetic Norm,” Philosophical Topics, forthcoming. 
• “Recovering Fictional Content and Emotional Engagements with Fiction,” Analysis, forthcoming.
• “Bolzano’s Aesthetic Cognitivism,” Journal of the American Philosophical Association, Published online 2025:1-18. doi:10.1017/apa.2024.10. LINK
• “Hume and Kant on Imaginative Resistance,” European Journal of Philosophy, 2024: 1-11. LINK
• “Apt Perception, Aesthetic Engagement, and Curatorial Practices” with Octavian Ion, Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics LXI/XVII, no. 1 (2024): 38-53. LINK
• “Imaginative Resistance,” (approx. 12,000 words), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (First published 2020; substantive revision 2024), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2024/entries/imaginative-resistance/>. LINK
• “Self-Standing Beauty: Tracing Kant's Views on Purpose-Based Beauty,” Southwest Philosophy Review 35:1 (2019): 7-16. LINK
• “Kant on Informed Pure Judgments of Taste,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 76:2 (2018): 163-174. LINK
• “Why didn't Kant Think Highly of Music?,” in Natur und Freiheit: Akten des XII. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses 2015, eds. Violetta L. Waibel and Margit Ruffing. (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018), 3141-3148. LINK
• “A Kantian Hybrid Theory of Art Criticism: A Particularist Appeal to the Generalists,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 74:4 (2016): 397-411. LINK
• “The UnDerridization of Nancy: Tracing the Transformations in Nancy's Idea of Community,” Journal for Cultural Research 18:3 (2014): 263-272. LINK

Courses PHIL 11 - Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL 17 - Feminist Philosophy
PHIL 111 - Continental Philosophy
PHIL 110 - Existentialism
PHIL 147 - Topics in Feminist Philosophy
PHIL 190 - Senior Seminar: Art Criticism and Value
PHIL 190 - Senior Seminar: Early Modern Women on Education, Liberty, Virtue, and Happiness
PHIL 232 - Advanced Topics in Value Theory: Philosophy and Fiction
PHIL 290 - Grad Seminar - Early Modern Women Philosopher; 18th C Aesthetics
PHIL 233 - Philosophy of Mind