Lisa Schwartzman

(She/Her)

lhschwar@msu.edu
South Kedzie Hall 514

Associate Professor

Philosophy

Biography

Lisa Schwartzman is the author of Challenging Liberalism: Feminism as Political Critique (Penn State Press, 2006) and co-editor of Feminist Interventions in Ethics and Politics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005). She has also published essays on feminist analyses of rights, equality, and hate speech. She is co-editing a special issue of the Journal of Social Philosophy on the topic “Gender, Implicit Bias, and Philosophical Methodology.” Prof. Schwartzman’s current work focuses on two related projects: the first involves examining the role that choice and autonomy play in contemporary discussions of feminism, and the second involves a critical feminist analysis of philosophical methodologies.In the fall of 2010, Professor Schwartzman served as the Humphrey Chair of Feminist Philosophy at the University of Waterloo (in Ontario).She was recently elected as chair of the steering committee chair for FEAST (the Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory).

Works

Books

Challenging Liberalism: Feminism as Political Critique (Penn State University Press, 2006)
Feminist Interventions in Ethics and Politics: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, ed. Barbara S. Andrew, Jean Keller, and Lisa H. Schwartzman (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005).

Sample Articles

“Defining Rape: Gender Equality, Force, and Consent,” Social Philosophy Today, Vol 35 (2019), pp. 89-101.
“Action Guidance, Oppression, and Nonideal Theory,” Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 2016).
“Appetites, Disorder, and Desire,” International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (special issue on “Just Food”), Vol. 8, No. 2 (Fall 2015), pp. 86-102.
“Feminism, Method, and Rawlsian Abstraction,” in Feminist Interpretations of John Rawls, ed. Ruth Abbey (University Park, Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press, 2013), pp. 40-56.
“Intuition, Thought Experiments, and Philosophical Method: Feminism and Experimental Philosophy,” Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Fall 2012).
“Non-Ideal Theorizing, Social Groups, and Knowledge of Oppression: A Response,” Symposium on Challenging Liberalism, Hypatia, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Fall 2009), pp. 177-188.
“Can Liberalism Account for Women’s ‘Adaptive Preferences’?” Social Philosophy Today, Vol. 23 (2008), pp. 175-186.
“Abstraction, Idealization, and Oppression,” Metaphilosophy, Vol. 37, No. 5 (October 2006), pp. 565-588.
“Neutrality, Choice, and Contexts of Oppression: Examining Feminist Perfectionism,” Social Philosophy Today, Vol. 21 (2005), pp. 193-206.
“A Feminist Critique of Nussbaum’s Liberalism: Toward an Alternative Feminist Methodology,” in Feminist Interventions in Ethics and Politics: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, ed. Barbara S. Andrew, Jean Keller, and Lisa H. Schwartzman (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005), pp. 151-165.
“Feminist Analyses of Oppression and the Discourse of ‘Rights’: A Response to Wendy Brown,” Social Theory and Practice, Vol. 28, No. 3 (July 2002), pp. 465-480.
“Hate Speech, Illocution, and Social Context: A Critique of Judith Butler,” Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 33, No. 3 (Fall 2002), pp. 421-441.
“Liberal Abstraction and Social Inequality: A Critique of Dworkin,” Social Philosophy Today, Vol. 15, Ch. 13 (2000), pp. 229-243.

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