Feminist Philosophy of Mind

Keya Maitra is professor of philosophy and the Thomas Howerton Distinguished Professor of Humanities (2018-2022) at University of North Carolina Asheville. She was a recipient of the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Senior Research Award (India) in 2015. Her research and teaching focus is in philosophy of mind, cross-cultural philosophy, transnational feminist philosophy, and epistemology of mindfulness. Jennifer McWeeny is associate professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a past recipient of the Fulbright U.S. Scholar National Research Award (France). Her research and teaching interests are in phenomenology, philosophy of mind, feminist philosophy, metaphysics, and decolonial theory. She is Editor in Chief of Simone de Beauvoir Studies.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

What Is Feminist Philosophy of Mind?
Jennifer McWeeny and Keya Maitra

I. Mind and Gender&Race&
1. Is the First-Person Perspective Gendered?
Lynne Rudder Baker

2. Computing Machinery and Sexual Difference: The Sexed Presuppositions Underlying the Turing Test
Amy Kind

3. Toward a Feminist Theory of Mental Content
Keya Maitra

4. Disappearing Black People through Failures of White Empathy
Janine Jones

II. Self and Selves
5. Playfulness, "World"-Traveling, and Loving Perception
María Lugones

6. Symptoms in Particular: Feminism and the Disordered Mind
Jennifer Radden

7. Passivity in Theories of the Agentic Self: Reflections on the Views of Soran Reader and Sarah Buss
Diana Tietjens Meyers

8. The Question of Personal Identity
Susan James

III. Naturalism and Normativity
9. Sexual Ideology and Phenomenological Description: A Feminist Critique of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception
Judith Butler

10. Enactivism and Gender Performativity
Ashby Butnor and Matthew MacKenzie

11. Norms and Neuroscience: The Case of Borderline Personality Disorder
Anne J. Jacobson

12. Embodiments of Sex and Gender: The Metaphors of Speaking Surfaces
Gabrielle Benette Jackson

IV. Body and Mind
13. Against Physicalism
Naomi Scheman

14. Why Feminists Should Be Materialists and Vice Versa
Paula Droege

15. Which Bodies Have Minds? Feminism, Panpsychism, and the Attribution Question
Jennifer McWeeny

16. Sexual Orientations: The Desire View
E. Díaz-León

V. Memory and Emotion
17. Outliving Oneself: Trauma, Memory, and Personal Identity
Susan J. Brison

18. Does Neutral Monism Provide the Best Framework for Relational Memory?
Iva Apostolova

19. The Odd Case of a Bird-Mother: Relational Selfhood and a "Method of Grief"
Vrinda Dalmiya

20. Equanimity and the Loving Eye: A Buddhist-Feminist Account of Loving Attention
Emily McRae

Contributor Biographies

Index