Core readings in philosophy by female authors for undergraduate curricula

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1		Last	First	Addl	Title		IN..	link	level	addl	date	notes

2	Aesthetics	Telfer	Elizabeth S.		Food as Art
3	Aesthetics/Ethics	Weil	Simone		The Iliad or the Poem of Force		Ethics Vol. 112, No. 1 (October 2001), pp. 32-52				2001
4	applied ethics	Cassidy	Lisa		’Starving Children in Africa’: Who Cares?		Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, (N.S.), 11: 166–186		Intermediate		1911	History of semantics: she is into the intension/extension distinction; this paper is a sequence in a famous debate with Russell (including his 'KAKD')
5	applied ethics	Cudd	Ann	Jones, Leslie	"Causal Laws and Effective Strategies"		Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, New Series, Vol. 59, (1958 - 1959), pp. 83-104	http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/4544606?uid=3739448&uid=2&uid=3737720&uid=4&sid=21101842164141	Intermediate		1958
6	Causation	Schulz	Laura	Tamar Kushnir and Alison Gopnik	"Learning from Doing: Intervention and Causal Inference in Children"		ICS Publications		Introductory/Intermediate		1917
7	Causation	Paul	L. A.		"Aspect Causation"		ARTnews January 1971, 22-39/67-71.	http://faculty.winthrop.edu/dufresnel/ARTH%20452/Nochlingreatwomenartists.pdf	Intro/Intermediate	Amelia Jones, ed. The feminism and visual culture reader. Routledge, 1971. 229-33.	1971	As a counterpoint in the unit on artistic "genius"
8	Causation	Cartwright	Nancy		"Causal laws and effective strategies"		Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 94, 279-292	http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/4545199	intermediate		1994
9	Causation	Hesse	Mary		Forces and Fields: A Study of Action at a Distance in the History of Philosophy		"Value-free science? Ideals and illusions", ed. Kincaid, Dupris, Wylie.		Intro		2007	I used this reading by pairing it with SJ Gould's "Non-Overlapping Magesteria".
10	Causation	Anscombe	G. E. M.		"Causality and Determination"		Philosophy and phenomenological research (80:595–637)	http://individual.utoronto.ca/jmwilson/WiHDaWBi.pdf	Intermediate		2010
11	Cultural criticism	Arendt	Hannah		The Crisis in Culture		Philosophy of Science, 61 (4): 646-657.		intermediate	Klee (ed.) _Scientific Inquiry: Readings in the Philosophy of Science_ (1999)	1994	Critique of feminist epistemology
12	Epistemology	Heal	Jane		Common Knowledge		In Between Past and Future	http://www.scribd.com/doc/87670611/Arendt-The-Crisis-in-Culture-1968	Intermediate		1968
13	Epistemology	Antony	Louise		"Quine as Feminist: The Radical Import of Naturalized Epistemology"		J Phil v. 77 151-166.		intermediate	Pereboom, Free Will and Determinism (Hackett 2009)	1980	Challenging but satisfying within a course on freedom and determinism, admitted of dense inference-diagramming (modified Beardsley-style).
14	Epistemology	Schellenberg	Susanna		Experience and Evidence		The Journal of Philosophy 78: 429-458	https://0efcb99f-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/stumpep/Eternity.pdf?attachauth=ANoY7cqyATBrNfCvE8xyJFTQ2MWHqpDm7HDPNdXzMzZOBX1mC-TJbhQP5Cu9vPpcmLLaZVtSuJO0VO-shliMmPFuZ4DLwu6loF5Zp-_un5xusWiLrO7tNQtzLfZM4T9_r3torXiNvIZICNr3vb5FVszuEWC07d5d0VWxKYkbeyYzc1NpIluSiC7WJgYXMKu2SCwRumJ_RaQxU3Ec3FxmQZGrd-jCMuVEJQ%3D%3D&attredirects=0	introductory		1981
15	Epistemology	Maddy	Penelope		Naturalism and Common Sense		Schoeman (ed.) _Responsibility, Character, and the Emotions: New Essays in Moral Psychology_ pp. 46-62		Intro/Intermediate	Feinberg and Shafer-Landau (eds.) _Reason and Responsibility_ (12th edition, 2005)	1988
16	Epistemology	Baker	Judith		Trust and Rationality		Antony and Witt (eds.) _A Mind of One's Own_ (1993)	http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02331805?LI=true#page-1	Intermediate	reprinted in Sosa et al, Epistemology: An Anthology, 2nd edition (Blackwell)	1993	Antony's piece, along with a few other interesting papers by female authors can be found in the Sosa et al anthology. I think all of those articles are now on this list and inclusion in the anthology noted. I highly recommend the anthology for intro/intermediate epistemology classes.
17	Epistemology	Fricker	Elizabeth S.		Against Gullibility		in Matilal, Chkrabarti, Knowing from Words (Kluwer)		intermediate	reprinted in Sosa et al, Epistemology: An Anthology, 2nd edition (Blackwell)	1994
18	Epistemology	Stine	Gail		Skepticism, Relevant Alternatives, and Deductive Closure		Philosopy and Public Affairs, Vol 24, No. 4, Autumn, 1995	http://www.jstor.org/stable/2961930	Introductory/Intermediate		1995
19	Epistemology	Haack	Susan		A Foundherentist Theory of Empirical Justification		Creating the Kingdom of Ends (Cambridge, 1996), Chapter 5, 133-158.		Intro		1996	Great way to help students digest Kant, look at how a friendly amendment essay works, and engage in dialogue with Korsgaard based on their grasp of Kant's Goundwork.
20	Epistemology	Zagzebski	Linda		What is Knowledge?		\				1999
21	Epistemology	Nagel	Jennifer		Epistemic Intuitions		Nous 34 (1): 31-55.	http://www.jstor.org/stable/2671972	Intro/Intermediate		2000	Scroll down to bottom of screen for Handout and PPT: http://f12.middlebury.edu/PHIL0213A (Also: in-class exercises at end of PPT)
22	Epistemology	Wilson	Jessica		Could experience disconfirm the propositions of arithmetic?		A Priori 2:20-34	http://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/1811/32006/Virtue%20Ethics%20and..;jsessionid= B3517CE71F683723350B7D3F8D434E1B?sequence=2			2003
23	Epistemology	Elgin	Catherine		True Enough		Oxford University Press		Intermediate		2009
24	Epistemology	Ryan	Sharon		Wisdom		Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 3, Numbers 5-6, 1 May 1996, pp. 402-408 (7)	http://horizons-2000.org/5.%20Mind%20and%20Metaphysics/Web%20papers/P.S.%20Churchland,%20The%20Hornswoggle%20Problem.htm	Introductory		2012
25	Epistemology	Lackey	Jennifer		Testimonial knowledge and transmission		Wells-Barnett, Ida B. (1892/2002). On lynchings. Ed. P.H. Collins. Amherst, NY: Humanity. Pp. 42-46.	http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14975/14975-h/14975-h.htm#THE_MALICIOUS_AND_UNTRUTHFUL_WHITE_PRESS	intro		1892/2002	black woman
26	Epistemology	Zagzebski	Linda		The Inescapability of Gettier Problems		Pendle Hill Pamphlet. Mary McCarthy trans.
27	Epistemology	Zagzebski	Linda		excerpts from her book, Virtues of Mind		Oxford University Press, 1993				Year Originally Published
28	epistemology, philosophy of mind, decision theory	Paul	L. A.		What Mary Can't Expect When She is Expecting		The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 51:2 (Spring 1993): 199–206.		Intro/Intermediate		1993
29	Epistemology/Ontology	Bordo	Susan		Unbearable Weight		Pacific Phil Quarterly 68		intermediate	reprinted in Sosa et al, Epistemology: An Anthology, 2nd edition (Blackwell)	1987
30	Epistemology/Philosophy of Religion	Keleman	Deborah		"Are Children 'Intuitive Theists'?"		Michigan Law Review Vol. 99, No. 6	http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1290397?uid=3739560&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21101853296281	Intro		2001	Used with reading by Thornhill and Palmer on the evolution of rape
31	Ethics	Hursthouse	Rosalind		Normative Virtue Ethics		New York: Longmans, Green and co.	http://archive.org/details/creativeexperien00foll	Intro		1924
32	Ethics	Held	Virginia				Journal of Symbolic Logic 11 (1):1-16 (1946)	http://philpapers.org/rec/BARAFC	Intermediate/Advanced		1946
33	Ethics	Held	Virginia		Feminist Moral Inquiry and the Feminist Future		Journal of Symbolic Logic 11 (4):115-118 (1946)	http://philpapers.org/rec/BARTDT	Intermediate/Advanced		1946
34	Ethics	LeGuin	Ursula		The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas		New York: Routledge, 2002		Intro		1949
35	Ethics	Korsgaard	Christine		"The Right to Lie: Kant on Dealing with Evil"		Routledge & Kegan Paul		Intro or Intermediate		1970	Alternative to duty-based approaches to ethics or a rich account of moral psychology
36	Ethics	Midgley	Mary		Trying Out One's New Sword		Journal of Philosophy 67 (14): 471-481		intro/intermediate		1970
37	Ethics	Benedict	Ruth		The Case for Moral Relativism		\		intermediate	Sosa and Tooley (eds.) _Causation_ (1993)	1971	Critique of Humean regularity theories of causation
38	Ethics	Thomson	Judith Jarvis		Self Defense		Philosophy and Public Affairs 2 (1971): 146-159.				1971
39	Ethics	Thomson	Judith J		A defense of abortion		in her The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Harper and Rowe, pp. 275-284, 1975 (and widely anthologized elsewhere)				1973
40	ethics	Nussbaum	Martha		Judging Other Cultures: The Case of Genital Mutilation		Philosophical Studies 29: 249-261	http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00411885?LI=true#	intro/intermediate	Reprinted in K. DeRose and T. Warfield (eds.), Skepticism: A Contemporary Reader, OUP 1999	1976	Any unit on contextualism in epistemology could use this as a first paper--it laid the foundations for a lot of later stuff.
41	Ethics	Langton	Rae		"Duty and Desolation" (aka "Maria von Herbert's Challenge to Kant")		Philosophical Quarterly 28(11): 116-131		Intro		1978
42	Ethics	Thomson	Judith		A Defense of Abortion		In Matters of Life and Death, Tom Regan, ed., Temple U Press. 260-294				1980
43	Ethics	Murdoch	Iris		The Sovereignty of Good		Philosophia, 10, nos 3-4, 169-188. Reprinted in Postures of the Mind		intro/intermediate		1981	used as a way of introducing social aspect of personhood/consciousness
44	ethics	Thomson	Judith J		The Trolley Problem		The Yale Law Journal, Vol. 94, No. 6 (May, 1985), pp. 1395-1415.				1985
45	Ethics	Tessman	Lisa		Burdened Virtues		Faith and Philosophy vol 4 no 3, pp. 294-303				1987
46	Ethics	Ostrom	Elinor		"Collective Action and the Evolution of Social Norms"		In Science as social knowledge: values and objectivity in scientific inquiry. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.		Intro/Intermediate	Curd, Martin, and J. A. Cover (1998), Philosophy of science : the central issues. 1st ed. New York: W.W. Norton.	1990	http://f12.middlebury.edu/PHIL0214A/PHIL0214-Science_and_Society/Home_files/Longino%20Boghossian.ppt
47	Ethics	Foot	Philippa		The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of Double Effect		Philosophy and Public Affairs		Into/Intermediate		1991
48	Ethics	Tiberius	Valerie		Well-Being: Psychological Research for Philosophers		Social Philosophy and Policy 14 (01):207-225				1997
49	ethics	Swanton	Christine		A Virtue Ethical Account of Right Action,		Journal of philosophy	http://www.philosophy.uconn.edu/department/millikan/conventn.pdf			1998
50	Ethics	Nussbaum	Martha		Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law		Chapter 1 of her Fiction and Metaphysics, Cambridge U Press		Intro/intermediate	The Kim/Korman/Sosa Metaphysics anthology (second edition)	1999	I paired it with Quine's "On What There Is" in an advanced undergrad metaphysics class, and used it in connection with the problem of empty names in an advanced undergrad phil language class. I wouldn't hesitate to use it in a lower-level class, as a stand-alone discussion of whether we should believe in fictional characters, and if so what they are. Students love it.
51	Ethics	O'Neill	Onora		Between Consenting Adults		in Pojman, The Theory of Knowledge: Classical and Contemporary Readings, 2nd edition (Wadsworth)		intro/intermediate	reprinted in Sosa et al, Epistemology: An Anthology, 2nd edition (Blackwell)	1999
52	Ethics	Anscombe	G.E.M.		Modern Moral Philosophy		Canadian Journal of Philosophy (30:55–84)	http://individual.utoronto.ca/jmwilson/CEDtPoA.pdf	Intermediate		2000
53	Ethics	Stark	Susan		Virtue and Emotion		Nous 35:3 (2001) 440-455		intro/intermediate		2001
54	Ethics	Rawles	Kate		Conservation and Animal Welfare		in Moser & Carson, ed., _Moral Relativism_		Introductory	also in Shafer-Landau's Ethical Theory anthology	2001	After Nicomachean ethics, to discuss Aristotle's theoretical framework vs. Aristotle's particular cultural attitudes (and the tricky relation between them).
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56	Ethics	Diamond	Cora		Eating Meat and Eating People		Biology and Philosophy 17: 33–53	http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1012990800358?LI=true	Intermediate		2002	Used with Beatty 1984, Chance and Natural Selection, and other readings on the concept of drift, or the statisticalist/causalist debate
57	Ethics	Foot	Philippa		Moral Beliefs		Philosophical Issues 14, Epistemology		intermediate	reprinted in Sosa et al, Epistemology: An Anthology, 2nd edition (Blackwell)	2004	After a semester of "S knows that p iff . . .", this article is refreshing. Elgin gets rid of the truth requirement (kind of)!
58	Ethics	Rose	Gillian		Love's Work: A Reckoning With Life (book)		Princeton University Press		Introductory		2004
59	Ethics	Wolf	Susan		Meaning in Life and Why It Matters		California				2004
60	Ethics	Wolf	Susan		Moral Saints		chapter 8 in A Companion to Applied Ethics, ed. R. G. Frey and Christopher Heath Wellman, 2005, Blackwell. Pp. 102-117.				2005
61	Ethics	O'Neill	Onora		The Moral Perplexities of Famine Relief		Reason and Responsibility, ed. Feinberg and Shafer-Landau		Intro/Intermediate		2007
62	Ethics	Hursthouse	Rosalind		"Virtue Theory and Abortion"		Philosophy Compass, 7: 654-64		intro		2012	Very good overview article on the Ideal and Nonideal theory in political philosophy
63	ethics	O'Neill	Onora		A Simplified Account of Kant’s Ethics		Mind	http://philpapers.org/rec/SCHEAE-6	Intro/Intermediate		2013
64	Ethics	Nussbaum	Martha		Non-relative Virtues				intro/intermediate
65	Ethics	Wolf	Susan		Happiness and Meaning: Two Aspects of the Good Life		Arguing about Art: Contemporary Philosophical Debates, 2nd ed. Alex Neil and Aaron Ridley, Routledge, 2002. pp. 9-27
66	ethics / moral epistemology / philosophy of emotion	Stump	Eleanore		Love, By All Accounts		Proceedings and Addresses of the APA 80: 25-43		intro/intermediate
67	Ethics / moral psychology	Annas	.Julia		Virtue Ethics and Social Psychology	causation	Journal of Philosophy 97 (4): 235-256		intermediate	Collins, Hall, and Paul (eds.) _Causation and Counterfactuals_ (2004)	2000
68	Ethics- Care Ethics	Kittay	Eva		Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality and Dependency		Southern Journal of Philosophy	http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2041-6962.1985.tb00404.x/abstract;jsessionid=1E7459637822E42A0419F056869AD68B.d03t02?deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=&userIsAuthenticated=false	Intro	Also in Robert Larmer, Questions of Miracle	1985
69	Ethics, Metaphysics of Identity'	Brison	Susan		Outliving Oneself		Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 1994	http://spot.colorado.edu/~cleland/articles/gender_and_biological_sciences.pdf	Intermediate		1998
70	Ethics/Existentialism	de Beauvoir	Simone		Ethics of Ambiguity		The Philosophical Quarterly 49, 471-490	http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/2660497	intermediate	reprinted in Sosa et al, Epistemology: An Anthology, 2nd edition (Blackwell)	1999
71	Ethics/Feminist Philosophy	Nussbaum	Martha		Objectification		Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy	http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wisdom/	Intro/Intermediate
72	Ethics/Free Will	Wolf	ethics		"Sanity and the Metaphysics of Responsibility"		Journal of Philosophy 80(4):201-220	http://philpapers.org/rec/THOPAI-2			1983
73	Feminism	Young	Iris Marion		Throwing Like a Girl		Journal of International Women's Studies, 7(1), 84-96	http://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol7/iss1/7			2005
74	feminism / race studies	Collins	Patricia Hill		Mammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images		Philosophy 53: 465-479	www.jstor.org	Intermdiate		1978	I haven't used this in teaching but I think it would work well in a class in which animal rights was discussed through readings from people like Singer.
75	language	Barcan Marcus	Ruth		Modalities: Philosophical Essays		Philosophical Quarterly 44: 65-73	http://bigfatgenius.com/532%20Summer%202008/Zagzebski-Inescapability_Gettier_Problems.pdf	Intermediate	reprinted in Sosa et al, Epistemology: An Anthology, 2nd edition (Blackwell)	1994
76	Logic	Barcan	Ruth		The deduction theorem in a functional calculus of first order based on strict implication				Intermediate	London, UK: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1961	1961
77	Logic	Barcan	Ruth		A functional calculus of first order based on strict implication				Intermediate		1990
78	Logic	Barcan	Ruth		The identity of individuals in a strict functional calculus of second order		Mind 104 (414):235-329 (1995)	http://philpapers.org/rec/EDGOC	Intermediate		1995
79	Logic	Edgington	Dorothy		On Conditionals		Ethics 109: 287–337	http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/233897	Intermediate		1999
80	Metaphysics	Thomson	Judith Jarvis		"Parthood and Identity Across Time"						1995	To talk about what philosophy is, how it relates to the good life.
81	Metaphysics	Haslanger	Sally		"Persistence Through Time"		Philosophy of the Environment, ed Chappell, 1997		Intro		1997	As an accessible article, for intro ethics, that takes a problem-orented stance toward the tension named in her title.
82	Metaphysics	Wilson	Jessica		What is Hume's dictum, and why believe it?		What Is Justice?: Classic and Contemporary Readings, 2nd edn, Oxford University Press, ed. Robert Solomon and Mark Murphy, 120-126.				1999
83	metaphysics	Beebee	Helen		The Non-Governing Conception of Laws
84	metaphysics / philosophy of religion	Baker	Lynn		Death and the Afterlife				Intermediate	London, UK: Shred and Ward	1963
85	Metaphysics and Ethics	Wolf	Susan		Asymmetrical Freedom		Philosophical Perspective, 9, 1995, 185-200	http://www.philosophy.uconn.edu/department/millikan/pushmi.pdf			1995
86	Metaphysics/Phil Language	Thomasson	Amie		If We Postulated Fictional Objects, What Would They Be?		Dover Thrift	http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3420			1792
87	Metaphysics/philosophy of mind	Baier	Annette		"Cartesian Persons"		Journal of Philosophy	http://heraclite.ens.fr/~roy/ENS/Archives/04-05/restricted_area/Textes/Aboutness.pdf	Intermediate		1996
88	Moral/political/"evil"	Arendt	Hannah		Eichmann in Jerusalem		Partee and Portner (eds) /Core Readings in Semantics/	https://webspace.utexas.edu/deverj/personal/filechange.pdf	Intermediate	I believe this was availalbe in MS only prior to collection in the Portner and Partee	1983
89	Moral/political/"evil"	Wells	Ida		"The Malicious and Untruthful White Press"		The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature Ed. by Louis P. Pojman and Lewis Vaugn, 4th Ed, Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 151-159 (anthologized elsewhere too, in other Pojman volumes)
90	Phenomenology	Stein	Edith		On the Problem of Empathy		Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 63: 297-310		Introductory/Intermediate	Also available in a 1990 OUP collection, The Problem of Evil, edited by Marilyn McCord Adams and Robert Merrihew Adams	1989
91	Phenomenology	Young	Iris Marion		On Female Body Experience."Throwing Like a Girl" and Other Essays		Journal of Consciousness Studies, 3, No. 5�6, 1996, pp. 402�8	http://horizons-2000.org/5.%20Mind%20and%20Metaphysics/Web%20papers/P.S.%20Churchland,%20The%20Hornswoggle%20Problem.htm			1996
92	Phil Mind	Gertler	Brie		In Defense of Mind-Body Dualism		Heart and Mind		Intro		1981
93	Philosophy and History of Science	Daston	Loraine		o		Oxford UP		Intermediate		2005	one of three monographs in feminist philosophy course
94	Philosophy of Art/Aesthetics	Korsmeyer	Carolyn		Pleasure: Reflections on Aesthetics and Feminism		Arendt, Hannah (1964/1983). Eichmann in Jerusalem: A report on the banality of evil, rev. ed. New York: Penguin. Pp. 21-55, 76-77, 83-95, 105-106, 112-115, 145-147, 150, 252, 276-279, 287-298.		intro		1964
95	Philosophy of Art/Aesthetics	Nochlin	Linda		Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?		Collected in /Mind, Reason, and Imagination/ (Cambridge)		Intro/Intermediate		1998
96	Philosophy of Art/Aesthetics	Feagin	Susan		oooo		The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 22-43.		Intermediate		2007	Used as an intro to other topics in the philosophy of evolution, such as the concept of fitness, random drift, role of causation, etc.
97	Philosophy of Art/Aesthetics	Brand	Peggy Zeglin		Disinterestedness and Political Art		Analytic Philosophy 52(1)	http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2153-960X.2011.00515.x/full	Intermediate		2011
98	Philosophy of artificial intelligence	Boden	Margaret		The Philosophy Of Artificial Intelligence (introduction to)		Brit. J. Phil. Sci. 57 627–653	https://vpn.lib.ucdavis.edu/content/oup/phisci/2006/00000057/00000004/,DanaInfo=www.ingentaconnect.com+art00627	Intermediate		2006	Used with other papers on the statisticalist/causalist debate
99	Philosophy of biology	Gannett	Lisa		Group Categories in Pharmacogenetics Research		Oxford Review 5 (1967): 5-15. Reprintred in Virtues and Vices	http://philpapers.org/archive/FOOTPO-2.1.pdf	Intro		1967
100	Philosophy of biology	Potochnik	Angela	Erika L. Milam, Roberta L. Millstein, Joan E. Roughgarden	Sex and sensibility: The role of social selection		Philosophy and Public Affairs 1, 47-66	http://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/Phil160,Fall02/thomson.htm	introductory		1971