Linda Martín Alcoff

Biographical Information

Linda Martín Alcoff is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies and the Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence at Syracuse University. She is also Co-Director of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy and incoming Chair of the APA Committee on Hispanics. In feminist theory, she teaches courses at the introductory, advanced, and graduate levels.

Bibliography

BOOKS

Real Knowing: New Versions of Coherence Epistemology. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996.

EDITED BOOKS

Epistemology: The Big Question. Basil Blackwell Pub., forthcoming.

Feminist Epistemologies. (Co-edited with Elizabeth Potter) New York: Routledge, 1993.

ARTICLES

"Merleau-Ponty and Feminist Theory on Experience." (forthcoming).

"What Should White People Do?" Hypatia (forthcoming).

"Phenomenology, Poststructuralism, and the Feminist Theory on the Concept of Experience," in Feminist Phenomenology. Ed. Linda Fisher and Lester Embree. (Kluwer, forthcoming).

"Expert Discourses of Critique," in Reinterpreting the Political. Ed. Lenore Langsdorf and Stephen Watson. (SUNY Press, forthcoming).

"Feminism and Racism," in A Companion to Feminist Phiosophy. Ed. Alison jaggar and iris Young. (Basil Blackwell, 1997).

"The Politics of Postmodern Feminism, Revisited." Cultural Critique 36 (Spring 1997): 5-27.

"Philosophy and Racial Identity." Radical Philosophy (Jan-Feb 1996). Also in Philosophy Today 41 (Spr 1997): 67-76.

"On the Elimination of Experience in Postmodern Feminism," in Feminism, Epistemology, and Ethics: Proceedings of the Oslo Conference 1994. Ed. Inger Nygaard Preus. (University of Oslo, 1996), pp. 15-30.

"Dangerous Pleasures: Foucault and the Politics of Pedophilia." Feminist Interpretations of Foucault. Ed. Susan Hekman. (Penn State Press, 1996), pp. 99-136.

"Feminist Theory and Social Science: New Knowledges, New Epistemologies," in Body/Spaces: Destabilizing Geographies of Gender and Sexuality. Ed. Nancy Duncan. (Routledge, 1996): 13-27.

"Is the Feminist Critique of Reason Rational?" Philosophical Topics 23 (Fall 1995): 1-26.

"Reflections on Formal Mentoring." Teaching Philosophy 18 (Dec 1995): 359-368.

"Mestizo Identity," in American Mixed Race: The Culture of Microdiversity. Ed. Naomi Zack. (Rowman and Littlefield, 1995).

"Democracy and Rationality: A Dialogue with Hilary Putnam," in Women, Culture, and Development. Ed. Martha Nussbaum and Jonathan Glover. (Oxford University Press, 1995).

"A Philosophical Dialogue with 'Dialogue with the Other'." Gender-Nature-Culture (1994): 5-22.

"Foucault as Epistemologist." Philosophical Forum. XXV (Wint 1993): 95-124.

"Survivor Discourse: Transgression or Recuperation?" (Co-authored with Laura Gray) Signs 18 (Wint 1993): 260-290.

"On Mastering Master Discourses." American Literary History 5 (Summ 1993): 335-346.

"Are Old Wives' Tales Justified?" (Co-authored with Vrinda Dalmiya), in Feminist Epistemologies. Ed. Elizabeth Potter and Linda Martín Alcoff. (New York: Routledge, 1993).

"How is Epistemology Political?" in Radical Philosophy: Tradition, Counter-Tradition, Politics. Ed. Roger Gottlieb. (Temple University Press, 1993).

"Foucault," "Gadamer," and "Continental Epistemology," in A Companion to Epistemology. Ed. Jonathan Dancy and Ernest Sosa. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1992).

"The Problem of Speaking for Others." Cultural Critique (Wint 1991-92): 5-32.

"Feminist Politics and Foucault: The Limits to a Collaboration," in Crises in Continental Philosophy. Ed. Arlene Dallery and Charles Scott. (Albany: SUNY Press, 1990).

"Feminist Critiques of Social Science." APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy 1 (Dec. 1987): 14-16.

"Cultural Feminism v. Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory." Signs (Spr 1988): 405-436.

"Justifying Feminist Social Science." Hypatia 2 (Fall 1987): 107-127.

"Skepticism, or Charles Sanders Peirce's Alternative to the Skeptical Dilemma." Auslegung XIII (Wint 1986): 6-18.

"Lordship, Bondage, and the Dialectics of Male/Female Relationships." (Co-authored with Linda Bell) Cogito II (Spr 1985): 79-93.

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