Naomi Scheman
Biographic Data
| ID | 306947 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Naomi Scheman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Naomi |
| FAMILY NAME | Scheman |
| SIGNATURE | SCHEMAN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Twin Cities Orthopedics |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7519-6093 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Disrupting Demands: Messy Challenges to Analytic Methodology
Looking Back on “Queering the Center”
The essay is a retrospective reflection on “Queering the Center by Centering the Queer: Reflections on Transsexuals and Secular Jews,” which critically explored the structures of normative intelligibility through a comparison of experiences of unintelligibility. Twenty years later, extraordinary progress has been made in rendering transsexual lives intelligible, in part by replacing invisibly professionally managed transformations with openly liv…
Engenderings: Constructions of Knowledge, Authority, and Privilege
Naomi Scheman argues that the concerns of philosophy emerge not from the universal human condition but from conditions of privilege. Her books represents a powerful challenge to the notion that gender makes no difference in the construction of philosophical reasoning. At the same time, it criticizes the narrow focus of most feminist theorizing and calls for a more inclusive form of inquiry.
Empowering canaries: Sustainability, vulnerability, and the ethics of epistemology
Research ethics has typically been shaped by a conception of science as intrinsically ethics-free. I argue, instead, for a conception of research ethics grounded in an ethics of epistemology, specifically for a norm of epistemic sustainability: research methods and practices that cultivate, rather than undermine, the ground on which especially less privileged others can successfully pursue knowledge, meeting their epistemic needs as they define t…
Women in Western Political Thought
PLATO 1. Plato and the Greek Tradition of Misogyny 15 2. Philosopher Queens and Private Wives 28 3. Female Nature and Social Structure 51 PART II. ARISTOTLE 4. Woman's Place and Nature in a Functionalist World 73 PART III. ROUSSEAU 5. Rosseau and the Modern Patriarchal Tradition 99 6. The Natural Woman and Her Role 106 7. Equality and Freedom - for Men 140 8. The Fate of Rosseau's Heroines 167 PART IV. MILL 9. John Stuart Mill, Liberal Feminist 1…
The Trustworthiness of Research
This chapter illustrates from three perspectives the practice of community engagement and collaboration in scientific research. Termed the “community-based participatory research” (CBPR), this method seeks to obtain objective and trustworthy scientific data from participating communities, as opposed to the traditional practices of detachment and impersonal communication. By fostering trust between the research institutions and their research subj…
Non-Negotiable Demands
This chapter examines the limits of philosophy and why it is not possible to discover every single “truth” of reality given the tension between needs versus demands. Philosophy unfortunately cannot address the demands placed upon it, as it has been decontextualized in the historical and political sense. Moreover, there are the problems of privileged subjectivity, fixed moral standards that can apply objectively to all (or lack thereof), and the n…
Shifting Ground: Knowledge and Reality, Transgression and Trustworthiness
Individualism and the Objects of Psychology
Linda Nicholson's The Play of Reason: From the Modern to the Postmodern
Nicholson's political philosophy is distinctively grounded in history. The Play of Reason: From the Modern to the Postmodern argues that such plays as much of the foundational role demanded of philosophy as can coherently be played by anything--and that such a foundation is, pragmatically, enough. I focus on two moves: (1) thinking historically as a model for thinking cross-culturally, and (2) historicizing all the way down, as a way of exorcisin…
Linda Nicholson's The Play of Reason: From the Modern to the Postmodern
Nicholson's political philosophy is distinctively grounded in history. The Play of Reason: From the Modern to the Postmodern argues that such “grounding” phys as much of the foundational role demanded of philosophy as can coherently be played by anything—and that such a foundation is, pragmatically, enough. I focus on two moves: (1) thinking historically as a model for thinking cross-culturally, and (2) historicizing “all the way down,” as a way …
The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy
The thirteen specially-commissioned essays in this volume are written by philosophers at the forefront of feminist scholarship, and are designed to provide an accessible and stimulating guide to a philosophical literature that has seen massive expansion in recent years. Ranging from history of philosophy through metaphysics to philosophy of science, they encompass all the core subject areas commonly taught in anglophone undergraduate and graduate…
Interpreting the Personal: Expression and the Formation of Feelings
Interpreting the Personal: Expression and the Formation of Feelings
Though This Be Method, Yet There Is Madness in It: Paranoia and Liberal Epistemology
In an article entitled ‘The Politics of Epistemology’, Morton White argues that it is not in general possible to ascribe a unique political character to a theory of knowledge.1 In particular, he explores what he takes to be the irony that the epistemologies developed by John Locke and John Stuart Mill for explicitly progressive and democratic ends have loopholes that allow for undemocratic interpretation and application. The loopholes White ident…
Reply to Louise Antony
In her discussion of Naomi Scheman's "Individualism and the Objects of Psychology" Louise Antony misses the import of an unpublished paper of Scheman's that she cites. That paper argues against token identity theories on the grounds that only the sort of psycho-physical parallelisms that token identity theorists, such as Davidson and Fodor, reject could license the claim that each mental state or event is some particular physical state or event
Reply to Louise Antony
In her discussion of Naomi Scheman's “Individualism and the Objects of Psychology” Louise Antony misses the import of an unpublished paper of Scheman's that she cites. That paper argues against token identity theories on the grounds that only the sort of psycho-physical parallelisms that token identity theorists, such as Davidson and Fodor, reject could license the claim that each mental state or event is some particular physical state or event
Engenderings: Constructions of Knowledge, Authority and Privilege
Separatism Re-Viewed: Introduction
Jewish Lesbian Writing: A Review Essay
Recent writing by Jewish lesbians is characterized BY challenging and evocative reflection on themes of home and identity, family and choice, tradition and transfor’ mation. This essay is a personal journey through some of this writing. An exploration of the obvious and troubling tensions between lesbian or feminist and Jewish identities leads to the paradoxical but ultimately unsurprising suggestion that lesbian identity and eroticism can provid…
Literary Knowledge: Humanistic Inquiry and the Philosophy of Science
From Hamlet to Maggie Verver
Missing Mothers/Desiring Daughters: Framing the Sight of Women
Women in Western Political Thought
Women in Western Political Thought
PLATO 1. Plato and the Greek Tradition of Misogyny 15 2. Philosopher Queens and Private Wives 28 3. Female Nature and Social Structure 51 PART II. ARISTOTLE 4. Woman's Place and Nature in a Functionalist World 73 PART III. ROUSSEAU 5. Rosseau and the Modern Patriarchal Tradition 99 6. The Natural Woman and Her Role 106 7. Equality and Freedom - for Men 140 8. The Fate of Rosseau's Heroines 167 PART IV. MILL 9. John Stuart Mill, Liberal Feminist 1…
Shifting Ground: Knowledge and Reality, Transgression and Trustworthiness
Missing Mothers/Desiring Daughters: Framing the Sight of Women
Looking Back on “Queering the Center”
The essay is a retrospective reflection on “Queering the Center by Centering the Queer: Reflections on Transsexuals and Secular Jews,” which critically explored the structures of normative intelligibility through a comparison of experiences of unintelligibility. Twenty years later, extraordinary progress has been made in rendering transsexual lives intelligible, in part by replacing invisibly professionally managed transformations with openly liv…
Separatism Re-Viewed: Introduction
Women in Western Political Thought
Missing Mothers/Desiring Daughters: Framing the Sight of Women
From Hamlet to Maggie Verver
Literary Knowledge: Humanistic Inquiry and the Philosophy of Science
Jewish Lesbian Writing: A Review Essay
Recent writing by Jewish lesbians is characterized BY challenging and evocative reflection on themes of home and identity, family and choice, tradition and transfor’ mation. This essay is a personal journey through some of this writing. An exploration of the obvious and troubling tensions between lesbian or feminist and Jewish identities leads to the paradoxical but ultimately unsurprising suggestion that lesbian identity and eroticism can provid…
Separatism Re-Viewed: Introduction
Engenderings: Constructions of Knowledge, Authority and Privilege
Though This Be Method, Yet There Is Madness in It: Paranoia and Liberal Epistemology
In an article entitled ‘The Politics of Epistemology’, Morton White argues that it is not in general possible to ascribe a unique political character to a theory of knowledge.1 In particular, he explores what he takes to be the irony that the epistemologies developed by John Locke and John Stuart Mill for explicitly progressive and democratic ends have loopholes that allow for undemocratic interpretation and application. The loopholes White ident…
Reply to Louise Antony
In her discussion of Naomi Scheman's "Individualism and the Objects of Psychology" Louise Antony misses the import of an unpublished paper of Scheman's that she cites. That paper argues against token identity theories on the grounds that only the sort of psycho-physical parallelisms that token identity theorists, such as Davidson and Fodor, reject could license the claim that each mental state or event is some particular physical state or event
Reply to Louise Antony
In her discussion of Naomi Scheman's “Individualism and the Objects of Psychology” Louise Antony misses the import of an unpublished paper of Scheman's that she cites. That paper argues against token identity theories on the grounds that only the sort of psycho-physical parallelisms that token identity theorists, such as Davidson and Fodor, reject could license the claim that each mental state or event is some particular physical state or event
The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy
The thirteen specially-commissioned essays in this volume are written by philosophers at the forefront of feminist scholarship, and are designed to provide an accessible and stimulating guide to a philosophical literature that has seen massive expansion in recent years. Ranging from history of philosophy through metaphysics to philosophy of science, they encompass all the core subject areas commonly taught in anglophone undergraduate and graduate…
Interpreting the Personal: Expression and the Formation of Feelings
Interpreting the Personal: Expression and the Formation of Feelings
Linda Nicholson's The Play of Reason: From the Modern to the Postmodern
Nicholson's political philosophy is distinctively grounded in history. The Play of Reason: From the Modern to the Postmodern argues that such plays as much of the foundational role demanded of philosophy as can coherently be played by anything--and that such a foundation is, pragmatically, enough. I focus on two moves: (1) thinking historically as a model for thinking cross-culturally, and (2) historicizing all the way down, as a way of exorcisin…
Linda Nicholson's The Play of Reason: From the Modern to the Postmodern
Nicholson's political philosophy is distinctively grounded in history. The Play of Reason: From the Modern to the Postmodern argues that such “grounding” phys as much of the foundational role demanded of philosophy as can coherently be played by anything—and that such a foundation is, pragmatically, enough. I focus on two moves: (1) thinking historically as a model for thinking cross-culturally, and (2) historicizing “all the way down,” as a way …
Individualism and the Objects of Psychology
The Trustworthiness of Research
This chapter illustrates from three perspectives the practice of community engagement and collaboration in scientific research. Termed the “community-based participatory research” (CBPR), this method seeks to obtain objective and trustworthy scientific data from participating communities, as opposed to the traditional practices of detachment and impersonal communication. By fostering trust between the research institutions and their research subj…
Non-Negotiable Demands
This chapter examines the limits of philosophy and why it is not possible to discover every single “truth” of reality given the tension between needs versus demands. Philosophy unfortunately cannot address the demands placed upon it, as it has been decontextualized in the historical and political sense. Moreover, there are the problems of privileged subjectivity, fixed moral standards that can apply objectively to all (or lack thereof), and the n…
Shifting Ground: Knowledge and Reality, Transgression and Trustworthiness
Women in Western Political Thought
PLATO 1. Plato and the Greek Tradition of Misogyny 15 2. Philosopher Queens and Private Wives 28 3. Female Nature and Social Structure 51 PART II. ARISTOTLE 4. Woman's Place and Nature in a Functionalist World 73 PART III. ROUSSEAU 5. Rosseau and the Modern Patriarchal Tradition 99 6. The Natural Woman and Her Role 106 7. Equality and Freedom - for Men 140 8. The Fate of Rosseau's Heroines 167 PART IV. MILL 9. John Stuart Mill, Liberal Feminist 1…
Engenderings: Constructions of Knowledge, Authority, and Privilege
Naomi Scheman argues that the concerns of philosophy emerge not from the universal human condition but from conditions of privilege. Her books represents a powerful challenge to the notion that gender makes no difference in the construction of philosophical reasoning. At the same time, it criticizes the narrow focus of most feminist theorizing and calls for a more inclusive form of inquiry.
Empowering canaries: Sustainability, vulnerability, and the ethics of epistemology
Research ethics has typically been shaped by a conception of science as intrinsically ethics-free. I argue, instead, for a conception of research ethics grounded in an ethics of epistemology, specifically for a norm of epistemic sustainability: research methods and practices that cultivate, rather than undermine, the ground on which especially less privileged others can successfully pursue knowledge, meeting their epistemic needs as they define t…
Looking Back on “Queering the Center”
The essay is a retrospective reflection on “Queering the Center by Centering the Queer: Reflections on Transsexuals and Secular Jews,” which critically explored the structures of normative intelligibility through a comparison of experiences of unintelligibility. Twenty years later, extraordinary progress has been made in rendering transsexual lives intelligible, in part by replacing invisibly professionally managed transformations with openly liv…
Disrupting Demands: Messy Challenges to Analytic Methodology
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