Sara Bernstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 3602102 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Bernstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Bernstein |
| SIGNATURE | BERNSTEIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Biased Evaluative Descriptions
In this essay I identify a type of linguistic phenomenon new to feminist philosophy of language: biased evaluative descriptions. Biased evaluative descriptions are descriptions whose well-intended positive surface meanings are inflected with implicitly biased content. Biased evaluative descriptions are characterized by three main features: (1) they have roots in implicit bias or benevolent sexism, (2) their application is counterfactually unstabl…
Non-Being
We are surrounded by things that exist, like chairs, tables, phones, and people. But we are also surrounded by things that don’t exist, like holes, shadows, omissions, and negative properties. We read stories of nonexistent unicorns and magical creatures. We reason about scenarios that don’t exist, from the small (‘what if I’d have studied an hour longer?’) to the large (‘what if World War II hadn’t occurred?’). We refer to nonexistents (‘that pa…
Could a middle level be the most fundamental
Causation and Free Will
Carolina Sartorio's Causation and Free Will is the most important contribution to the free will debate in recent memory. It is innovative and rigorous, and makes genuine progress on the classic long-standing philosophical problem of whether or not we are free, and if so, in what this freedom consists.Whether or not we are free depends only on facts about the actual world rather than the availability of alternative possibilities, argue proponents …
Grounding Is Not Causation
Proponents of grounding often describe the notion as "metaphysical causation" involving determination and production relations similar to causation. This paper argues that the similarities between grounding and causation are merely superficial. I show that there are several sorts of causation that have no analogue in grounding; that the type of "bringing into existence" that both involve is extremely different; and that the synchronicity of groun…
The Metaphysics of Omissions
Omissions- any events, actions, or things that do not occur - are central to numerous debates in causation and ethics. This article surveys views on what omissions are, whether they are causally efficacious, and how they ground moral responsibility
Rural representations in fashion and television
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Colombia Broadcasting System (CBS), a major US television network, cancelled all of its popular rural programming (e.g. The Beverly Hillbillies [Paul Henning, CBS, 1962–71], Green Acres [Jay Sommers, CBS, 1965–71]). Known as the ‘rural purge’, the cancellations made way for more urbanthemed shows and strove to cater to higher ‘quality’ (presumably urban) viewers. At the same time, US Vogue Magazine featured the …
Grounding Is Not Causation
Proponents of grounding often describe the notion as "metaphysical causation" involving determination and production relations similar to causation. This paper argues that the similarities between grounding and causation are merely superficial. I show that there are several sorts of causation that have no analogue in grounding; that the type of "bringing into existence" that both involve is extremely different; and that the synchronicity of groun…
The Metaphysics of Omissions
Omissions- any events, actions, or things that do not occur - are central to numerous debates in causation and ethics. This article surveys views on what omissions are, whether they are causally efficacious, and how they ground moral responsibility
Rural representations in fashion and television
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Colombia Broadcasting System (CBS), a major US television network, cancelled all of its popular rural programming (e.g. The Beverly Hillbillies [Paul Henning, CBS, 1962–71], Green Acres [Jay Sommers, CBS, 1965–71]). Known as the ‘rural purge’, the cancellations made way for more urbanthemed shows and strove to cater to higher ‘quality’ (presumably urban) viewers. At the same time, US Vogue Magazine featured the …
The Metaphysics of Omissions
Omissions- any events, actions, or things that do not occur - are central to numerous debates in causation and ethics. This article surveys views on what omissions are, whether they are causally efficacious, and how they ground moral responsibility
Grounding Is Not Causation
Proponents of grounding often describe the notion as "metaphysical causation" involving determination and production relations similar to causation. This paper argues that the similarities between grounding and causation are merely superficial. I show that there are several sorts of causation that have no analogue in grounding; that the type of "bringing into existence" that both involve is extremely different; and that the synchronicity of groun…
Causation and Free Will
Carolina Sartorio's Causation and Free Will is the most important contribution to the free will debate in recent memory. It is innovative and rigorous, and makes genuine progress on the classic long-standing philosophical problem of whether or not we are free, and if so, in what this freedom consists.Whether or not we are free depends only on facts about the actual world rather than the availability of alternative possibilities, argue proponents …
Non-Being
We are surrounded by things that exist, like chairs, tables, phones, and people. But we are also surrounded by things that don’t exist, like holes, shadows, omissions, and negative properties. We read stories of nonexistent unicorns and magical creatures. We reason about scenarios that don’t exist, from the small (‘what if I’d have studied an hour longer?’) to the large (‘what if World War II hadn’t occurred?’). We refer to nonexistents (‘that pa…
Could a middle level be the most fundamental
Biased Evaluative Descriptions
In this essay I identify a type of linguistic phenomenon new to feminist philosophy of language: biased evaluative descriptions. Biased evaluative descriptions are descriptions whose well-intended positive surface meanings are inflected with implicitly biased content. Biased evaluative descriptions are characterized by three main features: (1) they have roots in implicit bias or benevolent sexism, (2) their application is counterfactually unstabl…
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Causation (3 works) · Metaphysics (3 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (3 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (3 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Advertising (1 work)