L A Watson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3658201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L A Watson |
| GIVEN NAMES | L A |
| FAMILY NAME | Watson |
| SIGNATURE | WATSON L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7638-0538 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Rawls’s “A Theory of Justice” at Fifty
Rawls’s “A Theory of Justice” at Fifty is a superb volume, edited by Paul Weithman, that emerged out of a conference of the same name held at University of Notre Dame in 2021 for the purpose of celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of A Theory and the centenary of Rawls’s birth.The volume consists of nineteen essays and an introduction by Weithman, who also has an essay in the volume. The volume is divided into four parts: (1) “…
The Empire of Women
Jean‐Jacques Rousseau's works are often a touchstone and inspiration for many when it comes to thinking carefully about domination. We find Rousseau‐inspired analyses across a wide range of political theories centering the concept of domination, from republicanism, liberalism, and Marxism to critical theory, feminisms, and beyond. This article aims to raise questions about a powerful, prevailing, and compelling reading of Rousseau's conception of…
Critical reflections on The Right to Sex
This review essay engages with Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex , aiming to explore some of the main lines of argument. I share Srinivasan's view that no one has a right to sex and raise some questions and reflections about how to think about the basis of exclusion some people experience. Further, I raise questions and concerns regarding the prison abolishment argument she offers
Against Convergence Liberalism
Convergence liberalism has emerged as a prominent interpretation of public reason liberalism. Yet, while its main rival in the public reason literature—the Rawlsian consensus account of public reason—has faced serious scrutiny regarding its ability to secure equal citizenship for all members of society, especially for members of historically subordinated groups, convergence liberalism has not. With this article, we hope to start a discussion abou…
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex and Sexuality
Dating and hookup apps (DHAs) are now widely used and may be transforming our intimate relationships. The apps are beneficial in fostering intimate connections among those who are lonely, who are members of minority or marginalized groups, or who live nomadic lifestyles because of work or recreational travel. However, the wider social and relational changes that DHAs portend are merely beginning to be seriously discussed by academics (Arias et al…
Debating Sex Work
In this “for and against” book Lori Watson argues for a sex equality approach to prostitution in which buyers are criminalized and sellers are decriminalized (the Nordic Model). Jessica Flanigan argues that sex work should be fully decriminalized. Watson defends the Nordic Model on the grounds that prostitution is an exploitative and unequal practice that entrenches existing patterns of gendered injustice. Watson also argues that full decriminali…
Equal Citizenship and Public Reason
This book is a defense of political liberalism as a feminist liberalism. The first half of the book develops and defends a novel interpretation of political liberalism. It is argued that political liberals should accept a restrictive account of public reason and that political liberals’ account of public justification is superior to the leading alternative, the convergence account of public justification. In the second half of the book, it is arg…
The Woman Question
The author was inspired to write this article in light of the ongoing and recent claims by some radical feminists that trans women are not women. This is much more than a debate among differing theoretical positions. Women have been threatened, both trans* and cis women. The vitriol on both sides is alarming and undermining of the feminism we all share. Rather than write an academic, philosophical treatise on the meaning of “woman,” the author wr…
A Reply to Weitzer
This is a reply to Ronald Weitzer's criticisms of anti-pornography feminism. I argue that Weitzer has misrepresented the anti-pornography feminist position reflected in the work of Gail Dines
After Identity
Is a Feminist Political Liberalism Possible
Is a feminist political liberalism possible? Political liberalism’s regard for a wide range of comprehensive doctrines as reasonable makes some feminists skeptical of its ability to address sex inequality. Indeed, some feminists claim that political liberalism maintains its position as a political liberalism at the expense of securing substantive equality for women. We claim that political liberalism’s core commitments actually restrict all reaso…
Political Liberalism, Marriage and the Family
Feminism, Religion, and Shared Reasons
Pornography and Public Reason
To liberals, speech must never be sacrificed for other social goals. But liberalism has never understood that the free speech of men silences the free speech of women. It is the same social goal, just other people. This is what a real inequality, a real conflict, a real disparity in social power looks like. The law of the First Amendment compre hends that freedom of expression, in the abstract, is a system, but it fails to compre hend that sexism…
Constituting Politics
Constituting Politics
This essay considers whether liberal political theory has tools with which to count gender, and so gender relations, as political. Can liberal political theory count sub-ordination among the harms of sex inequality that the state ought to correct? Watson defends a version of deliberative democracy—liberalism—as able to place issues of social inequality in the form of hierarchical social identities at the center of its normative commitments, and s…
The Woman Question
The author was inspired to write this article in light of the ongoing and recent claims by some radical feminists that trans women are not women. This is much more than a debate among differing theoretical positions. Women have been threatened, both trans* and cis women. The vitriol on both sides is alarming and undermining of the feminism we all share. Rather than write an academic, philosophical treatise on the meaning of “woman,” the author wr…
Political Liberalism, Marriage and the Family
A Reply to Weitzer
This is a reply to Ronald Weitzer's criticisms of anti-pornography feminism. I argue that Weitzer has misrepresented the anti-pornography feminist position reflected in the work of Gail Dines
Constituting Politics
Pornography and Public Reason
To liberals, speech must never be sacrificed for other social goals. But liberalism has never understood that the free speech of men silences the free speech of women. It is the same social goal, just other people. This is what a real inequality, a real conflict, a real disparity in social power looks like. The law of the First Amendment compre hends that freedom of expression, in the abstract, is a system, but it fails to compre hend that sexism…
Constituting Politics
Constituting Politics
This essay considers whether liberal political theory has tools with which to count gender, and so gender relations, as political. Can liberal political theory count sub-ordination among the harms of sex inequality that the state ought to correct? Watson defends a version of deliberative democracy—liberalism—as able to place issues of social inequality in the form of hierarchical social identities at the center of its normative commitments, and s…
Feminism, Religion, and Shared Reasons
After Identity
Is a Feminist Political Liberalism Possible
Is a feminist political liberalism possible? Political liberalism’s regard for a wide range of comprehensive doctrines as reasonable makes some feminists skeptical of its ability to address sex inequality. Indeed, some feminists claim that political liberalism maintains its position as a political liberalism at the expense of securing substantive equality for women. We claim that political liberalism’s core commitments actually restrict all reaso…
Political Liberalism, Marriage and the Family
A Reply to Weitzer
This is a reply to Ronald Weitzer's criticisms of anti-pornography feminism. I argue that Weitzer has misrepresented the anti-pornography feminist position reflected in the work of Gail Dines
The Woman Question
The author was inspired to write this article in light of the ongoing and recent claims by some radical feminists that trans women are not women. This is much more than a debate among differing theoretical positions. Women have been threatened, both trans* and cis women. The vitriol on both sides is alarming and undermining of the feminism we all share. Rather than write an academic, philosophical treatise on the meaning of “woman,” the author wr…
Equal Citizenship and Public Reason
This book is a defense of political liberalism as a feminist liberalism. The first half of the book develops and defends a novel interpretation of political liberalism. It is argued that political liberals should accept a restrictive account of public reason and that political liberals’ account of public justification is superior to the leading alternative, the convergence account of public justification. In the second half of the book, it is arg…
Debating Sex Work
In this “for and against” book Lori Watson argues for a sex equality approach to prostitution in which buyers are criminalized and sellers are decriminalized (the Nordic Model). Jessica Flanigan argues that sex work should be fully decriminalized. Watson defends the Nordic Model on the grounds that prostitution is an exploitative and unequal practice that entrenches existing patterns of gendered injustice. Watson also argues that full decriminali…
Critical reflections on The Right to Sex
This review essay engages with Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex , aiming to explore some of the main lines of argument. I share Srinivasan's view that no one has a right to sex and raise some questions and reflections about how to think about the basis of exclusion some people experience. Further, I raise questions and concerns regarding the prison abolishment argument she offers
Against Convergence Liberalism
Convergence liberalism has emerged as a prominent interpretation of public reason liberalism. Yet, while its main rival in the public reason literature—the Rawlsian consensus account of public reason—has faced serious scrutiny regarding its ability to secure equal citizenship for all members of society, especially for members of historically subordinated groups, convergence liberalism has not. With this article, we hope to start a discussion abou…
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex and Sexuality
Dating and hookup apps (DHAs) are now widely used and may be transforming our intimate relationships. The apps are beneficial in fostering intimate connections among those who are lonely, who are members of minority or marginalized groups, or who live nomadic lifestyles because of work or recreational travel. However, the wider social and relational changes that DHAs portend are merely beginning to be seriously discussed by academics (Arias et al…
The Empire of Women
Jean‐Jacques Rousseau's works are often a touchstone and inspiration for many when it comes to thinking carefully about domination. We find Rousseau‐inspired analyses across a wide range of political theories centering the concept of domination, from republicanism, liberalism, and Marxism to critical theory, feminisms, and beyond. This article aims to raise questions about a powerful, prevailing, and compelling reading of Rousseau's conception of…
Rawls’s “A Theory of Justice” at Fifty
Rawls’s “A Theory of Justice” at Fifty is a superb volume, edited by Paul Weithman, that emerged out of a conference of the same name held at University of Notre Dame in 2021 for the purpose of celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of A Theory and the centenary of Rawls’s birth.The volume consists of nineteen essays and an introduction by Weithman, who also has an essay in the volume. The volume is divided into four parts: (1) “…
Sociology (15 works) · Law (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (10 works) · Liberalism (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law and economics (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works)