Terrion L Williamson
Biographic Data
| ID | 389166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Terrion L Williamson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Terrion L |
| FAMILY NAME | Williamson |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMSON T L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9920-602X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
On the Offense against Fanaticism
Fanatics claim that we must give up guaranteed goods in pursuit of extremely improbable Utopia. Recently, Wilkinson has defended Fanaticism by arguing that nonfanatics must violate at least one plausible rational requirement. We reject Fanaticism. We show that by taking stakes-sensitive risk attitudes seriously, we can resist the core premises in Wilkinson’s argument
A risky challenge for intransitive preferences
Philosophers have spent a great deal of time debating whether intransitive preferences can be rational. I present a risky decision that poses a challenge for the defender of intransitivity. The defender of intransitivity faces a trilemma and must either: (i) reject the rationality of intransitive preferences, (ii) deny State‐wise Dominance, or (iii) accept the bizarre verdict that you can be required to pay to relabel the tickets of a fair lotter…
Rational risk‐aversion: Good things come to those who weight
No existing normative decision theory adequately handles risk. Expected Utility Theory is overly restrictive in prohibiting a range of reasonable preferences. And theories designed to accommodate such preferences (for example, Buchak's (2013) Risk‐Weighted Expected Utility Theory) violate the Betweenness axiom, which requires that you are indifferent to randomizing over two options between which you are already indifferent. Betweenness has been o…
Need that Tastes Like Destruction: Lessons from (the) Lorde on the Occasion of Black Death and Dying
Need that Tastes Like Destruction:Lessons from (the) Lorde on the Occasion of Black Death and Dying Terrion L. Williamson (bio) any black feminist worth the naming has spent time with Audre Lorde. We have quoted her again and again and again. We have assigned her to our friends, our colleagues, our students, and those people in our lives who just generally need to get their situations together. You don't even have to be a for real for real femini…
Determinism, Counterfactuals, and Decision
Rational agents face choices, even when taking seriously the possibility of determinism. Rational agents also follow the advice of Causal Decision Theory (CDT). Although many take these claims to be well-motivated, there is growing pressure to reject one of them, as CDT seems to go badly wrong in some deterministic cases. We argue that deterministic cases do not undermine a counterfactual model of rational deliberation, which is characteristic of…
Of serial murder and true crime: Some preliminary thoughts on black feminist research praxis and the implications of settler colonialism
Scandalize My Name: Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life
From sapphire, mammy, and jezebel, to the angry black woman, baby mama, and nappy-headed ho, black female iconography has had a long and tortured history in public culture. The telling of this history has long occupied the work of black female theorists—much of which has been foundational in situating black women within the matrix of sociopolitical thought and practice in the United States. Scandalize My Name builds upon the rich tradition of thi…
Sellin' Your Own Body: Contextualizing Racialized Gender Violence and Illicit Sexual Practice
Darlene Clark Hine’s 1989 essay “Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women in the Middle West” provides a regionally specific alternative accounting of black migration patterns that helps to make visible the specific vulnerabilities attendant to black women’s lives and establishes a framework for contextualizing black women’s various forms of sexual agency. This essay discusses the significance of Hine’s essential contribution in light of subsequen…
Why Did They Die? On Combahee and the Serialization of Black Death
Between January and May of 1979, twelve similarly situated black women were murdered in Boston, Massachusetts. Just two years past the writing of what would become their canonical feminist statement, the Combahee River Collective (CRC) mobilized around the series of deaths along with other grassroots organizations and members of the local community. The CRC’s most significant intervention in that crisis was the creation and circulation of a pamph…
Scandalize My Name: Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life
From sapphire, mammy, and jezebel to the angry black woman, baby mama, and nappy-headed ho, black female iconography has had a long and tortured history in public culture. The telling of this history has long occupied the work of black female theorists—much of which has been foundational in situating black women within the matrix of sociopolitical thought and practice in the United States. Scandalize My Name builds upon the rich tradition of this…
Bla(n)ckness and the Illogics of Black Teenage Motherhood
In the Life
This article uses the occasion of the Don Imus dustup in 2007, in which the radio shock jock became the subject of intense public censure after referring to the Rutgers women’s basketball team as “nappy-headed hos” on air, to consider both the ramifications and the conditions of possibility of that particular configuration of terms. It suggests that, rather than weeding out white racism, the most significant implication of the Imus moment was tha…
Rational risk‐aversion: Good things come to those who weight
No existing normative decision theory adequately handles risk. Expected Utility Theory is overly restrictive in prohibiting a range of reasonable preferences. And theories designed to accommodate such preferences (for example, Buchak's (2013) Risk‐Weighted Expected Utility Theory) violate the Betweenness axiom, which requires that you are indifferent to randomizing over two options between which you are already indifferent. Betweenness has been o…
Why Did They Die? On Combahee and the Serialization of Black Death
Between January and May of 1979, twelve similarly situated black women were murdered in Boston, Massachusetts. Just two years past the writing of what would become their canonical feminist statement, the Combahee River Collective (CRC) mobilized around the series of deaths along with other grassroots organizations and members of the local community. The CRC’s most significant intervention in that crisis was the creation and circulation of a pamph…
Of serial murder and true crime: Some preliminary thoughts on black feminist research praxis and the implications of settler colonialism
In the Life
This article uses the occasion of the Don Imus dustup in 2007, in which the radio shock jock became the subject of intense public censure after referring to the Rutgers women’s basketball team as “nappy-headed hos” on air, to consider both the ramifications and the conditions of possibility of that particular configuration of terms. It suggests that, rather than weeding out white racism, the most significant implication of the Imus moment was tha…
In the Life
This article uses the occasion of the Don Imus dustup in 2007, in which the radio shock jock became the subject of intense public censure after referring to the Rutgers women’s basketball team as “nappy-headed hos” on air, to consider both the ramifications and the conditions of possibility of that particular configuration of terms. It suggests that, rather than weeding out white racism, the most significant implication of the Imus moment was tha…
Scandalize My Name: Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life
From sapphire, mammy, and jezebel to the angry black woman, baby mama, and nappy-headed ho, black female iconography has had a long and tortured history in public culture. The telling of this history has long occupied the work of black female theorists—much of which has been foundational in situating black women within the matrix of sociopolitical thought and practice in the United States. Scandalize My Name builds upon the rich tradition of this…
Bla(n)ckness and the Illogics of Black Teenage Motherhood
Why Did They Die? On Combahee and the Serialization of Black Death
Between January and May of 1979, twelve similarly situated black women were murdered in Boston, Massachusetts. Just two years past the writing of what would become their canonical feminist statement, the Combahee River Collective (CRC) mobilized around the series of deaths along with other grassroots organizations and members of the local community. The CRC’s most significant intervention in that crisis was the creation and circulation of a pamph…
Scandalize My Name: Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life
From sapphire, mammy, and jezebel, to the angry black woman, baby mama, and nappy-headed ho, black female iconography has had a long and tortured history in public culture. The telling of this history has long occupied the work of black female theorists—much of which has been foundational in situating black women within the matrix of sociopolitical thought and practice in the United States. Scandalize My Name builds upon the rich tradition of thi…
Sellin' Your Own Body: Contextualizing Racialized Gender Violence and Illicit Sexual Practice
Darlene Clark Hine’s 1989 essay “Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women in the Middle West” provides a regionally specific alternative accounting of black migration patterns that helps to make visible the specific vulnerabilities attendant to black women’s lives and establishes a framework for contextualizing black women’s various forms of sexual agency. This essay discusses the significance of Hine’s essential contribution in light of subsequen…
Determinism, Counterfactuals, and Decision
Rational agents face choices, even when taking seriously the possibility of determinism. Rational agents also follow the advice of Causal Decision Theory (CDT). Although many take these claims to be well-motivated, there is growing pressure to reject one of them, as CDT seems to go badly wrong in some deterministic cases. We argue that deterministic cases do not undermine a counterfactual model of rational deliberation, which is characteristic of…
Of serial murder and true crime: Some preliminary thoughts on black feminist research praxis and the implications of settler colonialism
Rational risk‐aversion: Good things come to those who weight
No existing normative decision theory adequately handles risk. Expected Utility Theory is overly restrictive in prohibiting a range of reasonable preferences. And theories designed to accommodate such preferences (for example, Buchak's (2013) Risk‐Weighted Expected Utility Theory) violate the Betweenness axiom, which requires that you are indifferent to randomizing over two options between which you are already indifferent. Betweenness has been o…
Need that Tastes Like Destruction: Lessons from (the) Lorde on the Occasion of Black Death and Dying
Need that Tastes Like Destruction:Lessons from (the) Lorde on the Occasion of Black Death and Dying Terrion L. Williamson (bio) any black feminist worth the naming has spent time with Audre Lorde. We have quoted her again and again and again. We have assigned her to our friends, our colleagues, our students, and those people in our lives who just generally need to get their situations together. You don't even have to be a for real for real femini…
A risky challenge for intransitive preferences
Philosophers have spent a great deal of time debating whether intransitive preferences can be rational. I present a risky decision that poses a challenge for the defender of intransitivity. The defender of intransitivity faces a trilemma and must either: (i) reject the rationality of intransitive preferences, (ii) deny State‐wise Dominance, or (iii) accept the bizarre verdict that you can be required to pay to relabel the tickets of a fair lotter…
On the Offense against Fanaticism
Fanatics claim that we must give up guaranteed goods in pursuit of extremely improbable Utopia. Recently, Wilkinson has defended Fanaticism by arguing that nonfanatics must violate at least one plausible rational requirement. We reject Fanaticism. We show that by taking stakes-sensitive risk attitudes seriously, we can resist the core premises in Wilkinson’s argument
Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Race, History, and American Society (6 works) · Black women (3 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)