R Kukla
Biographic Data
| ID | 418188 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Kukla |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Kukla |
| SIGNATURE | KUKLA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8294-2266 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Centering Gender Euphoria in advance
The concept of gender dysphoria, typically understood as a pathological experienced mismatch between one’s “inner gender identity” and one’s body, has been central to defining and “diagnosing” transness. Gender euphoria, which I define as joy, excitement, or pleasure in one’s gendered embodiment (including the social reception and emplacement of one’s gendered body), is an important notion in trans communities, but it has received little attentio…
The Joy of Consent
Collaboration, epistemic skill, and suspension
We cannot understand epistemic competence without embedding agents in the social world of epistemic collaboration. Being a competent epistemic agent essentially involves being competent at specific sorts of social interactions and negotiations. More specifically, suspending judgment is a skill, and it is a skill that can only be understood as embedded in our social practices of epistemic collaboration. We cannot understand the epistemic skills th…
On Gaslighting
Well, that was a depressing read
Health Problems
Elizabeth Barnes’s Health Problems, like all of her works, is an almost overwhelmingly rich read, densely packed with tight arguments, conceptual distinctions, evocative examples, and jokes. Barnes’s signature brand in academia is to do maximally rigorous metaphysics about the things that matter most to us without losing their texture, complexity, or realism in the name of precision; this book decidedly helps to build that brand.Barnes’s central …
Gender Ascriptions Reconsidered Reconsidered
We would like to thank Jaakko Reinikainen for their thoughtful engagement with our paper. In the end, we do not think that they have demonstrated substantive tensions in our view, but explaining wh
Knowing things and going places
When I say “I know Sarah,” or “I know Berlin,” what sort of knowledge am I claiming? Such knowledge of a particular is, I claim, not reducible to either propositional knowledge‐that or to traditional physical know‐how. Mere, bare knowledge by acquaintance also does not capture the kind of knowledge being claimed here. Using knowledge of a place as my central example, I argue that this kind of knowledge‐of, or “objectual knowledge” as it is someti…
Uptake and refusal
Discussions of uptake in the philosophy of language focus our attention on what role other people have in fixing the import, success, influence and social life of a speech act. The general idea in most discussions of uptake, despite their differences and disagreements, is whether and how an audience is cooperative or uncooperative when a speaker plays a critical role in how speech acts function. This essay is primarily concerned with “refusals”, …
What Counts as a Disease, and Why Does It Matter
I argue that the concept of disease serves such radically different strategic purposes for different kinds of stakeholders that coming up with a unified philosophical definition of disease is hopeless. Instead, I defend a radically pluralist, pragmatist account of when it is appropriate to mobilize the concept of disease. I argue that it is appropriate to categorize a condition as a disease when it serves legitimate strategic goals to at least pa…
A Nonideal Theory of Sexual Consent
Our autonomy can be compromised by limitations in our capacities, or by the power relationships within which we are embedded. If we insist that real consent requires full autonomy, then virtually no sex will turn out to be consensual. I argue that under conditions of compromised autonomy, consent must be socially and interpersonally scaffolded. To understand consent as an ethically crucial but nonideal concept, we need to think about how it is re…
Misogyny and Ideological Logic
[no abstract available]
Infertility, epistemic risk, and disease definitions
Infertility, epistemic risk, and disease definitions
Misogyny and Ideological Logic
[no abstract available]
Infertility, epistemic risk, and disease definitions
Misogyny and Ideological Logic
[no abstract available]
A Nonideal Theory of Sexual Consent
Our autonomy can be compromised by limitations in our capacities, or by the power relationships within which we are embedded. If we insist that real consent requires full autonomy, then virtually no sex will turn out to be consensual. I argue that under conditions of compromised autonomy, consent must be socially and interpersonally scaffolded. To understand consent as an ethically crucial but nonideal concept, we need to think about how it is re…
What Counts as a Disease, and Why Does It Matter
I argue that the concept of disease serves such radically different strategic purposes for different kinds of stakeholders that coming up with a unified philosophical definition of disease is hopeless. Instead, I defend a radically pluralist, pragmatist account of when it is appropriate to mobilize the concept of disease. I argue that it is appropriate to categorize a condition as a disease when it serves legitimate strategic goals to at least pa…
Knowing things and going places
When I say “I know Sarah,” or “I know Berlin,” what sort of knowledge am I claiming? Such knowledge of a particular is, I claim, not reducible to either propositional knowledge‐that or to traditional physical know‐how. Mere, bare knowledge by acquaintance also does not capture the kind of knowledge being claimed here. Using knowledge of a place as my central example, I argue that this kind of knowledge‐of, or “objectual knowledge” as it is someti…
Uptake and refusal
Discussions of uptake in the philosophy of language focus our attention on what role other people have in fixing the import, success, influence and social life of a speech act. The general idea in most discussions of uptake, despite their differences and disagreements, is whether and how an audience is cooperative or uncooperative when a speaker plays a critical role in how speech acts function. This essay is primarily concerned with “refusals”, …
Gender Ascriptions Reconsidered Reconsidered
We would like to thank Jaakko Reinikainen for their thoughtful engagement with our paper. In the end, we do not think that they have demonstrated substantive tensions in our view, but explaining wh
Collaboration, epistemic skill, and suspension
We cannot understand epistemic competence without embedding agents in the social world of epistemic collaboration. Being a competent epistemic agent essentially involves being competent at specific sorts of social interactions and negotiations. More specifically, suspending judgment is a skill, and it is a skill that can only be understood as embedded in our social practices of epistemic collaboration. We cannot understand the epistemic skills th…
On Gaslighting
Well, that was a depressing read
Health Problems
Elizabeth Barnes’s Health Problems, like all of her works, is an almost overwhelmingly rich read, densely packed with tight arguments, conceptual distinctions, evocative examples, and jokes. Barnes’s signature brand in academia is to do maximally rigorous metaphysics about the things that matter most to us without losing their texture, complexity, or realism in the name of precision; this book decidedly helps to build that brand.Barnes’s central …
Centering Gender Euphoria in advance
The concept of gender dysphoria, typically understood as a pathological experienced mismatch between one’s “inner gender identity” and one’s body, has been central to defining and “diagnosing” transness. Gender euphoria, which I define as joy, excitement, or pleasure in one’s gendered embodiment (including the social reception and emplacement of one’s gendered body), is an important notion in trans communities, but it has received little attentio…
The Joy of Consent
Philosophy (10 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Analytic philosophy (2 works) · Contemporary philosophy (2 works)