Philosophy Academic Department
We serve as an integral component in strengthening, promoting and contributing to innovative research and teaching. Students participate in critical reading and interpretation of scholarly texts, as well as in the construction and appraisal of arguments.
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Position
- Allen Hermanson, Sean J, Professor
- Aylsworth, Timothy, Assistant Professor
- Beer, Michelle, Associate Professor
- Castro, Clinton, Assistant Professor
- Dennis, Tony, Assistant Teaching Professor
- Harris, Kenton, Teaching Professor
- Leboeuf, Celine, Associate Professor
- Marshall, Gwendolyn, Associate Professor
- Scarbrough, Elizabeth, Associate Teaching Professor
- Scarffe, Eric, Assistant Professor
- Shrage, Laurie, Professor
- Warren, Paul, Professor
- Xerohemona, Kiriake, Teaching Professor
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Scholarly & Creative Works
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Article
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2024Justice Kennedy's Jurisprudence of Dignity: From Sovereign Immunity to Gay Rights. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY. 63:359-380.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/ajlh/njad026 Web of Science: 001108533500001
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2024Examining Monuments: Digital Humanities in the Philosophy Classroom. TEACHING PHILOSOPHY. 47:49-67.Full Text via DOI: 10.5840/teachphil2024117193 Web of Science: 001184200800001
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2023Egalitarian Machine Learning. RES PUBLICA-A JOURNAL OF MORAL LEGAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. 29:237-264.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s11158-022-09561-4 Web of Science: 000836515100002
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2023The Fair Chances in Algorithmic Fairness: A Response to Holm. RES PUBLICA-A JOURNAL OF MORAL LEGAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. 29:331-337.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s11158-022-09570-3 Web of Science: 000877745600003
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2022Toward a Dignity-Based Account of International lawFull Text via DOI: 10.1007/s42439-022-00063-8
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2021What Should We Agree on about the Repugnant Conclusion?Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/S095382082100011X Web of Science: 000721322900003
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2021What Is Body Positivity? The Path from Shame to PrideFull Text via DOI: 10.5840/PHILTOPICS201947218
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2021Is There a Duty to Be a Digital Minimalist?. JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHILOSOPHY. 38:662-673.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/japp.12498 Web of Science: 000617742400001
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2021Fearing the Future Is Life Worth Living in the Anthropocene?Full Text via DOI: 10.5325/jspecphil.35.3.0273 Web of Science: 000754412900004
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2020Consequentialism, Collective Action, and Causal Impotence. ETHICS POLICY & ENVIRONMENT. 23:336-349.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2020.1848191 Web of Science: 000593390900001
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2020Autonomy and Manipulation: Refining the Argument Against Persuasive Advertising. JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS. 175:689-699.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10551-020-04590-6 Web of Science: 000553331900003
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2020Bolstering the Keystone: Kant on the Incomprehensibility of FreedomFull Text via DOI: 10.1515/agph-2020-0003 Web of Science: 000540654000005
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2020Is the Attention Economy Noxious?Web of Science: 000552402200001
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2020"WHAT ARE YOU?" Addressing Racial AmbiguityFull Text via DOI: 10.5325/critphilrace.8.1-2.0292 Web of Science: 000511171000014
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2020What to Do with Dead Monuments?. TPM-THE PHILOSOPHERS MAGAZINE. 26-32.Web of Science: 000609161200015
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2020“What are you?”: Addressing Racial AmbiguityFull Text via DOI: 10.5325/critphilrace.8.1-2.0292
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2019Global, regional, and national cancer incidence, mortality, years of life lost, years lived with disability, and disability-Adjusted life-years for 29 cancer groups, 1990 to 2017: A systematic analysis for the global burden of disease study. JAMA ONCOLOGY. 5:1749-1768.Full Text via DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2019.2996
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2019Rehabilitating "Disease": Function, Value, and Objectivity in Medicine. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. 86:1168-1178.Full Text via DOI: 10.1086/705520 Web of Science: 000502315900031
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2019Agency Laundering and Information Technologies. ETHICAL THEORY AND MORAL PRACTICE. 22:1017-1041.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10677-019-10030-w Web of Science: 000492349300001
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2019'Rethinking "Disease": a fresh diagnosis and a new philosophical treatment'Full Text via DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2019-105465 Web of Science: 000487540700003
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2019The moral limits of the market: the case of consumer scoring dataFull Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10676-019-09500-7 Web of Science: 000469214600004
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2019The imprecise impermissivist’s dilemma. SYNTHESE. 196:1623-1640.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s11229-017-1530-9
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2019Simone de Beauvoir's Feminist Art of LivingFull Text via DOI: 10.5325/jspecphil.33.3.0448 Web of Science: 000497291500009
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2019WHAT'S WRONG WITH MACHINE BIASFull Text via DOI: 10.3998/ergo.12405314.0006.015 Web of Science: 000490348300001
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2018Decoupling Marriage and Parenting. JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHILOSOPHY. 35:496-512.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/japp.12241 Web of Science: 000441560800003
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2018Visiting the Ruins of Detroit: Exploitation or Cultural Tourism?. JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHILOSOPHY. 35:549-566.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/japp.12237 Web of Science: 000441560800006
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2018Ideal counterpart theorizing and the accuracy argument for probabilismFull Text via DOI: 10.1093/analys/anx107
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2018Representation, Consciousness, and TimeFull Text via DOI: 10.1515/mp-2018-0007 Web of Science: 000428513400008
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2018Ruminations on Ruinations Elizabeth Scarbrough seeks out the aesthetics of ruins. TPM-THE PHILOSOPHERS MAGAZINE. 62-67.Full Text via DOI: 10.5840/tpm20188149 Web of Science: 000430895600014
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2017Karl Marx and Wilt Chamberlain, or: Luck Egalitarianism, Exploitation, and the Clean Path to Capitalism Argument. RES PUBLICA-A JOURNAL OF MORAL LEGAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. 23:453-473.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s11158-016-9337-y Web of Science: 000413984800004
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2017Leaky Pipeline Myths: In Search of Gender Effects on the Job Market and Early Career Publishing in Philosophy. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY. 8.Full Text via DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00953 Web of Science: 000403217800001
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2017Introspection, Anton's Syndrome, and Human Echolocation. PACIFIC PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY. 98:171-192.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/papq.12098 Web of Science: 000402960400002
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2017Kamikazes and cultural evolution. STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE PART C-STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGICAL AND BIOMEDIAL SCIENCES. 61:11-19.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2016.12.001 Web of Science: 000416405100002
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2016"A New Philosophy for International Law" and Dworkin's Political RealismFull Text via DOI: 10.1017/cjlj.2016.7 Web of Science: 000408252300007
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2015Strong Neurophilosophy and the Matter of Bat Consciousness: A Case StudyFull Text via DOI: 10.1007/s10670-014-9612-2 Web of Science: 000349335400004
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2013Superdupersizing the mind: extended cognition and the persistence of cognitive bloat. PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES. 164:791-806.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s11098-012-9914-7 Web of Science: 000321100100013
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2013Reforming Marriage: A Comparative Approach. JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHILOSOPHY. 30:107-121.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/japp.12012 Web of Science: 000319066400001
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2012Does the Government Need to Know Your Sex?. JOURNAL OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. 20:225-247.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9760.2010.00379.x Web of Science: 000303857600005
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2010Tense and Truth Conditions. PHILOSOPHIA. 38:265-269.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s11406-009-9213-5 Web of Science: 000277958900005
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2008INSECTS AND THE PROBLEM OF SIMPLE MINDS: ARE BEES NATURAL ZOMBIES?. JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY. 105:389-415.Full Text via DOI: 10.5840/jphil2008105833 Web of Science: 000262007800001
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2005Morgan's Canon revisited. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. 72:608-631.Full Text via DOI: 10.1086/505187 Web of Science: 000239270900005
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2002From reproductive rights to reproductive barbie: Post-porn modernism and abortion. FEMINIST STUDIES. 28:61-93.Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/3178495
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1999Do Lesbian prostitutes have sex with their clients? a clintonesque replyFull Text via DOI: 10.1177/136346079900200209
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1997Should Marxists Be Liberal Egalitarians?. JOURNAL OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. 5:47-68.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/1467-9760.00023
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1994SELF-OWNERSHIP, RECIPROCITY, AND EXPLOITATION, OR WHY MARXISTS SHOULDNT BE AFRAID OF NOZICK,ROBERT. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY. 24:33-56.Web of Science: A1994NK54800004
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1991EXPLAINING HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT, A MARXIAN CRITIQUE OF COHEN HISTORICAL MATERIALISM. CLIO-A JOURNAL OF LITERATURE HISTORY AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY. 20:253-270.Web of Science: A1991GA81700004
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1990Feminist Film Aesthetics: A Contextual ApproachFull Text via DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.1990.tb00422.x
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1988TEMPORAL INDEXICALS AND THE PASSAGE OF TIME. PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY. 38:158-164.Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/2219921 Web of Science: A1988N005100002
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Blindsight in Monkeys, Lost and (perhaps) Found. JOURNAL OF CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES. 17:47-71.Web of Science: 000274595800003
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The pragmatist's troubles with bivalence and counterfactuals (Regarding vague expressions and non-cognitive indeterminacy in ethical and aesthetic claims in philosophy). DIALOGUE-CANADIAN PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW. 40:669-690.Web of Science: 000173147000002
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Book
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2024Kantian Ethics and the Attention Economy, Duty and DistractionFull Text via DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-45638-1
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2003Abortion and Social Responsibility: Depolarizing the DebateFull Text via DOI: 10.1093/019515309X.001.0001
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Book Chapter
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2023Phenomenology at the Intersection of Gender and Race. 197-210.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-26074-2_10
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2022A Solution to the Problem of Rape by Fraud. 387-403.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-87786-6_23
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2022Social media, emergent manipulation, and political legitimacy. 353-369.Full Text via DOI: 10.4324/9781003205425-21
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2021Transnational Law and Legal Positivism. 971-986.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197547410.013.44
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2021Are Archaeological Parks the New Amusement Parks? UNESCO World Heritage Status and Tourism. 235-261.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-61052-4_13
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2021The Twain Shall Meet: Themes at the Intersection of Archaeology and Philosophy. 1-4.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-61052-4_1
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2021The legacy of simone de beauvoir. 72-82.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190628925.013.6
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2020Populism, American Nationalism and Representative Democracy. 193-207.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-43424-3_14
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2020What reason is there in the body? Bodily suffering and happiness. 68-78.Web of Science: 000641076700006
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2019The Ruins of war. 228-240.
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2018ANIMAL CONSCIOUSNESS. 388-407.Web of Science: 000462276300030
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2009Desgabets: Rationalist or Cartesian Empiricist?. 57-84.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2381-0_3 Web of Science: 000267525100004
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Book Review
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2024Why It's OK to Love Bad Movies. Ed. 64.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/aesthj/ayac046 Web of Science: 000984835100001
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2023Black Dignity: The Struggle against Domination. Ed. 40.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/japp.12656 Web of Science: 000959412500001
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2023We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives. Ed. 38.Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/hyp.2023.40 Web of Science: 001022720500001
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2022
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2019Things: In Touch with the Past. Ed. 59.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/aesthj/ayz037 Web of Science: 000509356500010
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2019Social Aesthetics and Moral Judgment: Pleasure, Reflection and Accountability.. Ed. 77.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/jaac.12657 Web of Science: 000478740700014
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2019Against Marriage: An Egalitarian Defence of the Marriage-Free State. Ed. 128.Full Text via DOI: 10.1215/00318108-7374997 Web of Science: 000470986600006
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2019The Habits of Racism: A Phenomenology of Racism and Racialized Embodiment. Ed. 7.Web of Science: 000455642600010
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1999Other times: Philosophical perspectives on past, present and future. Ed. 39.Full Text via DOI: 10.5840/ipq199939180 Web of Science: 000078502700019
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Conference
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2021Fairness and Machine Fairness. 446-446.Full Text via DOI: 10.1145/3461702.3462577 Web of Science: 000767973400052
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2019Agency Laundering and Algorithmic Decision Systems. DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING (DISC 2014). 590-598.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-15742-5_56
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2014Unimagined beauty. JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM. 445-449.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/jaac.12108
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Other Scholarly Work
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2024What Do Rights Have to Do with It?. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS. 31-33.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2303111 Web of Science: 001177479300014
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2024Hessler's New Feminist Approach to Human Rights Theorizing. RES PUBLICA-A JOURNAL OF MORAL LEGAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. 183-187.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s11158-023-09639-7 Web of Science: 001096003200002
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2023The Fair Chances in Algorithmic Fairness: A Response to Holm (Nov, 10.1007/s11158-022-09570-3, 2022). RES PUBLICA-A JOURNAL OF MORAL LEGAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. 339-340.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s11158-022-09574-z Web of Science: 000985444100001
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2022Dignitary Harms and Abortion Law. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS. 85-87.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2022.2089273 Web of Science: 000835130600026
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2020Introduction: Archaeology and Philosophy. TOPOI-AN INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF PHILOSOPHY. 203-205.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s11245-020-09702-5 Web of Science: 000520822900001
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2020Impact of Baseline Fatigue on a Physical Activity Intervention to Prevent Mobility Disability.. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY. 619-624.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/jgs.16274
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2019Response to commentaries on Powell/Scarffe feature article. 597-598.Full Text via DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2019-105745 Web of Science: 000487540700008
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2016African Americans, HIV, and mass incarceration. LANCET. E2-E3.Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30830-3 Web of Science: 000382616900001
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Preprint
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Review
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2005Exposing the fallacies of anti-porn feminism. 45-65.Full Text via DOI: 10.1177/1464700105050226
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