Alexis Shotwell: 3 books
Knowing Otherwise
Race, Gender, and Implicit Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Prejudice is often not a conscious attitude: because of ingrained habits in relating to the world, one may act in prejudiced ways toward others without explicitly understanding the meaning of one’s actions. Similarly, one may know how to do certain things, like ride a bicycle, without being able...
Against Purity
Living Ethically in Compromised Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
The world is in a terrible mess. It is toxic, irradiated, and full of injustice. Aiming to stand aside from the mess can produce a seemingly satisfying self-righteousness in the scant moments we achieve it, but since it is ultimately impossible, individual purity will always disappoint. Might it be better...
The Center Must Not Hold
White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The Center Must Not Hold: White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy functions as a textual site where white women philosophers engage boldly in critical acts of exploring ways of naming and disrupting whiteness in terms of how it has defined the conceptual field of philosophy. Within...