Sarah Tyson

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Ph. D | Chair | Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy

Office: 
Plaza M108 J

Expertise Areas:

Feminist Philosophy and Critical Prison Studies

Ph.D.  Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, August 2011
B.A.  Philosophy, Earlham College, 2002

Where are the Women? Why Expanding the Archive Makes Philosophy Better, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018).

Philosophy Imprisoned: The Love of Wisdom in the Age of Mass Incarceration, co-edited with Joshua Hall, (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2014).

Articles & Chapters

“The Heart of the Other?” in Deconstructing the Death Penalty: Essays on Derrida’s Death Penalty Seminars edited by Kelly Oliver and Stephanie Straub, chapter 12, (New York: Fordham University Press, 2018). 

Feminism and the Carceral State: Gender-Responsive Justice, Community Accountability, and the Epistemology of Antiviolence,” co-authored with Brady Heiner, Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, 3.1 (2017): p. 1-36.

“Prison Abolition and a Culture of Sexual Difference,” in Death and Other Penalties: Philosophy in a Time of Mass Incarceration edited by Geoffrey Adelsberg, Lisa Guenther, and Scott Zeman, (New York: Fordham University Press, 2015): p. 210-224.

Experiments in Responsibility: Pocket Parks, Radical Anti-Violence Work, and the Social Ontology of Safety,” Radical Philosophy Review, 17.2 (2014): p. 421-434.

From the Exclusion of Women to the Transformation of Philosophy: Reclamation and Its Possibilities,” Metaphilosophy 45.1 (2014): p. 1-19.

Reclamation from Absence? Luce Irigaray and Women in the History of Philosophy,” Hypatia 28.3 (2013): p. 483-498.

PHIL 3500: Culture and Ideology: Racism and Sexism
PHIL 4812: Gender and Sexuality
PHIL 4812: Reclaiming Women Philosophers
PHIL 4812: The Woman Question