Lauren M. Ashwell
Professor of Philosophy
About
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.A., B.A., B.S., University of Auckland
Lauren Ashwell works primarily in metaphysics, epistemology, and feminist philosophy, with particular interests in dispositions, self-knowledge of desire, and gendered language in each of these respective areas. She is currently Chair of the Philosophy Department.
Publications
‘The Pejorative Functioning of Gendered Slurs,’ in Oppressive Speech and Norms, ed. by Mihaela Popa, Routledge, forthcoming
‘Self-Knowledge and Desire’ in Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Desire, ed. by Alex Gregory, Routledge, forthcoming
‘Projection, Desire, and Transparency,’ in New Perspectives on Transparency and Self-Knowledge, ed. by Adam Andreotta and Ben Winokur, Routledge, 235-250, 2024
‘Artificial Systems as Disposition Bearers,’ in Artificial Dispositions, ed. by William Bauer and Anna Marmodoro, Bloomsbury, 2023
‘Possibilities of Misidentification,’ Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology, 25(3): 161-164, 2018
‘Introspection and the Nature of Desire,’ for The Nature of Desire, ed. by Julien Deonna and Federico Lauria, Oxford University Press, 2017
‘Conflicts of Desire: Dispositions and the Metaphysics of Mind,’ in Causal Powers, ed. by Jonathan Jacobs, Oxford University Press, 167-176, 2017
‘Gendered Slurs,’ Social Theory and Practice, 42(2): 228-239, 2016.
‘The Metaphysics of Desire and Dispositions,’ Philosophy Compass, 9(7): 469-477, 2014
‘Deep, Dark,…or Transparent? Knowing Our Desires,’ Philosophical Studies, 165(1): 245-256, 2013
‘Slaves to Fashion,’ co-authored with Rae Langton, in Fashion – Philosophy for Everyone: Thinking with Style, ed. by Jeanette Kennett and Jessica Wolfendale, Chapter 9: 135-150, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011
‘Superficial Dispositionalism,’ Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 88(4): 635-653, 2010