{"id":249,"date":"2015-08-31T11:47:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T15:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/lauren-m-ashwell-2\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T12:08:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:08:00","slug":"lauren-m-ashwell","status":"publish","type":"faculty-profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/lauren-m-ashwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren M. Ashwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.A., B.A., B.S., University of Auckland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lauren Ashwell works primarily in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and feminist philosophy, with particular interests in dispositions, desire, and objectification in each of these respective areas. In 2016-17, she was in residence at Harvard University, working on a project connecting her research in self-knowledge of desire with other work in feminist epistemology, and also continuing her work in philosophy of language on gendered slurs and hate speech. This leave was supported by a Bates Phillips Fellowship and an ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/files\/2015\/08\/CV-2022-Ashwell.pdf\">Lauren Ashwell&#8217;s CV 2022<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bates.academia.edu\/LaurenAshwell\">Link to Professor Ashwell&#8217;s academia.edu \u00a0page<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Publications<\/h3>\n<p>\u2018Possibilities of Misidentification,\u2019\u00a0<em>Philosophy, Psychiatry &amp;\u00a0Psychology,<\/em>forthcoming<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Introspection and the Nature of Desire,\u2019 for\u00a0<em>The Nature of Desire,<\/em>\u00a0ed. by Julien Deonna and Federico Lauria, Oxford University Press, 2017<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Conflicts of Desire: Dispositions and the Metaphysics of Mind,\u2019 in<em>\u00a0Causal Powers<\/em>, ed. by Jonathan Jacobs, Oxford University Press, 167-176, 2017<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Gendered Slurs,\u2019\u00a0<em>Social Theory and Practice,<\/em>\u00a042(2): 228-239, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Metaphysics of Desire and Dispositions,\u2019\u00a0<em>Philosophy Compass<\/em>, 9(7): 469-477, 2014<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Deep, Dark,\u2026or Transparent? Knowing Our Desires,\u2019\u00a0<em>Philosophical Studies,<\/em>\u00a0165(1): 245-256, 2013<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Slaves to Fashion,\u2019 co-authored with Rae Langton, in\u00a0<em>Fashion \u2013 Philosophy for Everyone: Thinking with Style,\u00a0<\/em>ed. by Jeanette Kennett and Jessica Wolfendale,\u00a0Chapter 9: 135-150,\u00a0Wiley-Blackwell, 2011<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Superficial Dispositionalism,\u2019\u00a0<em>Australasian Journal of Philosophy<\/em>, 88(4): 635-653, 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":784,"featured_media":337,"template":"","class_list":["post-249","faculty-profile","type-faculty-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","expertise-epistemology","expertise-feminist-philosophy","expertise-metaphysics","expertise-specific-desire","expertise-specific-dispositional-properties","expertise-specific-fashion-and-feminism","expertise-specific-introspective-knowledge","expertise-specific-objectification","expertise-specific-semantics-of-gendered-slurs","what-i-teach-philosophy","what-i-teach-specific-computation","what-i-teach-specific-critical-thinking-and-argumentation","what-i-teach-specific-epistemology","what-i-teach-specific-feminist-philosophy","what-i-teach-specific-formal-methods-for-philosophy","what-i-teach-specific-intersectional-feminist-critique","what-i-teach-specific-logic","what-i-teach-specific-metaphysics","what-i-teach-specific-philosophy-of-mathematics","what-i-teach-specific-philosophy-of-mind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faculty-profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/784"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7218,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/249\/revisions\/7218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}