Stephanie Kapusta
Associate Professor; Undergraduate Advisor; Cross-Appointed with Gender and Women's Studies; Cross-Appointed with Law, Justice and Society
Email: stephanie.kapusta@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-3541
Mailing Address:
Room 1138, Marion McCain Building
HÂþ» University
6135 University Avenue
PO Box 15000
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
Research Topics:HÂþ» University
6135 University Avenue
PO Box 15000
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
- Feminist Philosophy
- Social and Political Philosophy
- Ethics
Education
- PhD Philosophy (2015), University of Western Ontario
- MA Philosophy (2011), University of Western Ontario
- PhD Theology (2005), Phil-Theologische Hochshule St. Georgen, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- PhD Theoretical Physics (1990), Imperial College, London, UK
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
- “Practising Epistemic Estrangement: A Commentary to Haslanger’s ‘Cognition as a Social Skill’.†Australasian Philosophical Review 3(1): 1–5.
- “The Benefits and Burdens of Engaging in Argumentation: Trans*feminist Reflections on Tuvel’s ‘In Defense of Transracialism’.†2018. Atlantis:Ìý Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice 39 (2): 61-73. .
- “Intersex Diagnostics and Prognostics: Imposing Sex-Predicate Determinacy.†2017. Topoi 36: 539-548. .
- “Misgendering and its Moral Contestability.†2016. Hypatia 31(3): 502–519. .
- German trans.: “Zur moralischen Anfechtbarkeit geschlechtlicher Fehlkategorisierungen.†2018. Feministische Studien: Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung 36(1): 134–156. .
Contributions in Books/Encyclopedias
- Ìý“Transgender Rights.†2019. In International Encyclopaedia of Ethics, ed. Hugh LaFollette. Oxford: John Wiley and Sons.
- Ìý“Trans Authenticity and the Feminist ‘Legacy’ of Relationality.†2013. In Stewart, R.S., ed., Talk HÂþ» Sex: A Multidisciplinary Discussion, 146-155 (Sydney, NS: Cape Breton University Press).
Book reviews
- Trans Studies: Beyond Hetero/homo Normativities, ed. Yolanda MartÃnez-San Miguel and Sarah Tobias, New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 2016. Hypatia Reviews Online. .
- Philosophy of Science for Theologians: An Introduction by Gijsbert van den Brink, Frankfurt, Peter Lang, 2009. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 24 (2010): 443-446.
Translations
- Natali, Carlo “The Search for Definitions of Justice in Nichomachean Ethics 5†[Italian to English] In Henry, Devin and Karen M Nielsen, Bridging the Gap between Aristotle’s Science and Ethics, 148–68. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Social Media
- Webinar panellist, Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion, “LGBTQ2+ in Today’s Worldâ€, June 06, 2019, (5 panellists, 105 participants)
- Interview for the Blog of the American Philosophical Association, “Trans*feminism: How Trans Issues and Feminism Overlap,†Aug 09, 2018. .
- Interview for Elucidations: Podcast Series in the Department of Philosophy, Division of the Humanities, University of Chicago, 15 October, 2019,
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