Keya Maitra is professor of philosophy and the Thomas Howerton Distinguished Professor of Humanities (2018-2022) at University of North Carolina Asheville. She was a recipient of the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Senior Research Award (India) in 2015. Her research and teaching focus is in philosophy of mind, cross-cultural philosophy, transnational feminist philosophy, and epistemology of mindfulness.
Jennifer McWeeny is associate professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a past recipient of the Fulbright U.S. Scholar National Research Award (France). Her research and teaching interests are in phenomenology, philosophy of mind, feminist philosophy, metaphysics, and decolonial theory. She is Editor in Chief of Simone de Beauvoir Studies.

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction


• What Is Feminist Philosophy of Mind?


• Jennifer McWeeny and Keya Maitra


• I. Mind and GenderandRaceand


• 1. Is the First-Person Perspective Gendered?


• Lynne Rudder Baker


• 2. Computing Machinery and Sexual Difference: The Sexed Presuppositions Underlying the Turing Test


• Amy Kind


• 3. Toward a Feminist Theory of Mental Content


• Keya Maitra


• 4. Disappearing Black People through Failures of White Empathy


• Janine Jones


• II. Self and Selves


• 5. Playfulness, "World"-Traveling, and Loving Perception


• María Lugones


• 6. Symptoms in Particular: Feminism and the Disordered Mind


• Jennifer Radden


• 7. Passivity in Theories of the Agentic Self: Reflections on the Views of Soran Reader and Sarah Buss


• Diana Tietjens Meyers


• 8. The Question of Personal Identity


• Susan James


• III. Naturalism and Normativity


• 9. Sexual Ideology and Phenomenological Description: A Feminist Critique of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception


• Judith Butler


• 10. Enactivism and Gender Performativity


• Ashby Butnor and Matthew MacKenzie


• 11. Norms and Neuroscience: The Case of Borderline Personality Disorder


• Anne J. Jacobson


• 12. Embodiments of Sex and Gender: The Metaphors of Speaking Surfaces


• Gabrielle Benette Jackson


• IV. Body and Mind


• 13. Against Physicalism


• Naomi Scheman


• 14. Why Feminists Should Be Materialists and Vice Versa


• Paula Droege


• 15. Which Bodies Have Minds? Feminism, Panpsychism, and the Attribution Question


• Jennifer McWeeny


• 16. Sexual Orientations: The Desire View


• E. Díaz-León


• V. Memory and Emotion


• 17. Outliving Oneself: Trauma, Memory, and Personal Identity


• Susan J. Brison


• 18. Does Neutral Monism Provide the Best Framework for Relational Memory?


• Iva Apostolova


• 19. The Odd Case of a Bird-Mother: Relational Selfhood and a "Method of Grief"


• Vrinda Dalmiya


• 20. Equanimity and the Loving Eye: A Buddhist-Feminist Account of Loving Attention


• Emily McRae


• Contributor Biographies


• Index

This pioneering book offers a fresh treatment of many issues in philosophy of mind by applying a diverse range of feminist perspectives. As the first collection of its kind, Feminist Philosophy of Mind defines the content, scope, and methods of this emerging field. Each of its twenty chapters enlarges our understanding of the mind by considering the social contexts of minds. Topics pursued include personal identity, mental content, other minds, artificial intelligence, gender, race, sexual orientation, emotion, memory, perception, empathy, agency, trauma, embodiment, and others. Readers will discover new and expanded responses to timeless questions about the mind.