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  Madeline Ward Philosophy

Research

My research program focuses on justice, construed in material and social terms. My dissertation defends a standpoint epistemology explaining how marginalized people produce non-knowledge epistemic goods like all-in judgments and understanding. I argue that these epistemic capacities make marginalized people epistemic experts, and their expertise deserves deference in some contexts. So, (sometimes) privileged people should adopt an "Attitude of Deference" when talking to marginalized people. 

In addition to social epistemology and how it intersects with justice, I'm interested in how bodies are sites of oppression, bioethics, and social policy. You can view published academic work and drafts below. My ORCID is here.
Conceptual Elite Capture and Today's Mainstream Feminism (under review)
Age-specific Views on Invasive and Non-invasive Human Enhancements for Cognitive Decline (with Rainville and Skufca)
On Fat Oppression
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