Department of PhilosophyMaja Sidzińska
- PhD, Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
- MA, Philosophy, San Francisco State University (with distinction)
- BA, summa cum laude, Political, Legal, Economic Analysis, Mills College
Research Interests
- history and philosophy of science; philosophy of biology; philosophy of medicine; biomedical ethics; metaphysics; feminist philosophy; political/economic philosophy; metaphilosophy
- for details see: https://www.majasidzinska.org
Selected Publications
Under contract. History of the Philosophy of Pregnancy, co-edited with Myrna Gabbe and Evangelian Collings. Palgrave Macmillan.
2025b. "What is Pregnancy and What is Disease? A Critique of Smajdor and Räsänen's "Is Pregnancy a Disease? A Normative Approach"." Monash Bioethics Review 43 (2).
2025a. "Life Spirals: A Critique of Life Cycle Diagrams." Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology 17 (2). With Jacqueline Mae Wallis and Kate Nicole Hoffman.
2024b. "Émilie du Châtelet's Mathematical Fictionalism." in New Voices on Women in the History of Philosophy, ed. Clara Carus. Dordrecht: Springer.
2024a. "A Pragmatist Interpretation and Defense of Entity Realism." European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, Issue XVI-1 on Pragmatism and/on Science and Scientism.
2023. "Cogito, Ergo Sumus? The Pregnancy Problem in Descartes' Philosophy." HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 13 (2): 209-240.
2017. "Not One, Not Two: Toward an Ontology of Pregnancy." Feminist Philosophy Quarterly 3 (4).
