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Maja Sidzińska

  • MA, Philosophy (San Francisco State University (with distinction))
  • BA, summa cum laude, Political, Legal, Economic Analysis (Mills College)

Research Interests

  • metaphysics; general philosophy of science; history of philosophy; metaphilosophy; philosophy of biology; bioethics; feminist philosophy; political/economic philosophy
  • 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.


Forthcoming. "Life Spirals: A Critique of Life Cycle Diagrams." Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology. With Jacqueline Mae Wallis and Kate Nicole Hoffman. 

2024. "Émilie du Châtelet's Mathematical Fictionalism." in New Voices on Women in the History of Philosophy, ed. Clara Carus. Dordrecht: Springer. 

2024. "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).