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  1. Beauvoir on Women's Complicity in Their Own Unfreedom.Charlotte Knowles - 2019 - Hypatia 34 (2):242-265.
    InThe Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir argues that women are often complicit in reinforcing their own unfreedom. But why women become complicit remains an open question. The aim of this article is to offer a systematic analysis of complicity by focusing on the Heideggerian strands of Beauvoir's account. I begin by evaluating Susan James's interpretation of complicity qua republican freedom, which emphasizes the dependent situation of women as the primary cause of their complicity. I argue that James's analysis is compelling (...)
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  2. Responsibility in Cases of Structural and Personal Complicity: A Phenomenological Analysis.Charlotte Knowles - 2021 - The Monist 104 (2):224-237.
    In cases of complicity in one’s own unfreedom and in structural injustice, it initially appears that agents are only vicariously responsible for their complicity because of the roles circumstantial and constitutive luck play in bringing about their complicity. By drawing on work from the phenomenological tradition, this paper rejects this conclusion and argues for a new responsive sense of agency and responsibility in cases of complicity. Highlighting the explanatory role of stubbornness in cases of complicity, it is argued that although (...)
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  3. Articulating Understanding: A Phenomenological Approach to Testimony on Gendered Violence.Charlotte Knowles - 2021 - International Journal of Philosophical Studies 29 (4):448-472.
    ABSTRACT Testimony from victims of gendered violence is often wrongly disbelieved. This paper explores a way to address this problem by developing a phenomenological approach to testimony. Guided by the concept of ‘disclosedness’, a tripartite analysis of testimony as an affective, embodied, communicative act is developed. Affect indicates how scepticism may arise through the social moods that often attune agents to victims’ testimony. The embodiment of meaning suggests testimony should not be approached as an assertion, but as a process of (...)
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  4. Beyond adaptive preferences: Rethinking women's complicity in their own subordination.Charlotte Knowles - 2021 - European Journal of Philosophy 30 (4):1317–1334.
    An important question confronting feminist philosophers is why women are sometimes complicit in their own subordination. The dominant view holds that complicity is best understood in terms of adaptive preferences. This view assumes that agents will naturally gravitate away from subordination and towards flourishing as long as they do not have things imposed on them that disrupt this trajectory. However, there is reason to believe that ‘impositions’ do not explain all of the ways in which complicity can arise. This paper (...)
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  5. How to dress like a feminist: a relational ethics of non-complicity.Charlotte Knowles & Filipa Melo Lopes - 2023 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy.
    Feminists have always been concerned with how the clothes women wear can reinforce and reproduce gender hierarchy. However, they have strongly disagreed about what to do in response: some have suggested that the key to feminist liberation is to stop caring about how one dresses; others have replied that the solution is to give women increased choices. In this paper, we argue that neither of these dominant approaches is satisfactory and that, ultimately, they have led to an impasse that pervades (...)
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    Heidegger and the source of meaning.Charlotte Knowles - 2013 - South African Journal of Philosophy 32 (4):327-338.
    Sandra Lee Bartky criticises the account of meaning contained in Heidegger's ontology in Being and Time. In her view, Heidegger must choose between the claim that meaning is received and the claim that it is created, but is unable to do so. This paper argues that Bartky's criticism is misconceived, by showing that meaning, as Heidegger understands it, is necessarily both created and received. According to a number of influential commentators, the ultimate source of meaning is das Man – Heidegger's (...)
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    Feminist Perspectives on Well-being.Charlotte Knowles - 2018 - In Kathleen Galvin (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Well-Being. Routledge.
    In this paper I argue that from a feminist perspective well-being is most productively defined in relation to freedom, and it is with regard to questions of freedom that well-being should be pursued. Pursuing well-being from a starting point of oppression and working towards an ideal of freedom, involves two things: a reconception of the self as fundamentally relational and an emphasis on the importance of self-understanding for well-being. The former is something that has been widely acknowledged in the feminist (...)
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  8. Philosophy and the Maternal.Charlotte Knowles - 2020 - Studies in the Maternal 13 (1):1-8.
    Reflections on the role and position of maternal relations within philosophy as a practical discipline, as a metaphor for philosophical practice, and as a subject of philosophical investigation.
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    Living the Life of the Mind: Mind the Gap.Charlotte Knowles - 2023 - The Philosophers' Magazine 99:6-9.
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    Autumn News.Charlotte Knowles - 2016 - The Philosophers' Magazine 75:6-8.
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  11. (1 other version)Das Man and Everydayness: A New Interpretation.Charlotte Knowles - 2017 - In Schmid Hans Bernhard & Thonhauser Gerhard (eds.), From conventionalism to social authenticity : Heidegger’s anyone and contemporary social theory. Cham: Springer.
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    God’s Not Dead But Reason Might Be.Charlotte Knowles & Karl Egerton - 2017 - The Philosophers' Magazine 76:9-15.
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    (10 other versions)Living the Life of the Mind.Charlotte Knowles - 2019 - The Philosophers' Magazine 87:6-8.
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    Summer News.Charlotte Knowles - 2016 - The Philosophers' Magazine 74:6-8.
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    Spring News.Charlotte Knowles - 2017 - The Philosophers' Magazine 77:6-9.
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    Winter News.Charlotte Knowles - 2019 - The Philosophers' Magazine 84:6-9.
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    Review of Elisa Magrí and Paddy McQueen, Critical Phenomenology: An Introduction, Cambridge: Polity 2023. [REVIEW]Charlotte Knowles - forthcoming - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences:1-7.
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    We are not born submissive: How patriarchy shapes women's lives, by Manon Garcia. Princeton University Press, 2021. ISBN: 9780691201825, 248 pp, hbk., $27.95. [REVIEW]Charlotte Knowles - 2021 - European Journal of Philosophy 29 (4):1183-1186.
    European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 1183-1186, December 2021.
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    Sounding/Silence: Martin Heidegger at the Limits of Poetics By David Nowell Smith Fordham University Press, 2013, pp. 256, $55 ISBN: 9780823251537. [REVIEW]Charlotte Knowles - 2015 - Philosophy 90 (3):528-531.
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