Projects
Philosophy of Social Cognition
1 Sep 2022 / 31 Aug 2026 |Perspectival Thoughts and Facts: New Issues
1 Jul 2017 / 30 Jun 2020 |Derivative Metaphysics (DM)
1 Jan 2016 / 31 Dec 2018 |Ramon y Cajal Research Grant
1 Jul 2014 / 30 Jun 2019 |DIAPHORA
1 Jan 2016 / 31 Dec 2019 |List of Publications
Analytic Feminism
In M. Rossberg (ed.) The Cambridge Handbook of Analytic Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
Conceptual Engineering as Resistance: A Hybrid Account of Conceptual Revision
In D. Lupin, J. Medina & L. Townsend (eds.) Resistance, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
Social Construction, Grounding, and Amelioration
In Y. Kappes, A. Passinsky, J. De Rizzo & B. Schnieder (eds.) Facets of Reality, Berlin: De Gruyter, forthcoming.
Feminist Philosophy of Language
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2025 Edition), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2025/entries/feminism-language/>.
Holly Lawford-Smith, Gender-Critical Feminism
Ethics 134(1), pp. 146-154.
Feminist Theory: A Philosophical Anthology, 2nd Edition
Co-edited by Robin O. Andreasen, Ann E. Cudd & E. Díaz-León, Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN: 978-1-394-17267-2
Gender Identity, First-Person Authority, and Belief
Phenomenology and Mind, 29: 114-23. DOI: 10.17454/pam-2910
Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Revision without Changing the Subject: A Haslangerian Account
In: Isaac, Manuel Gustavo; Scharp, Kevin & Koch, Steffen (eds.), New Perspectives on Conceptual Engineering, Synthese Library, Springer Nature, pp. 25-46.
The Metaphysics of Gender
Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009264167
“Disagreement and the Meaning of Gender and Racial Terms”
In Baghramian, Maria, Carter, J. Adam & Cosker-Rowland, Rach (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Disagreement. Routledge, pp. 133-47.
“Response-Dependence, Misgendering, and Passing: A Comment on Ásta’s Categories We Live By”
Journal of Social Ontology, 5(2), 245-49
“Sexual Orientations: The Desire View”
In K. Maitra & J. McWeeny (eds.) Feminist Philosophy of Mind, Oxford University Press, pp. 294-310.
“Sexual Orientations, Sexual Desire, and Choice”
In Brian D. Earp, Clare Chambers & Lori Watson (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex and Sexuality, Routledge, pp. 102-116.
“The Meaning of ‘Woman’ and the Political Turn in Philosophy of Language”
In D. Bordonaba, V. Fernández-Castro & J.R. Torices (eds.) The Political Turn in Analytical Philosophy, De Gruyter, pp. 229-255.
“Feminist Philosophy of Language”
In Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by E. Zalta, Fall 2018 edition.
“On Language and Sexuality”
In Routledge Handbook of Social Philosophy of Language, edited by J. Khoo & R. Sterken, pp. 377-88.
“Substantive metaphysical debates about gender and race: Verbal disputes and metaphysical deflationism”
Journal of Social Philosophy, 53(4), 556-574. https://doi.org/10.1111/josp.12394.
"Is Feminist Pornography Possible?"
American Philosophical Association Newsletter in Philosophy and Feminism, 20(2), pp. 8-10.
"On the Conceptual Mismatch Argument: Descriptions, Disagreement, and Amelioration"
In T. Marques & A. Wikforss (eds), Shifting Concepts: The Philosophy and Psychology of Concept Variability, Oxford University Press, pp. 190-212, May 2020.
“Pejorative Terms and the Semantic Strategy”
Acta Analytica, 35(1), pp. 23-34. DOI: 10.1007/s12136-019-00392-2
"On how to achieve reference to covert social constructions"
Studia Philosophica Estonica, 12.1, pp. 34-43.
"Relativism and Race"
In M. Kusch (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Relativism, Routledge, pp. 265-71.
"The Meta-Problem of Consciousness and the Phenomenal Concept Strategy"
Journal of Consciousness Studies, 27 (5-6), pp. 62-73.
"Descriptive vs Ameliorative Projects: The Role of Normative Considerations"
In A. Burgess, H. Cappelen & D. Plunkett (eds.) Conceptual Engineering & Conceptual Ethics, Oxford University Press, pp. 170-86, January 2020.
"On Haslanger's Meta-metaphysics: Social Structures and Metaphysical Deflationism"
Disputatio, vol. X (50), pp. 201-16.
"Kinds of Social Construction"
In Pieranna Garavaso (ed.) Bloomsbury Companion to Analytic Feminism, Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 103-22.
"Feminist Metaphysics and Philosophy of Language"
In Carol Hay (ed.), Philosophy: Feminism. Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks, Macmillan Reference USA, pp. 251-71.
"Sexual Orientation as Interpretation? Sexual Desires, Concepts, and Choice"
Journal of Social Ontology, 3(2), pp. 231-48.
"Epistemic Contextualism and Conceptual Ethics"
In Jonathan Ichikawa (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Contextualism, Taylor & Francis, pp. 71-80.
"Phenomenal Concepts: Neither Circular Nor Opaque"
Philosophical Psychology, 29(8), pp. 1186-99.
"Norms of Judgement, Naturalism, and Normativism about Content"
Philosophical Explorations 19(1), pp. 48-58.
"'Woman' as a Politically Significant Term: A Solution to the Puzzle"
Hypatia 31(2), pp. 245-58.
"In Defence of Historical Constructivism about Races"
Ergo, 2(21), pp. 547-62.
"Social Kinds, Conceptual Analysis, and the Operative Concept: A Reply to Haslanger"
Humana.Mente–Journal of Philosophical Studies 22, pp. 57-74.
"We are living in a material world (and I am a material girl)"
Teorema 27(3), pp. 85-101.
"How Many Explanatory Gaps Are There?"
APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers 8(2), pp. 33-35.
"What is Social Construction?"
European Journal of Philosophy, 23(4), pp. 1137-52.
"Are Ghosts Scarier than Zombies?"
Consciousness & Cognition 21(2), pp. 747-8.
"Do A Posteriori Physicalists Get Our Phenomenal Concepts Wrong?"
Ratio 27(1), pp. 1-16
"Actors are not Like Zombies"
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 112(1), pp. 115-22.
"Reductive Explanation, Concepts, and A Priori Entailment"
Philosophical Studies 155(1), pp. 99-116.
"Can Phenomenal Concepts Explain the Epistemic Gap?"
Mind 119(476), pp. 533-51.
"Defending the Phenomenal Concept Strategy"
Australasian Journal of Philosophy 86(4), pp. 597-610.
