Research

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Putting Feminist Logic Into Practice  

Current dissertation project at the University of Minnesota.

Through an initial investigation of four key questions, I develop an accessible and practical methodology for feminist logic that is responsive to both existing practice and feminist aims. 

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A Transformative Intuitionist Logic for Examining Negation in Identity-Thinking  

Forthcoming in a special issue of The Australasian Journal of Logic.

In this paper, I build models of social identity that demonstrate how classical negation reinforces problematic habits of othering and how alternative forms of negation can transform our treatment of social identity altogether.

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