Wendy Lynne Lee Professor Department of Philosophy Bloomsburg University Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania 17815 email: wlee@bloomu.edu phone: 570-389-4332 fax: 570-389-2094

Degrees

Ph.D. Marquette University, 1992
B.A. University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, 1986

Areas of Specialization: later Wittgenstein, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, feminist theory

Books

On Marx (Wadsworth Publishing Co., 2001)

Articles

• 2007. Forthcoming. “Who’s My Special Beagle?” Anthropomorphizing, Anthropocentrism, and Moral Responsibility. Ed. Steven Hales, What Philosophy Can Tell You About Your Dog. Chicago, IL: Open Court.

• 2007. Forthcoming. Environmental Responsibility and the Future of Human Consciousness. Proceedings. The Philosophy of Pragmatism: Religious Premises, Moral Issues and Historical Impact, University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. September 27-30.

• 2006. On Ecology and Aesthetic Experience: A Feminist Theory of Value and Praxis. Ethics and the Environment.

• 2005. The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature, Scientific Objectivity, and the Standpoint of the Subjugated: Anthropocentrism Reimagined. Ethics, Place, Environment.

• 2005. On Ecology and Aesthetic Experience: A Feminist Theory of Value and Praxis. Ethics and the Environment.

• 2005. On the (Im)materiality of Violence: Subjects, Bodies, and the Experience of Pain. Feminist Theory.

• 2005. Sexuality in the Work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. The Encyclopaedia of the Philosophy of Sex. Ed. Alan Soble.

• 2005. The Sexual Dialectics of Karl Marx. The Encyclopaedia of the Philosophy of Sex. Ed. Alan Soble.

• 2003. One Man Opens His Seeing Eye: The Epistemic Ubiquity of Anthropomorphizing and its Implications for Conceptions of Gender, Race, and Sexual Identity. The Grammar of Politics. Cornell University Press. Ed Cressida Heyes.

• 2002. Wittgensteinian Vision(s): A Queer Context for a Situated Episteme. Rereading the Canon: Feminist Interpretations of Wittgenstein. Ed. Naomi Scheman and Peg O’Connor. Penn State Press.

• 2001. Feminist Theory, Radical Lesbian. International Encyclopaedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Eds. Neil J. Smelzer (Stanford) & Paul M. Bates (Max Plank Institute). Pergamon Press: Amsterdam.

• 2001. Queering Ecological Feminism: Erotophobia, Commodification, Art, and Lesbian Identity. Co-authored with Laura Dow.  Ethics and the Environment 6.2.

• 1999. Spilling all Over the Wide Fields of Our Passions: Frye, Wittgenstein, and Butler on the Contexts of Attention, Intention, and Sexual Identity. Hypatia 14.3 (Summer).

• 1999. The Sound of Little Hummingbird Wings: A Wittgensteinian Investigation of Forms of Life as Forms of Power. Feminist Studies.

• 1999. American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminist Philosophy, Report of the Eighth Symposium of the International Association of Women in Philosophy: Lessons on the Gynaeceum, 1998 Plenary Session for Mary Daly’s Quintessence: Realizing the Archaic Future

• 1998. The Foundation Walls that are Carried by the House: A Critique of the Poverty of Stimulus Thesis and a Wittgensteinian-Dennettian Alternative. The Journal of Mind and Behavior.

• 1997. (reprinted) Women-Animals-Machines: A Grammar for a Wittgenstein Ecofeminism. Ecofeminism: Women, Culture, Nature. Ed. Karen Warren. Indiana University Press.

• 1996. Anthropomorphism without Anthropocentrism: A Wittgensteinian Ecofeminist Alternative to Deep Ecology. Ethics and the Environment 1.2 (Fall 1996).

• 1995. Women-Animals-Machines: A Grammar for a Wittgenstein Ecofeminism. The Journal of Value Inquiry 29.1.

• 1995. Decisions of Identity: Feminist Subjects and Grammars of Sexuality. Hypatia 10.4 (Fall).

• 1994. Marx and the Ideology of Gender: A  Paradox of Praxis and Nature. In Engenderings Critical Feminist Readings in the History of Modern Western Philosophy. Ed. B. Bar On. NY: SUNY Press, 185-200.

• 1992. Telos and the Unity of Psychology: Aristotle’s De Anima II.3-4. Apeiron 25.1 (March).

• 1991. History as Genealogy: Wittgenstein and the Feminist Deconstruction of Objectivity. Philosophy and Theology. V.4 (Summer).

• 1989. The Deconstruction of Woman in the History of Man. American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism. (March).

Recent Conference Presentations

• 2006. Environmental Responsibility and the Future of Human Consciousness. The International Association for Environmental Philosophy. Tenth Annual Meeting, Philidelphia, PA, October 14-16.

• 2006. Ibid. The Philosophy of Pragmatism: Religious Premises, Moral Issues and Historical Impact, University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. September 27-30.

• 2006. Anthropocentrism Reimagined: Ecology, Language, Aesthetic Experience, and Epistemic Responsibility. North American Association for Social and Political Philosophy. University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, September 3-5.

• 2006. On the (Im)materiality of Violence: Subjects, Bodies, and the Experience of Pain. Society for Phenomenology and Media Third Annual International Conference, La Jolla, CA, February 23-5.

• 2004. The Sense of the Other: A Feminist and Phenomenological Critique of John Searle’s Collective Intentionality. Society for Social and Political Philosophy, Session GIV-7, The American Philosophical Association Conference, Dec 27-30, Boston, MA.

• 2004. Scientific Inquiry, Aesthetic Experience of Natural Objects, and Human-Centeredness: A Little Girl and Her Turtle. Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics, and Science Studies Conference, University of Washington, Nov. 5-7, Seattle, WA.

• 2004.On Contemporary Philosophy of Minds and Matter: A Feminist Critique of John Searle. Language, Consciousness, Culture: East and West. The Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion. January 3-6, Calcutta, India.

• 2002. Confessions of the Flesh: The Ubiquity of Violence at the Heart of (the) Matter (Philosophy and Tattoo). The Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society: Eighth Annual Convention on Psychoanalysis and Social Change. The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, October 25-7.

• 2002. Folk Psychology, Anthropomorphism, and Cognitive Ethology. International Association of Women Philosophers, Symposium X, Center for Contemporary Culture, Barcelona, Spain, October 4-6.

• 2002. Ibid. International Association of Social and Political Philosophers Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, July 15-19.

• 2001. Commentator. American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Conference, Society for Gay and Lesbian Philosophy, National Science Foundation Panel on Gays and Lesbians in Science. Atlanta, GA, December 27-30.

• 2001. Feminist Interpretations of Mary Daly. American Philosophical Association, Central Division Conference, Minneapolis, MN, May 3.

• 2001. But One Day Man Opens His Seeing Eye: Race, Sex, and the Linguistic Politics of Anthropomorphizing. Invited Keynote Lecture, Instituto de Investigaciones Feministas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, March 23-5.

• 2000.Feminist, Race, and Queer Theory: Marxism and the Critique of Oppression. Society for Women in Philosophy, Midwest Division Conference, Antioch College, Antioch, OH, October 20-22.

• 2000. One Man Opens His Seeing Eye: The Epistemic Ubiquity of Anthropomorphizing and its Implications for Gender, Race, and Sexual Identity. International Association of Women Philosophers, Symposium IX, Unniversity of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, October 11-14.