Maja Sidzińska

I'm a PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania (Philosophy) and I study the ontological assumptions implicit in areas of metaphysics, science, and medicine. I aim to develop an empirically-informed and feminist ontology for these areas of inquiry. My dissertation concerns different ontological understandings of pregnancy and its upshots for questions about personal identity, biological individuality, and biomedical decision-making. I am also concerned with methodology and with the metaphilosophical frameworks that are available for understanding pregnancy among other reproductive phenomena.

 

I recently helped organize a conference on the history of the philosophy of pregnancy, and am co-editing a volume based on the proceeds, tentatively titled Pregnancy in the History of Philosophy. I am the editor of the Pregnancy and Birth categories in PhilPapers. And I am a founder of Philosophy in the Wild. 

 

I was formerly a lecturer at San Francisco State University and at Mills College. I am also a former Managing Editor for Hypatia Reviews Online. 

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You can read more about my work here!

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