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Maja Sidzińska
Book
Under contract. Pregnancy in the History of Philosophy, co-edited with Myrna Gabbe and Evangelian Collings. Palgrave Macmillan.
Articles (peer-reviewed)
2025. "What is Pregnancy and What is Disease? A Critique of Smajdor and Räsänen's "Is Pregnancy a Disease? A Normative Approach"." Monash Bioethics Review 43 (2).
2025. “Life Spirals: A Critique of Life Cycle Diagrams.” Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology 17 (2): Article 7. With Jacqueline Mae Wallis and Kate Nicole Hoffman.
2024. “Émilie du Châtelet’s Mathematical Fictionalism.” New Voices on Women in the History of Philosophy, ed. Clara Carus (Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences series, ed. Ruth Hagengruber. Dordrecht: Springer).
2024. “A Pragmatist Interpretation and Defense of Entity Realism,” Special Issue XVI-1 on Pragmatism and/on Science and Scientism, European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy.
2023. “Cogito, Ergo Sumus? The Pregnancy Problem in Descartes’ Philosophy.” HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 13 (2).
2017. “Not One, Not Two: Toward an Ontology of Pregnancy.” Feminist Philosophy Quarterly 3 (4).
Book review
2023. Review of The Maternal Imprint: The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects, by Sarah S. Richardson (2021), Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Philosophy of Science Association Newsletter, July 12.
Public philosophy
2025. "We Should Disaggregate Philosophy's Graduate Admissions, Placement, Tenure and Promotion, and Publishing Data by Mother/Parent Status." The Philosophers' Cocoon.
2023. "Hello, We're Philosophy in the Wild." Public Philosophy Journal 5 (2). With Zachary Agoff and Mike Gadomski.
In progress
Paper developing a new theory of disease that avoids pathologizing pregnancy yet justifies maternity care.
Paper proposing that pregnancy represents a new kind of biological individuality.
Paper exploring Marx's philosophy and its resources for theorizing natural and social aspects of pregnancy.
Paper proposing a non-circular version of reflective equilibrium as a method for demarcating target systems in the biomedical sciences.
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