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Maja Sidzińska
Book
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Under contract. Pregnancy in the History of Philosophy, co-edited with Myrna Gabbe and Evangelian Collings. Palgrave Macmillan.
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Articles (peer-reviewed)
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​​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).​​
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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.​​
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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).​
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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.
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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).
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2017. “Not One, Not Two: Toward an Ontology of Pregnancy.” Feminist Philosophy Quarterly 3 (4).
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Book review
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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.
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Public philosophy
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2025. "We Should Disaggregate Philosophy's Graduate Admissions, Placement, Tenure and Promotion, and Publishing Data by Mother/Parent Status." The Philosophers' Cocoon.
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2023. "Hello, We're Philosophy in the Wild." Public Philosophy Journal 5 (2). With Zachary Agoff and Mike Gadomski.​
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In progress
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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.
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Paper exploring Marx's philosophy and its resources for theorizing natural and social aspects of pregnancy.
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Paper proposing a non-circular version of reflective equilibrium as a method for demarcating target systems in the biomedical sciences.
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