Stephanie Kapusta
Associate Professor; Undergraduate Advisor; Cross-Appointed with Gender and Women's Studies; Cross-Appointed with Law, Justice and Society
Email: stephanie.kapusta@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-3541
Mailing Address:
Room 1138, Marion McCain Building
Dalhousie University
6135 University Avenue
PO Box 15000
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
Research Topics:Dalhousie University
6135 University Avenue
PO Box 15000
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
- Feminist Philosophy
- Social and Political Philosophy
- Ethics
Education
- PhD Philosophy (2015), University of Western Ontario
- MA Philosophy (2011), University of Western Ontario
- PhD Theology (2005), Phil-Theologische Hochshule St. Georgen, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- PhD Theoretical Physics (1990), Imperial College, London, UK
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
- “Practising Epistemic Estrangement: A Commentary to Haslanger’s ‘Cognition as a Social Skill’.” Australasian Philosophical Review 3(1): 1–5.
- “The Benefits and Burdens of Engaging in Argumentation: Trans*feminist Reflections on Tuvel’s ‘In Defense of Transracialism’.” 2018. Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice 39 (2): 61-73. Text available here.
- “Intersex Diagnostics and Prognostics: Imposing Sex-Predicate Determinacy.” 2017. Topoi 36: 539-548. Full text here.
- “Misgendering and its Moral Contestability.” 2016. Hypatia 31(3): 502–519. Text available here.
- German trans.: “Zur moralischen Anfechtbarkeit geschlechtlicher Fehlkategorisierungen.” 2018. Feministische Studien: Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung 36(1): 134–156. Text available here.
Contributions in Books/Encyclopedias
- “Transgender Rights.” 2019. In International Encyclopaedia of Ethics, ed. Hugh LaFollette. Oxford: John Wiley and Sons. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781444367072.wbiee934
- “Trans Authenticity and the Feminist ‘Legacy’ of Relationality.” 2013. In Stewart, R.S., ed., Talk About Sex: A Multidisciplinary Discussion, 146-155 (Sydney, NS: Cape Breton University Press).
Book reviews
- Trans Studies: Beyond Hetero/homo Normativities, ed. Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel and Sarah Tobias, New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 2016. Hypatia Reviews Online. Full text here.
- Philosophy of Science for Theologians: An Introduction by Gijsbert van den Brink, Frankfurt, Peter Lang, 2009. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 24 (2010): 443-446.
Translations
- Natali, Carlo “The Search for Definitions of Justice in Nichomachean Ethics 5” [Italian to English] In Henry, Devin and Karen M Nielsen, Bridging the Gap between Aristotle’s Science and Ethics, 148–68. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Social Media
- Webinar panellist, Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion, “LGBTQ2+ in Today’s World”, June 06, 2019, (5 panellists, 105 participants) CCDI webinar event page
- Interview for the Blog of the American Philosophical Association, “Trans*feminism: How Trans Issues and Feminism Overlap,” Aug 09, 2018. Full interview here.
- Interview for Elucidations: Podcast Series in the Department of Philosophy, Division of the Humanities, University of Chicago, 15 October, 2019, Elucidations Podcast, Episode 119: Stephanie Kapusta discusses Misgendering