Esther: Subverting the “Capable Wife”

Subverting Campbell’s Materialist Conclusion

Keith Campbell and Jonathan Schaffer propose an ontology in which entities consist in collocated collections of tropes, and tropes are individuated by location. This would imply that immaterial entities are not possible. In this paper, I attempt to subvert this materialist conclusion by giving two arguments against the key individuation principle it requires. I show that the locational individu...

The cancer patient’s wife

Mrs. Lee, it's your husband's nurse calling from the hospital. We need to know now whether you'll want us to resuscitate Mr. Lee, just in case. A friend of mine, Mary, received this call yesterday. Her husband Tom had been hospitalized a week earlier , after his platelet count dropped so low that daily outpatient blood transfusions became inadequate and other symptoms of his terminal cancer mad...

Performing the Self: Subverting the Binary in Combat Games

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Esther Duflo : 2010

E sther Duflo, winner of the 2010 John Bates Clark Medal, has made extraordinary contributions to development economics. Esther has focused on topics that many economists think probably are central to understanding the differences in welfare between the high-income and low-income countries of the world: not only education, credit, food, and health, but also more nebulous concepts like social in...

Wife beating: the silent crime.