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Susan J. Brison

Associate Professor of Philosophy
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Departments

  • Philosophy
  • Women's and Gender Studies

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Contact Information

Email: susan.brison@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-3133
Office: 6035 Thornton Hall

Education

B.A. University of California at Santa Cruz; Ph.D. University of Toronto

Areas of Expertise

Philosophy of law; social and political philosophy; feminist ethics; trauma theory; philosophy of mind; global violence against women

Selected Works

  • "'The Price We Pay?' Pornography and Harm," in Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics, A. I. Cohen and C. H. Wellman (eds.), (2005) 236-250.
  • "Speech and Other Acts: A Reply to Charles W. Collier, 'Hate Speech and the Mind-Body Problem: A Critique of Postmodern Censorship Theory'," Legal Theory, 10 (December 2004) 261-272.
  • Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self, (2002; paperback December 2003; translated into French 2003; translated into German 2004).
  • "Gender, Terrorism, and War," for "Roundtable: Gender and September 11," Signs: Journal of Women in culture and Society, 28:1 (Autumn 2002) 435-437.
  • Contemporary Perspectives on Constitutional Interpretation, edited with W. Sinnott-Armstrong, (1993).

Current Projects

*Speech, Harm, and Conflicts of Rights;" "Contentious Freedom: Sex Work and Social Construction;" "Space, Time and the Moral Weight of Events;" "Why There Are No Moral Virtuosos: A Puzzle for Agent-Relative Ethics"