• Response to Feder and Mills 

  Russell, Camisha (Philosophy Today, 2020)
• Bioethicists Should be Helping Scientists Think About Race 

  Russell, Camisha (Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 2021)

  In this essay, I argue that bioethicists have a thus-far unfulfilled role to play in helping life scientists, including medical doctors and researchers, think about race. I begin with descriptions of how life scientists ...
• Positivism and Progress in Firmin’s Equality of the Human Races 

  Russell, Camisha (Journal of Pan African Studies, 2014)

  With The Equality of Human Races , Haitian intellectual Anténor Firmin offered the world its first sustained, philosophical, book-length response to scientific European racism. With the publication of the English translation ...
• The Race Idea in Reproductive Technologies: Beyond Epistemic Scientism and Technological Mastery 

  Russell, Camisha (Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 2015)

  This paper explores the limitations of epistemic scientism for understanding the role the concept of race plays in assisted reproductive technology (ART) practices. Two major limitations center around the desire to use ...
• Thin Skin, Thick Blood: Identity, Stability and the Project of Black Solidarity 

  Russell, Camisha (Journal for Peace and Justice Studies, 2009)

  In this essay I argue for the role of positive, community-based black identities (in the plural) in the creation and maintenance of black solidarity. I argue against Tommie Shelby’s attempts to reduce the notion of black ...
• Questions of Race in Bioethics: Deceit, Disregard, Disparity, and the Work of Decentering 

  Russell, Camisha (Philosophy Compass, 2016)

  Philosophers working in bioethics often hope to identify abstract principles and universal values to guide professional practice, relying on ideals of objectivity and impartiality, and on the power of rational (individual, ...
• Rights-Holders or Refugees? Do Gay Men Need Reproductive Justice? 

  Russell, Camisha (Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online, 2018)

  A thriving North American industry has emerged designed to help gay men become biological parents through surrogacy and egg donation. Taking as given that gay men have the same ethical right to pursue such reproductive ...
• On Black Women, ‘In Defense of Transracialism,’ and Imperial Harm 

  Russell, Camisha (Hypatia, 2019)

  This essay is a response to the events surrounding Hypatia's publication of “In Defense of Transracialism.” It does not take up the question of “transracialism” itself, but rather attempts to shed light both on what some ...
• Which Lives Matter in Reproductive Biomedicine? 

  Unknown author (Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online, 2021)

  The most recent Black Lives Matter moment provides an important opportunity for consideration of the interlocking social and political systems that contribute to ongoing racism and racial inequality. What does this mean ...
• Meeting the Moment: Bioethics in the Time of Black Lives Matter 

  Russell, Camisha (Taylor and Francis Group, 2021)

  In this article, I begin by describing what I call this Black Lives Matter moment in the US. I then offer three reasons for considering racism as a bioethical issue, the least discussed of which is the way in which racism ...
• Philosophy and Disaster 

  Zack, Naomi, 1944- (Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS), 2006-04)

  Philosophers have traditionally written from the perspective of ordinary people and they are as vulnerable to fear as other members of the public. Academic philosophers can contribute to the multi-disciplinary field of ...
• Singing the World in a New Key: Merleau-Ponty and the Ontology of Sense 

  Toadvine, Ted, 1968- (Trivium Publications, 2004)

  To what extent can meaning be attributed to nature, and what is the relationship between such “natural sense”and the meaning of linguistic and artistic expressions? To shed light on such questions, this essay lays the ...
• Human Values as a Source for Sustaining the Environment 

  Zack, Naomi, 1944- (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002)
• Talking Back to Feminist Postmodernism Toward a New Radical Feminist Interpretation of the Body 

  Mann, Bonnie (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003)
• Dependence on Place, Dependence in Place 

  Mann, Bonnie (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002)
• How Moral Psychology Changes Moral Theory 

  Johnson, Mark, 1949- (MIT Press, 1996)
• A Philosophically Serious Comparison of the Ontologies of Race and Gender 

  Zack, Naomi, 1944- (2005-12)

  Race and gender are not ontologically or epistemologically symmetrical. Ontologies of human races are more recent historical ideas than male-female taxonomies of gender, although ontologies of gender that include intersexuals, ...
• Law Incarnate 

  Johnson, Mark, 1949- (Brooklyn [Brooklyn Law School], 2002)
• Race and Mixed Race 

  Zack, Naomi, 1944- (Temple University Press, 1993)

  In the first philosophical challenge to accepted racial classifications in the United States, Naomi Zack uses philosophical methods to criticize their logic. Tracing social and historical problems related to racial identity, ...
• Inquiry and Analysis: Dewey and Russell on Philosophy 

  Pratt, Scott L. (Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 1998-06)

  In an environment characterized by the emergence of new and diverse (and often opposed) philosophical efforts, there is a need for a conception of philosophy that will promote the exchange and critical consideration of ...

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