Dr. Caleb Ward

Research interests:

• Social and Political Philosophy, especially political agency, social structural critique, philosophy of race and racism, social epistemology
  
  
• Feminist Philosophy, especially feminist phenomenology and critical theory, black feminism
  
  
• Ethics, especially normative and applied ethics, sexual ethics and consent, food ethics

A detailed description of my research program is available here.
https://www.calebward.xyz/

PDFs of publications available here.

Articles and Book Chapters

'Audre Lorde's Erotic as Epistemic and Political Practice', Hypatia (forthcoming 2023) 

‘The Ethical Significance of Being an Erotic Object’ (with Ellie Anderson), in The Palgrave Handbook of Sexual Ethics, David Boonin (ed.) (London: Palgrave, 2022)

‘Feeling, Knowledge, Self-Preservation: Audre Lorde’s Oppositional Agency and Some Implications for Ethics’, Journal of the American Philosophical Association 6, no. 4 (2020)

‘The Ethics of Eating as a Human Organism: A Bergsonian Analysis of the Misrecognition of Life’, in The Routledge Handbook of Food Ethics, Mary C. Rawlinson and Caleb Ward (eds.) (London: Routledge, 2017)

Edited Books

The Routledge Handbook of Food Ethics (edited with Mary C. Rawlinson), London: Routledge, 2017

Global Food, Global Justice: Essays on Eating under Globalization (edited with Mary C. Rawlinson), Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2015

Book Reviews

Review of When Time Warps: The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence, by Megan Burke (University of Minnesota Press) in APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy 20, no. 2 (2020)

Review of What is Rape? Social Theory and Conceptual Analysis, by Hilkje Charlotte Hänel (Transcript Verlag) in APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy 19, no. 1 (2019)

Public Writing

'Survival and Self in Audre Lorde', Blog of the APA, February 18, 2022