Naomi Scheman

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Naomi Scheman is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota and a member of the Graduate Faculty in their Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, also having served as department. She additionally is an associate faculty member at their Center for Austrian Studies. and has served as Chair of the Philosophy Department, and as Associate Dean of the Graduate School. She has a Ph. D. degree from Harvard University

Contents 1 Teaching 2 Publications 3 Professional Activities 4 Awards 5 Courses Taught 6 Specialties 7 References 8 External links

[edit] Teaching

She is best known on the University of Minnesota campus for her "Sexuality and Self-Image" course in the women's studies department. She is also well known among University of Minnesota students for her introductory logic class. She also gives an introductory course in scientific ethics at the Physics Department there.

[edit] Publications

• "Engenderings: Constructions of Knowledge, Authority, and Privilege", 1993, Routledge
• "Shifting Ground: Margins, Diasporas, and the Reading of Wittgenstein." in preparation

• "Against Physicalism", 1999, in Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy, Cambridge University Press
• ed., with Peg O'Connor, "Feminist Interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein," Penn State Univ. Press, 2002. ISBN 0-271-02197-7

• "Forms of Life: Mapping the Rough Ground", 1996, in Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein, Cambridge University Press, 1996
• "Queering the Center by Centering the Queer: Reflections on Transsexuals and Secular Jews" in Feminists Rethink the Self, Westview Press, 1996
• "Non-Negotiable Demands: Metaphysics, Politics, and the Discourse of Needs." in Future Pasts: Reflections on the History and Nature of Analytic Philosophy, eds. Juliet Floyd and Sanford Shieh, Oxford University Press, 2001.

She has also been active presenting conference papers for many years.

[edit] Professional Activities

• Editorial Board, Hypatia: a Journal of Women's Studies
• "GRASS Routes--co-founder: Theorizing and faciltating community-based research", 2001 - on-going

[edit] Awards

• 2006 Fessler-Lampert Chair in the Humanities,
• College of Liberal Arts Teaching Award, University of Minnesota, 1993

[edit] Courses Taught

• Phil 1006 - Introduction to Philosophy & Cultural Diversity
• Phil 3234 - Knowledge & Society
• WoSt topics - "Real" Women

[edit] Specialties

• Epistemology
• Feminist theory
• trustworthiness and community engagement
• responsibility in research

[edit] References

• Ph.D. Programs in Women's Studies (at the University of Minnesota) Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov 27, 2998.
• analytic feminism article in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (includes a discussion of her work)

[edit] External links

• Department of Women's Studies at the U of M bio
• Department of Philosophy at the U of M bio
• Publisher's information for "Feminist Interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein"
• [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/femapproach-analytic/