Maja Sidzińska

I recently received my PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, and am a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and Rowan University. My research lies at the intersection of a number of philosophical subfields: the history and philosophy of science, metaphysics, feminist philosophy, philosophy of medicine, and bioethics. I also have interests in political philosophy and metaphilosophy. I aim to develop an empirically-informed and naturalist yet feminist ontology for these areas of inquiry. My dissertation concerns different ontological understandings of pregnancy and the consequences of those understandings for questions about personal identity, biological individuality, and biomedical decision-making. I am also concerned with methodology as it intersects science and philosophy.

 

I recently helped organize a conference on the history of the philosophy of pregnancy, and am co-editing a volume based on the proceeds, tentatively titled Pregnancy in the History of Philosophy. I am the editor of the Pregnancy and Birth categories in PhilPapers. And I am a founder of Philosophy in the Wild. 

 

I was formerly a lecturer at San Francisco State University and at Mills College. I am also a former Managing Editor for Hypatia Reviews Online. 

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You can read more about my work here!

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