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Stephanie Kapusta

Associate Professor; Undergraduate Advisor; Cross-Appointed with Gender and Women's Studies; Cross-Appointed with Law, Justice and Society

Stephanie at Clam Harbour

Teaching

  • Fall 2024
    PHIL 1810
    PHIL 4500/PHIL 5500
    GWST 4500
  • Winter 2025
    PHIL 2160
    PHIL 2480
    GWST 2500

    

Office Hours

Please email at:
stephanie.kapusta@dal.ca

Room 1138
Marion McCain Building


Email: stephanie.kapusta@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-3541
Mailing Address: 
Room 1138, Marion McCain Building
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6135 University Avenue
PO Box 15000
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • Feminist Philosophy
  • Social and Political Philosophy
  • Ethics

Education

  • PhD Philosophy (2015), University of Western Ontario
  • MA Philosophy (2011), University of Western Ontario
  • PhD Theology (2005), Phil-Theologische Hochshule St. Georgen, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  • PhD Theoretical Physics (1990), Imperial College, London, UK

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

  • ā€œPractising Epistemic Estrangement: A Commentary to Haslangerā€™s ā€˜Cognition as a Social Skillā€™.ā€ Australasian Philosophical Review 3(1): 1ā€“5.
  • ā€œThe Benefits and Burdens of Engaging in Argumentation: Trans*feminist Reflections on Tuvelā€™s ā€˜In Defense of Transracialismā€™.ā€ 2018. Atlantis:Ģż Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice 39 (2): 61-73. .
  • ā€œIntersex Diagnostics and Prognostics: Imposing Sex-Predicate Determinacy.ā€ 2017. Topoi 36: 539-548. .
  • ā€œMisgendering and its Moral Contestability.ā€ 2016. Hypatia 31(3): 502ā€“519. .
  • German trans.: ā€œZur moralischen Anfechtbarkeit geschlechtlicher Fehlkategorisierungen.ā€ 2018. Feministische Studien: Zeitschrift fĆ¼r interdisziplinƤre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung 36(1): 134ā€“156. .

Contributions in Books/Encyclopedias

  • Ģżā€œTransgender Rights.ā€ 2019. In International Encyclopaedia of Ethics, ed. Hugh LaFollette. Oxford: John Wiley and Sons.
  • Ģżā€œTrans Authenticity and the Feminist ā€˜Legacyā€™ of Relationality.ā€ 2013. In Stewart, R.S., ed., Talk About Sex: A Multidisciplinary Discussion, 146-155 (Sydney, NS: Cape Breton University Press).

Book reviews

  • Trans Studies: Beyond Hetero/homo Normativities, ed. Yolanda MartĆ­nez-San Miguel and Sarah Tobias, New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 2016. Hypatia Reviews Online. .
  • Philosophy of Science for Theologians: An Introduction by Gijsbert van den Brink, Frankfurt, Peter Lang, 2009. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 24 (2010): 443-446.

Translations

  • Natali, Carlo ā€œThe Search for Definitions of Justice in Nichomachean Ethics 5ā€ [Italian to English] In Henry, Devin and Karen M Nielsen, Bridging the Gap between Aristotleā€™s Science and Ethics, 148ā€“68. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Social Media

  • Webinar panellist, Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion, ā€œLGBTQ2+ in Todayā€™s Worldā€, June 06, 2019, (5 panellists, 105 participants)
  • Interview for the Blog of the American Philosophical Association, ā€œTrans*feminism: How Trans Issues and Feminism Overlap,ā€ Aug 09, 2018. .
  • Interview for Elucidations: Podcast Series in the Department of Philosophy, Division of the Humanities, University of Chicago, 15 October, 2019,

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