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Holly Lawford-Smith

Associate Professor In Political Philosophy
Historical and Philosophical Studies
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Radical Feminism & Gender Critical Feminism
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Analysis of Representations of Workplace Gender Diversity in Australian Print Media

2019 - 2020
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Gender-Critical Feminism

Holly Lawford-Smith

Book  |  2022

She introduces gender-critical feminism, explaining what it means to conceive of gender as norms and to be critical of gender on t..

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Was lockdown life worth living?

Holly Lawford-Smith

Journal article  |  2022  |  MONASH BIOETHICS REVIEW

Lockdowns in Australia have been strict and lengthy. Policy-makers appear to have given the preservation of quantity of lives stro..

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Gender

Holly Lawford-Smith

Book Chapter  |  2022

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Tribalism & trashing in the gender wars

Holly Lawford-Smith

Book Chapter  |  2022

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The Metaphysics of Intersectionality Revisited star

Holly Lawford-Smith, Kate Phelan

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

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Big Data Justice: A Case for Regulating the Global Information Commons

Kai Spiekermann, Adam Slavny, David Axelsen, Holly Lawford-Smith

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF POLITICS

The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) challenges political theorists to think about data ownership and policy makers to regul..

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We the People: Is the Polity the State?

Stephanie Collins, Holly Lawford-Smith

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION

When a liberal-democratic state signs a treaty or wages a war, does its whole polity do those things? In this article, we approach..

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Is There Collective Responsibility for Misogyny Perpetrated on Social Media?

Holly Lawford-Smith, Jessica Megarry

Book Chapter  |  2021

Women, particularly those who work in public positions (such as journalists, politicians, celebrities, activists) are subject to d..

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Directed reflective equilibrium: Thought experiments and how to use them

A Slavny, K Spiekermann, H Lawford-Smith, DV Axelsen

Journal article  |  2021  |  Journal of Moral Philosophy

In this paper we develop a new methodology for normative theorising, which we call Directed Reflective Equilibrium. Directed Refle..

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Act Consequentialism and the No-Difference Challenge

Holly Lawford-Smith, William Tuckwell

Book Chapter  |  2020

According to act-consequentialism, only actions that make a difference to an outcome can be morally bad. Yet, there are classes of..

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Human Resources and Industrial Relations
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What the media tells us about gender diversity at work

Victor Sojo Monzon, Cordelia Fine, Holly Lawford-Smith, Ziying Yang, Karin Verspoor

The current pandemic has drawn attention to the still strongly gender-segregated patterns of work in Australia and globally. This ranges fr..

September 29, 2020
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Why some feminists oppose allowing people to choose their sex on birth certificates

Holly Lawford-Smith

A bill currently before the Victorian parliament would allow people in the state to choose the sex listed on their birth certificates. Th..

August 27, 2019
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Why the plastic bag backflip is a bad idea

Stephen Swearer, Brad Jessup, Holly Lawford-Smith, Jeannie Marie Paterson, Simon Bell, Tanja Beer

Australian supermarket Coles will continue handing out free plastic bags in its stores indefinitely, saying it’s bowing to customer pressur..

August 1, 2018
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Credentials

Positions

Associate Professor In Political Philosophy

Historical and Philosophical Studies

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

Australian National University

Masters in Philosophy

University of Otago

Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and English

University of Otago

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