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Journal of Controversial Ideas is a peer-reviewed journal published by MDPI, covering Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies, LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy, Academic Freedom and Politics.
| Publisher | MDPI |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Numbered (MDPI) Numbered — [1], [2] in the text 1. Smith, A.; Jones, B.; Lee, C. A Representative Article Title. Journal of Controversial Ideas 2023, 12, 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy Academic Freedom and Politics Political Philosophy and Ethics Philosophical Ethics and Theory |
| ISSN | 2694-5991 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 0.53 |
| h-index | 11 |
| i10-index | 12 |
| Total citations | 307 |
| Top institutions publishing here | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Journal website | journalofcontroversialideas.org |
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Merit is a central pillar of liberal epistemology, humanism, and democracy. The scientific enterprise, built on merit, has proven effective in generating scientific and technological advances, reducing suffering, narrowing social gaps, and improving the quality of life globally. This perspective documents the ongoing attempts to undermine the core principles of liberal epistemology and to replace…
Social theory describes and explains the world but can also transform it. The generative power of theory has been shown for disciplines that emulate natural sciences, like economics and psychiatry. I argue that queer theory has similar power, using the case of prison policy in England and Wales. The theory’s privileging of gender over sex…
This paper investigates a linguistic device that was only recently proposed, the figleaf, whose function is to prevent a bigoted statement from being interpreted as bigoted. Previous research on figleaves focused on examples of speech by conservative politicians, commentators, and their supporters. My main contributions here are coverage of figleaves across a wider range of…
Robin Dembroff’s “Escaping the natural attitude about gender” replies to my “Are women adult human females?”. This paper responds to Dembroff’s many criticisms of my arguments, as well as to the charge that “Are women...?” “fundamentally is an unscholarly attempt to vindicate a political slogan that is currently being used to undermine civic rights and…
The primary aim of this paper is to show that Alex Byrne’s arguments in “Are Women Adult Human Females?” provide no reason to doubt the truth of the proposition that trans women are women. Byrne’s conclusion is that women are adult human females. However, it is safe to say that much of the interest in…
