Deborah Goldgaber
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Associate Professor of Philosophy Section Head of Philosophy Director of the 海角社区 Ethics Institute Jointly Appointed in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 106 Coates Hall 225-578-1043 |
Deborah Goldgaber is Associate Professor in Philosophy at 海角社区 with a joint appointment in Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies and Director, since 2019, of the 海角社区 Ethics Institute. At the Institute, she has piloted initiatives on Data Ethics, Ethical AI, the ethics of memorialization and Critical Carceral Studies among others. As the recipient of grants from the NSF and the Louisiana Board of Regents, through the Embedding Ethics in STEM @ 海角社区 project, she has worked with 海角社区 faculty to expand moral literacy across STEM fields through innovative partnerships with the humanities.
Professor Goldgaber received her PhD in Philosophy from Northwestern University, and specializes in European philosophy, feminist philosophy, ethics and epistemology. Her research is wide-ranging, with interests in the nature of scientific knowledge and its limits, how inclusive values in science can expand objectivity, and how social hierarchies produce ignorance. She has published extensively in areas related to nature of memory, cultural and biological plasticity, the effects of technological prosthesis (including literacy) and, most recently, the shifting meaning of information across disciplinary domains. Her scholarly monography, Speculative Grammatology: Deconstruction and the New Materialsim (Edinburgh, 2021), extends French philosopher Jacques Derrida鈥檚 grammatological framing to examine the expansion of the metaphor of writing and code to include the domains of biology and information sciences.
B.A. in Economics and Political Science, Vanderbilt University (2000)
M.A. in Philosophy, The New School for Social Research (2004)
Ph.D. in Philosophy, Northwestern University (2014)
PHIL 1000: Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL 2786: History and Philosophy of STEM
PHIL 3001: Existentialism
PHIL 3020: Foundations of Critical Theory
PHIL 3020/WGSS 4500: Race, Sex, Science
PHIL 4936: 19th-Century European Philosophy
PHIL 4949: Topic in the Philosophy of Sex and Gender
PHIL 7905: Graduate Seminar in Continental Philosophy
HNRS 2030: AI and the Future of the Human
WGSS 7150: Graduate Survey in Feminist Philosophy
Co-Principal Investigator, POSE II (Pathway to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems II-NSF) -- $1.5M (2024)
Principal Investigator, Provost Fund for Research & Creative Activity (2024)
Co-Principal Investigator, 鈥淲orking Group: AI, Ethics and Automation,鈥� The Center for Collaborative Knowledge (2023-2024)
Co-Principal Investigator, National Academy of Science, Gulf Scholars Program -- $450K (2021-2025)
Principal Investigator, 鈥淓mbedding Ethics in STEM,鈥� Louisiana Board of Regents, Enhancement Grant -- $104K (2021-2022)
Senior Personnel, POSE I (Pathway to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems-NSF) -- $300K (2021-2022)
Recipient of Manship Summer Research Fellowship (2021)
Fellow, for the Moral Theory Project, 海角社区 Ethics Institute (2018)
Recipient of ATLAS Grant, Louisiana Board of Regents -- $56K (2017)
Recipient of Council on Research, Summer Research Stipend (2017)
Books
Speculative Grammatology: Deconstruction and The New Materialism (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021)
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Chapters
"'More Space Than Time鈥�: Amodality, 鈥楧ark Phenomenology鈥� and Speculative Realism," in After Speculative Realism (forthcoming with Bloomsbury, 2025)
"Missing the Mark: Aestheticization, Structure Inattention, and 鈥楧ark Phenomenology,鈥�" in Phenomenology, Ontology, Metaphysics, Brill Research in Phenomenology (forthcoming, 2024)
"Analogies or Ontologies? On the 鈥楿nreasonable Effectiveness鈥� of 鈥楥ode鈥� in the History of the Life Sciences鈥� The Oxford Literary Review 45 (2024): 186-207
"On Recovering the Past: Textual 'Reversibility' in M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong!," CR: The New Centennial Review 21 (2021): 207-35
"Matter and Indifference: Realism and Anti-Realism in Feminist Accounts of the Body,鈥� in Idealism, Relativism, Realism. New Essays on Objectivity Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide, ed. Dominik Finkelde and Paul M. Livingston (Boston: De Gruyter, 2020), 1:193-214
"'Morphogenesis' in New Materialist Thought," Philosophy Today 63 (2019): 999-1012
"Plasticity, Technicity, Writing," Parallax 25 (2019): 137-54
"Return to the Repressive: Re-thinking Nature- Culture in Contemporary Feminist Theory," Open Philosophy 1 (2018): 245-55
鈥淒errida and Translation,鈥� in The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Philosophy, ed. J Piers Rawling and Philip Wilson (New York: Routledge, 2018), 141-56.
"The Plasticity of Writing": Malabou and the Limits of Grammatology," inThinking Catherine Malabou: Passionate Detachments, ed. Thomas Wormald and Isabell Dahms (London: Roman & Littlefield, 2018), 39-56
"Programmed to Fail? On the Limits of Inscription and the Generality of Writing," Journal of Speculative Philosophy 31 (2017): 444-57
Ethics Institute Collaborations
Maria Bampasidou, Deborah Goldgaber, Thanos Gentimis, Anurag Mandalika (2024), 鈥溾��" 224 (1)
with Anurag Mandalika (2024). 鈥淓thics of AI and Automation in Digital Agriculture,鈥� Choices: Journal of the Agriculture and Applied Economics Association
Book Reviews
Review Essay, "Francisco Vitale鈥檚 Biodeconstruction," Derrida Today 13 (2020): 114-21
Review Essay, ".," Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2017)