Helen is a metaphysician and philosopher of language. She is particularly interested right now in the language of insults, the metaphysics of social identities like gender, race, and disability, and the communicative power of non-verbal arts.
"#MeToo and Insults" (forthcoming) in The Philosophy of Sexual Violence. Edited by Georgi Gardiner and Micol Bez. Routledge.
"On Insults" (2018) Journal of the American Philosophical Association.
"Love and Death" (2018) in Heaven & Philosophy. Edited by Simon Cushing. Lexington Books. 137-51.
"Modeling Sex/Gender" (2017) Think: Philosophy for Everyone 46 (16): 79-92.
"Sex, Vagueness, and the Olympics" (2015) Hypatia 30 (4):708-24.
"Mental Causation" (2009) with Cei Maslen and Terry Horgan. In The Oxford Handbook of Causation. Edited by H. Beebee, C. Hitchcock, and P. Menzies. Oxford.
"Jaegwon Kim" (2009) with Terry Horgan. In A Companion to Metaphysics, 2nd ed. Edited by J. Kim, E. Sosa and G. Rosenkrantz. Blackwell.
Regular Courses Taught
PH101 Greek Philosophy
PH122 Philosophical Argument and Writing
PH226 Formal Logic
PH229 Philosophy of Language
PH321 Metaphysics
Committees & Governance
Philosophy Department Chairperson 2019-24
Previously:
2018-19, Faculty Executive Committee, Budget Subcommittee 2016-17, Faculty Executive Committee, Governance Subcommittee 2015-16, Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid 2013-14, Curriculum Committee 2012-13, Budget Committee
Education
B.A., University of Akron, 2002 Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2011
