Academics

Selected Publications
Taste and the Household: The "Domestic Aesthetic" and Moral Reasoning. author (State University of New York Press, October 2001)

Thinking About Gender: A Historical Anthology. editor and commentary. (Harcourt-Brace College Publishers, 1997)

Book Chapters
"Persian Philosophy" (with Homayoon Sepasi), chapter of From Africa to Zen: an Introduction to World Philosophy , edited by Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen Higgins, (Rowman and Littlefield, 1993; 2nd edition, 2003)

The Aesthetics of Playtime Recycling,” in The Aesthetics of Human Environments ed. By Arnold Berleant  and Allen Carlson. Broadview Press, 2007.  Based on a presentation, “Recycling Aesthetics,”  (American Society for Aesthetics Fall 2002 Conference, October 31, 2002.)

"Domestic Aesthetics", contribution to Aesthetics in Perspective, edited by Kathleen Higgins, (Harcourt-Brace College Publishers, 1995).

Articles
“Falsely, Sanely, Shallowly: Reflections on the Special Character of Grief.”  International Journal Of Applied Philosophy.  19:1, 2005, -56.

"Six Books on Design" (article length review), Buchanan, Richard, and Margolin, Victor, eds. Discovering Design: Explorations in Design Studies. (University of Chicago Press, 1995; Doordan, Dennis, ed. Design History: An Anthology (Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, 1996; Jobling, Paul, and Crowley, David. Graphic Design: Reproduction and Representation Since 1800 (Manchester University Press, 1997); Kress, Gunther, and van Leeuwen, Theo. Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design (London: Routledge, 1996); Margolin, Victor, and Buchanan, Richard, eds. The Idea of Design. (Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, 1996); Palmer, Jerry, and Dodson, Mo, eds. Design and Aesthetics: A Reader (London: Routledge, 1996) for The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 58, number 1; Winter 2000

"Comic and Tragic Interlocutors and Socratic Method, Teaching Philosophy, vol. 22, issue 4; December 1999

"Virtue Ethics and Contractarianism: Towards a Reconciliation", with Bill Shaw. Business Ethics Quarterly, vol. 5, Issue 2; Spring 1995. p. 297 (16)

Book Reviews
Review, Stern, Radu. Against Fashion: Clothing as Art, 1850-1930. (MIT Press, 2004); Troy, Nancy J. Couture Culture: A Study in Modern Art and Fashion.  (MIT Press, 2003),  (Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 63:2, spring 2005).

Review Fussell, Paul.  Uniforms: Why We Are What We Wear. Houghton Mifflin,  2002. (Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 62:1, winter 2003).

Review, Di Battista, Maria. Fast-Talking Dames. Yale University Press, 2001. (Forthcoming in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism)

Review, Kenji Ekuan, The Aesthetics of the Japanese Lunchbox (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998), for The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism , vol. 57 No 4, Fall 1999

Invited Talks
"The Aesthetics of Playtime Recycling." The American Society for Aesthetics, 60th annual meeting, October 31, 2002. For panel on recrcling aesthetics, with Yuriko Saito, Cynthia Rostankowski, and Kathleen Higgins.

"Philosophy in Fashion and Fashion in Philosophy", conference, "Comparativism: Cultural Studies Across the Disciplines", University of Texas at Austin, October 6th, 1990.