Naomi Scheman

Scheman received her bachelor's in philosophy from Barnard College in 1968. She went on to receive a master's and doctorate in philosophy from Harvard University, in 1971 and 1978, respectively.

Scheman is currently a professor at University of Minnesota, and a guest professor at Umeå University. During her time at the University of Minnesota, she served as the chair of the Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies department from 1986 to 1989, and has served as the Director of Graduate Studies since 2007. Prior to her current positions, Scheman has held appointments at the University of Ottawa, Columbia University, the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies (including serving as director from 1991 to 1992 and associate dean of the graduate school from 2000 to 2003,) and the University of Gothenburg.

Scheman also serves as a member of the editorial boards of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy and NORA (the Nordic Women's Studies Journal). She also served as an associate editor of Signs between 1990 and 1993.

Scheman was one of the first academics to read Wittgenstein in a feminist light, and, likewise, was one of the first academics to bring Wittgenstein's ideas to feminism.{{cite web|last=DesAutels|first=Peggy|title=June 2012: Naomi Scheman|url=http://www.apaonlinecsw.org/home/woman_philosopher/june2012naomischeman|work=Highlighted Philosophers|publisher=American Philosophical Association|access-date=23 August 2013}} Much of Scheman's work has centered around the implications of the interactions between ontology and epistemology. Scheman is especially interested in the ways in which transgressive practices shine light on the actions of normatively centered people, and on how insights gleaned from these observations allow for the chance of acting differently. Scheman is also a strong believer that phenomena such as race and class are socially constructed, and is a strong opponent of physicalism.

Scheman has written four books: Engenderings: Constructions of Knowledge, Authority, and Privilege in 1993,{{cite book | last = Scheman | first = Naomi | title = Engenderings : constructions of knowledge, authority, and privilege | url = https://archive.org/details/engenderingscons00sche | url-access = registration | publisher = Routledge | location = New York | year = 1993 | isbn = 9780415907408 }} Is Academic Feminism Dead? in 2000,{{cite book | last = Social Justice Group at the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies, University of Minnesota | first = The | title = Is academic feminism dead?: theory in practice | publisher = New York University Press | location = New York | year = 2000 | isbn = 9780814727058 }} Feminist Interpretations of Wittgenstein in 2002,{{cite book | last1 = Scheman | first1 = Naomi | last2 = O'Connor | first2 = Peg | author-link2 = Peg O'Connor | title = Feminist interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein | publisher = Pennsylvania State University Press | location = University Park, Pennsylvania | year = 2002 | isbn = 9780271021980 }} and most recently Shifting Ground: Knowledge & Reality, Transgression & Trust in 2011.{{cite book | last = Scheman | first = Naomi | title = Shifting ground knowledge and reality, transgression and trustworthiness | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = New York | year = 2011 | isbn = 9780195395105 }} She has also written a significant number of peer-reviewed papers, as well as a number of articles, commentaries, and presentations including.

In Engenderings: Constructions of Knowledge, Authority, and Privilege, Scheman critiques aspects of modern philosophy that serve or reinforce injustice.{{cite journal|last=Kamarck Minnich|first=Elizabeth|title=Engenderings: Constructions of Knowledge, Authority, and Privilege by Naomi Scheman|journal=Gender and Society|date=February 1995|volume=9|issue=1|pages=125–126|jstor=189604}} The book is structured as a collection of essays.{{cite journal|last=ANTONY|first=LOUISE M.|title=Symposium: Feminist Epistemology: COMMENT ON NAOMI SCHEMAN|journal=Metaphilosophy|date=1 July 1995|volume=26|issue=3|pages=191–198|doi=10.1111/j.1467-9973.1995.tb00567.x}} She focuses especially on modern philosophy's apparent disdain for the body from which it, by necessity, sprung, and attempts to reground philosophy in the physical bodies and relationships it arose from. Much of Engenderings draws on Scheman's personal experience as a woman philosopher, attempting to figure out how to occupy the role of 'woman philosopher' while making as few concessions to the culture of intellectual privilege that led her to occupy that identity in the first place as possible.{{cite journal|last=Lovibond|first=Sabina|title=Engenderings: Constructions of Knowledge, Authority and Privilege. by Naomi Scheman|journal=The Philosophical Review|date=July 1995|volume=104|issue=4|pages=460–462|doi=10.2307/2185637|jstor=2185637}}

• {{citation | last = Scheman | first = Naomi | contribution = Narrative, complexity, and context: autonomy as an epistemic value | editor-last1 = Lindemann | editor-first1 = Hilde | editor-last2 = Verkerk | editor-first2 = Marian | editor-last3 = Walker | editor-first3 = Margaret Urban | editor-link1 = Hilde Lindemann | editor-link3 = Margaret Urban Walker | title = Naturalized bioethics: toward responsible knowing and practice | pages = 106–124 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge New York | year = 2009 | isbn = 9780521719407 | postscript = .}}

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