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Selected Publications
Books
Is Philosophy Androcentric? Penn State University Press, 2006 (hardback and
paperback)
Articles
1. "Metafiction as a Rhetorical Device in Hegel's History of Absolute Spirit
and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude," CLIO 21
(1992): 401-410.
[Reprinted in Jeffrey W. Hunter and Tom Burns, eds., Contemporary
Literary Criticism (Detroit: Thomas Gale, 2002), 322-337.]
[Reprinted in Harold Bloom, ed., Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred
Years of Solitude (Philadelphia: Chelsea, 2003), 115-24.]
2. "Early and Later Deconstruction in the Writings of Jacques Derrida,"
Cardozo Law Review 14 (1993): 1895-1909.
3. "Should There be Separatist Feminist Epistemologies?" The Monist 77
(1994): 462-471.
4. "What's Old in Derrida?" Philosophy 69 (1994): 279-290.
5. "Modernism, Postmodernism and Politics," The International Journal of
Applied Philosophy 10 (1995): 39-45.
6. "The Paradox of the End," Philosophy 70 (1995): 555-565.
7. "How Androcentric is Western Philosophy?" The Philosophical Quarterly
46 (1996): 48-59.
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[A reply to this paper is Susan Mendus, "How Androcentric is Western
Philosophy? A Reply,"The Philosophical Quarterly 46 (1996): 60-66.]
8. "Mendus on Philosophy and Pervasiveness," The Philosophical Quarterly
47 (1997): 89-93.
9. "Are You Entitled to Affirmative Action?" The International Journal of
Applied Philosophy 11 (1997): 17-22.
10. "Why has the Question of the Meaning of Life Arisen in the Last Two and
a Half Centuries?" Philosophy Today 41 (1997): 263-270.
11. "On the Definition of Sexual Harassment," Australasian Journal of
Philosophy 77 (1999): 216-223.
12. "Is Sexual Harassment Research Biased?" Public Affairs Quarterly 13
(1999): 241-254.
13. "Sexual Harassment as 'Wrongful Communication'," Philosophy of the
Social Sciences 33 (2003): 225-234.
[A reply to this paper is Edmund Wall, "Reply to Iddo Landau,"Philosophy
of the Social Sciences 33 (2003): 235-241.]
14. "Sexual Harassment and the Repetition Requirement," Philosophy of the
Social Sciences 34 (2004): 79-83.
15. "An Argument for Marriage," Philosophy 79 (2004): 475-481.
[A reply to this paper is Dan Moller, "The Marriage Commitment-Reply to
Landau," Philosophy 80 (2005): 279-284.]
16. "The Dialectic of Authenticity and Inauthenticity in Jesus of Montreal," Film
and Philosophy 9 (2005): 113-125.
17. "To Kill a Mandarin," Philosophy and Literature 29 (2005): 89-96.
[A reply to this paper is Amihud Gilead, "Why Not Kill a Mandarin?"
Philosophy and Literature 31 (2007): 153-158.]
18. "Response to Amihud Gilead," Philosophy and Literature 31 (2007): 158161.
19. "Two Notions of Objectification," Philosophy Today 51 (2007): 312-319.
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20. "Haack on Preferential Hiring," in Cornelis de Waal, ed., Susan Haack:
The Philosopher Responds to Her Critics (Amherst: Prometheus, 2007),
298-305.
21. "Problems with Feminist Standpoint Theory in Science Education,"
Science and Education 17 (2008): 1081-1088.
22. "On the Marginalization of Feminist Philosophy," International Journal of
Philosophical Studies 18 (2010): 551-568.
23. "Violence and Postmodernism: A Conceptual Analysis," Reason Papers
32 (2010): 67-73.
24. "Immorality and the Meaning of Life," Journal of Value Inquiry 45 (2011):
309-317.
25. "The Meaning of Life Sub Specie Aeternitatis," Australasian Journal of
Philosophy 89 (2011): 727-734.
[A reply to this article is: Joshua W. Seachris, "The Sub Specie
Aeternitatis Perspective and Normative Evaluations of Life’s
Meaningfulness: A Closer Look," Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 16
(2013) 605-620.]
26. "The Nights of Cabiria as a Camusian Existentialist Text," Film and
Philosophy 16 (2012): 53-69.
27. "Should Marital Relations Be Non-Hierarchical?" Ratio 25 (2012): 51-67.
28. "Foundationless Freedom and Meaninglessness of Life in Sartre's Being
and Nothingness," Sartre Studies International 18 (2012): 1-8.
29. "The Meaning of Life," in The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Hugh
LaFollette, ed. (London: Wiley Blackwell, 2012), 3043-3047.
30. "Sartre's Absolute Freedom in Being and Nothingness," Philosophy Today
56(4) (2012): 463-473.
31. "Neurology, Psychology, and the Meaning of Life: On Thagard's The Brain
and the Meaning of Life," Philosophical Psychology 26 (2013): 604-618.
[A reply to this article is: Paul Thagard, "Nihilism, Skepticism, and
Philosophical Method: A Response to Landau on Coherence and the
Meaning of Life," Philosophical Psychology 26 (2013): 619-621.]
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32. "Coherentism, Brain Science, and the Meaning of Life: A Response to
Thagard," Philosophical Psychology 26 (2013): 622-624.
33. "Conceptualizing Great Meaning in Life: Metz on the Good, the True, and
the Beautiful," Religious Studies 49 (2013): 505-514.
34. "Perfectionism and Non-Perfectionism in Camus's Myth of Sisyphus," in
Beatrix Himmelmann, ed., On Meaning in Life (Boston: De Gruyter, 2013),
139-151.
35. "Standards, Perspectives, and the Meaning of Life: A Reply to Seachris,"
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 17 (2014): 457-468.
36. "Feminist Standpoint Theory," in Denis Phillips, ed., Encyclopedia of
Educational Theory and Philosophy (New York: Sage, 2014), vol. 1, 332333.