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Category Archives: Dissertation Discards

The ball of wax and the bitten apple

February 22, 2016by Sara Davis 1 Comment

The wax argument is a classic rationalist exemplar from Rene Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy. Descartes describes a ball of wax recently taken from a hive: it still smells faintly of […]

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Dissertation Discards, Philosophy

Link Buffet: Bravura Performances

February 18, 2016by Sara Davis 1 Comment

Heads up! I enjoyed the junk food soigné Instagram of Chef Jacques la Merde so much (linked here and here) that you can probably imagine how delighted I am to learn […]

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Dissertation Discards, Link Buffet

Hegel on the difference between men and women

April 24, 2015by Sara Davis 2 Comments

In the Philosophy of Right, Hegel explores the role of family and marriage in the stability of the state. For Hegel, the critical element of a marriage is opposite sexes which […]

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Body, Dissertation Discards, Gender, Philosophy

Search Term Sampler: Why do certain foods seem to be gendered?

April 16, 2015by Sara Davis 2 Comments

Some intrepid researcher was led to my site by Googling this phrase: gender connotations to food So glad you asked! I’ve been working on a chapter on that very topic. I […]

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Dissertation Discards, Gender, Meat, Search Term Sampler, Vegetable

This is not a scene of eating

November 4, 2013by Sara Davis 1 Comment

I’ve been going back over drafts of my first few dissertation chapters, written a couple  years ago before my rollercoaster ride of a career shift. I’m trying to rework them […]

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Dissertation Discards, Painting, Performance, Playing with Food

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Sara Davis
Philadelphia, PA

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