Deborah GoldgaberAssociate Professor of Philosophy Joinly Appointed in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 106 Coates Hall 225–578–1043 |
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Professor Goldgaber specializes in European philosophy, feminist philosophy, ethics and epistemology. Her research is wide-ranging, with interests in the nature of scientific knowledge and its limits, how inclusive values in science can expand objectivity, and how social hierarchies produce ignorance. She has published extensively in areas related to nature of memory, cultural and biological plasticity, the effects of technological prosthesis (including literacy) and, most recently, the shifting meaning of information across disciplinary domains. Her scholarly monograph, Speculative Grammatology: Deconstruction and the New Materialsim (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), extends French philosopher Jacques Derrida’s grammatological framing to examine the expansion of the metaphor of writing and code to include the domains of biology and information sciences. Professor Goldgaber has previously served as Section Head of Philosophy and Director of the LSU Ethics, where she piloted initiatives on Data Ethics, Ethical AI, the ethics of memorialization and Critical Carceral Studies among others. As the recipient of grants from the NSF and the Louisiana Board of Regents, through the Embedding Ethics in STEM @ LSU project, she has worked with LSU faculty to expand moral literacy across STEM fields through innovative partnerships with the humanities. |
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B.A. in Economics and Political Science, Vanderbilt University (2000) M.A. in Philosophy, The New School for Social Research (2004) Ph.D. in Philosophy, Northwestern University (2014) PHIL 1000: Introduction to Philosophy PHIL 2786: History and Philosophy of STEM PHIL 3001: Existentialism PHIL 3020: Foundations of Critical Theory PHIL 3020/WGSS 4500: Race, Sex, Science PHIL 4936: 19th-Century European Philosophy PHIL 4949: Topic in the Philosophy of Sex and Gender PHIL 7905: Graduate Seminar in Continental Philosophy HNRS 2030: AI and the Future of the Human WGSS 7150: Graduate Survey in Feminist Philosophy Co-Principal Investigator, POSE II (Pathway to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems II-NSF)–$1.5M (2024) Principal Investigator, Provost Fund for Research & Creative Activity (2024) Co-Principal Investigator, “Working Group: AI, Ethics and Automation,” The Center for Collaborative Knowledge (2023–2024) Co-Principal Investigator, National Academy of Science, Gulf Scholars Program—$450K (2021–2025) Principal Investigator, “Embedding Ethics in STEM,” Louisiana Board of Regents, Enhancement Grant—$104K (2021–2022) Senior Personnel, POSE I (Pathway to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems-NSF)—$300K (2021–2022) Recipient of Manship Summer Research Fellowship (2021) Fellow, for the Moral Theory Project, LSU Ethics Institute (2018) Recipient of ATLAS Grant, Louisiana Board of Regents— $56K (2017) Recipient of Council on Research, Summer Research Stipend (2017) Books Speculative Grammatology: Deconstruction and The New Materialism (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021)
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Chapters "'More Space Than Time’: Amodality, ‘Dark Phenomenology’ and Speculative Realism," in After Speculative Realism (forthcoming with Bloomsbury, 2025) "Missing the Mark: Aestheticization, Structure Inattention, and ‘Dark Phenomenology,’" in Phenomenology, Ontology, Metaphysics, Brill Research in Phenomenology (forthcoming, 2024) "Analogies or Ontologies? On the ‘Unreasonable Effectiveness’ of ‘Code’ in the History of the Life Sciences,” The Oxford Literary Review 45 (2024): 186–207 "On Recovering the Past: Textual 'Reversibility' in M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong!," CR: The New Centennial Review 21 (2021): 207–35 "Matter and Indifference: Realism and Anti-Realism in Feminist Accounts of the Body,’ in Idealism, Relativism, Realism. New Essays on Objectivity Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide, ed. Dominik Finkelde and Paul M. Livingston (Boston: De Gruyter, 2020), 1:193–214 "'Morphogenesis' in New Materialist Thought," Philosophy Today 63 (2019): 999–1012 "Plasticity, Technicity, Writing," Parallax 25 (2019): 137–54 "Return to the Repressive: Re-thinking Nature- Culture in Contemporary Feminist Theory," Open Philosophy 1 (2018): 245–55 “Derrida and Translation,” in The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Philosophy, ed. J Piers Rawling and Philip Wilson (New York: Routledge, 2018), 141–56 "The Plasticity of Writing": Malabou and the Limits of Grammatology," in Thinking Catherine Malabou: Passionate Detachments, ed. Thomas Wormald and Isabell Dahms (London: Roman & Littlefield, 2018), 39–56 "Programmed to Fail? On the Limits of Inscription and the Generality of Writing," Journal of Speculative Philosophy 31 (2017): 444–57
Book Reviews and Essays Review Essay, "Francisco Vitale’s Biodeconstruction," Derrida Today 13 (2020): 114–21 Review Essay, "Derrida’s The Death Penalty Vol. II.," Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2017)
Ethics Institute Collaborations (with Maria Bampasidou, Thanos Gentimis, Anurag Mandalika) “'Overcoming ‘Digital Divides’: Leveraging higher education to develop next generation digital agriculture professionals," in Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 224 (2024) (with Anurag Mandalika) “Ethics of AI and Automation in Digital Agriculture,” Choices: Journal of the Agriculture and Applied Economics Association (2024)
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