astronomy

Mary C. Rawlinson

Mary C. Rawlinson is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Mary C. Rawlinson rather than just read about it. In short: Mary Crenshaw Rawlinson is a professor of philosophy at Stony Brook University in New York and a research fellow at the University College London (UCL) Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS). Life Rawlinson published "The concept of a feminist bioethics" in 2001 in which she argued that the "invisible gendering of the universal renders the other gender invisible and silent".

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Reference excerpt

Mary Crenshaw Rawlinson is a professor of philosophy at Stony Brook University in New York and a research fellow at the University College London (UCL) Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS).

Life Rawlinson published "The concept of a feminist bioethics" in 2001 in which she argued that the "invisible gendering of the universal renders the other gender invisible and silent". In 2006 she started the IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. She was the editor until 2016, and is still a member of the advisory board. Between 2007 and 2017, Rawlinson was the co-founder and co-director of The Irigaray Circle. Much of her work focusses on Hegel, Irigaray, bioethics and feminist ideologies. Her published materials cover the philosophical disciplines of metaphysics, phenomenology and psychoanalysis. She has also written extensively on literary theory and criticism within the purview of continental philosophy. Her book, The Betrayal of Substance assesses Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, arguing that whilst some of his theory is sound, Hegel experienced limitations in separating consciousness from sensory existence. Within her scope of philosophy, Mary Rawlinson has received critical success and numerous responses on sites such as the Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy, the Dictionary of Open Access Journal and her former website, IJFAB.

Selected publications The Voice of Breast Cancer in Medicine and Bioethics (Springer, 2006) Thinking with Irigaray (SUNY, 2011) Labor and Global Justice (Lexington, 2014) Global Food, Global Justice (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2015) Just Life: bioethics and the future of sexual difference (Columbia University Press, 2016) Engaging the World: Thinking After Irigaray (SUNY, 2016) The Betrayal of Substance: death, literature, and sexual difference in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (Columbia University Press, 2021) What Is Sexual Difference: Thinking After Irigaray (Columbia University Press, 2024) Opening Hegel's Autological Circle: Irigaray and the Metaphysics of Sexual Difference (What is Sexual Difference? 2023) Justice in an Unjust World: The Politics of Narration in Luce Irigaray and Frank Miller's Sin City (SUNY, 2023) The Routledge Handbook of Food Ethics (Routledge, 2016) Women's Work: Ethics, Homecooking and the Sexual Politics of Food (Routledge, 2016) The Climate of Food: Justice, Truth and Structural Change (Environment and Climate Change: Justice at the Intersections, 2012) Women's Rights, Human Rights: Rethinking the Universal in Bioethics (Feminist Bioethics, 2010) Derrida and Feminism (Routledge, 1997), Editor (Co-Credited with Ellen K Feder and Emily Zakin) Foucault' Strategy: knowledge, power, and the specificity of truth (Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 1987) THE SENSE OF SUFFERING* Better to suffer than to die: that is mankind's motto (Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 1986) Hegel on Forgiveness (Oxford University Press)

References

External links Publications - Mary C. Rawlinson, State University of New York, Stony Brook Mary C. Rawlinson - "Toward an Ethics of Life: How Feminism Misreads Hegel's Misreading of Antigone, or Let Ismene Speak", 19 May 2011

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Mary C. Rawlinson

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Mary C. Rawlinson claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Mary C. Rawlinson before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Mary C. Rawlinson ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Mary C. Rawlinson

In research: Mary C. Rawlinson appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Mary C. Rawlinson in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Mary C. Rawlinson is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics American philosophy academics, Bioethicists, Hegel scholars, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Mary C. Rawlinson outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Mary C. Rawlinson in simple terms?

Mary Crenshaw Rawlinson is a professor of philosophy at Stony Brook University in New York and a research fellow at the University College London (UCL) Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS). Life Rawlinson published "The concept of a feminist bioethics" in 2001 in which she argued that the "invisible…

Why does Mary C. Rawlinson matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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