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The Structure Of Atkins’ New Diet Revolution: Proposing A Paradigm Shift In Fighting Obesity, Catherine Womack
The Structure Of Atkins’ New Diet Revolution: Proposing A Paradigm Shift In Fighting Obesity, Catherine Womack
Catherine A. Womack
No abstract provided.
Categories Of Constraint And Avenues Of Freedom: Proposing Collective Agency For Addressing Problems Of Obesity, Catherine Womack
Categories Of Constraint And Avenues Of Freedom: Proposing Collective Agency For Addressing Problems Of Obesity, Catherine Womack
Catherine A. Womack
No abstract provided.
Reasoning Across Differences: A Modest Proposal For Expanding Experimental Philosophy, Catherine Womack
Reasoning Across Differences: A Modest Proposal For Expanding Experimental Philosophy, Catherine Womack
Catherine A. Womack
This presentation is part of the Facts in Feminist Philosophy track. Experimental philosophy, (henceforth called X-Phi), represents a departure from traditional philosophy; instead of privileging intuitions of professional philosophers to analyze concepts like moral responsibility, knowledge, intentional action, etc., X-phi catalogs and analyzes the intuitions of ordinary people (that is, non-philosophers) about scenarios designed to uncover the concepts found in standard usage. It formulates explanations of those intuitions that may reveal more complex and nuanced philosophical concepts. X-philosophers create variations of standard philosophical thought-experiments (like that old chestnut, the trolley case) in order to test out their own hypotheses about …
Riding Like A Girl: Feminine Virtues And Women’S Identity, Catherine Womack, Pata Suyemoto
Riding Like A Girl: Feminine Virtues And Women’S Identity, Catherine Womack, Pata Suyemoto
Catherine A. Womack
No abstract provided.
Obesity, Identity And Community: Leveraging Social Networks For Behavior Change In Public Health, Norah Mulvaney-Day, Catherine Womack
Obesity, Identity And Community: Leveraging Social Networks For Behavior Change In Public Health, Norah Mulvaney-Day, Catherine Womack
Catherine A. Womack
Obesity is a public health problem influenced by behavioral patterns that span an ecological spectrum of individual-level factors, social network factors and environmental factors. Both individual and environmental approaches necessarily include significant influences from social networks, but how and under what conditions social networks influence behavior change is often not clearly mapped out either in the obesity literature or in many intervention designs. In this paper, we provide an analysis of recent empirical work in obesity research that explicates social network influences on eating behaviors. We argue that a relational rather than individualistic view of personhood should help us better …
Randomization, Persuasiveness And Rigor In Proofs, Catherine Womack, Martin Farach
Randomization, Persuasiveness And Rigor In Proofs, Catherine Womack, Martin Farach
Catherine A. Womack
No abstract provided.