Asma Papers

Here are some articles and essays (PDFs) for download. They range over a wide variety of topics, including philosophy of mind, religion, cultural analysis, and bio-humanities. The original publication of each piece is usually included near the title.

1.) “Sex, Gender, and Gay Brains: A Metaphysics” in The Chronicle of Higher Education; Chronicle Review (as “Gauging Gender”) October 11, 2011. Click Here: Sex, Gender and Gay Brains (a metaphyics).pdf

2.) “Coerced Confession, Miracle Exoneration: The Case of Ex-Monster Jerry Hobbs” in Truthout.com (Jan. 30th, 2011). Click Here:#1 Coerced Confession.pdf

3.) “Risen Apes and Fallen Angels: The New Museology of Human Origins” in Curator: The Museum Journal (April 2011). Click Here: #2 Risen Apes and Fallen angels.pdf

4.) “The New Atheists’ Narrow World-View” in The Chronicle of Higher Education; Chronicle Review, Jan. 2011.
Click Here: #3 The New Atheists.pdf

5.) “Mammal Agency and the Self: Philosophical Implications of Affective Neuroscience” in Journal of Consciousness Studies (forthcoming 2012). Click Here: #4 Affective Neuro and Phil of Self.pdf

6.) “Soul Talk” in The Chronicle of Higher Education; Chronicle Review, May 2, 2010. Click Here:#5 Soul Talk.pdf

7.) “Green Guilt” in The Chronicle of Higher Education; Chronicle Review, Jan. 10, 2010. Click Here: #6 Green Guilt.pdf

8.) “Monsters and the Moral Imagination” The Chronicle of Higher Education (The Chronicle Review magazine). October, 2009. Click Here:#7 Monsters and the Moral Imagination.pdf

9.)“Happy Serf Liberation Day: China and Tibet” in In These Times magazine, May 2009. Click Here: #8_Happy Serf .pdf

10.)“Ancient Antidotes to Timeless Troubles: Stoicism and the Recession” in The Chronicle of Higher Education; Chronicle Review, May 5, 2009. Click Here: #9 Stiff Upper Lip (Ancient Antidotes).pdf

11.) “Holy Toyland” in In These Times magazine, October 2007. Click Here: #10 bible action-figures.pdf

12.) “Dinosaurs on the Ark: Natural History and the New Evangelical Museum” in The Chronicle of Higher Education. (The Chronicle Review magazine, May 18, 2007); reprinted as “Solomon’s House” in Skeptic magazine Vol.13, No.2. Click Here: #11 Dinosaurs on the Ark.pdf

13.) “How to Survive the Apocalypse” (HUMOR) in The Skeptical Inquirer (Summer, 2007) Click Here: #12 How to Survive Apocalypse.pdf

14.) “On Seeing a Man Get Shot To Death” Buddhism and politics in Cambodia. From The Gods Drink Whiskey: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment in the Land of the Tattered Buddha (HarperOne, 2006) Click Here:#13 Gods Drink Whiskey Ch.6.pdf

15.) “Blues Man on a Mojo Mission” in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Nov. 8, 2002. (The Chronicle Review magazine). Click Here:#14 Blues Man on a Mojo Mission.pdf

16.) “A Portrait of the Artist as a Work in Progress” in The Chronicle of Higher Education. January 19, 2001. (The Chronicle Review magazine). Click Here: #15 A Portrait of the Artist.pdf

17.) “Darwin’s Causal Pluralism” in Biology & Philosophy Vol. 11, No.1 January 1996,1-20. Click Here:#16 DARWIN'S CAUSAL PLURALISM.pdf

18.) “Metaphors of Race: Theoretical Presuppositions Behind Racism” in American Philosophical Quarterly. Vol. 32 January 1995, 13-29. Click Here: #17 METAPHORS OF RACE.pdf