Krystal Kreye is currently finishing up her first year as a Master's student in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Victoria. Her focus of study has mainly been theories of the self and identity, and is currently doing her thesis work on Foucault and ethics. She plans to obtain her PhD in philosophy and teach in the areas of ethics and feminist thought. Under Marsha Hanen she has two main focuses for her research: first, the epistemology and secondly, the ethical issues of privacy, anonymity and identity. She is currently researching the epistemological foundations of the notions of privacy, anonymity, and identity. Utilizing a feminist epistemology, we have a different perspective from which an ethical position, which includes the epistemic position of the agent, will be explored. In thinking about issues of privacy and anonymity and how they effect identity it is important for us to take the epistemic position of the knower into account. I am investigating how the notions of privacy and anonymity affect people differently depending upon who they are and where the are situated in society. What Krystal hopes to bring to this project through my research is the nuances that so often get missed when talking about such general notions such as privacy, anonymity, and identity. It seems that depending on who you are, different questions about these notions will be asked. For instance, does privacy affect women differently than men? Do issues of anonymity arise more often for people of a lower class? Are marginalized peoples identities constructed differently depending on the amount of privacy they are afforded? And so on. The situatedness of the individual then has to be taken into account to have a really robust notion of these three terms and how they affect each of our lives.

Research

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Feminism, Privacy, and Battered Women