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15Miracles as Evidence Against the Existence of GodIn Robert A. H. Larmer (ed.), Questions of Miracle, Carleton University Press. pp. 132-139. 1996.
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13Unanswered PrayersIn Russell Blackford & Udo Schüklenk (eds.), 50 Voices of Disbelief, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009-09-10.This chapter contains sections titled: Notes.
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14The role of careGlobal Bioethics 33 (1): 38-40. 2022.“The Role of Care” is a commentary on “Towards a Feminist Global Ethics,” by Rosemarie Tong.
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87My Children, Their Children, and Benatar’s Anti-NatalismJournal of Value Inquiry 56 (1): 51-66. 2022.
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28Justice Back and Forth: Duties to the Past and Future, written by Richard VernonJournal of Moral Philosophy 16 (3): 371-374. 2019.
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27Book Reviews : Allen E. Buchanan and Dan W. Brock, Deciding for Others: The Ethics of Surrogate Decision Making. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989. Pp. 422 + xv, $49.50 (cloth), $16.95 (paper (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 23 (1): 120-125. 1993.
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17Précis of Aging, Death, and Human Longevity: A Philosophical Inquiry*: DialogueDialogue 45 (3): 537-548. 2006.
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43BOOK REVIEW: Christine Overall. AGING, DEATH, AND HUMAN LONGEVITY: A PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003 (review)Hypatia 20 (3): 226-229. 2005.
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32Pets and People: The Ethics of our Relationships with Companion Animals (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2017.Animal ethics is generating growing interest both within academia and outside it. This book focuses on ethical issues connected to animals who play an extremely important role in human lives: companion animals, with a special emphasis on dogs and cats, the animals most often chosen as pets. Companion animals are both vulnerable to and dependent upon us. What responsibilities do we owe to them, especially since we have the power and authority to make literal life-and-death decisions about them? W…Read more
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17Heterosexuality and Feminist TheoryCanadian Journal of Philosophy 20 (1): 1-17. 1990.Heterosexuality, which I define as a romantic and sexual orientation toward persons not of one's own sex, is apparently a very general, though not entirely universal, characteristic of the human condition. In fact, it is so ubiquitous a part of human interactions and relations as to be almost invisible, and so natural-seeming as to appear unquestionable. Indeed, the 1970 edition of The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines ‘heterosexual’ as ‘pertaining to or characterized by the normal relat…Read more
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31Miracles and LarmerDialogue 42 (1): 123-136. 2003.As this article is published, Robert Larmer and I have been engaged in a debate that is now eighteen years long, often with gaps of many years between ripostes, about the nature and significance of miracles. The Larmer/overall oeuvre now includes six works, including the two published here. I am grateful to the editors of Dialogue for giving me the opportunity to respond to Larmer’s most recent entry in the debate.
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33Staying Alive: A Reply to the Commentators on Aging, Death, and Human Longevity: A Philosophical InquiryDialogue 45 (3): 577-590. 2006.
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2Robert Lee and Derek Morgan, eds., Birthrights: Law and Ethics at the Beginnings of Life (review)Philosophy in Review 9 (9): 371-373. 1989.
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13Feminist Perspectives: Philosophical Essays on Method and Morals (edited book)University of Toronto Press. 1988.
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12Thinking Like a Woman: Personal Life and Political IdeasSumach Press. 2001.ago that thinking (along with speaking and acting) “like a woman” was taken as a matter of shame and weakness. The phrase remains an insult to any man who is accused of being “like a woman” in any respect. But the only reason the phrase ...
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123Monogamy, Nonmonogamy, and IdentityHypatia 13 (4). 1998.After a brief discussion of the terms "monogamy" and "nonmonogamy," I evaluate explanations offered by different theorists for the pain that nonmonogamy can cause to the partner (especially a female partner) of a nonmonogamous person (of either sex). My suggestion is that the self, especially the female self, is conventionally defined in terms of sexual partners. I present and reply to a possible objection to this explanation, and then discuss my theory's normative implications.
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2Ethical Imagination or Ethical Reasoning (review)Journal of Canadian Studies 41 (3): 185-192. 2007.
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John P. Lizza, Persons, Humanity, and the Definition of DeathPhilosophy in Review 27 (1): 46. 2007.
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"Peep Shows and Bedroom Access": Women's Identities and the Practice of OutingAtlantis 23 (1): 30-37. 1998.
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29The Politics of Communities A Review of H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr.'s The Foundations of BioethicsHypatia 4 (2): 179-185. 1989.This review essay examines H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.'s The Foundations of Bioethics, a contemporary nonfeminist text in mainstream biomedical ethics. it fo-cuses upon a central concept, Engelhardt's idea of the moral community and argues that the most serious problem in the book is its failure to take account of the political and social structures of moral communities, structures which deeply affect issues in biomedical ethics.
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2'Nowhere at Home’: Toward a Phenomenology of Working Class ConsciousnessIn C. L. Barney Dewes & Carolyn Leste Law (eds.), This Fine Place So Far From Home: Voices of Academics From the Working Class, Temple University Press. 1995.
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27Concepts of Life Span and Life-Stages: Implications for EthicsCanadian Journal of Philosophy 32 (sup1): 298-318. 2002.
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29Surrogate MotherhoodCanadian Journal of Philosophy 17 (sup1): 285-305. 1987.This paper will explore some moral and conceptual aspects of the practice of surrogate motherhood. Although I put forward a number of criticisms of existing ideas about this subject, I do not claim to offer a fully developed position. Instead what I have tried to do is to call into question what seem to be some generally accepted assumptions about surrogate motherhood, and to lend plausibility to my view that surrogate motherhood may be morally troubling for reasons not always fully recognized b…Read more
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6Indirect Indoctrination, Internalized Religion, and Parental ResponsibilityIn Peter Caws & Stefani Jones (eds.), Religious Upbringing and the Costs of Freedom: Personal and Philosophical Essays, Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 11-26. 2010.
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42New reproductive technology: Some implications for the abortion issue (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 19 (4): 279-292. 1985.New reproductive technology permits a distinction between two different aspects of abortion: (1) the (premature) emptying of the uterus (the expulsion of the fetus) and (2) causing the death of the fetus. The paper argues that the fetus has not right to occupancy of its mother's (or any other woman's) uterus, And that the mother (or anyone else) has not right to kill the fetus. Some implications of these claims are discussed
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Applied Ethics |
Philosophy of Religion |
Social and Political Philosophy |
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Animal Ethics |
Reproductive Ethics |
Aging |
Death and Dying |