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    Miracles and God: A Reply to Robert A. H. Larmer
    Dialogue 36 (4): 741. 1997.
    RésuméJ'ai soutenu dans un article de 1985 que s'il y avait des miracles, cela parlerait contre l'existence du Dieu judéo-chrétien. Dans son livre de 1988 sur le concept de miracle, Robert Larmer propose une critique de mes arguments. J'évalue ici la force de cette critique. Je montre que la redéfinition de «miracle» que propose Larmer est circulaire; que sa distinction est spécieuse entre violer une hi naturelle et la surmonter grâce à la création ou la destruction d'énergie par Dieu; et que sa…Read more
  •  11
    Perspectives on AIDS: Ethical and Social Issues (edited book)
    with William P. Zion
    Oxford University Press. 1991.
    Aimed at undergraduate courses dealing with contemporary and/or sexual ethics, this collection of essays examines the culture and context of AIDS, as well as specific ethical and social issues. Topics include HIV testing and confidentiality, ethics and religion, and individual rights.
  • Introduction: Philosophy All Through the Day
    Eidos: The Canadian Graduate Journal of Philosophy 19 3-17. 2005.
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    The Nature of Mystical Experience
    Religious Studies 18 (1). 1982.
    In the philosophy of mysticism, an important and foundational problem concerns the nature of mystical experience. The problem is both significant and basic because an understanding of the nature of mystical experience is a necessary precondition for the evaluation of its epistemological, ontological, and ethical significance, and will in fact influence that evaluation. In other words, our ideas about the nature of mystical experience are premises for our conclusions about the role of mystical ex…Read more
  •  1
    Mother/Fetus/State Conflicts
    Health Law in Canada 9 (4). 1989.
  •  8
    Critical Notice of The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability (review)
    Canadian Journal of Philosophy 28 (3): 435-452. 1998.
  • The Paradox of Free Speech
    Philosophy and Social Action 19 44-47. 1993.
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    Dans cette réplique à l’article de Frank Jankunis, «Overall and Larmer on Miracles as Evidence for the Existence of God», je traite du concept de miracle comme violation de la loi naturelle. Je soutiens que, s’il advenait un miracle, ce serait un mal épistémique, ontique et moral, et, par conséquent, une preuve qu’il n’existe pas de Dieu parfait.
  • Feminism as a Religion?
    Canadian Journal of Feminist Ethics 1 1-5. 1986.
  • Sexuality, Parenting, and Reproductive Choices
    Resources for Feminist Research 16 (3): 42-45. 1987.
  • Life Enhancement Technologies And the Significance of Social Category Membership
    In Julian Savulescu & Nick Bostrom (eds.), Human Enhancement, Oxford University Press. 2009.
  •  15
    Biological Mothers and the Disposition of Fetuses After Abortion
    In James Humber & Robert Almeder (eds.), Bioethics and the Fetus, Humana Press. pp. 39--57. 1991.
  •  111
    In contemporary Western society, people are more often called upon to justify the choice not to have children than they are to supply reasons for having them. In this book, Christine Overall maintains that the burden of proof should be reversed: that the choice to have children calls for more careful justification and reasoning than the choice not to. Arguing that the choice to have children is not just a prudential or pragmatic decision but one with ethical repercussions, Overall offers a wide-…Read more
  • Optimism, Pessimism, and the Desire for Longer Life (review)
    The Gerontologist 44 (6): 847-852. 2004.
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    Gendercide (review)
    Canadian Journal of Philosophy 17 (3): 683-692. 1987.
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    Transsexualism and “Transracialism”
    Social Philosophy Today 20 183-193. 2004.
    This paper explores, from a feminist perspective, the justification of major surgical reshaping of the body. I define “transracialism” as the use of surgery to assist individuals to “cross” from being a member of one race to being a member of another. If transsexualism, involving the use of surgery to assist individuals to “cross” from female to male or from male to female, is morally acceptable, and if providing the medical and social resources to enable sex crossing is not morally problematic,…Read more
  • Life Enhancement Technologies: Significance of Social Category Membership
    In Julian Savulescu & Nick Bostrom (eds.), Human Enhancement, Oxford University Press. 2009.
  •  10
    Our universities are the locus of ongoing debates over the politics of gender, of class, of disadvantage and disability—and over the issue of “political correctness.” In _A Feminist I_ Christine Overall offers wide-ranging reflections from a first-person point of view on these issues, and on the politics of the modern university itself. In doing so she continually returns to underlying epistemological concerns. What are our assumptions about the ways in which knowledge is constructed? To what de…Read more
  •  2
    Feminism, Ontology, and ‘Other Minds’
    In Lorraine Code, Sheila Mullett & Christine Overall (eds.), Feminist Perspectives: Philosophical Essays on Method and Morals, University of Toronto Press. 1988.
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    The Future of Human Reproduction (edited book)
    Women's Press. 1989.
    Reproductive technology has become virtually synonymous with new reproductive choices for women. We are led to believe these technological practices will primarily enable women to conceive and bear the children they previously could not. The presentation of this as fact urges us to support the advancement of reproductive technology so that future techniques may be perfected. The Future of Human Reproduction critically assesses the social, moral, legal, and political impact of reproductive techno…Read more
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    This book should be essential reading for anyone interested in the new reproductive technologies, biomedical ethics, and women's health.
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    Miracles, Evidence, Evil, and God: A Twenty-Year Debate
    Dialogue 45 (2): 355-366. 2006.
    This paper is the latest in a debate with Robert Larmer as to whether the occurrence of a miracle would provide evidence for the existence of God or against the existence of God. Whereas Larmer’s view is categorical (miracles occur and are evidence for the existence of God), mine is hypothetical (if the events typically described as miracles were to occur -- although I do not believe they do -- they would be evidence against the existence of God). The reason is that miracles, if they were to occ…Read more