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34Staying Alive: A Reply to the Commentators on Aging, Death, and Human Longevity: A Philosophical InquiryDialogue 45 (3): 577-590. 2006.
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29Human Reproduction: Principles, Practices, PoliciesOxford University Press. 1993.Who owns frozen human embryos? Are "surrogate motherhood" arrangements dangerous for women? Should access to in vitro fertilization be limited or increased? With the development of complex reproductive technologies and the ensuing controversies in reproductive ethics, there is an urgent need for more careful examination of moral principles, current practices, and social policies pertaining to reproduction. The issues examined in this collection of nine papers focusing of the Canadian experience …Read more
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6Sex/Gender Transitions and Life-Changing AspirationsIn Laurie Shrage (ed.), You’Ve Changed: Sex Reassignment and Personal Identity, Oup Usa. 2009.
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21Mysticism, Phenomenalism, and W. T. StaceTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 18 (2). 1982.
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2Feminism and AtheismIn Michael Martin (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Atheism, Cambridge University Press. 2006.
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1Role Muddles: The Stereotyping of FeministsCanadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women. 1992.
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378Miracles as evidence against the existence of GodSouthern Journal of Philosophy 23 (3): 347-353. 1985.AN ASSUMPTION IN DEBATES ABOUT THE PHILOSOPHICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF MIRACLES IS THAT IF A MIRACLE (A VIOLATION OF NATURAL LAW OR A PERMANENTLY INEXPLICABLE EVENT) WERE TO OCCUR, IT WOULD BE EVIDENCE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF THE CHRISTIAN GOD. THE PAPER EXPLORES RESERVATIONS BY SEVERAL PHILOSOPHERS ABOUT THIS CONNECTION BETWEEN GOD AND MIRACLES, AND PRESENTS ARGUMENTS TO SHOW THAT IF A MIRACLE WERE TO OCCUR THERE WOULD BE GOOD REASON TO DENY THAT GOD EXISTS
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30Conjoined Twins, Embodied Personhood, and Surgical SeparationIn Lisa Tessman (ed.), Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Ideal, Springer. pp. 69--84. 2009.
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109Heterosexuality and Feminist TheoryCanadian Journal of Philosophy 20 (1). 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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‘Pluck A Fetus From Its Womb’: A Critique of Current Attitudes Toward the Embryo/FetusThe University of Western Ontario Law Review 24 1-14. 1986.
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35Test-Tube Babies: A Guide to Moral Questions, Present Techniques and Future PossibilitiesWilliam A. W. Walters and Peter Singer, editors Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. 165. $16.95 cloth: $8.95 paper - Test-Tube Women: What Future for Motherhood?Rita Arditti, Renate Duelli Klein, and Shelley Minden, editors London: Pandora Press, 1984. Pp. x, 482. $8.95 (review)Dialogue 24 (4): 728-730. 1985.
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Longevity, Identity, and Moral Character: A Feminist ApproachIn Stephen G. Post & Robert H. Binstock (eds.), The Fountain of Youth: Cultural, Scientific and Ethical Perspectives on a Biomedical Goal, Oxford University Press. 2004.
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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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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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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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27Concepts of Life Span and Life-Stages: Implications for EthicsCanadian Journal of Philosophy 32 (sup1): 298-318. 2002.
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30The 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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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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21Selective Termination of Pregnancy and Women's Reproductive AutonomyHastings Center Report 20 (3): 6-11. 1990.The “demand” for selective termination of pregnancy is a socially constructed response to prior medical interventions in women's reproductive processes, themselves dependent on cultural views of infertility.
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Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Philosophy of Religion |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Animal Ethics |
Reproductive Ethics |
Aging |
Death and Dying |