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1Into the Mouths of Babes: The Moral Responsibility to BreastfeedIn Sheila Lintott & Maureen Sander-Staudt (eds.), Philosophical Inquiries into Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering: Maternal Subjects, Routledge. 2011.
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102Aging, Death, and Human Longevity: A Philosophical InquiryUniversity of California Press. 2003.With the help of medicine and technology we are living longer than ever before. As human life spans have increased, the moral and political issues surrounding longevity have become more complex. Should we desire to live as long as possible? What are the social ramifications of longer lives? How does a longer life span change the way we think about the value of our lives and about death and dying? Christine Overall offers a clear and intelligent discussion of the philosophical and cultural issues…Read more
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162Public toilets: Sex segregation revisitedEthics and the Environment 12 (2): 71-91. 2007.: Public toilets are a key part of the urban environment. This paper examines and evaluates the pervasive sex segregation, throughout North America, of public toilets. The issue is situated within a larger context—the design and management of the urban environment; larger assumptions about sexuality, reproduction, and privacy that govern that environment; and continuing compulsory sex identification and segregation which still define key areas of "public" space. I examine seven groups of argumen…Read more
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7‘From Here to Eternity’: Is It Good to Live Forever?In David Benatar (ed.), Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions, 2nd edition, Rowman & Littlefield. 2010.
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The Case Against the Legalization of Contract MotherhoodIn Simon Rosenblum & Peter Findlay (eds.), Debating Canada’s Future: Views From the Left, James Lorimer. 1991.
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80Miracles and God: A Reply to Robert A. H. LarmerDialogue 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
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Do New Reproductive Technologies Benefit or Harm Children?In Donna Dickenson (ed.), Ethical Issues in Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Cambridge University Press. 2002.
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Reproductive Technology and the Future of the FamilyIn Greta Hofman Nemiroff (ed.), Women and Men: Interdisciplinary Readings on Gender, Fitzhenry & Whiteside. 1987.
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11Perspectives on AIDS: Ethical and Social Issues (edited book)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.
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Introduction: Philosophy All Through the DayEidos: The Canadian Graduate Journal of Philosophy 19 3-17. 2005.
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47The Nature of Mystical ExperienceReligious 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
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8Critical Notice of The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability (review)Canadian Journal of Philosophy 28 (3): 435-452. 1998.
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43Reply to “Overall and Larmer on Miracles as Evidence for the Existence of God” by Frank JankunisDialogue 53 (4): 601-609. 2014.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.
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5Gender, Aspirational Identity, and PassingIn Dennis R. Cooley & Kelby Harrison (eds.), Passing/Out: Sexual Identity Veiled and Revealed, Ashgate Press. 2012.
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Mary O'Brien, Reproducing the World: Essays in Feminist Theory (review)Philosophy in Review 9 420-423. 1989.
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Life Enhancement Technologies And the Significance of Social Category MembershipIn Julian Savulescu & Nick Bostrom (eds.), Human Enhancement, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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15Biological Mothers and the Disposition of Fetuses After AbortionIn James Humber & Robert Almeder (eds.), Bioethics and the Fetus, Humana Press. pp. 39--57. 1991.
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1Role Models: A CritiqueIn Kathleen Storrie (ed.), Women—Isolation and Bonding: Readings in the Ecology of Gender, Methuen. 1987.
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111Why Have Children?: The Ethical DebateMIT Press. 2012.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
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Optimism, Pessimism, and the Desire for Longer Life (review)The Gerontologist 44 (6): 847-852. 2004.
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82Transsexualism 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
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Life Enhancement Technologies: Significance of Social Category MembershipIn Julian Savulescu & Nick Bostrom (eds.), Human Enhancement, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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10A Feminist I: Reflections From AcademiaBroadview Press. 1998.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
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119Rethinking Abortion, Ectogenesis, and Fetal DeathJournal of Social Philosophy 46 (1): 126-140. 2015.
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2Feminism, 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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Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Philosophy of Religion |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Animal Ethics |
Reproductive Ethics |
Aging |
Death and Dying |