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35Beyond the Ideal Political ApologyIn Mihaela Mihai & Mathias Thaler (eds.), On the Uses and Abuses of Political Apologies, Palgrave Macmillan. 2014.As official apologies by political, corporate, and religious leaders becoming increasingly commonplace – offered in response to everything from personal wrongdoing to historical oppression and genocide – providing a plausible account of what such apologies can and cannot accomplish is of paramount importance. Yet reigning theories of apology typically conceive of them primarily as moral and not political phenomena, often modeling official apologies after interpersonal ones. This risks distorting…Read more
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25Feminist Perspectives on Reproduction and the FamilyIn Hay Carol (ed.), Philosophy: Feminism, Macmillan Reference Usa. pp. 317-343. 2017.
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20Raging better: Reflections on the Myisha Cherry's The Case for RageSouthern Journal of Philosophy 61 (2): 390-398. 2023.Myisha Cherry's The Case for Rage is a significant addition to the growing body of analytic philosophy that succeeds in not just engaging but shaping and even creating new forms of public discourse. It does so while remaining an exemplar for what good analytic philosophy should look like: filled with systematic and clear distinctions that illuminate rather than obfuscate real and concrete lived phenomena. I offer two challenges to Cherry's typology of rage: first, I rehabilitate two of variation…Read more
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13Introduction to the Symposium on Daniel Groll’s Conceiving PeopleInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 16 (1): 163-165. 2023.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Introduction to the Symposium on Daniel Groll's Conceiving PeopleAlice MacLachlan (bio)The ethics of donor conception is often framed as a straightforward clash of rights: the right of would-be parents to procreate and parent, the right of donor-conceived children to know and be raised by their genetic parents, and the right of gamete (sperm and egg) donors to privacy. But in this thoughtful, wide-ranging discussion of Daniel Groll's…Read more
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9The Nature and Limits of ForgivenessDissertation, Boston University. 2008.This dissertation is a philosophical investigation of forgiveness, in both interpersonal and political contexts. The aim of the dissertation is to demonstrate the merits of a broad, multidimensional account that remains faithful to the moral phenomenology of forgiving and being forgiven. Previous philosophical work has tended to see forgiveness primarily in terms of reactive attitudes: specifically, the struggle to overcome resentment. Yet defining forgiveness along these lines fails to do justi…Read more
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Aliases, Alienation and Agency: The Physical Integrity of Sydney BristowIn Stacey Abbott & Simon Brown (eds.), Secrets and Spies: Investigating Alias, . pp. 73-86. 2007.
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Jill Scott's "A Poetics of Forgiveness": A Review (review)Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 39 100-6. 2012.Review article on Jill Scott, "A Poetics of Forgiveness: Creative Responses to Loss and Wrongdoing" (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
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