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21Review of Sharon Lamb , Jeffrie Murphy (eds.), Before Forgiving: Cautionary Views of Forgiveness in Psychotherapy (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (10). 2002.
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607Grading (Anxious and Silent) Participation: Assessing Student Attendance and Engagement with Short Papers on a “Question For Consideration"Teaching Philosophy 39 (4): 483-505. 2016.The inclusion of attendance and participation in course grade calculations is ubiquitous in postsecondary syllabi, but can penalize the silent or anxious student unfairly. I outline the obstacles posed by social anxiety, then describe an assignment developed with the twin goals of assisting students with obstacles to participating in spoken class discussions, and rewarding methods of participation other than oral interaction. When homework assignments habituating practices of writing well-justif…Read more
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378“I don’t want the responsibility:” The moral implications of avoiding dependency relations with companion animalsIn Norlock Kathryn J. (ed.), Pets and People: The Ethics of Our Relationships with Companion Animals, . pp. 80-94. 2017.I argue that humans have moral relationships with dogs and cats that they could adopt, but do not. The obligations of those of us who refrain from incurring particular relationships with dogs and cats are correlative with the power of persons with what Jean Harvey calls “interactive power,” the power to take the initiative in and direct the course of a relationship. I connect Harvey’s points about interactive power to my application of Eva Kittay’s “dependency critique,” to show that those of us…Read more
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546The Moral Psychology of Forgiveness (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield International. 2017.This volume considers challenges to forgiveness in the most difficult circumstances, such as in criminal justice contexts, when the victim is dead or when bystanders disagree, and when anger and resentment seem preferable and important. Contributing philosophers include Myisha Cherry, Jonathan Jacobs, Barrett Emerick, Alice MacLachlan, David McNaughton and Eve Garrard. Contributing psychologists include Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Robert D. Enright and Mary Jacqueline Song, C. Ward Struthers, Joshu…Read more
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36Receptivity as a virtue of argumentationOSSA10 Virtues of Argumentation. 2013.I rely on Nel Noddings’ analysis of receptivity as "an essential component of intellectual work," to argue that receptivity is a virtue of argumentation, practicing the principle of charity excellently for the sake of an author and their philosophical community. The deficiency of receptivity is epitomized by the philosopher who listens to attack. The excess of receptivity is the vice of insufficiently critical acceptance of an author regardless of the merits of an argument.
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3A Feminist Ethic of ForgivenessDissertation, The University of Wisconsin - Madison. 2001.In this dissertation, I argue that a feminist and multidimensional account of forgiveness must take seriously our everyday experience with forgiving, and the nature of the power relationship in which forgiver and forgiven stand. According to my model, forgiveness is a moral act with at least two dimensions, namely the choice to take up, or take seriously, a new attitude toward one's wrongdoer for moral reasons and the performative utterance to the wrongdoer of one's making this choice. It is my …Read more
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55A moral imperative: Retaining women of color in science educationAtlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture and Social Justice 33 (2): 72-82. 2009.This article considers the experiences of a group of women science students of color who reported encountering moral injustices, including misrecognition, lack of peer support, and disregard for their altruistic motives. We contend that university science departments face a moral imperative to cultivate equal relationships and the altruistic power of science.
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379The Case for our Widespread DependencySocial Theory and Practice 30 (2): 247-257. 2004.In this review essay, I consider the challenge advanced by editors Eva Kittay and Ellen Feder in their collection, The Subject of Care, that “we must take account of the fact of dependency in our very conceptions of the self,” as well as Kittay’s own statements in her contribution that independence is a fiction and that we are all, ultimately, dependents of a sort. I distinguish broader and narrower senses of dependency as used by different contributors, to develop a conception of what I refer t…Read more
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73Gender Perception as a Habit of Moral Perception: Implications for Philosophical Methodology and Introductory CurriculumJournal of Social Philosophy 43 (3): 347-362. 2012.The inclusion of more women’s works on introductory syllabi in philosophy has been suggested as one possible strategy to increase the proportion of philosophers that are female. Objections to this strategy often reflect the assumption that attention to the identity of authors is irrelevant to philosophy and detrimental to other pedagogical goals such as fairly and accurately representing the canon, and offering selections on the basis of their philosophical quality rather than the identities of…Read more
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367Teaching “Against Marriage," or, "But, Professor, marriage isn't a contract!"In Stephen Scales, Adam Potthast & Linda Oravecz (eds.), The Ethics of the Family, Cambridge Scholars Press. pp. 121-132. 2010.In this contribution, I advocate diminishing the vision of marriage as an isolated and perfectly free choice between two individuals in love, in order to unseat the extent to which students resist the view that marriage is, among other things, a social contract. I summarize views of Immanuel Kant and Claudia Card, then describe my class presentation of the social significance of marriage. I conclude that students at an individualistic and self-creating point in their lives can be under-appreciat…Read more
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75Evil, Political Violence, and Forgiveness: Essays in Honor of Claudia Card (edited book)Lexington Books. 2009.Evil, Political Violence and Forgiveness: Essays in Honor of Claudia Card is a collection of new philosophical essays written in tribute to Claudia Card, exploring her leading theory of evil and other theories of evil. The collection brings together an international cohort of distinguished moral and political philosophers who mediate with Card upon an array of twentieth-century atrocities and on the nature of evil actions, persons and institutions.
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Areas of Specialization
Normative Ethics |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
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Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |