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53How Not to Argue for Selective Reproductive ProceduresKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 27 (2): 185-215. 2017.Disability theorists have argued that the belief that we should prevent the birth of people with disabilities is prejudicial against disabled people. Particularly influential has been the Expressivity Objection to reproductive selective procedures aimed at eliminating disability. The Expressivity Objection in its strongest form says that to prevent the birth of a disabled child is to express the view that a disabled life is not worth living. In its weaker form, it says that to prevent the birth …Read more
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207Planning a trip to Italy, arriving in Holland: The delusion of choice in planning a familyInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 3 (2): 9. 2010.The title of this paper deserves an explanation—or rather two explanations, one for the portion preceding the colon, the other for that following as the subtitle. The first part is derived from a short essay by Emily Perl Kingsley, written in 1987 in response to questions she had received about what it is like to raise a child with Down Syndrome.1 Kingsley suggests that planning for a child is like planning a trip to some wonderful destination—in her example, Italy. She asks us to imagine the an…Read more
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Metaphor, its cognitive force and linguistic structureRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 179 (4): 636-636. 1989.
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657On Hypocrisy1Metaphilosophy 13 (3-4): 277-289. 1982.I explore what and when hypocrisy is a moral wrong by interrogating the case of hypocrisy of Julien in Stendhal's The Red and The Black. I conclude hypocrisy is most morally vexed in those sphere where sincerity is required.
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19Metaphor: Its Cognitive Force and Linguistic StructureOxford University Press. 1990.This book provides a philosophical theory explicating the cognitive contribution of metaphor. Metaphor effects a transference of meaning, not between two terms, but between two structured domains of content, or ‘semantic fields’. Semantic fields, construed as necessary to a theory of word-meaning, provide the contrastive and affinitive relations that govern a term’s literal use. In a metaphoric use, these relations are projected into a second domain which is thereby reordered with significant co…Read more
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The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2007._The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy_ is a definitive introduction to the field, consisting of 15 newly-contributed essays that apply philosophical methods and approaches to feminist concerns. Offers a key view of the project of centering women’s experience. Includes topics such as feminism and pragmatism, lesbian philosophy, feminist epistemology, and women in the history of philosophy
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55Two Dogmas of Moral Theory? Comments on Lisa Tessman’s Moral FailureFeminist Philosophy Quarterly 2 (1): 1-11. 2016.In Moral Failure, Lisa Tessman argues against two principles of moral theory, that ought implies can and that normative theory must be action-guiding. Although Tessman provides a trenchant account of how we are thrust into the misfortune of moral failure, often by our very efforts to act morally, and although she shows, through a discussion well-informed by the latest theorizing in ethics, neuroethics, and psychology, how much more moral theory can do than provide action-guiding principles, I ar…Read more
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The justice position and the care perspectiveIn Diana T. Meyers (ed.), Women and Moral Theory, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 4--10. 1987.
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42The greater danger — pornography, social science and women's rights: Reply to Brannigan and GoldenbergSocial Epistemology 2 (2). 1988.No abstract
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362At the margins of moral personhoodEthics 116 (1): 100-131. 2005.In this article I examine the proposition that severe cognitive disability is an impediment to moral personhood. Moral personhood, as I understand it here, is articulated in the work of Jeff McMahan as that which confers a special moral status on a person. I rehearse the metaphysical arguments about the nature of personhood that ground McMahan’s claims regarding the moral status of the “congenitally severely mentally retarded” (CSMR for short). These claims, I argue, rest on the view that only i…Read more
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119Rationality, personhood, and Peter Singer on the fate of severely impaired infantsPediatric Bioethics. forthcoming.
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129In Whose Different Voice?Journal of Philosophy 88 (11): 645-646. 1991.This is an abstract of a discussion of Martha Minow's article "Equalities" in APA Symposium Eastern Division 1991
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13Caring for the long haul: Long-term care needs and the (moral) failure to acknowledge themInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 6 (2): 66-88. 2013.
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7422 the personal is philosophical is political: A philosopher and mother of a cognitively disabled person sends notes from the battlefield Eva Feder KittayIn Eva Feder Kittay & Licia Carlson (eds.), Cognitive Disability and its Challenge to Moral Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2010.
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28Self-Deception and Self-Understanding (review)Idealistic Studies 18 (1): 82-85. 1988.The volume of essays, edited by Mike Martin, is a valuable contribution to the interdisciplinary interest in the topic. Martin has produced a helpful, if not penetrating, general introduction to the volume, and has prefaced each of the four parts of the book with a short orienting essay. The book is completed with an extensive bibliography that will well serve the student interested in pursuing the topic.
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48The Creation of Similarity: A Discussion of Metaphor in Light of Tversky's Theory of SimilarityPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1982. 1982.The cognitive gain in the use of metaphor and simile is nicely elucidated by Tversky's theory of similarity. The features of the theory which are of special importance are the directionality and context-dependency of similarity judgments. These indicate the extent to which such judgments are classificatory and that similarity is not only the cause of an object's classification but is also a derivative of groupings. Metaphor and simile exploit certain cognitive features involved in the relation b…Read more
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42Metaphor: Its Cognitive Force and Linguistic StructureOxford University Press. 1987.Taking into account pragmatic considerations and recent linguistic and psychological studies, the author forges a new understanding of the relation between metaphoric and literal meaning. The argument is illustrated with analysis of metaphors from literature, philosophy, science, and everyday language.
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35Deadly Medicine: Project T4, Mental Disability, and Racism A very early version of this paper was inspired by the Deadly Medicine Exhibit 1, which was held at Stony Brook University 1, Spring 2009, and was presented at the 1 lecture series accompanying the exhibit, June 1, 2009 (review)Res Philosophica 93 (4): 715-741. 2016.Equal moral status for all human beings does not commit us to the malignant exclusionary practices we find in racism and pernicious nationalism. Racism (like the other harmful “ism”) involves a group that is constituted by appropriating to one’s own “primal group” a set “desirable” intrinsic properties (or traits) and expelling from the primal group those with the undesirable properties through subjugation, exploitation, sterilization, or extermination. The moral harm in racism is practiced by a…Read more
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123(Re)fusing the amputated body: An interactionist bridge for feminism and disabilityHypatia 16 (4): 53-79. 2001.: Disabled women's issues, experiences, and embodiments have been misunderstood, if not largely ignored, by feminist as well as mainstream disability theorists. The reason for this, I argue, is embedded in the use of materialist and constructivist approaches to bodies that do not recognize the interaction between "sex" and "gender" and "impairment" and "disability" as material-semiotic. Until an interactionist paradigm is taken up, we will not be able to uncover fully the intersection between se…Read more
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137Introduction: Defining Feminist PhilosophyIn Kittay Eva Feder & Martín Alcoff Linda (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains section titled: Gender in Canonical Philosophical Writings The Emergence of Contemporary Feminist Philosophy Reflexive Critique within Philosophy Refl exive Critique within Feminist Philosophy Feminist Philosophy as a Research Program Feminist Philosophy as Transformative Notes.
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62The Global Heart Transplant and Caring across National BoundariesSouthern Journal of Philosophy 46 (S1): 138-165. 2008.
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165Cognitive Disability and its Challenge to Moral Philosophy (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2010.Through a series of essays contributed by clinicians, medical historians, and prominent moral philosophers, Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral ...
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247Love’s Labor: Essays on Women, Equality and DependencyRoutledge. 1999.Where society is viewed as an association of equal and autonomous persons, the work of caring for dependents, "love's labors", figure neither in political ...
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State University of New York, Stony BrookDepartment of Philosophy
Stony Brook, New York, United States of America