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37Frames, fields, and contrasts: new essays in semantic and lexical organization (edited book)L. Erlbaum Associates. 1992.Recently, there has been a surge of interest in the lexicon. The demand for a fuller and more adequate understanding of lexical meaning required by developments in computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science has stimulated a refocused interest in linguistics, psychology, and philosophy. Different disciplines have studied lexical structure from their own vantage points, and because scholars have only intermittently communicated across disciplines, there has been litt…Read more
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522Caring 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.As the mother of a daughter who has and will always require care to meet her most basic needs, I have seen firsthand how critical it is to have adequate means by which to meet those needs—for her sake, mine, and my family’s. Her flourishing life has contributed to enhancing not only our own, but those of all who care for her and who enter our lives. I have wanted to see us do better by all the families who struggle and have to scratch and claw their way to access services and resources their chi…Read more
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86AH! My Foolish Heart: A Reply to Alan Soble's “Antioch's 'Sexual Offense Policy': A Philosophical Exploration”Journal of Social Philosophy 28 (2): 153-159. 1997.
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391The Moral Harm of Migrant CareworkPhilosophical Topics 37 (2): 53-73. 2009.Arlie Hochschild glosses the practice of women migrants in poor nations who leave their families behind for extended periods of time to do carework in other wealthier countries as a “global heart transplant” from poor to wealthy nations. Thus she signals the idea of an injustice between nations and a moral harm for the individuals in the practice. Yet the nature of the harm needs a clear articulation. When we posit a sufficiently nuanced “right to care,” we locate the harm to central relationshi…Read more
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State University of New York, Stony BrookDepartment of Philosophy
Stony Brook, New York, United States of America