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10Introduction: Rethinking Philosophical Presumptions in Light of Cognitive DisabilityIn Eva Feder Kittay & Licia Carlson (eds.), Cognitive Disability and its Challenge to Moral Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2010.This chapter contains sections titled: Why Philosophy and Cognitive Disability? Historical Overview Discussion of Themes and the Chapters Concluding Remarks References.
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22Even Offense Can Be a ‘Normatively Substantive Problem’ in Bioethics: Specificity and Relationality as Alternatives to ‘Personhood’American Journal of Bioethics 24 (1): 18-20. 2024.With its provocative title, Blumenthal-Barby’s (2024) Target Article is an important addition to the critical work on using ‘personhood’ in bioethics. I suggest it bears on any philosophical discus...
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12The Personal Is Philosophical Is Political: A Philosopher and Mother of a Cognitively Disabled Person Sends Notes from the BattlefieldIn Eva Feder Kittay & Licia Carlson (eds.), Cognitive Disability and its Challenge to Moral Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2010.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction What Is the Problem? Why Try to Change the Profession? The Challenges Epistemic Responsibility and Credibility Why the Personal Is Philosophical Is Political References.
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8Social policyIn Alison M. Jaggar & Iris Marion Young (eds.), A companion to feminist philosophy, Blackwell. 1998.Social policy, broadly understood, is an intervention by government or other public institution designed to promote the well‐being of its members or intended to rectify perceived social problems. Governmental policy can issue from legislative, executive, or judicial actions. Regulations and rules governing major public establishments, such as universities or medical institutions, and directed at promoting the aims of the larger social body can also be considered instruments of social policy. Soc…Read more
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92Letters to the EditorProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 66 (5). 1993.Letters to the Editor
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18The Fallibility of Personal ExperienceAmerican Journal of Bioethics 23 (1): 25-27. 2023.This excellent article (Nelson et al. 2023) clarifies the difficulties of incorporating diverse voices and those who speak of their own experience, into bioethics, a field that aspires to be object...
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The dependency critique of Rawlsian equalityIn Sarah Roberts-Cady & Jon Mandle (eds.), John Rawls: Debating the Major Questions, Oup Usa. 2020.
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10Feminist Perspectives on DisabilityHypatia 17 (3): 251-253. 2002.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: 0.
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49Why Human Difference is Critical to a Conception of Moral StandingJournal of Philosophy of Disability 1 79-103. 2021.I argue that the claim that merely being born of two human beings in a condition that supports life is sufficient for full moral status. Not only ought we not to exclude any human being from full moral status because they lack the possession of what some have deemed to be morally relevant properties, we don’t have a full grasp of what is morally relevant unless we include the many different possible lives humans live in their diverse bodies and minds. Our understanding of how we ought to treat n…Read more
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37Women and Moral TheoryRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1987.To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com
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58Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1980.This book's thirty essays explore philosophically the nature and morality of sexual perversion, cybersex, masturbation, homosexuality, contraception, same-sex marriage, promiscuity, pedophilia, date rape, sexual objectification, teacher-student relationships, pornography, and prostitution. Authors include Martha Nussbaum, Thomas Nagel, Alan Goldman, John Finnis, Sallie Tisdale, Robin West, Alan Wertheimer, John Corvino, Cheshire Calhoun, Jerome Neu, and Alan Soble, among others. A valuable resou…Read more
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48Metaphor: Its Cognitive Force and Linguistic Structure (review)Philosophical Review 100 (1): 112-115. 1991.Merrie Bergmann Philosophical Review 100 :112-115Taking 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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217Dependency, Difference and the Global Ethic of Longterm CareJournal of Political Philosophy 13 (4): 443-469. 2005.
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26Gender Struggles: Practical Approaches to Contemporary Feminism (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2002.The sixteen essays in Gender Struggles address a wide range of issues in gender struggles, from the more familiar ones that, for the last thirty years, have been the mainstay of feminist scholarship, such as motherhood, beauty, and sexual violence, to new topics inspired by post-industrialization and multiculturalism, such as the welfare state, cyberspace, hate speech, and queer politics, and finally to topics that traditionally have not been seen as appropriate subjects for philosophizing, such…Read more
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48The Blackwell guide to feminist philosophy (edited book)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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56Precarity, precariousness, and disabilityJournal of Social Philosophy 52 (3): 292-309. 2021.Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 52, Issue 3, Page 292-309, Fall 2021.
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16We Have Seen the Mutants—and They Are Us: Gifts and Burdens of a Genetic DiagnosisHastings Center Report 50 (S1): 44-53. 2020.In this essay, I recount and examine my response to a genetic diagnosis of my disabled daughter. My daughter was forty‐nine before the diagnosis came. All her disabilities were traceable to a de novo single gene variant on the PURA gene that was discovered only in 2014. I speak of the jolt and the recalibration that this discovery engendered, concluding that, while it seemed that everything had changed, nothing had changed. But my family did discover a community in which Sesha joins other PURA‐p…Read more
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541Disability Rights as a Necessary Framework for Crisis Standards of Care and the Future of Health CareHastings Center Report 50 (3): 28-32. 2020.In this essay, we suggest practical ways to shift the framing of crisis standards of care toward disability justice. We elaborate on the vision statement provided in the 2010 Institute of Medicine (National Academy of Medicine) “Summary of Guidance for Establishing Crisis Standards of Care for Use in Disaster Situations,” which emphasizes fairness; equitable processes; community and provider engagement, education, and communication; and the rule of law. We argue that interpreting these elements …Read more
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62A Demanding Ethics of CareHastings Center Report 50 (2): 46-46. 2020.This is a response to a review of my book Learning From My Daughter. I argue that what the reviewers object to in my ethics of care is based partially on a mistaken view of my understanding of care
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47Where is the “Dis” in Disability? A Review of The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability by Elizabeth BarnesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 100 (1): 225-231. 2020.
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MetaphorIn Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Elsevier. pp. 2452-2456. 2005.
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Generating Metaphors from NetworksIn Eric Steinhart & Eva Kittay (eds.), Approaches to Metaphor, Kluwer Academic. pp. 41-94. 1994.Metaphor's peculiar property to yield cognitive insight-- often in otherwise false sentences -- has been the focus of contemporary studies of metaphor. In Metaphor: Its Linguistic Structure and Cognitive Force, Eva Kittay develops the semantic field theory of metaphor (SFTM). The task of the present work is to formalize some of the central claims of SFTM. Formalization forces us to make the central concepts of SFTM precise and operational, and it enables us to evaluate the consistency and exp…Read more
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33Comments on Alice Crary’s The Horrific History of Comparisons between Cognitive Disability and Animality (and How to Move Past It) and Peter Singer’s Response to CraryZeitschrift Für Ethik Und Moralphilosophie 2 (1): 127-133. 2019.
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25Caring about CarePhilosophy East and West 69 (3): 856-863. 2019.Every ethic, if it is not to be a feather in the wind, needs an epistemology. As we look at epistemologies from Plato's Theaetetus to Kant's First Critique to contemporary virtue epistemology, the question of knowledge is always tethered to an ethics, sometimes tightly, sometimes loosely. To live a good life and act rightly toward others, we need to know what we need to know to do this well; we need to know how to know that what we are doing is what is good or right; and we need to know how we c…Read more
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37Learning from My Daughter: The Value and Care of Disabled MindsOxford UP. 2019.Does life have meaning? What is flourishing? How do we attain the good life? Philosophers, and many others of us, have explored these questions for centuries. As Eva Feder Kittay points out, however, there is a flaw in the essential premise of these questions: they seem oblivious to the very nature of the ways in which humans live, omitting a world of co-dependency, and of the fact that we live in and through our bodies, whether they are fully abled or disabled. Our dependent, vulnerable, messy,…Read more
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13Le désir de normalité. Quelle qualité de vie pour les personnes porteuses de handicap cognitif sévère?Alter - European Journal of Disability Research / Revue Européenne de Recherche Sur le Handicap 9 (3): 175-185. 2015.
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50When Caring Is Just and Justice is Caring: Justice and Mental RetardationPublic Culture 13 (3): 557-580. 2001.Among the various human forms alluded to in the Hebrew prayer, mental retardation appears to be one of the most difficult to celebrate. It is the disability that other disabled persons do not want attributed to them. It is the disability for which prospective parents are most likely to use selective abortion (Wertz 2000). And it is the disability that prompted one of the most illustrious United States Supreme Court Justices to endorse forced sterilization, because "three generations of imbeciles…Read more
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State University of New York, Stony BrookDepartment of Philosophy
Stony Brook, New York, United States of America