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51How 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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206Planning 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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640On 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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17Metaphor: 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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The justice position and the care perspectiveIn Eva Feder Kittay & Diana T. Meyers (eds.), Women and Moral Theory, Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 4--10. 1987.
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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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122(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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62The Global Heart Transplant and Caring across National BoundariesSouthern Journal of Philosophy 46 (S1): 138-165. 2008.
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135Introduction: 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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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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244Love’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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247The personal is philosophical is political: A philosopher and mother of a cognitively disabled person sends notes from the battlefieldMetaphilosophy 40 (3-4): 606-627. 2009.Having encountered landmines in offering a critique of philosophy based on my experience as the mother of a cognitively disabled daughter, I ask, “Should I continue?” I defend the idea that pursuing this project is of a piece with the invisible care labor that is done by people with disabilities and their families. The value of attempting to influence philosophical conceptions of cognitive disability by virtue of this experience is justified by an inextricable relationship between the personal, …Read more
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314. Metaphor as Rearranging the Furniture of the Mind: A Reply to Donald Davidson's "What Metaphors Mean"In Zdravko Radman (ed.), From a Metaphorical Point of View: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Cognitive Content of Metaphor, De Gruyter. pp. 73-116. 1995.
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98Contemporary industrialized societies have been confronted with the fact and consequences of women's increased participation in paid employment. Whether this increase has resulted from women's desire for equality or from changing economic circumstances, women and men have been faced with a crisis in the organization of work that concerns dependents, that is, those unable to care for themselves. This is labor that has been largely unpaid, often unrecognized, and yet is indispensable to human soci…Read more
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539The Body as the Place of CareIn Donald A. Landes & Azucena Cruz-Pierre (eds.), Exploring the Work of Edward S. Casey, Bloomsbury Publishing,. 2013.
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31Metaphor: Its Cognitive Force and Linguistic Structure by Eva Kittay (review)Journal of Philosophy 88 (6): 324-330. 1991.
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111Forever Small: The Strange Case of Ashley XHypatia 26 (3): 610-631. 2011.I explore the ethics of altering the body of a child with severe cognitive disabilities in such a way that keeps the child “forever small.” The parents of Ashley, a girl of six with severe cognitive and developmental disabilities, in collaboration with her physicians and the Hospital Ethics Committee, chose to administer growth hormones that would inhibit her growth. They also decided to remove her uterus and breast buds, assuring that she would not go through the discomfort of menstruation and …Read more
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268Whose convenience? Whose truth?: A comment on Peter Singer's 'A convenient truth.'201The Hastings Center Bioethics Forum, Wednesday, February 28, 2007.The Hastings Center Bioethics Forum. 2007.As parents of a young woman who very much resembles Ashley, we recognize the way her parents speak of their daughter’s preciousness, and of the love and joy she brings into their life. We know too well the hardships associated with rearing a child with severe physical and intellectual disabilities, especially in our own society, unyielding as it is to the medical needs even “normals” have. We would not have our daughter Sesha undergo similar interventions. We do not believe she is a perpetual ch…Read more
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60At the Margins of Moral PersonhoodJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 5 (2): 137-156. 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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89The identification of metaphorSynthese 58 (2): 153-202. 1984.A number of philosophers, linguists and psychologists have made the dual claim that metaphor is cognitively significant and that metaphorical utterances have a meaning not reducible to literal paraphrase. Such a position requires support from an account of metaphorical meaning that can render metaphors cognitively meaningful without the reduction to literal statement. It therefore requires a theory of meaning that can integrate metaphor within its sematics, yet specify why it is not reducible to…Read more
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7The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2006.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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State University of New York, Stony BrookDepartment of Philosophy
Stony Brook, New York, United States of America