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88Letters to the EditorProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 66 (5). 1993.Letters to the Editor
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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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81Metaphor: 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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79The Subject of Care: Feminist Perspectives on Dependency (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield. 2002.The essays of this volume consider how acknowledgement of the fact of dependency changes our conceptions of law, political theory, and morality, as well as our very conceptions of self.
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75A feminist public ethic of care meets the new communitarian family policyEthics 111 (3): 523-547. 2001.
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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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62The Global Heart Transplant and Caring across National BoundariesSouthern Journal of Philosophy 46 (S1): 138-165. 2008.
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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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60The 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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54Feminist 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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54Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary ReadingsRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2007.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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53Precarity, 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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53Two 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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51The 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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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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49A 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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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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48When 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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45Why 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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44Where 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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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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35Frames, 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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35Women and Moral TheoryRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1987.To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com
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34Loves Labor RevisitedHypatia 17 (3): 237-250. 2002.Love's Labor explores the relations that dependency work fosters between women and between men and women, and argues that dependency is not exceptional but integral to human life. The commentaries point to more facets of dependency such as the importance of personal narrative in philosophizing dependency ; the role of spirituality that Gottlieb addresses with regard to his disabled daughter; and the application of the theory to the situation of elderly women.
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34Deadly 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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32Learning 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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State University of New York, Stony BrookDepartment of Philosophy
Stony Brook, New York, United States of America