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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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31Comments 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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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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31Metaphor: Its Cognitive Force and Linguistic Structure by Eva Kittay (review)Journal of Philosophy 88 (6): 324-330. 1991.
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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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28Gender 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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22Caring 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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21Ideal theory bioethics and the exclusion of people with severe cognitive disabilitiesIn Hilde Lindemann, Marian Verkerk & Margaret Urban Walker (eds.), Naturalized Bioethics: Toward Responsible Knowing and Practice, Cambridge University Press. 2008.
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20Even 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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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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16The 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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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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13We 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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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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11The Personal Is Philosophical Is Political: A Philosopher and Mother of a Cognitively Disabled Person Sends Notes from the BattlefieldIn Armen T. Marsoobian, Brian J. Huschle, Eric Cavallero, Eva Feder Kittay & Licia Carlson (eds.), Cognitive Disability and Its Challenge to Moral Philosophy, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009.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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10Introduction: Rethinking Philosophical Presumptions in Light of Cognitive DisabilityIn Armen T. Marsoobian, Brian J. Huschle, Eric Cavallero, 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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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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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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1Of “men” and metaphors: Shakespeare, embodiment, and filing cabinetsIn T. B. Ward, S. M. Smith & J. Viad (eds.), Creative Thought: An Investigation of Conceptual Structures and Processes, American Psychological Association. 1997.
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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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The Cognitive Force of Metaphor: A Theory of Metaphoric MeaningDissertation, City University of New York. 1978.
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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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State University of New York, Stony BrookDepartment of Philosophy
Stony Brook, New York, United States of America