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76A feminist public ethic of care meets the new communitarian family policyEthics 111 (3): 523-547. 2001.
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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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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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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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523Caring 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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89AH! 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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396The 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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3156Equality, Dignity, and DisabilityIn Mary Ann Lyons & Fionnuala Waldron (eds.), (2005) Perspectives on Equality The Second Seamus Heaney Lectures. Dublin:, The Liffey Press,. 2005.
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The Cognitive Force of Metaphor: A Theory of Metaphoric MeaningDissertation, City University of New York. 1978.
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138Introduction: Rethinking philosophical presumptions in light of cognitive disabilityMetaphilosophy 40 (3-4): 307-330. 2009.This Introduction to the collection of essays surveys the philosophical literature to date with respect to five central questions: justice, care, agency, metaphilosophical issues regarding the language and representation of cognitive disability, and personhood. These themes are discussed in relation to three specific conditions: intellectual and developmental disabilities, Alzheimer's disease, and autism, though the issues raised are relevant to a broad range of cognitive disabilities. The Intro…Read more
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38Loves 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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108Woman as MetaphorHypatia 3 (2): 63-86. 1988.Women's activities and relations to men are persistent metaphors for man's projects. I query the prominence of these and the lack of equivalent metaphors where men are the metaphoric vehicle for women and women's activities. Women's role as metaphor results from her otherness and her relational and mediational importance in men's lives. Otherness, mediation, and relation characterize the role of metaphor in language and thought. This congruence between metaphor and women makes the metaphor of wo…Read more
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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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379At the margins of moral personhoodEthics 116 (1): 100-131. 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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120Rationality, personhood, and Peter Singer on the fate of severely impaired infantsPediatric Bioethics. forthcoming.
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130In Whose Different Voice?Journal of Philosophy 88 (11): 645-646. 1991.This is an abstract of a discussion of Martha Minow's article "Equalities" in APA Symposium Eastern Division 1991
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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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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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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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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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42Metaphor: Its Cognitive Force and Linguistic StructureOxford University Press. 1987.Taking 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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36Deadly 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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123(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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138Introduction: 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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State University of New York, Stony BrookDepartment of Philosophy
Stony Brook, New York, United States of America