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17Thomas Pogge's Rawlsian RevivalDialogue 30 (1-2): 109-. 1991.In Realizing Rawls, Thomas Pogge defends a Rawlsian conception of justice. The book is divided into three main parts; this discussion will concentrate on the first two. Part 1 constitutes a defence of some aspects of Rawls's theory against objections raised by Nozick and Michael Sandel. This is followed by a second part on the two principles of justice—what they amount to, and some applications of them. Part 3 argues that the Rawlsian scheme should apply globally, not merely to a single state. R…Read more
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14"Nagging" Questions: Feminist Ethics in Everyday Life (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1995.In this anthology of new and classic articles, fifteen noted feminist philosophers explore contemporary ethical issues that uniquely affect the lives of women. These issues in applied ethics include autonomy, responsibility, sexual harassment, women in the military, new technologies for reproduction, surrogate motherhood, pornography, abortion, nonfeminist women and others. Whether generated by old social standards or intensified by recent technology, these dilemmas all pose persistent, 'nagging…Read more
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11Out From the Shadows: Analytical Feminist Contributions to Traditional Philosophy (edited book)Oxford University Press USA. 2012.Out from the Shadows showcases the work of 18 analytical feminists from a variety of traditional areas of philosophy: social and political philosophy, normative ethics, virtue theory, metaethics, philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of science. The collection is unique both in its focus on analytical feminism and in its breadth across the subdisciplines within philosophy. The book highlights successful uses of concepts and approaches from traditional philosophy, and …Read more
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11Theorizing Backlash: Philosophical Reflections on the Resistance to Feminism (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2002.Contrary to the popular belief that feminism has gained a foothold in the many disciplines of the academy, the essays collected in Theorizing Backlash argue that feminism is still actively resisted in mainstream academia. Contributors to this volume consider the professional, philosophical, and personal backlashes against feminist thought, and reflect upon their ramifications. The conclusion is that the disdain and irrational resentment of feminism, even in higher education, amounts to a backlas…Read more
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9Review of Cheshire Calhoun (ed.), Setting the Moral Compass: Essays by Women Philosophers (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2004 (12). 2004.
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7Moral Understandings (review)Dialogue 39 (1): 208-212. 2000.In Moral Understandings, Margaret Urban Walker presents merely a template for a moral theory that is expressive-collaborative, culturally situated, and practice-based. It is expressive-collaborative because it reflects the responsibilities we have to each other, and is the product of agreement. It is culturally situated because it speaks to different responsibilities we have that are grounded in gender, race, class, and so on. And it is practice-based because its content is determined by actual …Read more
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4David Schmidtz, Rational Choice and Moral Agency Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 16 (2): 135-140. 1996.
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2Raimo Tuomela, The Importance of Us: A Philosophical Study of Basic Social Notions Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 17 (3): 220-224. 1997.
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Feminist EthicsCambridge University Press. 2024.Feminist Ethics provides an overview of feminist contributions to normative ethics, moral psychology, and metaethics. It argues that through their criticisms of traditional ethics and proposals for changes, feminists are advancing 'robust agency,' an account of ideal moral and rational agency that promises to give us better responses than those given in traditional ethics to problems in ethics, including how we know our duties, the kind of persons we should strive to become, and why we should ac…Read more
Areas of Specialization
Meta-Ethics |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
Normative Ethics |
Philosophy of Action |