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72The Employer-Employee Relationship and the Right to KnowBusiness and Professional Ethics Journal 3 (1): 45-58. 1983.
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42Deformed Desires and Informed Desire TestsHypatia 20 (4): 109-126. 2000.The formal theory of rational choice as grounded in desire-satisfaction cannot account for the problem of such deformed desires as women's slavish desires. Traditional “informed desire” tests impose conditions of rationality, such as full information and absence of psychoses, but do not exclude deformed desires. I offer a Kantian-inspired addendum to these tests, according to which the very features of deformed desires render them irrational to adopt for an agent who appreciates her equal worth.
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69Out from the Shadows: Analytical Feminist Contributions to Traditional Philosophy (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2012.This collection showcases the work of 18 analytical feminists from a variety of traditional areas of philosophy. It highlights successful uses of concepts and approaches from traditional philosophy, and illustrates the contributions that feminist approaches have made and could make to the analysis of issues in key areas of traditional philosophy, while also demonstrating that traditional philosophy ignores feminist insights and feminist critiques of traditional philosophy at its own peril.
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27The Rationality of Dispositions and the Rationality of Actions: The Interdependency ThesisDialogue 44 (3): 439-468. 2005.ABSTRACTI defend the Interdependency Thesis, according to which rational evaluations of dispositions and actions are made in light of each other. I invoke a model of rationality that relies on various levels of consistency existing between an agent's reasons for adopting a moral disposition, the argument for the moral theory she endorses, her desires, disposition, and choice to be a moral person as reflected in the maxim she adopts. The Interdependency Thesis shows that we do not need to demonst…Read more
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8Moral 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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68The Deferential Wife Revisited: Agency and Moral ResponsibilityHypatia 25 (2). 2010.This paper rejects two main arguments for absolving the deferential wife and victims of deprived circumstances from responsibility or hlame for their servility: for Susan Wolf, circumstances can determine their reasons and acts, and for Sarah Buss, circumstances can give them excusing reasons for their acts. The paper argues that circumstances can give them justifying reasons to act in ways defending their intrin-sic worth when their acts can be legitimately interpreted as a protest against an a…Read more
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20Teaching in the New Climate of ConservatismTeaching Philosophy 30 (2): 139-148. 2007.This paper (1) summarizes the main points of the papers in the volume which demonstrate some of the ways that academic freedom is at odds with recent conservative attacks on the professoriate; (2) argues that some of the conservative attacks from students on faculty are at base a failure to acknowledge their equal personhood, but treat them as inferior beings and thus elicit harmful psychological reactions similar to those found in victims of racist slurs; and (3) examines possible solutions, in…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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