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182Moral Failure: On the Impossible Demands of MoralityOup Usa. 2014.Moral Failure: On the Impossible Demands of Morality asks what happens when the sense that "I must" collides with the realization that "I can't." Bringing together philosophical and empirical work in moral psychology, Lisa Tessman here examines moral requirements that are non-negotiable and that contravene the principle that "ought implies can."
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3“Virtue Ethics and Moral Failure: Lessons from Neuroscientific Moral Psychology”In Michael Austin (ed.), Virtues in Action: New Essays in Applied Virtue Ethics, Palgrave-macmillan. 2013.
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286Reply to criticsHypatia 23 (3). 2008.Tessman responds to her three critics’ comments on Burdened Virtues, focusing on their concerns with her stipulation of an “inclusivity requirement,” according to which one cannot be said to flourish without contributing to the flourishing of an inclusive collectivity. Tessman identifies a naturalized approach to ethics—which she distinguishes from the naturalism she implicitly endorsed in Burdened Virtues—that illuminates how a conception of flourishing that meets the inclusivity requirement co…Read more
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94Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Ideal (edited book)Springer. 2009.Characterizing feminist ethics and social and political philosophy as marked by a tendency to be non-idealizing serves to thematize the volume, while still ...
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569Expecting Bad LuckHypatia 24 (1): 9-28. 2009.This paper draws on Claudia Card’s discussions of moral luck to consider the complicated moral life of people—described as pessimists—who accept the heavy knowledge of the predictability of the bad moral luck of oppression. The potential threat to ethics posed by this knowledge can be overcome by the pessimist whose resistance to oppression, even in the absence of hope, expresses a sense of still having a ‘‘claim’’ on flourishing despite its unattainability under oppression.
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Areas of Specialization
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
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Social and Political Philosophy |