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8A Feminist Look at Ferdinand Schoeman’s Privacy and Social FreedomSocial Philosophy Today 12 267-275. 1996.
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15March MadnessTeaching Philosophy 31 (2): 141-150. 2008.What is at stake when students sell the highly sought-after basketball tickets they receive for free through a university’s lottery system? This article discusses a case in applied ethics taken from the experience of college students and extrapolates from that to the distribution of other scarce resources using lotteries. By examining an event relevant to the actual experience of students, we challenge them to see how normative moral theory may be used and what values are central to moral decisi…Read more
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7Corporate Citizenship, Contractarianism and Ethical Theory: On Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics (edited book)Ashgate Pub. Company. 2008.This study provides a representation of the broad spectrum of theoretical work on topics related to business ethics, with a particular focus on corporate citizenship. It considers relations of business and society alongside social responsibility and moves on to examine the historical and systemic foundations of business ethics, focusing on the concepts of social and ethical responsibilities. The contributors explore established theories and concepts and their impact on moral behaviour. Together,…Read more
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120Human Rights, Radical Feminism, and Rape in WarSocial Philosophy Today 21 207-224. 2005.This paper looks at some prominent discussions of rape in war as a violation of human rights within Radical Feminism. I begin with a brief overview of United Nations declarations and actions on the subject of rape in war. I then look at some radical feminist accounts of rape in war as a violation of human rights with particular emphasis on the discussions of Susan Brownmiller and Catharine MacKinnon. I conclude the paper with a critical analysis of these radical feminist accounts and show how ou…Read more
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18The Female’s Rights in Society According to the Social Contract Theory of John LockeSocial Philosophy Today 8 247-260. 1993.
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101Civil Disobedience in the Social Theory of Thomas AquinasThe Thomist 60 (3): 449-462. 1996.In this article I define civil disobedience and classify it into four forms based on motive and extent of dissent. I then present Thomas Aquinas's account for justified civil disobedience. After first determining how a law or system of laws is unjust, the duty (virtue) of obedience to just and unjust laws is discussed. Finally, I argue that of the four possible forms of civil disobedience, Aquinas's natural Law Theory only clearly allows the fourth, i.e., altruistic disobedience of an unjust sys…Read more
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25Symposia on Gender, Race and PhilosophyIn David Papineau (ed.), Philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 5--1. 2009.
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81That All Children Should Be Free: Beauvoir, Rousseau, and ChildhoodHypatia 25 (2). 2010.Simone de Beauvoir offers one of the most interesting philosophical accounts of childhood, and, as numerous scholars have argued, it is one of the most important contributions that she made to existentialism. Beauvoir stressed the importance of childhood on one's ability to assume one's freedom. This radically changed how freedom was construed for existentialism. Rather than positing an adult subjectivity that tries to flee freedom through bad faith, Beauvoir's account forces a recognition of a …Read more
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265Adoption, ART, and a Re‐Conception of the Maternal Body: Toward Embodied MaternityHypatia 21 (1): 54-73. 2006.We criticize a view of maternity that equates the natural with the genetic and biological and show how such a practice overdetermines the maternal body and the maternal experience for women who are mothers through adoption and ART . As an alternative, we propose a new framework designed to rethink maternal bodies through the lens of feminist embodiment. Feminist embodied maternity, as we call it, stresses the particularity of experience through subjective embodiment. A feminist embodied maternit…Read more
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82Just War Theory, Crimes of War, and War RapeInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 20 (1): 143-157. 2006.Recent decades have witnessed rape and sexual violence used on such a massive scale and often in a widespread and systematic program that the international community has had to recognize that rape and sexual violence are not just war crimes but might be crimes against humanity or even genocide. I suggest that just war theory, while limited in its applicability to mass rape, might nevertheless offer some framework for making the determination of when sexual violence and rape constitute war crimes…Read more
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22Writing for Liberation: Simone de Beauvoir and Woman’s WritingPhilosophy Today 45 (4): 335-348. 2001.
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29The Contradictions of Freedom: Philosophical Essays on Simone de Beauvoir's the Mandarins (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2005._The essential companion to Simone de Beauvoir's celebrated novel._
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35Peacemaking in Domestic Violence: From an Ethics of Care to an Ethics of AdvocacyJournal of Social Philosophy 29 (2): 46-58. 1998.
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110Political SolidarityPennsylvania State University Press. 2008.Experiences of solidarity have figured prominently in the politics of the modern era, from the rallying cry of liberation theology for solidarity with the poor and oppressed, through feminist calls for sisterhood, to such political movements as Solidarity in Poland. Yet very little academic writing has focused on solidarity in conceptual rather than empirical terms. Sally Scholz takes on this critical task here. She lays the groundwork for a theory of political solidarity, asking what solidarity…Read more
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20Individual and Community: Artistic Representation in Alain L. Locke's PoliticsTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 39 (3). 2003.
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37Seven Principles for Better Practical EthicsTeaching Philosophy 19 (4): 337-355. 1996.This paper attends to the question of how to effectively teach ethics in universities. The author challenges the accepted skepticism amongst other disciplines that philosophers are no longer equipped to teach ethics courses to accommodate the moral demands of the contemporary world. Philosophers are believed to merely focus on abstract issues concerning moral attitudes and behavior. Currently, ethics courses in universities have replaced abstract moral issues of moral theory with concrete issues…Read more
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29The Other Within: Ethics, Politics, and the Body in Simone de Beauvoir (review)Journal of Speculative Philosophy 20 (3): 248-250. 2006.
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26Resurrecting Language through Social CriticismSocial Philosophy Today 17 203-216. 2001.Social criticism can take on many forms ranging from theoretical exposition to non-violent protests. This paper considers literary art as a form of social criticism and uses Morrison's novel Paradise as the exemplary case to show that the confrontation of unjust ideas through social criticism is essential in building non-oppressive relations open to diversity. In this sense, social criticism is a paradigm of communication that, although often entailing conflict, ultimately aims at reconciliation…Read more
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M. Kelly , "Hermeneutics and critical theory in ethics and politics" (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 28 (3): 489. 1994.
Villanova, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |