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33Report on the 18th international social philosophy conferenceJournal of Value Inquiry 37 (1): 101-107. 2003.
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3Kent Greenawalt, Fighting Words: Individuals, Communities, and Liberties of Speech Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 16 (5): 348-350. 1996.
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258Feminist Ethics and Everyday InequalitiesHypatia 24 (1): 159. 2009.How should feminist philosophers regard the inequalities that structure the lives of women? Some of these inequalities are trivial and others are not; together they form a framework of unequal treatment that shapes women’s lives. This paper asks what priority we should give inequalities that affect women; it critically analyzes Claudia Card’s view that feminists ought to give evils priority. Sometimes ending gender-based inequalities is the best route to eliminating gender-based evil.
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50Paternalism and RightsCanadian Journal of Philosophy 24 (3): 419-440. 1994.When, if ever, are we justified in infringing a rights claim on the basis of benefit to the right bearer? If we assume that the rights of individuals can be overridden on the basis of what is at stake for others- that is, that rights have thresholds - we can ask how these thresholds are affected when the person who will benefit from the right being overridden is the right bearer herself.
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17Feminist Moral Philosophy (edited book)University of Calgary Press. 2003.Do moral philosophers need an account of human nature on which to base their normative claims? If we conceive of selves in relational terms, what are the implications for egalitarian theories, for accounts of agency, and for our views about reproductive technology? Does virtue theory commit us to the claim that members of privileged groups are unable to lead good lives? Does objectification admit of degrees? Can social contract arguments tell us anything about what makes sexual exploitation wron…Read more
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73Moral LumpsEthical Theory and Moral Practice 9 (3): 249-263. 2006.Can all goods or bads be broken down into smaller and smaller pieces? Can all goods or bads be added together with some other good or bad to get a larger amount? Further, how does moral significance track the disaggregation and the aggregation of moral goods and bads? In Part 1, I examine the limits placed on aggregation by moderate deontological moral theories. This paper focuses in particular on the work of Judith Thomson and T.M. Scanlon as well as on some of my own past work on the question …Read more
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256Philosophy and Death: Introductory ReadingsBroadview Press. 2009.Philosophical reflection on death dates back to ancient times, but death remains a most profound and puzzling topic. Samantha Brennan and Robert Stainton have assembled a compelling selection of core readings from the philosophical literature on death. The views of ancient writers such as Plato, Epicurus, and Lucretius are set alongside the work of contemporary figures such as Thomas Nagel, John Perry, and Judith Jarvis Thomson. Brennan and Stainton divide the anthology into three parts. Part I …Read more
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Arthur Ripstein, Equality, Responsibility, and the Law (review)Philosophy in Review 21 288-290. 2001.
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14Challenging Liberalism: Feminism as Political Critique by Lisa H. SchwartzmanHypatia 23 (1): 220-223. 2008.
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317Speaking from our experience as department chairs in fields in which women are traditionally underrepresented, we offer reflections and advice on how one might move beyond the chilly climate and create a warmer environment for women students and faculty members.
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817“Those Shoes Are Definitely Bicurious”: More Thoughts on the Politics of FashionIn Dennis Cooley and Kelby Harrison (ed.), Passing/Out: Sexual Identity Veiled and Revealed, . 2012.
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59How Many Parents Can a Child Have? Philosophical Reflections on the 'Three Parent Case'Dialogue 54 (1): 45-61. 2015.À la suite des récentes décisions légales reconnaissant plus de deux parents à certains enfants canadiens, nous nous demandons s’il existe des raisons morales pour limiter à deux le nombre de parents qu’un enfant peut avoir. Nous examinons quelques arguments traditionnels soutenant cette position et nous trouvons qu’ils ne suffisent pas pour la justifier. Nous présentons aussi un argument inspiré par le travail de Brighouse et Swift au sujet des bienfaits d’être parent, et nous montrons qu’il n’…Read more
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266Children's Choices or Children's Interests: Which Do Their Rights Protect?In David Archard & Colin M. [eds] Macleod (eds.), The Moral and Political Status of Children, Oxford University Press. 2003.The often‐posed dichotomy between the interest and choice theory of rights can obfuscate a proper understanding of children's rights. We need a gradualist model in which the grounds for attributing rights to a being change in response to the development of autonomy. Rights for children initially function to protect their interests but, as they develop into full‐fledged autonomous choosers, rights function to ensure that their choices, even those that do not serve their welfare, are respected.
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