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Robert Goodin, Utilitarianism as a Public Philosophy (review)Philosophy in Review 19 106-108. 1999.
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59The Argonauts by Maggie NelsonKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 26 (3): 19-22. 2016.Writing this review on a plane headed to a conference on queering sexuality, with newly shorn pink hair, I note to myself that I’m hitting a lot of stereotypes. I’m a philosopher, a professor of women studies, a feminist researcher, a parent who identifies as bisexual, and it’s with all these hats on that I’m reading and reviewing Maggie Nelson’s book The Argonauts. I’m starting this way because it seems odd to review The Argonauts without any personal detail, though the inclusion of personal in…Read more
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912This chapter is about micro-inequities and their connection to the problem of implicit bias. It begins by defining micro-inequities, goes on to discuss what makes them wrong and what solutions might be appropriate given the institutional context in which they occur.
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82The Badness of Death, the Wrongness of Killing, and the Moral Importance of AutonomyDialogue 40 (4): 723-738. 2001.RésuméLa mort d'une personne peut-elle être intrinsèquement mauvaise pour la personne qui meurt? Et pourquoi est-il mal de tuer une autre personne? Je soutiens qu'une réponse adéquate à l'une ou l'autre de ces questions requiert d'apprécier l'importance morale de l'autonomie. J'examine ici la conception dominante de ce qui rend la mort mauvaise — la théorie de la dépossession —, ainsi que deux conceptions rivales de ce qui fait qu'il est mal de tuer — la théorie de la dépossession appliquée à l'…Read more
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35Report 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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259Feminist 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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52Paternalism 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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18Feminist 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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31Moral 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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257Philosophy 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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Martha C. Nussbaum and Amartya Sen, eds., The Quality of Life (review)Philosophy in Review 14 340-342. 1994.
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Arthur Ripstein, Equality, Responsibility, and the Law (review)Philosophy in Review 21 288-290. 2001.
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17Challenging Liberalism: Feminism as Political Critique by Lisa H. SchwartzmanHypatia 23 (1): 220-223. 2008.
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