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43Reason and Sensibility: The Ideal of Women's Self-Governance in die Writings of Mary WollstonecraftHypatia 8 (4): 35-55. 1993.It is standard in feminist commentaries to argue that Wollstonecraft's feminism is vitiated by her commitment to a liberal philosophical framework, relying on a valuation of reason over passion and on the notion of a sex-neutral self. I challenge this interpretation of Wollstonecraft's feminism and argue that her attempt to articulate an ideal of self-governance for women was an attempt to diagnose and resolve some of the tensions and inadequacies within traditional liberal thought.1.
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63On bodily autonomyIn Kay Toombs (ed.), Handbook of Phenomenology and Medicine, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 417--439. 2001.
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238Relational autonomy, normative authority and perfectionismJournal of Social Philosophy 39 (4): 512-533. 2008.22 page
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89Neurotechnologies, personal identity and the ethics of authenticityIn Springer Handbook of Neuroethics, Springer. pp. 373-92. 2015.In the recent neuroethics literature, there has been vigorous debate concerning the ethical implications of the use of neurotechnologies that may alter a person’s identity. Much of this debate has been framed around the concept of authenticity. The argument of this chapter is that the ethics of authenticity, as applied to neurotechnological treatment or enhancement, is conceptually misleading. The notion of authenticity is ambiguous between two distinct and conflicting conceptions: self-discover…Read more
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1463Relational Autonomy: Feminist Perspectives on Autonomy, Agency, and the Social Self (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2000.This collection of original essays explores the social and relational dimensions of individual autonomy. Rejecting the feminist charge that autonomy is inherently masculinist, the contributors draw on feminist critiques of autonomy to challenge and enrich contemporary philosophical debates about agency, identity, and moral responsibility. The essays analyze the complex ways in which oppression can impair an agent's capacity for autonomy, and investigate connections, neglected by standard account…Read more
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9Review of Marilyn Friedman, Autonomy, Gender, and Politics (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (12). 2003.
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107It is standard in feminist commentaries to argue that Wollstonecraft's feminism is vitiated by her commitment to a liberal philosophical framework, relying on a valuation of reason over passion and on the notion of a sex-neutral self. I challenge this interpretation of Wollstonecraft's feminism and argue that her attempt to articulate an ideal of self-governance for women was an attempt to diagnose and resolve some of the tensions and inadequacies within traditional liberal thought.
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130Personal identity, narrative integration, and embodimentIn Sue Campbell, Letitia Meynell & Susan Sherwin (eds.), Embodiment and Agency, Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 100--125. 2009.26 page
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88Imagination, Identity and Self-TransformationIn Catriona Mackenzie & Kim Atkins (eds.), Practical Identity and Narrative Agency, Routledge. pp. 121--145. 2008.
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17Procedural Justice and Relational Theory: Empirical, Philosophical, and Legal Perspectives (edited book)Routledge. 2021.This book bridges a scholarly divide between empirical and normative theorizing about procedural justice in the context of relations of power between citizens and the state. It will be of interest to a wide academic readership in philosophy, law, psychology and criminology.
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123Imagining oneself otherwiseIn Catriona Mackenzie & Natalie Stoljar (eds.), Relational Autonomy: Feminist Perspectives on Autonomy, Agency, and the Social Self, Oxford University Press. 2000.16 page
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115Narrative Integration, Fragmented Selves, and AutonomyHypatia 25 (1). 2010.In this paper we defend the notion of narrative identity against Galen Strawson's recent critique. With reference to Elyn Saks's memoir of her schizophrenia, we question the coherence ofStrawsons conception of the Episodic self and show why the capacity for narrative integration is important for a flourishing life. We aho argue that Scú put pressure on narrative theories that specify unduly restncúve constraints on self-constituting narratives, and chrify the need to distinguish identity from au…Read more
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22Introduction: Practical Identity and Narrative AgencyIn Catriona Mackenzie & Kim Atkins (eds.), Practical Identity and Narrative Agency, Routledge. 2008.
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110Moral imagination, disability and embodimentJournal of Applied Philosophy 24 (4). 2007.abstract In this paper we question the basis on which judgements are made about the ‘quality’ of the lives of people whose embodied experience is anomalous, specifically in cases of impairments. In moral and political philosophy it is often assumed that, suitably informed, we can overcome epistemic gaps through the exercise of moral imagination: ‘putting ourselves in the place of others’, we can share their points of view. Drawing on phenomenology and theories of embodied cognition, and on empir…Read more
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49Feminist bioethics and genetic terminationBioethics 21 (9). 2007.ABSTRACT A brief discussion of how relational autonomy, phenomenological theories of embodiment and narrative approaches to clinical ethics can open up the space for more subtle feminist ethical reflection about genetic termination.
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141Bare personhood? Velleman on selfhoodPhilosophical Explorations 10 (3). 2007.In the Introduction to Self to Self, J. David Velleman claims that 'the word "self" does not denote any one entity but rather expresses a reflexive guise under which parts or aspects of a person are presented to his own mind' (Velleman 2006, 1). Velleman distinguishes three different reflexive guises of the self: the self of the person's self-image, or narrative self-conception; the self of self-sameness over time; and the self as autonomous agent. Velleman's account of each of these different g…Read more
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34Emotions, reflection, and moral agencyIn Robyn Langdon & Catriona Mackenzie (eds.), Emotions, Imagination, and Moral Reasoning, Psychology Press. pp. 237--256. 2012.19 page
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7Conceptions of autonomy and conceptions of the body in bioethicsIn Jackie Leach Scully, Laurel Baldwin-Ragaven & Petya Fitzpatrick (eds.), Feminist bioethics: at the center, on the margins, Johns Hopkins University Press. 2010.
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151Critical reflection, self-knowledge, and the emotionsPhilosophical Explorations 5 (3): 186-206. 2002.Drawing on recent cognitive theories of the emotions, this article develops an account of critical reflection as requiring emotional flexibility and involving the ability to envisage alternative reasons for action. The focus on the role of emotions in critical reflection, and in agents' resistance to reflection, suggests the need to move beyond an introspective to a more social and relational conception of the process of reflection. It also casts new light on the intractable problem of explainin…Read more
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132Embodied agents, narrative selvesPhilosophical Explorations 17 (2): 154-171. 2014.Recent work on diachronic agency has challenged the predominantly structural or synchronic approach to agency that is characteristic of much of the literature in contemporary philosophical moral psychology. However, the embodied dimensions of diachronic agency continue to be neglected in the literature. This article draws on phenomenological perspectives on embodiment and narrative conceptions of the self to argue that diachronic agency and selfhood are anchored in embodiment. In doing so, the a…Read more
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14Emotions, Imagination, and Moral Reasoning (edited book)Psychology Press. 2012.This volume brings together philosophical perspectives on emotions, imagination and moral reasoning with contributions from neuroscience, cognitive science, social psychology, personality theory, developmental psychology, and abnormal psychology. The book explores what we can learn about the role of emotions and imagination in moral reasoning from psychopathic adults in the general community, from young children, and adolescents with callous unemotional traits, and from normal child development.…Read more
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16Abortion: addressing the questions of responsibilityAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 70 (2): 136-155. 1992.
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273Abortion and embodimentAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 70 (2). 1992.This Article does not have an abstract