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13Miracles as Evidence Against the Existence of GodIn Robert A. Larmer (ed.), Questions of Miracle, Carleton University Press. pp. 132-139. 1996.
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9Unanswered PrayersIn Russell Blackford & Udo Schüklenk (eds.), 50 Voices of Disbelief, Wiley‐blackwell. 2009-09-10.This chapter contains sections titled: Notes.
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11The role of careGlobal Bioethics 33 (1): 38-40. 2022.“The Role of Care” is a commentary on “Towards a Feminist Global Ethics,” by Rosemarie Tong.
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55My Children, Their Children, and Benatar’s Anti-NatalismJournal of Value Inquiry 56 (1): 51-66. 2022.
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27Justice Back and Forth: Duties to the Past and Future, written by Richard VernonJournal of Moral Philosophy 16 (3): 371-374. 2019.
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27Book Reviews : Allen E. Buchanan and Dan W. Brock, Deciding for Others: The Ethics of Surrogate Decision Making. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989. Pp. 422 + xv, $49.50 (cloth), $16.95 (paper (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 23 (1): 120-125. 1993.
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45Précis of Aging, Death, and Human Longevity: A Philosophical Inquiry*: DialogueDialogue 45 (3): 537-548. 2006.
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520BOOK REVIEW: Christine Overall. AGING, DEATH, AND HUMAN LONGEVITY: A PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003 (review)Hypatia 20 (3): 226-229. 2005.
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30Pets and People: The Ethics of our Relationships with Companion Animals (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2017.Animal ethics is generating growing interest both within academia and outside it. This book focuses on ethical issues connected to animals who play an extremely important role in human lives: companion animals, with a special emphasis on dogs and cats, the animals most often chosen as pets. Companion animals are both vulnerable to and dependent upon us. What responsibilities do we owe to them, especially since we have the power and authority to make literal life-and-death decisions about them? W…Read more
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17Heterosexuality and Feminist TheoryCanadian Journal of Philosophy 20 (1): 1-17. 1990.Heterosexuality, which I define as a romantic and sexual orientation toward persons not of one's own sex, is apparently a very general, though not entirely universal, characteristic of the human condition. In fact, it is so ubiquitous a part of human interactions and relations as to be almost invisible, and so natural-seeming as to appear unquestionable. Indeed, the 1970 edition of The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines ‘heterosexual’ as ‘pertaining to or characterized by the normal relat…Read more
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66Miracles and LarmerDialogue 42 (1): 123-136. 2003.As this article is published, Robert Larmer and I have been engaged in a debate that is now eighteen years long, often with gaps of many years between ripostes, about the nature and significance of miracles. The Larmer/overall oeuvre now includes six works, including the two published here. I am grateful to the editors of Dialogue for giving me the opportunity to respond to Larmer’s most recent entry in the debate.
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36Staying Alive: A Reply to the Commentators on Aging, Death, and Human Longevity: A Philosophical InquiryDialogue 45 (3): 577-590. 2006.
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107Heterosexuality and Feminist TheoryCanadian Journal of Philosophy 20 (1). 1990.Heterosexuality, which I define as a romantic and sexual orientation toward persons not of one's own sex, is apparently a very general, though not entirely universal, characteristic of the human condition. In fact, it is so ubiquitous a part of human interactions and relations as to be almost invisible, and so natural-seeming as to appear unquestionable. Indeed, the 1970 edition of The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines ‘heterosexual’ as ‘pertaining to or characterized by the normal relat…Read more
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‘Pluck A Fetus From Its Womb’: A Critique of Current Attitudes Toward the Embryo/FetusThe University of Western Ontario Law Review 24 1-14. 1986.
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34Test-Tube Babies: A Guide to Moral Questions, Present Techniques and Future PossibilitiesWilliam A. W. Walters and Peter Singer, editors Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Pp. 165. $16.95 cloth: $8.95 paper - Test-Tube Women: What Future for Motherhood?Rita Arditti, Renate Duelli Klein, and Shelley Minden, editors London: Pandora Press, 1984. Pp. x, 482. $8.95 (review)Dialogue 24 (4): 728-730. 1985.
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Longevity, Identity, and Moral Character: A Feminist ApproachIn Stephen G. Post & Robert H. Binstock (eds.), The Fountain of Youth: Cultural, Scientific and Ethical Perspectives on a Biomedical Goal, Oxford University Press. 2004.
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2Robert Lee and Derek Morgan, eds., Birthrights: Law and Ethics at the Beginnings of Life (review)Philosophy in Review 9 (9): 371-373. 1989.
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11Feminist Perspectives: Philosophical Essays on Method and Morals (edited book)University of Toronto Press. 1988.
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10Thinking Like a Woman: Personal Life and Political IdeasSumach Press. 2001.ago that thinking (along with speaking and acting) “like a woman” was taken as a matter of shame and weakness. The phrase remains an insult to any man who is accused of being “like a woman” in any respect. But the only reason the phrase ...
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113Monogamy, Nonmonogamy, and IdentityHypatia 13 (4). 1998.After a brief discussion of the terms "monogamy" and "nonmonogamy," I evaluate explanations offered by different theorists for the pain that nonmonogamy can cause to the partner (especially a female partner) of a nonmonogamous person (of either sex). My suggestion is that the self, especially the female self, is conventionally defined in terms of sexual partners. I present and reply to a possible objection to this explanation, and then discuss my theory's normative implications.
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2Ethical Imagination or Ethical Reasoning (review)Journal of Canadian Studies 41 (3): 185-192. 2007.
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John P. Lizza, Persons, Humanity, and the Definition of DeathPhilosophy in Review 27 (1): 46. 2007.
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"Peep Shows and Bedroom Access": Women's Identities and the Practice of OutingAtlantis 23 (1): 30-37. 1998.
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22Concepts of Life Span and Life-Stages: Implications for EthicsCanadian Journal of Philosophy 32 (sup1): 298-318. 2002.
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Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Philosophy of Religion |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Animal Ethics |
Reproductive Ethics |
Aging |
Death and Dying |