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15Miracles 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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13Unanswered 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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62My 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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56Précis 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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31Pets 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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75Miracles 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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41Staying Alive: A Reply to the Commentators on Aging, Death, and Human Longevity: A Philosophical InquiryDialogue 45 (3): 577-590. 2006.
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Life Enhancement Technologies: Significance of Social Category MembershipIn Nick Bostrom & Julian Savulesu (eds.), Human Enhancement, Oxford University Press. pp. 327-340. 2009.
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9Life Span Extension: Metaphysical Basis and Ethical OutcomesIn Julian Savulescu, Ruud ter Meulen & Guy Kahane (eds.), Enhancing Human Capacities, Blackwell. pp. 386. 2011.Any inquiry into the meaning and implications of the prolongation of the human lifespan requires an investigation of its metaphysical basis and its ethical outcomes. This chapter explains a series of metaphysical and ethical claims about lifespan extension. It highlights a number of arguments that are typically put forward against these claims, and shows the ways in which they are mistaken. Two such claims given in the chapter are: (1) aging and life stages are neither wholly constituted by biol…Read more
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93Reproductive ‘Surrogacy’ and Parental LicensingBioethics 29 (5): 353-361. 2014.A serious moral weakness of reproductive ‘surrogacy’ is that it can be harmful to the children who are created. This article presents a proposal for mitigating this weakness. Currently, the practice of commercial ‘surrogacy’ operates only in the interests of the adults involved , not in the interests of the child who is created. Whether ‘surrogacy’ is seen as the purchase of a baby, the purchase of parental rights, or the purchase of reproductive labor, all three views share the same significant…Read more
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Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Reproductive Rights in CanadaIn Constance Backhouse & David Flaherty (eds.), Challenging Times: The Women’s Movement in Canada and the United States, Mcgill Queen’s University Press. 1992.
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The Misuse of Feminist Values in the Defence of Reproductive Engineering: A Case StudyResources for Feminist Research 18 (3): 67-71. 1989.
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Mary O'Brien, Reproducing the World: Essays in Feminist Theory Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 9 (10): 420-423. 1989.
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Ethical Issues of Modern Reproductive TechnologyIn Tomasz Dybowski, David J. Roy, Marek Safjan & Jean-Louis Beadouin (eds.), Medicine, Ethics, and Law: Canada and Poland in Dialogue, Montreal Center For Bioethics. 1991.
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6Surrogate MotherhoodCanadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume (n/a): 285. 1987.This paper will explore some moral and conceptual aspects of the practice of surrogate motherhood. Although I put forward a number of criticisms of existing ideas about this subject, I do not claim to offer a fully developed position. Instead what I have tried to do is to call into question what seem to be some generally accepted assumptions about surrogate motherhood, and to lend plausibility to my view that surrogate motherhood may be morally troubling for reasons not always fully recognized b…Read more
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Reproductive Ethics: Feminist and Non Feminist ApproachesCanadian Journal of Women and the Law 1 (2): 271-278. 1986.
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3Book 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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18Critical Notice of "The Rejected Body" (review)Canadian Journal of Philosophy 28 (3): 435-452. 1998.
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15Old Age and Ageism, Impairment and Ableism: Exploring the Conceptual and Material ConnectionsNational Women’s Studies Association Journal 18 (1): 207-217. 2006.Much can be learned about (old) age-identity and age-related oppression by noting their similarities to, respectively, impairment and ableism. Drawing upon the work of Shelley Tremain, I show that old age, like impairment, is not a biological given but is socially constructed, both conceptually and materially. I also describe the striking similarities and connections between ableism and ageism as systems of oppression. That disability and aging both rest upon a biological given is a fiction that…Read more
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137Aging, Death, and Human Longevity: A Philosophical InquiryUniversity of California Press. 2003.With the help of medicine and technology we are living longer than ever before. As human life spans have increased, the moral and political issues surrounding longevity have become more complex. Should we desire to live as long as possible? What are the social ramifications of longer lives? How does a longer life span change the way we think about the value of our lives and about death and dying? Christine Overall offers a clear and intelligent discussion of the philosophical and cultural issues…Read more
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Philosophy of Religion |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Animal Ethics |
Reproductive Ethics |
Aging |
Death and Dying |