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41Vessels of Evil: American Slavery and the HolocaustEthics 106 (2): 424-448. 1996.Two profound atrocities in the history of Western culture form the subject of this moving philosophical exploration: American Slavery and the Holocaust. An African American and a Jew, Laurence Mordekhai Thomas denounces efforts to place the suffering of one group above the other. Rather, he pronounces these two defining historical experiences as profoundly evil in radically different ways and points to their logically incompatible aims. The author begins with a discussion of the nature of evil, …Read more
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24Subjugation and Bondage: Critical Essays on Slavery and Social Philosophy (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1998.This volume addresses a wide variety of moral concerns regarding slavery as an institutionalized social practice. By considering the slave's critical appropriation of the natural rights doctrine, the ambiguous implications of various notions of consent and liberty are examined. The authors assume that, although slavery is undoubtedly an evil social practice, its moral assessment stands in need of a more nuanced treatment. They address the question of what is wrong with slavery by critically exam…Read more
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36Evil, Political Violence, and Forgiveness: Essays in Honor of Claudia CardLexington Books. 2009.Rather than focusing on political and legal debates surrounding attempts to determine if and when genocidal rape has taken place in a particular setting, this essay turns instead to a crucial, yet neglected area of inquiry: the moral significance of genocidal rape, and more specifically, the nature of the harms that constitute the culpable wrongdoing that genocidal rape represents. In contrast to standard philosophical accounts, which tend to employ an individualistic framework, this essay offer…Read more
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16Letters to the EditorProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 61 (3). 1988.
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28Review of Ferdinand Schoeman: Responsibility, Character, and the Emotions: New Essays in Moral Psychology (review)Ethics 99 (4): 950-951. 1989.
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Sexism and Racism: Some Conceptual DifferencesIn Bernard Boxill (ed.), Race and Racism, Oxford University Press. 2000.
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12Case Studies: Should States Require Child Passenger Protection?Hastings Center Report 11 (3): 21. 1981.
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34Card, Claudia. Confronting Evils: Terrorism, Torture, Genocide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 350. $99.00 (review)Ethics 122 (1): 184-188. 2011.
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24Book ReviewsClaudia Card,. The Atrocity Paradigm: A Theory of Evil.New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. x+284. $45.00 ; $25.00 (review)Ethics 116 (1): 222-225. 2005.
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3Self Respect: Theory and PracticeIn Tommy J. Curry & Leonard Harris (eds.), Philosophy Born of Struggle, . 2015.
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Acts, Omissions, and Common Sense MoralityCanadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 8 (n/a): 37. 1982.
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Friendship and other lovesIn Neera Kapur Badhwar (ed.), Friendship: a philosophical reader, Cornell University Press. pp. 48--64. 1993.
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34Sensation and Perception: A History of the Philosophy of PerceptionPhilosophical Quarterly 12 (49): 372. 1962.
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25Animals and AnimalsBetween the Species 13 (10): 11. 2010.Speciesism is the wrong of not acknowledging the moral qualities that non-human animals possess that are similar or equivalent or even superior to the moral qualities that human beings possess. However, since it is manifestly clear that no one thinks that apes are in any way obligated to human beings, it clearly cannot be a form of speciesism to be mindful of the differences on the basis of which that is so. In opposition to the advocates of the Great Ape Project, my aim in this essay is to esta…Read more
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24Liberty and a Spirit of Moral DecencyInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 25 (2): 243-248. 2011.
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31Law, Morality and Our Psychological NatureBowling Green Studies in Applied Philosophy 4 111-123. 1982.
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Normative Ethics |