Eva Kittay
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- PhD Philosophy Rutgers University
- Masters Philosophy Rutgers University
- Bachelors Philosophy Queens College, City University of New York
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Eva Feder Kittay is an American philosopher. She is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University. Her primary interests include feminist philosophy, ethics, social and political theory, metaphor, and the application of these disciplines to disability studies. Kittay has also attempted to bring philosophical concerns into the public spotlight, including leading The Women's Committee of One Hundred in 1995, an organization that opposed the perceived punitive nature of the social welfare reforms taking place in the United States at the time.
Eva Kittay's Published Works
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- Metaphor: Its Cognitive Force and Linguistic Structure (1987) (464)
- Frames, Fields, and Contrasts : New Essays in Semantic and Lexical Organization (1992) (257)
- Women and Moral Theory (1989) (257)
- When Caring Is Just and Justice Is Caring: Justice and Mental Retardation (2001) (213)
- Cognitive disability and its challenge to moral philosophy (2010) (207)
- At the Margins of Moral Personhood* (2005) (190)
- Dependency, Difference and the Global Ethic of Longterm Care (2005) (177)
- THE PERSONAL IS PHILOSOPHICAL IS POLITICAL: A PHILOSOPHER AND MOTHER OF A COGNITIVELY DISABLED PERSON SENDS NOTES FROM THE BATTLEFIELD (2009) (141)
- A Feminist Public Ethic of Care Meets the New Communitarian Family Policy* (2001) (101)
- Semantic Fields and the Structure of Metaphor (1981) (74)
- Learning from My Daughter (2019) (65)
- Health care professionals and intersex conditions. (2004) (64)
- Taking Dependency Seriously: The Family and Medical Leave Act Considered in Light of the Social Organization of Dependency Work and Gender Equality (1995) (59)
- Forever Small: The Strange Case of Ashley X (2011) (57)
- Introduction: Rethinking philosophical presumptions in light of cognitive disability (2009) (44)
- Equality, Dignity, and Disability (2005) (41)
- The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy (2007) (33)
- Book Review: Anita Silvers, David Wasserman, and Mary B. Mahowald.DISABILITY, DIFFERENCE, AND DISCRIMINATION: PERSPECTIVES ON JUSTICE IN BIOETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY.New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. (2002) (33)
- Loves Labor Revisited (2002) (32)
- 9. Welfare, Dependency, and a Public Ethic of Care (1998) (31)
- Disability Rights as a Necessary Framework for Crisis Standards of Care and the Future of Health Care. (2020) (30)
- The Global Heart Transplant and Caring across National Boundaries (2008) (28)
- The Moral Harm of Migrant Carework: Realizing a Global Right to Care (2009) (25)
- Woman as Metaphor1 (1988) (23)
- The Ethics of Philosophizing: Ideal Theory and the Exclusion of People with Severe Cognitive Disabilities (2009) (20)
- Dependency, Equality, and Welfare (1998) (19)
- Antonymy Revisited: Some Thoughts on the Relationship Between Words and Concepts (2012) (19)
- Naturalized Bioethics: Ideal Theory Bioethics and the Exclusion of People with Severe Cognitive Disabilities (2008) (18)
- A theory of justice as fair terms of social life given our inevitable dependency and our inextricable interdependency (2015) (18)
- The Subject of Care (2003) (17)
- Centering Justice on Dependency and Recovering Freedom (2015) (17)
- The Oneness Hypothesis (2018) (15)
- The Concept of a Semantic Relation (2012) (14)
- THE CONCEPT OF CARE ETHICS IN BIOMEDICINE The Case of Disability (2006) (13)
- Names and Naming: Why We Need Fields and Frames (2012) (12)
- Rereading Freud on ‘femininity’ or why not womb envy? (1984) (12)
- Generating Metaphors from Networks: A Formal Interpretation of the Semantic Field Theory of Metaphor (1994) (11)
- At the Margins of Moral Personhood (2008) (11)
- INTRODUCTION: RETHINKING PHILOSOPHICAL PRESUMPTIONS IN LIGHT OF COGNITIVE DISABILITY LICIA CARLSON AND EVA FEDER KITTAY (2009) (11)
- AH! My Foolish Heart: A Reply to Alan Soble's “Antioch's ‘Sexual Offense Policy’: A Philosophical Exploration” (1997) (11)
- Lexical Retrieval Processes: Semantic Field Effects (2012) (10)
- Introduction: Defining Feminist Philosophy (2008) (9)
- Caring for the long haul: Long-term care needs and the (moral) failure to acknowledge them (2013) (8)
- The Creation of Similarity: A Discussion of Metaphor in Light of Tversky's Theory of Similarity (1982) (8)
- The Completion of Care—With Implications for a Duty to Receive Care Graciously (2014) (7)
- The identification of metaphor (1984) (7)
- Of “men” and metaphors: Shakespeare, embodiment, and filing cabinets (1997) (7)
- Love's Labor Revisited (2002) (6)
- Searching for an Overlapping Consensus: A Secular Care Ethics Feminist Responds to Religious Feminists (2007) (5)
- Love's LaborRevisited (2002) (4)
- The Body as the Place of Care (2013) (4)
- Special Issue: Feminism and Disability I (2001) (4)
- Getting from Here to There (2012) (3)
- “Not My Way, Sesha. Your Way. Slowly” (2020) (3)
- Mastering envy: from Freud's narcissistic wounds to Bettelheim's symbolic wounds to a vision of healing. (1995) (3)
- Semantic Field Theory (1990) (3)
- The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy: Alcoff/Blackwell (2008) (3)
- 4. Metaphor as Rearranging the Furniture of the Mind: A Reply to Donald Davidson's "What Metaphors Mean" (1995) (3)
- How Not to Argue for Selective Reproductive Procedures (2017) (3)
- Dependency and Disability (2019) (3)
- From the Ethics of Care to Global Justice (講演会記録) (2011) (2)
- Women, Welfare, and a Public Ethic of Care (1997) (2)
- Case Study: Shouldering the Burden of Care (2005) (2)
- ten Human Dependency and Rawlsian Equality (2018) (2)
- Introduction (2002) (2)
- We Have Seen the Mutants-and They Are Us: Gifts and Burdens of a Genetic Diagnosis. (2020) (2)
- Whose convenience? Whose truth?: A comment on Peter Singer's 'A convenient truth.' (2007) (1)
- Two Dogmas of Moral Theory? Comments on Lisa Tessman’s Moral Failure (2016) (1)
- Something that Rhymes with Rich (2012) (1)
- Planning a trip to Italy, arriving in Holland: The delusion of choice in planning a family (2010) (1)
- Caring about Care (2019) (1)
- A Demanding Ethics of Care. (2020) (1)
- Disability, Difference, Discrimination: Perspectives on Justice in Bioethics and Public Policy (review) (2002) (1)
- The justice position and the care perspective (1987) (1)
- Precarity, precariousness, and disability (2021) (1)
- The greater danger — pornography, social science and women's rights: Reply to Brannigan and Goldenberg (1988) (1)
- Frames, Concepts, and Conceptual Fields (2012) (1)
- Pediatric Bioethics: Rationality, Personhood, and Peter Singer on the Fate of Severely Impaired Infants (2009) (1)
- Introduction (2001) (1)
- Vulnerability and the Moral Nature of Dependency Relations (2019) (0)
- Introduction (2001) (0)
- Policy and a Public Ethic of Care (2019) (0)
- In Whose Different Voice (1991) (0)
- From the Care Perspective (1988) (0)
- Developing Computational Lexical Resources (2012) (0)
- What's in a name? (1979) (0)
- “Not My Way, Sesha. Your Way. Slowly.” A Personal Narrative (2019) (0)
- The Dependency Critique of Rawlsian Equality (2020) (0)
- Relationships of Dependency and Equality (2019) (0)
- Introduction to the first edition (2018) (0)
- An Interlude concerning Context: A Relational Theory of Meaning (1990) (0)
- A Meditation on Normalcy Inspired by Camus’s The Rebel (2019) (0)
- Some Mother’s Child (2019) (0)
- Feminist Ethics of Care (2017) (0)
- Alternative Approaches: A Critique (1990) (0)
- Political Liberalism and Human Dependency (2019) (0)
- The Ethics of Prenatal Testing and Selection (2019) (0)
- The Man of Reason: "Male" and "Female" in Western Philosophy (review) (2011) (0)
- The Benefits and Burdens of Social Cooperation (2019) (0)
- 6. The Relationality and the Normativity of An Ethic of Care (2018) (0)
- The Presuppositions of Equality (2019) (0)
- Self-Deception and Self-Understanding: New Essays In Philosophy and Psychology (1988) (0)
- Care and Disability: Friends or Foes (2020) (0)
- The New Normal and a Good Life (2019) (0)
- Becoming a Humbler Philosopher (2020) (0)
- Disability and dependence are integral to the human experience and yet have been largely marginalized or denigrated within Western philosophy. Joining a growing counter narrative from the disability studies (2009) (0)
- Concluding Remarks: Reference and Truth in Metaphor (1990) (0)
- Maternal Thinking with a Difference (2019) (0)
- Afterword (2019) (0)
- An Ethics of Care (2019) (0)
- Rationality and the Genetic Challenge Revisited (2011) (0)
- Introduction to the Second Edition (2019) (0)
- Comments on Alice Crary’s The Horrific History of Comparisons between Cognitive Disability and Animality (and How to Move Past It) and Peter Singer’s Response to Crary (2019) (0)
- What is a Concept (2012) (0)
- Towards Perspectival Theory of Metaphor (1990) (0)
- Afterword: My Daughter’s Body—A Meditation on Soul (2019) (0)
- Introduction (1996) (0)
- A Response to Professor Hui-Fen Hung--(Dependency) is the Responsibility No Human Society Can Escape:Eva F. Kittay's Argument on Dependency and Caretaking (2008) (0)
- Recognition of Reviewers (2012) (0)
- The Completion of Care—The Normativity of Care (2019) (0)
- The Limits of Choice (2019) (0)
- On What Matters/Not (2019) (0)
- Addendum: Mother’s Choice (2019) (0)
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