Vulnerability New Essays in Ethics and Feminist Philosophy

by Mackenzie, Catriona; Rogers, Wendy; Dodds, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780199316649
• ISBN10: 0199316643
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-12-03
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Catriona Mackenzie is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University, Sydney. She has published extensively in moral psychology, feminist philosophy and applied ethics. Within these areas she is known especially for her work on relational autonomy and practical identity.

Wendy Rogers is Professor of Clinical Ethics at Macquarie University, Sydney. She has published widely in clinical and public health ethics and in feminist bioethics. Her work focuses on the intersection between ethical theory and practical problems in health care ethics.

Susan Dodds is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania. She has published widely in political philosophy, moral philosophy and applied ethics (especially feminist bioethics). Her work focuses on the intersection of political philosophy, feminist theory and and applied ethics.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments

Introduction: What Is Vulnerability and Why Does It Matter for Moral Theory?
Catriona Mackenzie, Wendy Rogers, Susan Dodds

Part I: Reflections on Vulnerability
1. The Importance of Relational Autonomy and Capabilities for an Ethics of Vulnerability
Catriona Mackenzie
2. Vulnerability and Bioethics
Wendy Rogers
3. The Role of Vulnerability in Kantian Ethics
Paul Formosa
4. Moral Vulnerability and the Task of Reparations
Margaret Urban Walker
5. Autonomy and Vulnerability Entwined
Joel Anderson
6. Being in Time: Ethics and Temporal Vulnerability
Janna Thompson

Part II: Vulnerability, Dependency and Care
7. Dependence, care and vulnerability
Susan Dodds
8. Disability and Vulnerability: on Bodies, Dependence and Power
Jackie Leach Scully
9. Moral Responsibility for Coerced Wrongdoing: the Case of Abused Women Who "Fail to Protect" Their Children
Marilyn Friedman
10. Parental Values and Children's Vulnerability
Mianna Lotz
11. Children, Vulnerability, and Emotional Harm
Amy Mullin
12. Vulnerability and Aging in the Context of Care
Rosemarie Tong