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- Kent Greenawalt, Fighting Words: Individuals, Communities, and Liberties of Speech Reviewed by.SamanthaBrennan -1996 -Philosophy in Review 16 (5):348-350.No categoriesExport citation
Bookmark - The Moral Status of Children: Children’s Rights, Parents’ Rights, and Family Justice.SamanthaBrennan -1997 -Social Theory and Practice 23 (1):1-26.Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.
- Pornography, The Theory: What Utilitarianism Did to Action, by Frances Ferguson.Samantha J.Brennan -unknown
- Women and Evil, Nel Noddings.SamanthaBrennan -unknown
- Review of Bernard Gert,Morality: Its Meaning and Justification.Samantha J.Brennan -unknown
- Moral Rights and Moral Math: Three Arguments Against Aggregation.SamanthaBrennan -unknown
- Philosophy and Feminist Thinking, Jean Grimshaw.SamanthaBrennan -unknown
- Fashion and Sexual Identity, or Why Recognition Matters".SamanthaBrennan -2011 - In Fritz Allhoff, Jessica Wolfendale & Jeanette Kennett,Fashion - Philosophy for Everyone: Thinking with Style. Wiley. pp. 120--134.
- Reconciling feminist politics and feminist ethics on the issue of rights.SamanthaBrennan -1999 -Journal of Social Philosophy 30 (2):260–275.Should feminist ethical theories include rights as a component? There is a tension between feminist politics and the endorsement of the language of “women’s rights,” and feminist ethics and its critique of rights.1 In this paper I begin the project of reconciling moral theories that include rights as a component with feminist criticisms of rights. There are two parts to this project. First, I must respond to the criticisms feminists have made against rights theories in order to show that it (...) is possible for a moral theory that includes rights to be a feminist moral theory. Answering these criticisms is necessary if I am to establish that moral theories that include rights are among the candidate theories from which feminists might choose. Second, I must develop a feminist moral theory that encompasses rights, and argue for its superiority to other sorts of moral theories in order to show that a moral theory that encompasses rights is a plausible feminist moral theory. Going beyond responding to criticisms and developing a positive feminist rights theory is necessary if feminists are to find rights theories to be attractive candidate moral theories.2 In this paper I am concerned mostly with the first part of the project, responding to some feminist arguments against theorizing about morality in terms of rights, although in the course of responding to the objections I make remarks that might suggest ways in which some rights theories might be developed as feminist moral theories. (shrink)
- An Essay on Rights.SamanthaBrennan -1996 -Philosophical Review 105 (4):557.Steiner’s book is an engaging and challenging romp through important issues in rights theory, moral and economic reasoning, theories of freedom, and questions of justice. An Essay on Rights develops and connects themes pursued by Steiner in a series of articles written over the past two decades.
- The moral status of micro-inequities: In favour of institutional solutions.SamanthaBrennan -manuscriptThis chapter is about micro-inequities and their connection to the problem of implicit bias. It begins by defining micro-inequities, goes on to discuss what makes them wrong and what solutions might be appropriate given the institutional context in which they occur.
- Children's Choices or Children's Interests: Which Do Their Rights Protect?SamanthaBrennan -2004 - In David Archard,The moral and political status of children. Wiley-Blackwell.The often‐posed dichotomy between the interest and choice theory of rights can obfuscate a proper understanding of children's rights. We need a gradualist model in which the grounds for attributing rights to a being change in response to the development of autonomy. Rights for children initially function to protect their interests but, as they develop into full‐fledged autonomous choosers, rights function to ensure that their choices, even those that do not serve their welfare, are respected.
- Thresholds for Rights.SamanthaBrennan -1995 -Southern Journal of Philosophy 33 (2):143-168.If you believe that there are restrictions on what we as moral agents can do to others, but that these restrictions can give way in the face of competing considerations, then you believe in thresholds for rights. In this dissertation I develop an account of thresholds for rights, in defence of a position which is often stated but rarely explained or defended. I begin with the obvious question: How much needs to be at stake before a right's claim is overridden? (...) ;Less obvious, but equally crucial, are questions about the distribution of the total which needs to be at stake. After developing a framework for answering that question, in subsequent chapters I deal with other factors which may influence our judgements about the overridability of rights' claims, including the numbers and identities of the agents involved. (shrink)
- “Those Shoes Are Definitely Bicurious”: More Thoughts on the Politics of Fashion.SamanthaBrennan -2012 - In Dennis Cooley and Kelby Harrison,Passing/Out: Sexual Identity Veiled and Revealed.
- Families, efficiency, gender, and justice.SamanthaBrennan -manuscriptI'm going to focus my comments on a relatively small part of Joe Heath's book, the section on the household division of labour. Although it's a small piece of a much larger picture, I've chosen this area for two reasons: First, it connects with my own interests in issues of family justice. Second, I think for me it highlights a potentially larger problem concerning the relationship between justice and efficiency. When Heath puts the contrast between those who place rights before (...) efficiency in terms of a contrast between the US and Canadian health care systems, I find that I'm in agreement with the argument for efficiency. But when I think about the contrast in terms of the question of the gendered division of domestic labour, I'm less certain that I want to accord efficiency the kind of status it has according to Heath. (I must confess that I've always thought of Canada as the just society, rather than the efficient society. If it turns out.. (shrink)Export citation Bookmark
- Is Death's Badness Gendered?SamanthaBrennan -2006 -Dialogue 45 (3):559-566.
- Report on the 18th international social philosophy conference.SamanthaBrennan &Todd Calder -2003 -Journal of Value Inquiry 37 (1):101-107.
- The Idea of a Political Liberalism: Essays on Rawls.SamanthaBrennan,Claudia Card,Bernard Dauenhauer,Marilyn A. Friedman,Dale Jamieson,Richard Arneson,Clark Wolf,Robert Nagle,James Nickel,Christoph Fehige,Norman Daniels &Robert Noggle -1999 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.In this unique volume, some of today's most eminent political philosophers examine the thought of John Rawls, focusing in particular on his most recent work. These original essays explore diverse issues, including the problem of pluralism, the relationship between constitutive commitment and liberal institutions, just treatment of dissident minorities, the constitutional implications of liberalism, international relations, and the structure of international law. The first comprehensive study of Rawls's recent work, The Idea of Political Liberalism will be indispensable for political philosophers (...) and theorists interested in contemporary political thought. (shrink)
- Moderate deontology and moral gaps.SamanthaBrennan -2009 -Philosophical Perspectives 23 (1):23-43.
- Fashion and Sexual Identity, or why Recognition Matters.SamanthaBrennan -2011 - In Fritz Allhoff, Jessica Wolfendale & Jeanette Kennett,Fashion - Philosophy for Everyone: Thinking with Style. Wiley. pp. 120–134.This chapter contains sections titled: The Sexual Citizen, Rights to Recognition, and Visibility as a Strategy.
- Challenging Liberalism: Feminism as Political Critique by Lisa H. Schwartzman.SamanthaBrennan -2008 -Hypatia 23 (1):220-223.
- The Badness of Death, the Wrongness of Killing, and the Moral Importance of Autonomy.SamanthaBrennan -2001 -Dialogue 40 (4):723-738.RésuméLa mort d'une personne peut-elle être intrinsèquement mauvaise pour la personne qui meurt? Et pourquoi est-il mal de tuer une autre personne? Je soutiens qu'une réponse adéquate à l'une ou l'autre de ces questions requiert d'apprécier l'importance morale de l'autonomie. J'examine ici la conception dominante de ce qui rend la mort mauvaise — la théorie de la dépossession —, ainsi que deux conceptions rivales de ce qui fait qu'il est mal de tuer — la théorie de la dépossession appliquée à (...) l'acte de tuer, et la thèse des droits liminaux de Judith Thomson. Bien que mon objectif principal dans cet article soit d'établir l'importance de l' autonomie pour expliquer à lafois que la mort est mauvaise et qu'il est mal de tuer, je pense également qu'une réflexion sur ce qui rend la mort mauvaise nous apprend quelque chose au sujet des droits et de leur force, et qu'une réflexion sur les droits nous apprend quelque chose quant à ce qui fait que la mort et l'immortalité sont toutes deux de mauvaises choses. (shrink)
- How Many Parents Can a Child Have? Philosophical Reflections on the 'Three Parent Case'.SamanthaBrennan &Bill Cameron -2015 -Dialogue 54 (1):45-61.À la suite des récentes décisions légales reconnaissant plus de deux parents à certains enfants canadiens, nous nous demandons s’il existe des raisons morales pour limiter à deux le nombre de parents qu’un enfant peut avoir. Nous examinons quelques arguments traditionnels soutenant cette position et nous trouvons qu’ils ne suffisent pas pour la justifier. Nous présentons aussi un argument inspiré par le travail de Brighouse et Swift au sujet des bienfaits d’être parent, et nous montrons qu’il n’est pas assez fort (...) pour soutenir la nécessité de limiter à deux le nombre de parents. En terminant, nous suggérons quelques autres façons de séparer de façon positive l’idée de «parent» des notions traditionnelles. (shrink)
- Paternalism and Rights.SamanthaBrennan -1994 -Canadian Journal of Philosophy 24 (3):419-440.When, if ever, are we justified in infringing a rights claim on the basis of benefit to the right bearer? If we assume that the rights of individuals can be overridden on the basis of what is at stake for others- that is, that rights have thresholds - we can ask how these thresholds are affected when the person who will benefit from the right being overridden is the right bearer herself.
- Varieties of Feminist Liberalism.Anita Allen,SamanthaBrennan,Drucilla Cornell,Ann Cudd,Jean Hampton,S. A. Lloyd,Linda McClain,Martha Nussbaum,Susan Okin &Patricia Smith (eds.) -2004 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.The essays in this volume present versions of feminism that are explicitly liberal, or versions of liberalism that are explicitly feminist. By bringing together some of the most respected and well-known scholars in mainstream political philosophy today, Amy R. Baehr challenges the reader to reconsider the dominant view that liberalism and feminism are 'incompatible.'.
- Children’s Rights, Well-Being, and Sexual Agency.SamanthaBrennan &Jennifer Epp -forthcoming - In Alexander Bagattini and Colin MacLeod,The Wellbeing of Children in Theory and Practice.
- Taking Responsibility for Children.SamanthaBrennan &Robert Noggle (eds.) -2007 - Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press.What do we as a society, and as parents in particular, owe to our children? Each chapter in Taking Responsibility for Children offers part of an answer to that question. Although they vary in the approaches they take and the conclusions they draw, each contributor explores some aspect of the moral obligations owed to children by their caregivers. Some focus primarily on the responsibilities of parents, while others focus on the responsibilities of society and government. The essays reflect a mix (...) of concern with the practical and the philosophical aspects of taking responsibility for children, addressing such topics as parental obligations, the rights and entitlements of children, the responsibility of the state, the role and nature of public education in a liberal society, the best ways to ensure adequate child protection, the licensing of parents, children’s religious education, and children’s health. Taking Responsibility for Children will be of interest to philosophers, advocates for children’s interests, and those interested in public policy, especially as it relates to children and families. (shrink)
- The Virtue of Aggression in Sport.SamanthaBrennan &Evan Thomas Knott -2025 -Philosophies 10 (2):42.This paper argues that aggression, while often conflated with violence and harm, is a virtue in sports. We distinguish aggression from violence and assertiveness, exploring its positive moral value within rule-governed contexts. We examine the permissibility of violence in sports, considering consent and the public good while acknowledging the potential for harm and the importance of restraint. The paper uses anecdotal evidence and philosophical analysis to support the claim that controlled aggression, a form of self-restraint, is a valuable skill both (...) in and outside of sport. Finally, we explore the relationship between aggression and other virtues like sportsmanship, highlighting the importance of context in evaluating aggressive behaviours. (shrink)No categories
- Socialism, Feminism and Philosophy: A Radical Philosophy Reader, Sean Sayers and Peter Osborne, eds.SamanthaBrennan -unknown
- Women and Evil. By Nel Noddings. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989.SamanthaBrennan -1992 -Hypatia 7 (1):142-146.
- How Is the Strength of a Right Determined? Assessing the Harm View.SamanthaBrennan -1995 -American Philosophical Quarterly 32 (4):383-392.
- Rawls's Neglected Childhood: Reflections on the Original Position, Stability, and the Child's Sense of Justice.SamanthaBrennan &Robert Noggle -unknown
- Moral Lumps.SamanthaBrennan -2006 -Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 9 (3):249-263.Can all goods or bads be broken down into smaller and smaller pieces? Can all goods or bads be added together with some other good or bad to get a larger amount? Further, how does moral significance track the disaggregation and the aggregation of moral goods and bads? In Part 1, I examine the limits placed on aggregation by moderate deontological moral theories. This paper focuses in particular on the work of Judith Thomson and T.M. Scanlon as well as on (...) some of my own past work on the question of aggregation in the context of overriding rights. In Part 2, I examine consequentialist criticism that harms and benefits can be broken down into smaller pieces than the deontological theory allows and the argument that the moderate deontological view is too permissive since it allows aggregation of benefits within a single person's life. In Part 3 I suggest how a moderate deontological moral theory might respond to the criticisms. I cast my answer in terms of the existence of lumpy goods and bads. I argue that consequentialist critics of deontology are wrong to insist that all goods and bads can be disaggregated and aggregated at will. Instead, I offer the suggestion that most, or many, goods and bads come in morally significant lumps. That said, it will not always be obvious what those lumps are. Determining the texture of moral value is a substantive project in normative ethics. All I have hoped to do in this paper is suggest that two standard positions on how to group moral value are mistaken and give hope that we need not adopt one of the two. Part 4 of the paper responds to an objection and sets the stage for further work in value theory. (shrink)
- Feminist Ethics and Everyday Inequalities.SamanthaBrennan -2009 -Hypatia 24 (1):159.How should feminist philosophers regard the inequalities that structure the lives of women? Some of these inequalities are trivial and others are not; together they form a framework of unequal treatment that shapes women’s lives. This paper asks what priority we should give inequalities that affect women; it critically analyzes Claudia Card’s view that feminists ought to give evils priority. Sometimes ending gender-based inequalities is the best route to eliminating gender-based evil.
- John Rawls's Children.SamanthaBrennan &Robert Noggle -unknown
- The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson.SamanthaBrennan -2016 -Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 26 (3):19-22.Writing this review on a plane headed to a conference on queering sexuality, with newly shorn pink hair, I note to myself that I’m hitting a lot of stereotypes. I’m a philosopher, a professor of women studies, a feminist researcher, a parent who identifies as bisexual, and it’s with all these hats on that I’m reading and reviewing Maggie Nelson’s book The Argonauts. I’m starting this way because it seems odd to review The Argonauts without any personal detail, though the (...) inclusion of personal information isn’t something I get to do much as an academic philosopher. But The Argonauts is such a personal and philosophical book that it calls for that kind of response from those who read it. I won’t... (shrink)
- Creating a Warmer Environment for Women in the Mathematical Sciences and in Philosophy.SamanthaBrennan &Rob Corless -unknownSpeaking from our experience as department chairs in fields in which women are traditionally underrepresented, we offer reflections and advice on how one might move beyond the chilly climate and create a warmer environment for women students and faculty members.
- Feminist Philosophers Turn Their Thoughts to Death.SamanthaBrennan -unknown
- Philosophical Anarchism and Political Disobedience, Chaim Gans.SamanthaBrennan -unknown
- A Feminist I: Reflections from Academia, Christine Overall.SamanthaBrennan -unknown
- Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood, by Naomi Wolf.SamanthaBrennan -unknown
- Implicit bias, women surgeons and institutional solutions: commentary.SamanthaBrennan -2020 -Journal of Medical Ethics 46 (4):246-246.This paper argues that a major contribution to women’s under-representation and the gender pay gap in surgery is the interaction and aggregation of many small wrongs, or as they have come to be called in the literature, microinequities. Further, the paper argues that existing strategies do not adequately address the problems faced by women surgeons and cannot do so without an understanding of those wrongs as microinequities. Insights from the literature on ethics and microinequities are thought to be able to (...) inform new strategies.1 The study identifies four different kinds of gender bias: workplace discrimination, epistemic injustice, stereotyped roles and objectification. The different kinds of gender bias interact with one another and add up in ways that pose serious setbacks to the careers of women surgeons. In addition to being small wrongs, microinequities share other features. They are cumulative; they interact with one other; they are often invisible; and they are implicit or unintended. My comments are going to focus on the response to microinequities, …. (shrink)
- Libertarianism, Motivation, and Rights.SamanthaBrennan -unknown
- The Future and Value of Rights: Rights versus Responsibilities.SamanthaBrennan -unknown
- (1 other version)Feminist philosophy in the analytic tradition.Anita Superson &SamanthaBrennan -2000 -Hypatia 20 (4):1-9.
- Feminist ethics.SamanthaBrennan -2010 - In John Skorupski,The Routledge Companion to Ethics. New York: Routledge.Export citation Bookmark
- The Liberal Rights of Feminist Liberalism.SamanthaBrennan -unknown
- Utilitarianism as a Public Philosophy, Robert Goodin.SamanthaBrennan -unknown
- An Essay on Rights, Hillel Steiner.SamanthaBrennan -unknown
- Setting the Moral Compass: Essays by Women Moral Philosophers, edited by Cheshire Calhoun.SamanthaBrennan -unknown
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