Works by Felicia Ackerman
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- The Significance of a Wish.Felicia Ackerman -1991 -Hastings Center Report 21 (4):27-29.
- Analysis, language, and concepts: The second paradox of analysis.Felicia Ackerman -1990 -Philosophical Perspectives 4:535-543.
- (1 other version)Coronavirus Is a Curse / Discrimination Makes It Worse.Felicia Nimue Ackerman -forthcoming -Ethics in Biology, Engineering and Medicine: An International Journal.No categories
- Using Fictive Narrative to Teach Ethics/Philosophy.Michael Boylan,Felicia Nimue Ackerman,Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez,Sybol Cook Anderson &Edward Spence -2011 -Teaching Ethics 12 (1):61-94.
- Commentary on ‘expressivism at the beginning and end of life’.Felicia Nimue Ackerman -2020 -Journal of Medical Ethics 46 (8):548-549.Death can be good— I’ll tell you how. Just have it come Decades from now.1 Full disclosure: The above poem expresses my outlook, and I have trouble empathising with people who want to die. But that does not make me unable to evaluate objections to the expressivist argument against PAS. Reed sets forth the expressivist argument as follows: ‘[W]hen we allow PAS for individuals who are terminally ill or facing some severe disease or disability, we send a message of disrespect (...) to all individuals who face such adversities in that we imply that they are inferior or their lives are not worth living (or at least less worth living than they otherwise would be) precisely insofar as they are diseased or disabled’.2 The passage of mine that Reed quotes, however, was not intended to set forth an expressivist view. Rather than saying the double standard of selective legalisation ‘send[s] a message of disrespect’,3 it says this double standard in fact involves a systematic devaluation of some people’s lives. I will argue that there are conditions under which this double standard does send a message of disrespect, but first I want to disassociate myself from the expressivist formulations of Coleman and Keown that …. (shrink)
- Roots and consequences of vagueness.Felicia Ackerman -1994 -Philosophical Perspectives 8:129-136.
- An argument for a modified Russellian principle of acquaintance.Felicia Ackerman -1987 -Philosophical Perspectives 1:501-512.
- The concept of manipulativeness.Felicia Ackerman -1995 -Philosophical Perspectives 9:335-340.
- “I Support the Right to Die. You Go First”: Bias and Physician-Assisted Suicide.Felicia Nimue Ackerman -2018 - In David Boonin,Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Public Policy. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 703-715.Consider these three positions about physician-assisted suicide:Physician-assisted suicide should be illegal for everyone.Physician-assisted suicide should be legal for only the terminally ill.Physician-assisted suicide should be legal for all competent adults.So far, the debate in America has been primarily between positions 1 and 2. I think it should be between positions 1 and 3. Both those positions embody reasonable viewpoints, and I will not try to decide between them in this chapter. But I will argue that the double standard embodied in (...) position 2 is morally untenable. (shrink)No categories
- The Wrong of Rudeness: Learning Modern Civility from Ancient Chinese Philosophy, by Amy OlberdingMinding the Gap: Moral Ideals and Moral Improvement, by Karen Stohr.Felicia Nimue Ackerman -forthcoming -Mind.No categories
- Patient and family decisions about life-extension and death.Felicia Nimue Ackerman -2007 - In Rosamond Rhodes, Leslie P. Francis & Anita Silvers,The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 52–68.The prelims comprise: Rationality Morality Advance Directives Conclusion Notes References Suggested Further Reading.
- The More the Merrier.Felicia Nimue Ackerman -2006 -Dialogue 45 (3):549-558.No categories
- Midwest Studies in Philosophy.Felicia Ackerman (ed.) -1981 - Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.No categories
- A Man by Nothing Is So Well Betrayed as by His Manners? Politeness as a Virtue.Felicia Ackerman -1988 -Midwest Studies in Philosophy 13 (1):250-258.No categories
- Pity as a Moral Concept/The Morality of Pity.Felicia Ackerman -1995 -Midwest Studies in Philosophy 20 (1):59-66.No categories
- What Is the Proper Role for Charity in Healthcare?Felicia Ackerman -1996 -Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 5 (3):425.My little girl has leukemia; she has had it for over a year, and now she needs at least five pints of blood a day. Not the whole blood, just the platelets. Most of our relatives and friends have given at least a few times. But we need more. Now I have to go to strangers.So begins Roberta Silman's short story, “Giving Blood,” a story about illness and charity. When the narrator's husband solicited blood donations at his workplace, “he thought (...) everyone would help…He must have asked a hundred people. Thirty gave. His officemate…turned green and said, ‘Oh, no, anything but that. I'm scared of needles.'”. (shrink)
- Analysis and its paradoxes.Felicia Ackerman -1992 - In Edna Ullmann-Margalit,The Scientific Enterprise. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 169--178.
- "Always to do ladies, damosels, and gentlewomen succour": Women and the chivalric code in malory's morte darthur.Felicia Ackerman -2002 -Midwest Studies in Philosophy 26 (1):1–12.I am indebted to many people, especially Dorsey Armstrong, Shannon French, and Kenneth Hodges, for helpful discussions of this material. An early version of this essay was read at the Thirty-Sixth International Congress on Medieval Studies.This essay is dedicated to the glorious memory of Nina Lindsey.
- Aunt Vera.Felicia Ackerman -2008 -Free Inquiry 28:32-32.No categoriesExport citation
Bookmark - Death, Dying, and Dignity.Felicia Ackerman -1999 -The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 1:189-201.The word ‘dignity’ is a staple of contemporary American medical ethics, where it often follows the words ‘death with’. People unfamiliar with this usage might expect it to apply to one’s manner of dying—for example, a stately exit involving ceremonial farewells. Instead, conventional usage generally holds that “death with dignity” ends or prevents life without dignity, by which is meant life marked not by buffoonery, but by illness and disability. Popular examples of dignity-depleters include dementia, incontinence, and being “dependent on (...) machines”—provided the machines are respirators rather than furnaces, refrigerators, and computers. (shrink)No categories
- Death is a Punch in the Jaw: Life-Extension and its Discontents.Felicia Nimue Ackerman -2007 - In Bonnie Steinbock,The Oxford handbook of bioethics. New York: Oxford University Press.This article deals both with greatly extended finite life and with immortality and uses the term ‘greatly extended life’ to cover both. Except where indicated, it proceeds from some assumptions adapted from Christine Overall. First, people would know the life expectancy in their society or would know that they were immortal. Second, everyone would have the opportunity to choose greatly extended life. Third, greatly extended life would not be mandatory; people would be able to opt out at any point.
- For N.T.Felicia Ackerman -2008 -Free Inquiry 28:52-52.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- "For now have I my death": The "duty to die" versus the duty to help the ill stay alive.Felicia Ackerman -2000 -Midwest Studies in Philosophy 24 (1):172–185.
- Glorification of Suffering.Felicia Ackerman -2002 -Hastings Center Report 32 (6):4.
- How does Ontology Supervene on what there is?Felicia Ackerman -1995 - In Elias E. Savellos & Ümit D. Yalçin,Supervenience: New Essays. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 264.
- "He That Was Courteous, True, and Faithful to His Friend Was That Time Cherished"-Is This Any Way to Run a Professional Association?Felicia Ackerman -1999 -Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 73 (2):115 - 118.No categories
- “I’ve Been Bad”: Using Light Verse in Teaching Philosophy.Felicia Nimue Ackerman -2019 -Journal of Aesthetic Education 53 (3):3-13.. Conventional wisdom in our society is that a good death involves accepting it as natural rather than striving to stave it off as long as possible. An alternative view is “Death can be good / I’ll show you how / Just have it come / decades from now.” In this essay, I discuss how I use this poem and other light verses of mine in teaching philosophy. These poems offer unusual viewpoints in several additional areas of philosophical and bioethical (...) interest, including growth through adversity, old age, family relations, obesity, envy, inequality, and ambition. Such poems can supplement traditional philosophical writing by presenting these alternative viewpoints in an amusing way that can capture students’ attention and relieve the solemnity that often pervades philosophy courses. (shrink)
- Light.Felicia Ackerman -2009 -Free Inquiry 29:53-53.No categories
- Lucinda Among the Bioethicists.Felicia Nimue Ackerman -2007 -American Journal of Bioethics 7 (6):61-62.
- Late in the Quest: The Study of Malory's Morte Darthur as a New Direction in Philosophy.Felicia Ackerman -2002 -Midwest Studies in Philosophy 23 (1):312-342.No categories
- Longer Living through Technology: In Favor of Life-Prolonging Biomedical Technology for Old People.Felicia Nimue Ackerman -2015 -Ethics in Biology, Engineering and Medicine 6 (3-4):163-171.No categories
- (1 other version)Letter to the Editor.Felicia Ackerman -1987 -Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 60 (5):873-873.No categories
- (2 other versions)Letters to the Editor.Felicia Ackerman -1993 -Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 66 (7):43-59.No categories
- More about More Life.Felicia Nimue Ackerman -2003 -Hastings Center Report 33 (6):5.
- More Merriment: A Rejoinder to Overall.Felicia Nimue Ackerman -2009 -Dialogue 48 (2):423-429.No categories
- Strawberry Ice Cream for Breakfast.Felicia Ackerman -2009 -Free Inquiry 29:60-60.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- What, If Anything, Should Count as Elder Abuse?Felicia Nimue Ackerman -2023 - In Michael Boylan,International Public Health Policy and Ethics. Springer Verlag. pp. 309-318.The concept of elder abuseElder abuse has become increasingly prominent in public health. It raises problems that call for critical discussion, especially in light of the COVID pandemic. This essay offers such discussion, including discussion of whether the concept is worth retaining at all.No categories
- Using Fictive Narrative to Teach Ethics/Philosophy.Michael Boylan,Felicia Nimue Ackerman,Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez &Sybol Cook -2011 -Teaching Ethics 12 (1):61-94.Export citation Bookmark
- A Vagueness Paradox and Its Solution.Felicia Ackerman -1989 -Midwest Studies in Philosophy 14 (1):395-398.
- Does Philosophy Only State What Everyone Admits? A Discussion of the Method of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations.Felicia Ackerman -1992 -Midwest Studies in Philosophy 17 (1):246-254.
- Flourish Your Heart in This World: Emotion, Reason, and Action in Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur.Felicia Ackerman -1998 -Midwest Studies in Philosophy 22 (1):182-226.
- Goldilocks and Mrs. Ilych: A Critical Look at the “Philosophy of Hospice”.Felicia Ackerman -1997 -Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 6 (3):314-.Anyone who thinks contemporary American society is hopelessly contentious and lacking in shared values has probably not been paying attention to the way the popular media portray the hospice movement. Over and over, we are told such things as that “Humane care costs less than high-tech care and is what patients want and need,” that hospices are “the most effective and least expensive route to a dignified death,” that hospice personnel are “heroic,” that their “compassion and dedication seem inexhaustible,” and (...) that “few could argue with the powerful message that it is better [for dying patients] to leave wrapped in the love of family and care givers than locked in the cold, metallic embrace of a machine.“. (shrink)
- Imaginary Gardens and Real Toads: On the Ethics of Basing Fiction on Actual People.Felicia Ackerman -1991 -Midwest Studies in Philosophy 16 (1):142-151.
- Response to “This Porridge Is Too Thin” by Gretchen M. Brown and “Demolishing a 'Straw Man'” by Elliott J. Rosen. [REVIEW]Felicia Ackerman -1998 -Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 7 (3):323-325.Each of these hospice officials makes several criticisms of my paper, Philosophy of Hospice I will treat these criticisms in turn.
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