Education

CUNY, Graduate School and University Center, Ph.D. 1978.
Honors: Philosophy of Science.
Dissertation: The Cognitive Force of Metaphor (Peter Caws, advisor).
Sarah Lawrence College, Philosophy, B.A. 1967.

E-mail: eva.kittay@sunysb.edu

Areas of Specialization

Feminist philosophy, feminist ethics, social and political theory, metaphor, disability studies.

Additional Interests

Philosophy of language, normative ethics, social thought.

Selected Publications

Blackwell's Studies in Feminist Philosophy (edited with Linda Alcoff), Blackwell 2006.
The Subject of Care (edited with Ellen Feder), Rowman and Littlefield 2003.
Theoretical Perspectives on Dependency and Women (with Ellen Feder), Rowman and Littlefield 2002.
Frames, Fields and Contrasts (edited with A. Lehrer), Erlbaum 1992.
Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency, Routledge (Thinking Gender Series) 1999.
Metaphor: Its Cognitive Force and Linguistic Structure, Claredon Press, Oxford University Press 1987, 1989.
Women and Moral Theory (edited with D. T. Meyers), Rowman and Littlefield 1987.

At the Margins of Moral Personhood, Ethics 116 (October 2005), pp. 100-131.
Dependency, Difference and the Global Ethic of Longterm Care (with Bruce Jennings and Angela A. Wasunna), The Journal of Political Philosophy, 13:4 (2005), 443-69.
Equality, Dignity and Disability, in Mary Ann Lyons and Fionnuala Waldron (eds.) (2005) Perspectives on Equality: The Second Seamus Heaney Lectures. Dublin: The Liffey Press, pp. 95-122.
Encyclopedia of Philosophy Article: Metaphor
Response to Peter Singer
A Feminist Public Ethic of Care Meets the New Communitarian Family Policy
Case Study: Shouldering the Burden of Care, Hastings Center Report, September-October 2005