Lisa Tessman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1078495 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Tessman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Tessman |
| SIGNATURE | TESSMAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Binghamton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6446-9583 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How to End a War: Essays on Justice, Peace, and Repair
How and when should we end a war? What place should the pathways to a war's end have in war planning and decision-making? This volume treats the topic of ending war as part and parcel of how wars begin and how they are fought – a unique, complex problem, worthy of its own conversation. New essays by leading thinkers and practitioners in the fields of philosophical ethics, international relations, and military law reflect on the problem and show t…
When the Heavens Fall: The Unintelligible and the Unthinkable
Moral distress in health care: When is it fitting
The Virtues of Reactive Attitudes
Idealizing Morality
Implicit in feminist and other critiques of ideal theorizing is a particular view of what normative theory should be like. Although I agree with the rejection of ideal theorizing that oppression theorists (and other theorists of justice) have advocated, the proposed alternative of nonideal theorizing is also problematic. Nonideal theorizing permits one to address oppression by first describing (nonideal) oppressive conditions, and then prescribin…
Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Ideal
Expecting Bad Luck
This paper draws on Card's discussions of moral luck to consider the complicated moral life of people—described as pessimists—who accept the heavy knowledge of the predictability of the bad moral luck of oppression. The potential threat to ethics posed by this knowledge can be overcome by the pessimist whose resistance to oppression, even in the absence of hope, expresses a sense of still having a “claim” on flourishing despite its unattainabilit…
Reply to Critics
Tessman responds to her three critics’ comments on Burdened Virtues, focusing on their concerns with her stipulation of an “inclusivity requirement,” according to which one cannot be said to flourish without contributing to the flourishing of an inclusive collectivity. Tessman identifies a naturalized approach to ethics—which she distinguishes from the naturalism she implicitly endorsed in Burdened Virtues—that illuminates how a conception of flo…
Reply to Critics
Tessman responds to her three critics’ comments on Burdened Virtues, focusing on their concerns with her stipulation of an “inclusivity requirement,” according to which one cannot be said to flourish without contributing to the flourishing of an inclusive collectivity. Tessman identifies a naturalized approach to ethics—which she distinguishes from the naturalism she implicitly endorsed in Burdened Virtues—that illuminates how a conception of flo…
Burdened Virtues: Virtue Ethics for Liberatory Struggles
Lisa Tessman’s Burdened Virtues: Virtue Ethics for Liberatory Struggles engages questions central to feminist theory and practice, from the perspective of Aristotelian ethics. Focused primarily on selves who endure and resist oppression, the book addresses the ways in which the devastating conditions confronted by these selves both limit and burden their moral goodness, and affect their possibilities for flourishing. The book describes two differ…
Virtue Ethics: A Pluralistic View
Book Review| July 01 2005 Virtue Ethics: A Pluralistic View Christine Swanton, Virtue Ethics: A Pluralistic View. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 312. Lisa Tessman Lisa Tessman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (3): 414–416. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-114-3-414 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Lisa Tes…
Moral Luck in the Politics of Personal Transformation
Au croisement de l'ethique de la vertu et de l'ethique feministe, l'A. mesure le role de la chance constitutive (C. Card) dans la formation du caractere de la personne, d'une part, et evalue la pertinence d'une politique de la transformation personnelle fondee sur la chance morale, d'autre part
Dangerous Loyalties and Liberatory Politics
While communities engaged in liberatory struggles have valued group loyalty and condemned betrayal, loyalty itself may be problematic, because remaining loyal to a community may require that one refrain from deconstructing the group identity on which the community is based. This essay investigates what loyalty is and whether loyalty is a virtue, and considers why, if loyalty is indeed a virtue, it may be one that is difficult to maintain in a con…
Expecting Bad Luck
This paper draws on Card's discussions of moral luck to consider the complicated moral life of people—described as pessimists—who accept the heavy knowledge of the predictability of the bad moral luck of oppression. The potential threat to ethics posed by this knowledge can be overcome by the pessimist whose resistance to oppression, even in the absence of hope, expresses a sense of still having a “claim” on flourishing despite its unattainabilit…
Idealizing Morality
Implicit in feminist and other critiques of ideal theorizing is a particular view of what normative theory should be like. Although I agree with the rejection of ideal theorizing that oppression theorists (and other theorists of justice) have advocated, the proposed alternative of nonideal theorizing is also problematic. Nonideal theorizing permits one to address oppression by first describing (nonideal) oppressive conditions, and then prescribin…
Dangerous Loyalties and Liberatory Politics
While communities engaged in liberatory struggles have valued group loyalty and condemned betrayal, loyalty itself may be problematic, because remaining loyal to a community may require that one refrain from deconstructing the group identity on which the community is based. This essay investigates what loyalty is and whether loyalty is a virtue, and considers why, if loyalty is indeed a virtue, it may be one that is difficult to maintain in a con…
Dangerous Loyalties and Liberatory Politics
While communities engaged in liberatory struggles have valued group loyalty and condemned betrayal, loyalty itself may be problematic, because remaining loyal to a community may require that one refrain from deconstructing the group identity on which the community is based. This essay investigates what loyalty is and whether loyalty is a virtue, and considers why, if loyalty is indeed a virtue, it may be one that is difficult to maintain in a con…
Moral Luck in the Politics of Personal Transformation
Au croisement de l'ethique de la vertu et de l'ethique feministe, l'A. mesure le role de la chance constitutive (C. Card) dans la formation du caractere de la personne, d'une part, et evalue la pertinence d'une politique de la transformation personnelle fondee sur la chance morale, d'autre part
Burdened Virtues: Virtue Ethics for Liberatory Struggles
Lisa Tessman’s Burdened Virtues: Virtue Ethics for Liberatory Struggles engages questions central to feminist theory and practice, from the perspective of Aristotelian ethics. Focused primarily on selves who endure and resist oppression, the book addresses the ways in which the devastating conditions confronted by these selves both limit and burden their moral goodness, and affect their possibilities for flourishing. The book describes two differ…
Virtue Ethics: A Pluralistic View
Book Review| July 01 2005 Virtue Ethics: A Pluralistic View Christine Swanton, Virtue Ethics: A Pluralistic View. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 312. Lisa Tessman Lisa Tessman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (3): 414–416. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-114-3-414 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Lisa Tes…
Reply to Critics
Tessman responds to her three critics’ comments on Burdened Virtues, focusing on their concerns with her stipulation of an “inclusivity requirement,” according to which one cannot be said to flourish without contributing to the flourishing of an inclusive collectivity. Tessman identifies a naturalized approach to ethics—which she distinguishes from the naturalism she implicitly endorsed in Burdened Virtues—that illuminates how a conception of flo…
Reply to Critics
Tessman responds to her three critics’ comments on Burdened Virtues, focusing on their concerns with her stipulation of an “inclusivity requirement,” according to which one cannot be said to flourish without contributing to the flourishing of an inclusive collectivity. Tessman identifies a naturalized approach to ethics—which she distinguishes from the naturalism she implicitly endorsed in Burdened Virtues—that illuminates how a conception of flo…
Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Ideal
Expecting Bad Luck
This paper draws on Card's discussions of moral luck to consider the complicated moral life of people—described as pessimists—who accept the heavy knowledge of the predictability of the bad moral luck of oppression. The potential threat to ethics posed by this knowledge can be overcome by the pessimist whose resistance to oppression, even in the absence of hope, expresses a sense of still having a “claim” on flourishing despite its unattainabilit…
Idealizing Morality
Implicit in feminist and other critiques of ideal theorizing is a particular view of what normative theory should be like. Although I agree with the rejection of ideal theorizing that oppression theorists (and other theorists of justice) have advocated, the proposed alternative of nonideal theorizing is also problematic. Nonideal theorizing permits one to address oppression by first describing (nonideal) oppressive conditions, and then prescribin…
Moral distress in health care: When is it fitting
The Virtues of Reactive Attitudes
How to End a War: Essays on Justice, Peace, and Repair
How and when should we end a war? What place should the pathways to a war's end have in war planning and decision-making? This volume treats the topic of ending war as part and parcel of how wars begin and how they are fought – a unique, complex problem, worthy of its own conversation. New essays by leading thinkers and practitioners in the fields of philosophical ethics, international relations, and military law reflect on the problem and show t…
When the Heavens Fall: The Unintelligible and the Unthinkable
Sociology (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (7 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Environmental ethics (6 works) · Ethics in medical practice (6 works)