Barbara Houston
Biographic Data
| ID | 5397918 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Houston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Houston |
| SIGNATURE | HOUSTON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
In Praise of Blame
Recent writers in feminist ethics have been concerned to find ways to reclaim and augment women's moral agency. This essay considers Sarah Hoagland's intriguing suggestion that we renounce moral praise and blame and pursue what she calls an “ethic of intelligibility.” I argue that the eschewal of moral blame would not help but rather hinder our efforts to increase our sense of moral agency. It would, I claim, further intensify our de moralization
Caring and Exploitation
It is not wholly clear the extern to which Nel Nodding intends her ethic of caring to be an ethic that stands on its own in competition with others described by ethical theories. I argue that, given this ambiguity, Nodding' ethic of caring is a dangerous ethic because it can abet exploitation. I consider Noddings'responses to this criticism and conclude that the relational ontology of the ethic cannot rescue it from the charges of abetting exploi…
Theorizing gender
(1989). Theorizing gender: How much of it do we need? Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 20-30
Rescuing Womanly Virtues
Kathryn Morgan has introduced us to a typology of ‘the ways in which women’s moral voice and her sense of moral integrity are twisted and destroyed by patriarchal ideology and lived experience.’ She claims that this experience can induce in women ‘a sense of confusion and genuine moral madness.’ I am in agreement with much of what Morgan says. However, I suspect that some others might find her case less convincing than I for the reason that she s…
The Epistemology of Gender Identity
Caring and Exploitation
It is not wholly clear the extern to which Nel Nodding intends her ethic of caring to be an ethic that stands on its own in competition with others described by ethical theories. I argue that, given this ambiguity, Nodding' ethic of caring is a dangerous ethic because it can abet exploitation. I consider Noddings'responses to this criticism and conclude that the relational ontology of the ethic cannot rescue it from the charges of abetting exploi…
In Praise of Blame
Recent writers in feminist ethics have been concerned to find ways to reclaim and augment women's moral agency. This essay considers Sarah Hoagland's intriguing suggestion that we renounce moral praise and blame and pursue what she calls an “ethic of intelligibility.” I argue that the eschewal of moral blame would not help but rather hinder our efforts to increase our sense of moral agency. It would, I claim, further intensify our de moralization
Theorizing gender
(1989). Theorizing gender: How much of it do we need? Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 20-30
The Epistemology of Gender Identity
Rescuing Womanly Virtues
Kathryn Morgan has introduced us to a typology of ‘the ways in which women’s moral voice and her sense of moral integrity are twisted and destroyed by patriarchal ideology and lived experience.’ She claims that this experience can induce in women ‘a sense of confusion and genuine moral madness.’ I am in agreement with much of what Morgan says. However, I suspect that some others might find her case less convincing than I for the reason that she s…
Theorizing gender
(1989). Theorizing gender: How much of it do we need? Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 20-30
Caring and Exploitation
It is not wholly clear the extern to which Nel Nodding intends her ethic of caring to be an ethic that stands on its own in competition with others described by ethical theories. I argue that, given this ambiguity, Nodding' ethic of caring is a dangerous ethic because it can abet exploitation. I consider Noddings'responses to this criticism and conclude that the relational ontology of the ethic cannot rescue it from the charges of abetting exploi…
In Praise of Blame
Recent writers in feminist ethics have been concerned to find ways to reclaim and augment women's moral agency. This essay considers Sarah Hoagland's intriguing suggestion that we renounce moral praise and blame and pursue what she calls an “ethic of intelligibility.” I argue that the eschewal of moral blame would not help but rather hinder our efforts to increase our sense of moral agency. It would, I claim, further intensify our de moralization
Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Ethics in medical practice (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy (2 works)