1st Edition

An Intersectional Feminist Theory of Moral Responsibility

By Michelle Ciurria Copyright 2020
268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages
by Routledge

This book develops an intersectional feminist approach to moral responsibility. It accomplisheses four main goals. First, it outlines a concise list of the main principles of intersectional feminism. Second, it uses these principles to critique prevailing philosophical theories of moral responsibility. Third, it offers an account of moral responsibility that is compatible with the ethos of... Read more

Introduction: An intersectional feminist approach to moral responsibility

Chapter 1: Intersectional feminism

Chapter 2: Intersectional feminism and five theories of moral responsibility

Chapter 3: Intersectional feminism refined

Chapter 4: The moral psychology of responsibility: what it means to take a stand against someone

Chapter 5: Against civility constraints

Chapter 6: Third-party-addressing blame

Chapter 7: Blaming cognition

Chapter 8: Responsibility and conversation

Chapter 9: The mysterious case of the missing perpetrators: how the privileged easily escape blame and accountability

Chapter 10: Women’s blame in conditions of epistemic injustice

Chapter 11: People Of Color’s blame in conditions of epistemic injustice

Chapter 12: Against Eliminativism

Conclusion

Biography

Michelle Ciurria is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, USA. Her published work has appeared in journals such as Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, Journal of the American Philosophical Association, Philosophical Psychology, and Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology.