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  1. Right-wing women: Causes, choices, and blaming the victim.Anita M. Superson - 1993 - Journal of Social Philosophy 24 (3):40-61.
  2. A feminist definition of sexual harassment.Anita M. Superson - 1993 - Journal of Social Philosophy 24 (1):46-64.
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    The moral skeptic.Anita M. Superson - 2009 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Introduction -- The self-interest based contractarian response to the skeptic -- A feminist ethics response to the skeptic -- Deformed desires -- Self-interest versus morality -- The amoralist -- The motive skeptic -- The interdependency thesis.
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    Theorizing Backlash: Philosophical Reflections on the Resistance to Feminism.Anita M. Superson & Ann E. Cudd (eds.) - 2002 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    Contrary to the popular belief that feminism has gained a foothold in the many disciplines of the academy, the essays collected in Theorizing Backlash argue that feminism is still actively resisted in mainstream academia. Contributors to this volume consider the professional, philosophical, and personal backlashes against feminist thought, and reflect upon their ramifications. The conclusion is that the disdain and irrational resentment of feminism, even in higher education, amounts to a backlash against progress.
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  5. The self-interest based contractarian response to the why-be-moral skeptic.Anita M. Superson - 1990 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 28 (3):427-447.
    I examine the self-interest based contractarian's attempt to answer the question, "Why be moral?" In order to defeat the skeptic who accepts reasons of self-interest only, contractarians must show that the best theory of practical reasons includes moral reasons. They must show that it is rational to act morally even when doing so conflicts with self-interest. ;I examine theories offered by Hobbes, Baier, and Grice, and show they fail to defeat skepticism. Hobbes' theory gives no special weight to moral reasons (...)
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    Scepticism about Moral Motives.Anita M. Superson - 1996 - Dialogue 35 (1):15-.
    Traditionally, the problem of defeating scepticism about the rationality of morality is that of showing that every morally required act is rationally required. Little or no direct attention has been paid to whether we must also show that it is rational for the agent to have and act from the morally appropriate motive, whatever that may be. This is not to say that philosophers have entirely ignored the issue of motives; a fair number—Kant and Aristotle come to mind—are concerned in (...)
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    The Employer-Employee Relationship and the Right to Know.Anita M. Superson - 1983 - Business and Professional Ethics Journal 3 (1):45-58.
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    Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics Margaret Urban Walker New York: Routledge, 1998, xiii + 251 p.Anita M. Superson - 2000 - Dialogue 39 (1):208-.
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    On Being a Fan and on Fanhood and Its Implications for Defeating the Moral Sceptic.Anita M. Superson - 2022 - Dialogue 61 (2):347-368.
    RésuméJ'emploie la notion de partisannerie, telle qu'elle est employée dans le domaine des sports (fanhood), pour m'opposer à la thèse de la dépendance de David Gauthier, selon laquelle s'il est rationnellement requis d'adopter une disposition, les actes qui l'expriment sont eux aussi rationnellement requis. J’établis d'abord que la partisannerie est un engagement assez similaire à un engagement moral. Je soutiens ensuite que, parce que la véritable partisannerie se caractérise par des comportements intrinsèquement irrationnels tels que l'emploi de « porte-bonheur » (...)
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    Feminist Ethics: Defeating the Why-Be-Moral Skeptic.Anita M. Superson - 1998 - Journal of Social Philosophy 29 (2):59-86.
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    Amorous Relationships Between Faculty and Students.Anita M. Superson - 2001 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 39 (3):419-440.
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  12. (1 other version)David Schmidtz, Rational Choice and Moral Agency Reviewed by.Anita M. Superson - 1996 - Philosophy in Review 16 (2):135-140.
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    Feminist Ethics.Anita M. Superson - 2024 - Cambridge University Press.
    Feminist Ethics provides an overview of feminist contributions to normative ethics, moral psychology, and metaethics. It argues that through their criticisms of traditional ethics and proposals for changes, feminists are advancing 'robust agency,' an account of ideal moral and rational agency that promises to give us better responses than those given in traditional ethics to problems in ethics, including how we know our duties, the kind of persons we should strive to become, and why we should act morally.
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    Moral luck and partialist theories.Anita M. Superson - 1996 - Journal of Value Inquiry 30 (1-2):213-227.
    I argue that partialist theories that require us to give special weight to the desires, needs, and interests of ourselves or our social group, are national. I depend this impartialist principle: if the only difference between two persons to some property, where having the property to dependent on luck, morality's demanding that we disfavor either person because the person has this property, to national.
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  15. Sexual Harassment.Anita M. Superson - 1997 - In Hugh LaFollette - (ed.), Ethics in Practice. Blackwell.
     
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    Slote , Michael . Moral Sentimentalism .New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. 163. $65.00 (cloth).Anita M. Superson - 2012 - Ethics 122 (2):448-453.
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    Teaching in the New Climate of Conservatism.Anita M. Superson - 2007 - Teaching Philosophy 30 (2):139-148.
    This paper (1) summarizes the main points of the papers in the volume which demonstrate some of the ways that academic freedom is at odds with recent conservative attacks on the professoriate; (2) argues that some of the conservative attacks from students on faculty are at base a failure to acknowledge their equal personhood, but treat them as inferior beings and thus elicit harmful psychological reactions similar to those found in victims of racist slurs; and (3) examines possible solutions, including (...)
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    Thomas Pogge's Rawlsian Revival.Anita M. Superson - 1991 - Dialogue 30 (1-2):109-.
    In Realizing Rawls, Thomas Pogge defends a Rawlsian conception of justice. The book is divided into three main parts; this discussion will concentrate on the first two. Part 1 constitutes a defence of some aspects of Rawls's theory against objections raised by Nozick and Michael Sandel. This is followed by a second part on the two principles of justice—what they amount to, and some applications of them. Part 3 argues that the Rawlsian scheme should apply globally, not merely to a (...)
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    The Rationality of Dispositions and the Rationality of Actions: The Interdependency Thesis.Anita M. Superson - 2005 - Dialogue 44 (3):439-468.
    ABSTRACTI defend the Interdependency Thesis, according to which rational evaluations of dispositions and actions are made in light of each other. I invoke a model of rationality that relies on various levels of consistency existing between an agent's reasons for adopting a moral disposition, the argument for the moral theory she endorses, her desires, disposition, and choice to be a moral person as reflected in the maxim she adopts. The Interdependency Thesis shows that we do not need to demonstrate the (...)
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    Moral Understandings. [REVIEW]Anita M. Superson - 2000 - Dialogue 39 (1):208-212.
    In Moral Understandings, Margaret Urban Walker presents merely a template for a moral theory that is expressive-collaborative, culturally situated, and practice-based. It is expressive-collaborative because it reflects the responsibilities we have to each other, and is the product of agreement. It is culturally situated because it speaks to different responsibilities we have that are grounded in gender, race, class, and so on. And it is practice-based because its content is determined by actual practices of responsibility.
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    Gender Basics: Feminist Perspectives on Women and MenAnne Minas Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1993, xiv + 545 pp. [REVIEW]Anita M. Superson - 1996 - Dialogue 35 (2):412-416.
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    (1 other version)Mackenzie, Catriona, ; Rogers, Wendy; and Dodds, Susan, eds. Vulnerability: New Essays in Ethics and Feminist Philosophy.New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 318. $99.00. [REVIEW]Anita M. Superson - 2015 - Ethics 125 (4):1210-1215.