Eva Feder Kittay
Professor Emeritus
Distinguished Professor
Ph.D. City University of New York, 1978
B.A. Sarah Lawrence College, 1967
Stony Brook University
Tel: (631) 632-7570
Areas of Specialization
Feminist philosophy, feminist ethics, social and political theory, metaphor, disability studies
Additional Interests
Philosophy of language, normative ethics, social thought
Eva Feder Kittay is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University/SUNY; a Senior Fellow of the Stony Brook Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics, and an Affiliate of the Women's Studies Program. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEH Fellowship, and the APA and Phi Beta Kappa Lebowitz Prize. She has also been recognized for her work in Feminist Philosophy, being named Women Philosopher of the Year (2003-2004) by the Society for Women in Philosophy and having chaired the Committee on the Status of Women (1997-2001). Her book Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency (Routledge, 1999) has received international attention and has been translated into Japanese and Italian. Her other work includes Cognitive Disability and the Challenge to Moral Philosophy (Blackwell, 2010), Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy (Blackwell, 2007), Theoretical Perspectives on Dependency and Women (Rowan and Littlefield, 2003), Metaphor: Its Cognitive Force and Linguistic Structure (Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1987, 1985), an edited collection Frames, Fields and Contrasts (Erlbaum, 1992), and Women and Moral Theory (Rowan and Littlefield, 1985). She has edited many journal issues in feminist philosophy and the philosophy of disability and has published over 85 articles and book chapters.
She chairs and was a founder of Philosophy in an Inclusive Key Summer Institute, a summer program for undergraduates who are from groups underrepresented in philosophy.
She has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in philosophy and has directed many dissertations in feminist philosophy, feminist ethics, social and political theory, metaphor, and disability studies.
She is currently writing a monograph tentatively entitled Disabled Minds and Things That Matter: Lessons for a Humbler Philosophy.
Selected Publications
Books
- 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.
Articles
- The Global Heart Transplant and Caring across National Boundaries, The Southern Journal of Philosophy (2008) Vol. XLVI.
- At the Margins of Moral Personhood, Ethics 116 (October 2005), pp. 100-131. [PDF]
- 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. [PDF]
- 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. [PDF]
- Encyclopedia of Philosophy Article: Metaphor [PDF]
- Response to Peter Singer [PDF]
- A Feminist Public Ethic of Care Meets the New Communitarian Family Policy [PDF]
- Case Study: Shouldering the Burden of Care, Hastings Center Report, September-October 2005 [PDF]