Name Eva Kittay | Role Philosopher | |
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Institutions SUNY Stony Brook, University of Maryland, College Park, Graduate Center of the City University of New York Main interests Feminist philosophy, ethics, social and political theory, metaphor, and the application of these disciplines to disability studies Areas of interest Ethics, Feminist philosophy, Metaphor Education Graduate Center, CUNY (1978) Books Love's labor, The Subject of Care, Metaphor: Its Cognitive, Thinking Gender: Love's La | ||
Normalcy and a Good Life for People with Severe Cognitive Disabilities
Eva Kittay is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Stony Brook. Her primary interests include feminist philosophy, ethics, social and political theory, metaphor, and the application of these disciplines to disability studies. Kittay has also attempted to bring philosophical concerns in to the public spotlight, including leading The Women's Committee of One Hundred in 1995, an organization that opposed to the perceived punitive nature of the social welfare reforms taking place in the United States at the time.
Contents
- Normalcy and a Good Life for People with Severe Cognitive Disabilities
- Disability Rights Panel Discussion with Rushdie and Kittay
- Education and career
- Research areas
- References
Disability Rights Panel Discussion with Rushdie and Kittay
Education and career
Kittay received her bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College in 1967, and went on to receive her doctoral degree from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 1978. After receiving her doctorate, she accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park for the 1978-9 year, before accepting a permanent position at SUNY Stony Brook in 1979 as Assistant Professor. Kittay was promoted to Associate Professor in 1986, and full Professor in 1993. Kittay received a Distinguished Professorship from Stony Brook in 2009. Kittay is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at Stony Brook, and a Women's Studies Associate. In addition to these permanent positions, Kittay has accepted a variety of temporary appointments, including ones at Sarah Lawrence College and Newcastle University.
Research areas
Kittay's research has focused on feminist philosophy, ethics, social and political theory, metaphor, and the application of these disciplines to disability studies. Her viewpoints on the ethics of care are quite similar to those of Virginia Held and Sara Ruddick - namely that human interactions occur between people who are unequal yet interdependent, and that practical ethics should be fitted to life as most people experience it. Kittay has also extended the work of John Rawls to address the concerns of women.
