Books written by Lisa Tessman

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  Whiteness: Feminist Philosophical Reflections

  The essays collected here discuss how one learns to be a good white Southern woman, what it means to pass as white, and whether there really is a dilemma that accompanies white privilege.

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  When Doing the Right Thing Is Impossible

  In this accessible yet throught-provoking work, Lisa Tessman takes us through gripping examples of the impossible demands of morality -- some epic, and others quotidian -- whose central predicament is: How do we make decisions when morality ...

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  Moral Failure: On the Impossible Demands of Morality

  (Walker 2003, 109; italics in the original) Just as in other versions of reflective equilibrium, or in Street's account of construction where evaluative judgments (in Neurathian language, the planks that are under question) must ...

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  Moral Failure: On the Impossible Demands of Morality

  According to the constructivist account that the book proposes, some moral requirements can be authoritative even when they are impossible to fulfill.

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  When Doing the Right Thing Is Impossible

  Margaret Urban Walker, Moral Understandings: A Feminist Study in Ethics (New York: Routledge, 1998), 65, italics in the original. 2. Margaret Urban Walker, Moral Contexts (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), 109. 3.

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  Burdened Virtues: Virtue Ethics for Liberatory Struggles

  While the virtues appropriate for responding to bad moral luck may include virtues that are also called for elsewhere, Walker finds that there are some virtues that the very context of bad luck creates the need for; she proposes ...

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  When Doing the Right Thing Is Impossible

  Lisa Tessman boldly argues that sometimes we feel this way because we have encountered an 'impossible moral requirement.

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  Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Ideal

  ... fact labeled 'severely mentally retarded' even though these, like stereotypes in general, are based on ignorance, ... In a naturalized ethics such as care ethics, for example, it is relatively easy to identify each of these maxims ...

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  Burdened Virtues: Virtue Ethics for Liberatory Struggles

  This book will appeal to feminist theorists in philosophy and women's studies, but also more broadly, ethicists and social theorists.

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  Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Ideal

  The volume will be of interest to feminist scholars from all disciplines, to academics who are ethicists and political philosophers as well as to graduate students.