Michele Moody-Adams
240 Goldwin Smith Hall
Telephone: (607) 255-3329
Email: mmm45@cornell.edu
Professor Moody-Adams is Director and Hutchinson Professor of Ethics and
Public Life. She does research and teaching on a variety of issues in
ethical theory, the history of ethics, political philosophy, practical
ethics, the philosophy of law, and the history of philosophy. Professor
Moody-Adams has published on such topics as moral relativism, moral
objectivity, and moral psychology, as well as on problems of social and
economic justice, feminism and equality, and the moral implications of
reproductive technologies. She has been a National Endowment for the
Humanities Fellow and serves on the editorial board of several scholarly
journals.
Visit Cornell's Program on Ethics and
Public Life.
Selected Publications
- Fieldwork in Familiar Places: Morality, Culture and
Philosophy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997).
- "The Idea of Moral Progress," Metaphilosophy (1999).
- "Grrffin's Modest Proposal," Utilitas (1999).
- "A Commentary on Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race,"
Ethics (1999).
- "The Virtues of Nussbaum's Essentialism," Metaphilosophy (1998).
- "Culture, Responsibility, and Affected Ignorance," Ethics (1994).
- "Theory, Practice and the Contingency of Rorty's Irony," Journal of
Social Philosophy (1994).
- "Race, Class and the Social Construction of Self-Respect,"
Philosophical Forum (1992-3).
- "On the Old Saw that Character is Destiny, " in Identity, Character,
and Morality: Essays in Moral Psychology, ed. O. Flanagan and A. Rorty
(Cambridge, Ma.: MIT Press, 1991).
- "Gender and the Complexity of Moral Voices," in Feminist Ethics,
Ed. Claudia Card (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991).
- "On Surrogacy: Morality, Markets and Motherhood," Public Affairs
Quarterly (1991).
- "On the Alleged Methodological Infirmity of Ethics," American
Philosophical Quarterly (1990).
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