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Eva Kittay
American philosopher
Eva Feder Kittay | |
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| Education | CUNY Graduate Center (PhD), Sarah Lawrence College (BA) |
| Notable work | Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality and Dependency, Metaphor: Its Cognitive Force and Linguistic Structure |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2014), NEH Fellowship (2013), Phi Beta Kappa Lebowitz Prize (2013), Society for Women in Philosophy Women of the Year (2003-4) |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy, Feminist philosophy |
| Institutions | Stony Brook University |
| Thesis | "The Cognitive Force of Metaphor" |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter Caws |
| Notable students | Serene Khader, Bonnie J.
Mann |
Main interests | Feminist philosophy, ethics of care, social and political theory, metaphor, disability studies |
Notable ideas | Accounting for dependency as a feature justice, cognitive disability and moral personhood, reciprocity, semantic field theory of metaphor |
| Website | ev
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