Claudia Card

cfcard@wisc.edu
5171 White Hall
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(Ph.D. Harvard): Emma Goldman Professor of Philosophy, Affiliate Professor in Jewish Studies, LGBT Studies, Women’s Studies, Affiliate Professor in Environmental Studies. Ethics (Kant, character, virtues & vices, evil); social & political philosophy (justice; crime & punishment); feminist philosophy; environmental philosophy; lesbian culture.

Author of The Atrocity Paradigm: A Theory of Evil (Oxford, 2002), The Unnatural Lottery: Character and Moral Luck (Temple 1996), Lesbian Choices (Columbia 1995), and more than 100 articles and reviews; editor of Feminist Ethics (Kansas 1991), Adventures in Lesbian Philosophy (Indiana 1994), The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir (Cambridge, 2003), On Feminist Ethics and Politics (Kansas 1999), and a special issue of Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy (1992).

Editor of book series Feminist Ethics (University Press of Kansas); Philosophy Bk Review Editor for Journal of Homosexuality; member of editorial or review boards for Social Theory and Practice, Hypatia, Ethics and the Environment, bk series Feminist Ethics (Oxford University Press), and Essays in Philosophy (biannual journal, online).

Former chair of APA Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered People in the Profession, (1997-2001); Senior-Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities (2002-2007).
Teaching: (Philosophy 241 "Introduction to Ethics"; Philosophy 341 "Contemporary Moral Issues"; Philosophy 439 "American Philosophy"; Philosophy 441 "Environmental Ethics" (cross-listed with Environmental Studies); Philosophy 442 "Moral Philosophy and the Holocaust" (cross-listed with Jewish Studies); Philosophy 543 (variable content: Kant's Ethics; Crime and Punishment; Theories of Justice; Theories of Evil); Philosophy 556 "Topics in Feminism and Philosophy"; graduate seminars in ethical theory, feminist theory, and political philosophy.