Feminist Ethics, Care Ethics, and Care

September 20, 2025 - September 21, 2025
Department of Philosophy, The Ohio State University

230 N Oval Mall
Columbus
United States

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University of Hawaiʻi—West Oʻahu

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Ohio State University
Ohio State University

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Interested in presenting? Anonymized abstracts of 300-750 words due by May 15 2025, to [email protected]

OSU MAP hosts a graduate student conference on feminist ethics, care ethics, and care. The most famous approach to feminist ethics is care ethics. While it is difficult to define this diverse tradition, characteristic features include a prioritization of relationships and contexts, a rejection of abstractions, and an emphasis on the importance of emotions in moral education and decision-making. We welcome, also, submissions engaged with the nature of care— for example its metaphysics, its role in moral motivation, its importance in moral growth and education—as well as feminist ethics more broadly.

Such questions that might be explored are: What does it mean to care? What is the best way to characterize a care ethical view? What does a feminist ethic look like, and how does it respond to current ethical issues? Is caring a virtue, a practice, or something else altogether? What role does/should care play in education and moral development? More generally, how can feminist approaches identify problems with popular ethical theories, and tackle applied ethical issues?

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