Diana Meyers

Diana Meyers is a philosopher working in the philosophy of action and in the philosophy of feminism. Meyers is professor emerita of philosophy at the University of Connecticut.

Biography

Diana Meyers holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago and a master's degree and PhD from The Graduate Center, CUNY. She mostly works "in three main areas of philosophy: philosophy of action, feminist ethics, and human rights theory".http://dianatietjensmeyers.wordpress.com/

Awards

In December 2012, Meyers was awarded the Distinguished Woman Philosopher award at the 2012 APA Eastern Conference.

Publications

Books

* Spanish translation, Alianza Editorial, Madrid, 1988; Chapter 5 reprinted in ''The Philosophy of Human Rights'', ed. Morton E. Winston, Wadsworth, 1989.
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* Part IV, Chapter 2 reprinted in Dignity, Character, and Self-Respect, ed. Robin S. Dillon, Routledge, 1994; Part II, Chapters 2-3, revised and translated into German to be reprinted in ''Autonomie'', ed. Monika Betzler, Mentis
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* Oxford Scholarship On-Line, 2003; excerpt of Chapter 7 in the APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, Fall 2002; a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2004.
* (A Selection of New and Previously Published Essays with an Introduction by the Author).

Articles

*"Human Rights in Pre-Affluent Societies", ''The Philosophical Quarterly'', 31(1981), pp. 139–144.
*"The Inevitability of the State", ''Analysis'', 41 (1981), pp. 46–49.
*"The Rationale for Inalienable Rights in Moral Systems", ''Social Theory and Practice'', 7 (1981), pp. 127–143.
*"Rights-based Rights", ''Law and Philosophy'', 3 (1984), pp. 407–418.
*"A Sketch of a Rights Taxonomy", in ''Economic Justice: Private Rights and Public Responsibilities'', edited by Kenneth Kipnis and Diana T. Meyers (1985), pp. 87–94.
*"The Politics of Self-respect: A Feminist Perspective", ''Hypatia'', 1 (1986): 83–100.
*"Work and Self-respect", in ''Moral Rights in the Workplace'', edited by Gertrude Ezorsky, State University of New York Press, 1986, pp. 18–27; reprinted in ''Ethical Theory and Business'', edited by Norman Bowie and Tom L. Beauchamp, Prentice-Hall, 1988, in ''Making a Living'', edited by Janet Marting, Harper Collins, 1993, in ''Findings'', edited by Lewis A. Meyers, D.C. Heath, 1995.
*"Kant's Liberal Alliance: A Permanent Peace?" in ''Political Realism and International Morality: Ethics in the Nuclear Age'', edited by Kenneth Kipnis and Diana T. Meyers, Westview Press, 1987, pp. 212–219.
*"The Socialized Individual and Individual Autonomy: An Intersection between Philosophy and Psychology", in ''Women and Moral Theory'', edited by Eva Kittay and Diana T. Meyers, 1987, pp. 139–153.
*"Personal Autonomy and the Paradox of Feminine Socialization", ''The Journal of Philosophy'', Vol. 84 (1987), pp. 619–628, reprinted in ''Ethics in the 90s'', ed. Joram Graf Haber, Bartlett, 1997.
*"Democratic Theory and the Democratic Agent", NOMOS XXXII, ed. John W. Chapman and Alan Wertheimer. New York: NYU Press, 1990, pp. 126–150.
*"Personal Autonomy or the Deconstructed Subject?" ''Hypatia'', Vol.7 (1992), pp. 124–132.
*"The Subversion of Women's Agency in Psychoanalytic Feminism: Chodorow, Flax, Kristeva" in
*"Social Exclusion, Moral Reflection, and Rights", ''Law and Philosophy'', Vol. 12 (1993), pp. 115–130; reprinted in ''Radical Critiques of the Law'', edited by Stephen Griffin and Robert Moffat, U. Kansas Press, 1997.
*"Moral Reflection: Beyond Impartial Reason", ''Hypatia'', Vol. 8 (1993), pp. 21–47.
*"Cultural Diversity: Rights, Goals, and Competing Values", in ''Jewish Identity'', edited by Michael Krausz and David Goldberg, Temple University Press, 1993, pp. 15–34; reprinted in ''Rights and Reason: Essays in Honor of Carl Wellman'', edited by Marilyn Friedman, Larry May, Kate Parsons, and Jennifer Stiff, Kluwer, 2000.
*"Rights in Collision: A Non-Punitive, Compensatory Remedy for Abusive Speech", ''Law and Philosophy'', 14 (2),1995: 203-243; reprinted in ''Liberty, Equality, Plurality'', edited by Larry May and Christine Sistare, University Press of Kansas, 1997; nominated for the Berger Prize for the best published paper in legal theory, 1996.
*"Emotion and Heterodox Moral Perception: An Essay in Moral Social Psychology", in ''Feminists Rethink the Self'', edited by Diana T. Meyers, Westview Press, 1997.
*"Moral Subjectivity" in the ''Blackwell Dictionary of Business Ethics'', edited by R. Edward Freeman and Patricia Werhane, 1997.
*"The Family Romance: A Fin-de-Siecle Tragedy", in ''Feminism and Families'', edited by Hilde Nelson, Routledge, 1997; reprinted in ''Feminist Social Thought: A Reader'', edited by Diana T. Meyers, Routledge, 1997.
*"Agency", in ''A Companion to Feminist Philosophy'', edited by Alison Jaggar and Iris Young, Blackwell, 1998.
*"Tropes of Social Relations and the Problem of Tropisms in Figurative Discourse", in ''Norms and Values: Essays in Honor of Virginia Held'', edited by Mark Halfon and Joram Haber, Rowman and Littlefield, 1998.
*"Authenticity for Real People", in ''Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Psychology'' (2001):195-202.
*"Miroir, Memoire, Mirage: Appearance, Aging, and Women", in ''Mother Time: Ethical Issues in Women and Aging''. edited by Margaret Urban Walker, Rowman and Littlefield, 1999.
*"Feminist Perspectives on the Self", in the ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', (Fall 1999 Edition), ed. Edward N. Zalta, URL: http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall1999/feminism-self. 1999.
*"Intersectional Identity and the Authentic Self? Opposites Attract", in ''Relational Autonomy'', edited by Catriona Mackenzie and Natalie Stoljar, Oxford University Press, 2000.
*"The Rush to Motherhood — Pronatalist Discourse and Women's Autonomy", ''Signs'' 26 (2001): 735-773; received Honorable Mention as a 2003 Outstanding Article, American Sociological Association, Sex and Gender Section.
*"Marginalized Identities — Individuality, Groups, and Theory" in ''Marginal Groups and Mainstream American Culture'', ed. Yolanda Estes, Arnold Lorenzo Farr, Patricia Smith, and Clelia Smyth, Kansas University Press, 2000.
*"Feminism and Women's Autonomy: The Challenge of Female Genital Cutting", ''Metaphilosophy'' 31 (2000): 469-491; also in ''The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Liberalism'', ed. Mark Evans, Edinburgh University Press, 2001.
*"Nancy J. Chodorow" in ''Key Contemporary Social Theorists'', Ed. Anthony Elliott and Larry Ray. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
*"Social Groups and Individual Identities", in ''Feminists Doing Ethics'', ed. Peggy DesAutels and Joanne Waugh, Rowman and Littlefield, 2001.
*"Gendered Work and Autonomy", in ''Recognition, Responsibility, and Rights: Feminist Ethics and Social Theory''. Ed. Hilde Nelson and Robin Fiore. Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.
*"Frontiers of Individuality: Embodiment and Relationships in Cultural Context", ''History and Theory'' 42 (May 2003): 267-281.
*"Narrative and Moral Life", in ''Setting the Moral Compass: Essays by Women Philosophers''. ed. Cheshire Calhoun. Oxford University Press, 2004; short version published in ''Center for Research on Women Working Papers'', Rutgers University, 2003 and translated into Croatian in Zarez, June 2003.
*"Feminine Mortality Imagery: Feminist Ripostes", in ''Being Yourself: Essays on Identity, Action, and Social Life'', Rowman and Littlefield, March 2004.
*"The Three Freds and the Fate of Their Happiness", ''Journal of Social Philosophy'' 35 (Spring 2004): 8-10.
*"Decentralizing Autonomy — Five Faces of Selfhood", in ''Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism''. Ed. Joel Anderson and John Christman. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
*"Introduction: Women Philosophers, Sidelined Challenges, and Professional Philosophy." ''Hypatia'' 30 (3) 2005: 149-152.
*"Who's There? Selfhood, Self-regard, and Social Relations." ''Hypatia'' (special issue on Feminist Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, Ed. Samantha Brennan and Anita Superson), 20 (4) 2005: 200-215.
*"GEM Anscombe." ''Encyclopedia of Women in World History'', Ed. Bonnie Smith, Oxford University Press, 2008.
*"Narrative Structures, Narratives of Abuse, and Human Rights" in ''Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non- Ideal''. Ed. Lisa Tessman, Kluwer, 2009.
*"Artifice and Authenticity: Gender Technology and Agency in Two Jenny Saville Portraits." In ''"You've Changed": Sex Reassignment and Personal Identity''. Ed. Laurie Shrage. Oxford University Press. 2009.
*"Philosophical Feminism", ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', 2009.
*"Two Victim Paradigms and the Problem of 'Impure' Victims." ''Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development'', Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall 2011: 255-275.
*"Jenny Saville Remakes the Female Nude – Feminist Reflections on the State of the Art" in ''Beauty Unlimited'', Ed. Peg Brand, Indiana University Press, 2012.
*"Psychocorporeal Selfhood, Practical Intelligence, and Adaptive Autonomy", in ''Autonomy and the Self'', ed. Michael Kühler and Nadja Jelinek, in the ''Philosophical Studies'' series, ed. Stephen Hetheringten, Springer 2012.
*"Feminism and Sex Trafficking: Rethinking Some Aspects of Autonomy and Paternalism", ''Ethical Theory and Moral Practice'' for a special issue "Private Autonomy, Public Paternalism?" Ed. Annette Dufner and Michael Kühler, 2013; DOI: 10.1007/s10677-013-9452-1.
*"Corporeal Selfhood, Self-Interpretation, and Narrative Selfhood." ''Philosophical Explorations''. 12/5/2013: DOI: 10.1080/13869795.2013.856933.
*"Victims, Agency, and Human Rights." e-IR. 2013: http://www.e-ir.info/2013/12/09/victims-agency-and-human-rights/ (open access).
*"The Feminist Debate over Values in Autonomy Theory." In ''Autonomy, Oppression, and Gender''. Ed. Mark Piper and Andrea Veltman. Forthcoming Oxford University Press, forthcoming summer 2014.
*"Rethinking Coercion for a World of Poverty and Exploitation." In ''Poverty, Agency and Human Rights''. Ed. Diana Tietjens Meyers. Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2014.
*"The Feminist Debate over Values in Autonomy Theory." In ''Autonomy, Oppression, and Gender''. Ed. Mark Piper and Andrea Veltman. Oxford University Press. forthcoming 2014.
*"Rethinking Coercion for a World of Poverty and Transnational Migration." In ''Poverty, Agency and Human Rights''. Ed. Diana Tietjens Meyers. Oxford University Press.
*"Victims of Trafficking, Reproductive Rights, and Asylum." In ''Oxford Handbook of Reproductive Ethics''. Ed. Leslie P. Francis. Oxford University Press.

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Living people
21st-century American philosophers
Action theorists
American women philosophers
American ethicists
Philosophers of language
Feminist philosophers
University of Chicago alumni
University of Connecticut faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women