Associate Professor of Philosophy
Phd Philosophy University Year
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1996
Office: Library Tower 1215
Phone: 777-2269
Email: ltessman@binghamton.edu
Personal Website: http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~ltessman/
Ethics: especially virtue ethics, moral dilemmas, moral psychology, feminist ethics and social theory.
Contemporary Ethics
Moral Intuitions and Moral Reasoning
Moral Failure
Moral Dilemmas
What Morality Demands
Feminist Ethics
Critical Theories of Race
African American Philosophy
Introduction to Philosophy
Books:
Burdened Virtues | Read more
Virtue Ethics for Liberatory Struggles Oxford University Press, 2005 | Download article
Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Ideal, Ed. Springer, 2009. | Download Introduction (.pdf, 460kb)
Jewish Locations: Traversing Racialized Landscapes Rowman and Littlefield, 2001. Co-edited with Bat-Ami Bar On.
Articles:
2010. “Idealizing Morality.” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. 25 (4): 797-824. | Download article (.pdf, 148kb)
2010. “Against the Whiteness of Ethics: Dilemmatizing as a Critical Approach.” In The Center Must Not Hold: White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy, ed. George Yancy. Lexington Books: 193-209. | Download article (.pdf, 147kb)
2009. “Feminist Eudaimonism: Eudaimonism as Non-Ideal Theory.” In Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Ideal, ed. Lisa Tessman. Springer: 47-58. | Download article (.pdf, 460kb)
2009. “Expecting Bad Luck.” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. 24 (1): 9-28. | Download article (.pdf, 104kb)
2008. “Reply to Critics.” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. 23 (3): 205-216. This reply is part of a Symposium on Burdened Virtues, which includes the work of three critics (Cheshire Calhoun, Marilyn Friedman, and Christine Koggel). | Download article (.pdf, 76kb)
2005. "The Burdened Virtues of Political Resistance.” In Feminist Interventions in Ethics and Politics, eds. Barbara S. Andrew, Jean Keller and Lisa H. Schwartzman. Rowman and Littlefield: 77-96.
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