APA Newsletters
Spring 2000
Volume 99, Number 2

Committee Activities

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The Committee has organized the following progams at APA conferences.

Eastern 1999: "Passing"

Speakers included Mark Chekola (Moorhead State University), "The Morality of Passing"; Naomi Scheman (University of Minnesota), "The Epistemology of Passing"; and Hilde Lindeman Nelson (University of Tennessee—Knoxville), "Narratives of Passing." Julien Murphy (Southern Maine) chaired the session.

Central 2000: "Science, Sex and Gender"

Scheduled to speak are Timothy F. Murphy (University of Illinois at Chicago), "Now What? The Newest Theory of Homosexuality"; Patrick Hopkins (Ripon), "Philosophical Explorations of Science, Technology and Diversity"; and Robert Hood (Middle Tennessee State) "Crisis in Science and Scientific Policy with respect to AIDS." David Hull (Northwestern) will chair.

Future Events

Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley, Chair of the APA Committee on Teaching and Learning has announced that her committee "would be most pleased to cosponsor with [us] any scheduled committee programs on teaching and learning related to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender students and philosophies." Interested parties are invited to contact the Chair of the L/G/B/T Committee, Claudia Card (cfcard@facstaff.wisc.edu) or Jacquelyn Kegley (jkegley@csubak.edu).

In the Literature

New and of note are the following items.

Claudia Card, editor, On Feminist Ethics and Politics (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999). This anthology contains sixteen essays, including these dealing with lesbian topics: Chris Cuomo, "Feminist Sex at Century’s End: On Justice and Joy"; Joan Callahan, "Speech That Harms: The Case of Lesbian Families"; Jacqueline Anderson, "Revolutionary Community"; and Amber L. Katherine, "(Re)Reading Mary Daly As a Sister Insider."

Claudia Card, "The Road to Lake Wobegon," The Journal of Social Philosophy, 1999.

Timothy F. Murphy, "Entitlement to Cloning," Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 1999 (8): 364–8.

Edward Stein, The Mismeasure of Desire (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).

Notices of L/G/B/T publications of philosophical are sought and should be directed to the Editor.