Frances M. Kamm is a philosopher specialising in normative

Normative ethics

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 and applied ethics

Applied ethics

Applied ethics is, in the words of Brenda Almond, co-founder of the Society for Applied Philosophy, "the philosophical examination, from a moral standpoint, of particular issues in private and public life that are matters of moral judgment"...

. Kamm is currently the Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government

John F. Kennedy School of Government

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 at Harvard University

Harvard University

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 and Professor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts & Sciences at Harvard. Before joining the Harvard faculty in 2003, she was on the faculty of New York University

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 and also worked for the World Health Organisation as an ethics consultant. She is a fellow of the Hastings Center

Hastings Center

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, an independent bioethics research institution.

Selected works

• Creation and Abortion, 1992.
• Morality, Mortality, Vol. 1: Death and Whom to Save From It, 1993.
• Abortion and the Value of Life: A Discussion of Life's Dominion, Columbia Law Review, 1995.
• Morality, Mortality, Vol. 2: Rights, Duties, and Status, 1996.
• Ethical Issues in Using and Not Using Embryonic Stem Cells'. Stem Cell Reviews 1, Summer 2006.
• Moral Intuitions, Cognitive Psychology and the Harming/Not Aiding Distinction, Ethics, 1998.
• Intricate Ethics: Rights, Responsibilities, and Permissible Harm. New York: Oxford University Press
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  , 2006.

Interviews with Kamm

• 'In Search of the Deep Structure of Morality.' (A conversation with Frances Kamm) In Alex Voorhoeve, Conversations on Ethics. Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-19-921537-9

Critical discussion of her work

• Unger, Peter, Living High and Letting Die Oxford University Press, 1996. (Unger argues that the intuitions [considered case judgments] on which Kamm relies in her work are, in fact, unreliable. Kamm responds in Intricate Ethics.)
• Kahneman, Daniel, 'Can We Trust Our Intuitions?' in Alex Voorhoeve Conversations on Ethics. Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-19-921537-9 (Kahneman argues that Kamm's case-based method does not give us access to the reasons we have for making intuitive judgments.)