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Rivka Weinberg

Professor of Philosophy; Mary W. and J. Stanley Johnson Chair in the Humanities; Chair, Department of Philosophy
Philosophy
Phone: 71819
rweinber@scrippscollege.edu

www.rivkaweinberg.com

Academic History

  • B.A. Brooklyn College, CUNY
  • Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Academic Focus

  • Ethics, procreative ethics, bioethics.
  • Ethical and metaphysical questions regarding birth, death, and meaning.

Courses Taught

  • Ethical Theory
  • Ethical Theory Seminar: The Moral Deal
  • Ethics of the Beginning and End of Life
  • Political Philosophy
  • Introduction to Philosophy
  • Death
  • The Meaning of Life
  • Senior Seminar

Selected Research and Publications

Books
  • The Meaning of It All, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
  • The Risk of a Lifetime: How, When, and Why Procreation May Be Permissible Oxford University Press, 2016.
Essays
  • "Death is Overrated," The Philosopher, February 2023.
  • "The Road to Auschwitz Wasn't Paved with Indifference," The New York Times, 2020.
  • Why Life is Absurd, New York Times, 2015
Articles
  • "Replies to Critics" (Replies to Response papers to Weinberg, "Ultimate Meaning: We Don't Have it, We Can't Get it, and We Should Be Very, Very, Sad," Journal of Controversial Ideas, 2021 1: 4-24), Journal of Controversial Ideas, 2022 2.
  • "Between Sisyphus's Rock and a Warm and Fuzzy Place: Procreative Ethics and the Meaning of Life," The Oxford Handbook of Meaning in Life, ed. Iddo Landau, 2022.
  • " "Ultimate Meaning: We Don't Have It, We Can't Get It, and We Should Be Very, Very Sad," Journal of Controversial Ideas, 2021: 1 4-25.
  • "Risk, Responsibility, and Procreative Asymmetries," The Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics, ed. Stephen Gardiner, 2021.
  • "The Endless Umbilical Cord: Parental Obligation to Grown Children," Journal of Practical Ethics, 2018 6: 55-72.
  • "'You Got Me Into This': Procreative Responsibility and its Implications for Suicide and Euthanasia," in New Directions in the Ethics of Suicide and Euthanasia, Springer, 2015.
  • "Whose Problem is Non-Identity?" co-authored with Paul Hurley, The Journal of Moral Philosophy, 2015 12: 699-730.
  • "Existence: Who Needs It? The Non-Identity Problem and Merely Possible People," Bioethics, 27(9), November 2013: 471-484.
  • "Is Having Children Always Wrong?" The South African Journal of Philosophy, Special Issue on Antinatalism, 31, May 2012: 26-37.
  • "It Ain't My World," Utilitas, 21(2), June 2009: 144-162.
  • "The Moral Complexity of Sperm Donation," Bioethics 22(3), March 2008: 166-178.
  • "Identifying and Dissolving the Non-Identity Problem," Philosophical Studies 137(1), January 2008: 3-18.
  • "Procreative Justice: A Contractualist Account," Public Affairs Quarterly, 16:4 (2002), 405-425.
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