Marina Oshana
Professor Oshana's research focuses on issues in personal autonomy and moral responsibility, and, more recently, on self-identity and agency. Her teaching interests center on those areas as well as topics in Philosophy of Law.
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Areas of Specialization
- Normative Ethics
- Metaphysics of Responsibility
- Personal Autonomy
Areas of Teaching Interest
- Ethics
- Philosophy of Law
- Political Philosophy
Representative Publications
- Personal Autonomy in Society, (Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2006).
- "Autonomy and the Question of Authenticity," Social Theory and Practice, Vol. 33, No. 3, July 2007.
- "Moral Taint," Metaphilosophy, special issue on Genocide’s Aftermath: Responsibility and Repair, vol. 37, nos. 3/4, July 2006.
- "Autonomy and Self-Identity," in Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism: New Essays, co-edited by John Christman and Joel Anderson, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- "Autonomy and Free Agency," in Personal Autonomy: New Essays on Personal Autonomy and its Role in Contemporary Moral Philosophy, edited by James Stacey Taylor, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- "Ascriptions of Responsibility," American Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 34, No. 1, January, 1997, pp. 71-83.
- "Personal Autonomy and Society," Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 29, No. 1, Spring, 1998, pp. 81-102.
