Care ethicist Joan Tronto shared sad news on the International Care Ethics Forum. One of the eldest and most famous participants, Virginia Held, has passed away at the age of 96 on May 26, 2026. Continue reading Remembering Virginia Held (1929–2026)
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Frans Vosman’s stance on care ethical critique
Editor Richard Brons reflects upon three critical notions supporting Frans Vosman’s arduous efforts to keep care ethics embedded in an indispensable tradition of social and existential criticism. Continue reading Frans Vosman’s stance on care ethical critique
Care Ethics Confronts Mainstream Philosophy
A special issue of the journal, Philosophies, edited by Maurice Hamington, of Portland State University and Maggie FitzGerald of the University of Saskatchewan, is now available online. The issue’s theme is ‘Care Ethics Confronts Mainstream Philosophy’. Continue reading Care Ethics Confronts Mainstream Philosophy
Clean up time! Redesigning Care after Corona
A Position Paper on the Care Crisis from Austria, Germany and Switzerland by the Initiative Group Care.Macht.Mehr Continue reading Clean up time! Redesigning Care after Corona
Call for papers Care Ethics Otherwise
In this special issue of Essays in Philosophy, we aim to include essays focused on previously underexplored approaches to examining and practicing care ethics. We are seeking work that actively decenters understandings of care rooted in white, bourgeois, heteronormative domestic/kinship norms and practices. Continue reading Call for papers Care Ethics Otherwise
The disenchantment of care ethics. A critical cartography
As commemorated on our website, care-ethicist Frans Vosman passed away on June 10th, 2020. He leaves us his intellectual heritage. Here we highlight an article featuring in a recently published book, as part of the peer-reviewed Series Ethics of Care.
Continue reading The disenchantment of care ethics. A critical cartography