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Emily McTernan

Associate Professor, UCL
Verified email at ucl.ac.uk
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Microaggressions, equality, and social practices

E McTernan - Journal of Political Philosophy, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
MICROAGGRESSIONS are the everyday, minor, and apparently innocuous 'degradations,
and put-downs' experienced by members of oppressed, systematically disadvantaged or …

The inegalitarian ethos: Incentives, respect, and self-respect

E McTernan - Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
In Cohen's vision of the just society, there would be no need for unequalizing incentives so
as to benefit the least well-off; instead, people would be motivated by an egalitarian ethos to …

How to make citizens behave: Social psychology, liberal virtues, and social norms

E McTernan - Journal of Political Philosophy, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
IT is widely conceded by liberals that institutions alone are insufficient to ensure that citizens
behave in the ways required for a liberal state to flourish, be stable, or function at all. A …

Should fertility treatment be state funded?

E McTernan - Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Many states offer generous provision of fertility treatment, but this article asks whether and
how such state funding can be justified. I argue that, at most, there is limited justification for …

Uterus transplants and the insufficient value of gestation

E McTernan - Bioethics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Uterus transplants provide another treatment for infertility. Some might think that we should
embrace such transplants as one more way to assist people to have children. However, in …

If you care about social equality, you want a big state: Home, work, care and social egalitarianism

E McTernan, M O'Neill, C Schemmel, F Schuppert - Juncture, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Justified scepticism about distant bureaucracies and transactional politics mutated into a
wholesale retreat from the state on the left–but to create a just and egalitarian society, say …

[BOOK][B] On Taking Offence

E McTernan - 2023 - books.google.com
Someone fails to shake your outstretched hand, puts you down in front of others, or makes a
joke in poor taste. Should we take offence? Wouldn't it be better if we didn't? In the face of …

How to be a responsibility-sensitive egalitarian: from metaphysics to social practice

E McTernan - Political Studies, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
There is something attractive about combining the values of equality and responsibility, even
though the view most commonly associated with doing so, of luck egalitarianism, is beset …

Against visitor bans: freedom of association, COVID-19 and the hospital ward

E McTernan - Journal of Medical Ethics, 2023 - jme.bmj.com
To ban or significantly restrict visitors for patients in hospital could seem to be simply a
sensible and easy precaution to take during a pandemic: a policy that is unpopular, perhaps …

Justice, feasibility, and social science as it is

E McTernan - Ethical theory and moral practice, 2019 - Springer
Political philosophy offers a range of utopian proposals, from open borders to global
egalitarianism. Some object that these proposals ought to be constrained by what is …