Sarah Clark Miller

Professional Bio

Areas of Specialization

• Ethics
• Social and Political Philosophy
• Feminist Theory

Selected Publications

• "On Justifying Violent Self-Defense," APA Studies on Feminism and Philosophy: forthcoming.
• “Toward a Relational Theory of Harm,” Journal of Global Ethics 18, no. 1 (2022): 15-31.
• “Neoliberalism, Moral Precarity, and the Crisis of Care,” Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity, edited by Maurice Hamington and Michael Flower (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021), 48–67.
• “Criticizing Consent: A Reply to Susan Brison,” Social Philosophy Today 37 (2021).
• “From Vulnerability to Precariousness: Examining the Moral Foundations of Care Ethics," International Journal of Philosophical Studies 28, no. 2 (2020): 644-661.
• “A Feminist Engagement with Forst’s Transnational Justice,” in Justification and Emancipation: The Political Philosophy of Rainer Forst, edited by Amy Allen and Eduardo Mendieta (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2019), 125-144.
• “Beyond Silence, Towards Refusal: The Epistemic Possibilities of #MeToo,” APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy 18, 3 (Fall 2019): 12-16.
• “Resisting Sexual Violence: What Empathy Offers,” in Analyzing Violence Against Women, ed. Wanda Teays (New York: Springer, 2019), 63-77.
• “Reconsidering Dignity Relationally,” Ethics and Social Welfare 11, no. 2 (2017): 108-121.  Reprinted in Examining Injustice: Foundational, Structural and Epistemic, ed. Christine M. Koggel (New York: Routledge, 2018).
• “Feminist Ethics” in Philosophy: Feminism, ed. Carol Hay (Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan, 2017), 189-213.
• “Relational Ethics,” with Thaddeus Metz, The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed. Hugh LaFollette (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016).
• “The Moral Meanings of Miscarriage,” Journal of Social Philosophy 46, no. 1 (Spring 2015): 141-157.
• The Ethics of Need: Agency, Dignity, and Obligation (New York: Routledge Press, 2012).
• “A Feminist Account of Global Responsibility,” Social Theory and Practice 37, no. 3 (July 2011): 391– 412.

Current Projects

• Sexual Violence and Sexual Agency (book manuscript)
• Relational Ethics: On the Meaning of Care, Vulnerability, and Interdependence for Moral Life (book manuscript)
• "Epistemic Refusal" (article)
• "Ultrasound's Risks: Relational, Social, Epistemological" (article)

Recent Courses

• Care Ethics and Relational Theory
• Relational Ethics
• The Ethics and Politics of Violence
• Ethical Theory
• Cosmopolitanism and Global Responsibility
• Introduction to Bioethics
• Introduction to Ethics
• The Ethics and Politics of Vulnerability

Recent Media

• "Caregiving in Neoliberal Times," Against the Grain (KPFA).
• "Rethinking Care: Health Humanities and the Pandemic," HumIn Focus.