Martin Robb

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332 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 1 Jul

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Careful Thinking · Disability, dependency, and care - with Eva Feder Kittay · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

So I wonder if you could say something about those early experiences, how they influenced your outlook on life and

How they led to you studying and then teaching philosophy.

Thank you for sharing that.

And and as you say, you became an adult and were a student in the sixties and then the early seventies, which, among other things, was of course the heyday of second wave feminism.

So I wonder if feminism was an important part of your thinking from the beginning, and who were the feminist writers and activists who were key influences for you?

You were in at the ground floor of second wave feminism, if you like.

Yeah.

So as a philosopher, I know that your first interest was in the philosophy of language and you published widely in that field.

But then in 1999, as I said earlier, you published Love's Labour, Essays on Women and Inequality, which has since become such an important and influential book in the development of feminist thinking about care.

I understand the book began as a collection of essays and it combines closely argued philosophical chapters with sections on the implications for social policy, as well as two more personal chapters on your experience as the mother of a daughter with significant disabilities.

So I wonder what the story is behind the book.

How did the idea come about and how did your personal experience as Sesha's mother and your philosophical thinking come together in the writing of it?

That's right, thank you.

And and yes, in in a way the book is a kind of a an extended dialogue or conversation with John Rawls in in some places.

And you do combine that sort of moral philosophical discussion with discussion of contemporary social philosophy in the States and so on.

In a way, you've kind of anticipated my next question, because I wanted to ask you about this idea of the dependency critique that you you launch in the book.

And you say that as you began to explore literature by feminist schol scholars on the question of equality, you began to see there was a consideration missing from many of the accounts.

It seemed to me that one could delineate a critique of the ideal of equality that I call the dependency critique.

Is it possible to sum up briefly what you meant by the dependency critique?

Thank you.

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