Amy Mullin

Amy Mullin has been cross appointed from the Department of Philosophy in University of Toronto, Mississauga to Department of Religion at U of T, St. George campus. She completed her Bachelor of Arts at Harvard University and her PhD at Yale University. Her research interests lie in the area of aesthetics and feminist philosophy. Her published works include;  “Filial Responsibilities of Dependent Children” in Hypatia Winter (2010), “Children, Autonomy and Care” in Journal of Social Philosophy (2007), “Parents and Children: An Alternative to Unconditional and Selfless Love” in Hypatia Winter (2006), “Reconceiving Pregnancy and Childcare: Ethics, Experience and Reproductive Labor”(2005) etc.


Department of Philosophy. UTM

AB (Harvard), PhD (Yale)

North Building.
tel: (905) 828-3752.
email: amy.mullin@utoronto.ca

Areas of research

aesthetics, feminist philosophy

Selected publications

“Paid Childcare, Responsibility and Trust” forthcoming in Maternal Thinking: Philosophy, Politics, Practice, ed. Andrea O’Reilly, Demeter Press, 2009

“Filial Responsibilities of Dependent Children” forthcoming in Hypatia Winter 2010 (Vol. 25, No. 1)

“Children, Autonomy and Care” in Journal of Social Philosophy Winter, 2007 (Vol. 38, No. 4, 536-553);

“Parents and Children: An Alternative to Unconditional and Selfless Love” in Hypatia Winter 2006 (Vol. 21, No. 1, 181-200);

“Reconceiving Pregnancy and Childcare: Ethics, Experience and Reproductive Labor” 2005, Cambridge University Press;

“Moral Defects, Aesthetic Defects and the Imagination” in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Summer 2004 (Vol. 62, No. 3, 249-261)

“Moral Defects, Aesthetic Defects and the Imagination” in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Summer 2004