Associate Professor of Philosophy

Year Joined RCNJ: 2002

Contact Information

• Phone: (201) 684-7416
• Email: lcassidy@ramapo.edu
• Office: B-209
• Office Hours: On Sabbatical for Fall 2024

Education:

• B.A., University of Pennsylvania
• M.A., University of Connecticut
• Ph.D., University of Connecticut

Courses Offered:

• Ethics
• Bio-Ethics
• Existentialism
• Philosophy of Beauty

Teaching Interests:

• Philosophy and Women’s Studies

Research Interests:

• Feminist ethics and the scholarship of teaching and learning

Scholarly Activity:

• “Thoughts on the Bioethics of Estranged Biological Kin.” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy: Volume 28, Issue 1, 2013.
• “Reflections on Women Shopping and Women Sweatshopping: Consumerism as a Moral Dilemma” in Fashion and Philosophy, edited by Jeanette Kennett and Jessica Wolfendale, Oxford University Press, 2011.
• “That Many of Us Should Not Parent” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Volume 21, Number 4, 2006
• “Sharing Strategies for Success as a Feminist Philosopher” (co-author Sophia Wong) American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism. Forthcoming in Volume 8, Number 2, 2009.
• “The Incorrigible Knitter Learns about Teaching” American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism: Volume 8, Number 1, 2008.
• “Appealing to Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom: Using Stick Figures to Teach Philosophy.”  Teaching Philosophy: Volume 30, Number 3, 2007
• “’Starving Children in Africa: Who Cares?” Journal of International Women’s Studies: Volume 7, Number 1, 2005.
• “Is Carmela Soprano a Feminist? Carmela’s Care Ethics” in The Sopranos and Philosophy: I Kill Therefore I Am.  Edited by Richard Greene and William Irwin,  Open Court Press, 2004.