Philosophy

Felicia Nimue Ackerman’s essays on bioethics have appeared in The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics, Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine, The Hastings Center Report, The Oxford Handbook of Bioethics, The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Suicide, vox.com, and elsewhere. Her work on philosophical themes in Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur has appeared in Arthuriana, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, and elsewhere. She is completing a book, Ethics and Character in Malory’s Le Morte Darthur, for Palgrave and a book, Bioethics and Animals: A Quick Immersion, for Tibidabo. Her sixteen short stories have appeared in Ascent, Commentary, Mid-American Review, Playgirl, one O. Henry Awards collection, and elsewhere. Her approximately 375 poems have appeared in American Atheist, The American Scholar, The Boston Globe, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Free Inquiry, The Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News, The New York Times, Options Magazine, The Providence Journal, Rhode Island Monthly, Scientific American, Time, The Wall Street Journal, and many literary magazines. She wrote a monthly op-ed column for The Providence Journal for fourteen years and a poetry column for seven years for Options. Her op-ed columns have been reprinted in Chicago Sun-Times, The Detroit News, The Korea Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Seattle Times, and elsewhere. She has been profiled in The New Yorker, on NPR in Rhode Island Monthly and in the Brown Alumni Magazine. 

She has been a Senior Fulbright Lecturer in philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as well as a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences/National Endowment for the Humanities fellow. 

Her recent seminar topics include Fiction as a Vehicle for Exploring Ethical Issues in Education, and Bioethics Through Fiction: Disability, Illness, and Death.

Last but definitely not least, you can see from the picture that she has a truly remarkable cat.