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This volume boldly expands intellectual horizons on care and the ethics of care. Centered on human emotionality and interdependence, the ethics of care was developed in the 1980s by feminists Carol Gilligan and Nel Noddings.
Bringing together important insights from different areas of philosophy, the contributors of this volume engage in two vibrant dialogues, offering a unique and timely contribution to the field. First, they examine the care perspective through a cross-cultural lens, illuminating its rich potential through dialogues with Chinese and Japanese philosophy. Second, they address cross-field dialogues, building connections between the ethics of care and epistemology, virtue theory, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and enactivism. Previously unexamined categories and distinctions are introduced into care discourse, refining our theoretical and practical understanding.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Care Ethics and Beyond.- Chapter 3.Qi, Ki, and Affective Attunement: Toward a Cross-Cultural Dialogue of Phenomenology of Care.- Chapter 4. Dialogue as Human Existence: Ueda Shizuteru s Zen Buddhist Philosophy and a Care Ethics of Play.- Chapter 5. Caring and Ma ai as Distancing: For the Sake of the Non-legal Communality of Humanity.- Chapter 6. Empathy and Ethos: Care Ethics and Virtue Epistemology in Non-Ideal Worlds.- Chapter 7. Epistemic Care, Self-Care, and Subservience.- Chapter 8. The Veridictive Force of Embodied Care.- Chapter 9. Epistemology Divides and Moral Ambivalence in Global Politics: A Feminist Care Ethics Perspective.- Chapter 10. Toward Establishing Intellectual Receptivity as an Epistemic Good.- Chapter 11. Empathic Receptivity as a Source of Epistemic Justification.- Chapter 12. Empathic Knowing and the Completion of Care.- Chapter 13. Temporal Respect and Relational Autonomy: Empathy in a Temporalized Care-Ethical Framework.- Chapter 14. Enacting Epistemic Respect: Reconciling Care and Respect.- Chapter 15. Schema Care Ethics: The Philosophy and Psychology of Caring amidst Woundedness.
About the author
Seisuke Hayakawa joins Kyoto University as an Associate Professor of Ethics in October 2025. His recent research focuses on how the act of listening can promote agency, freedom, and relational autonomy. He has published widely in Japanese and English on topics in the philosophy of action, care ethics, clinical ethics, and virtue epistemology, and is currently working on a book entitled Receptivity and Human Agency.
Michael Slote is UST Professor of Ethics at the University of Miami. A member of the Royal Irish Academy and former Tanner lecturer at Stanford and Feng Qi lecturer at East China Normal University, he is the author of many books and articles on ethics, philosophy of mind, political philosophy, and moral education. His published works include The Ethics of Care and Empathy (2007), Moral Sentimentalism (2010), The Philosophy of Yin and Yang (2018), and Philosophical Essays East and West (2023, Palgrave Macmillan).
Summary
This volume boldly expands intellectual horizons on care and the ethics of care. Centered on human emotionality and interdependence, the ethics of care was developed in the 1980s by feminists Carol Gilligan and Nel Noddings.
Bringing together important insights from different areas of philosophy, the contributors of this volume engage in two vibrant dialogues, offering a unique and timely contribution to the field. First, they examine the care perspective through a cross-cultural lens, illuminating its rich potential through dialogues with Chinese and Japanese philosophy. Second, they address cross-field dialogues, building connections between the ethics of care and epistemology, virtue theory, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and enactivism. Previously unexamined categories and distinctions are introduced into care discourse, refining our theoretical and practical understanding.
