1. Claudia Card held visiting professorships at The Goethe Institute, Dartmouth College, and the University of Pittsburgh.
16 Facts About Claudia Card
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Claudia Card wrote four treatises, edited or co-edited six books, and published nearly 150 articles and reviews.
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Claudia Card delivered nearly 250 papers at conferences, colleges, and universities and was featured in 29 radio broadcasts.
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Claudia Card delivered the John Dewey Lecture to the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association in 2008.
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In 2011, Claudia Card was awarded the University of Wisconsin's Hilldale Award for excellence in teaching, research and service.
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Claudia Card paid special attention to the ethical theories of Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, and had read widely in history, sociology, and survivor testimony.
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Claudia Card supported a variety of LGBT research and activism throughout her career.
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Claudia Card had previously taken some controversial stances, such as arguing against marriage, on the grounds that it gives each party rights over the person of the other that no one should have, and as being especially dangerous to women within patriarchy.
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Claudia Card argued that evils are inexcusably wrong and that they need not be extraordinary.
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Claudia Card indicated we must pay attention to evils that occur so commonly that we tend to overlook them.
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Claudia Card applied, tested, and extended this revised account in examining the moral wrongs of terrorism, torture, and genocide.
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Claudia Card introduced the concept of "social death", originally developed by Orlando Patterson, into the field of genocide studies.
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Claudia Card proposed that the final aim of genocide was to enact social death on a group, which does not always necessarily include the mass murder of its members.
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Claudia Card was diagnosed with lung cancer in summer 2014, underwent treatment, and seemed to be doing well.
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However, in early 2015, while attending the Ohio Philosophical Association annual meeting, where she was the invited keynote speaker, at Baldwin Wallace University outside of Cleveland, Ohio, Claudia Card collapsed in her hotel room.
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Claudia Card was treated at the Cleveland Clinic, where she learned that her cancer had metastasized.