Margaret Little is an Associate Professor in Georgetown's Philosophy Department and a Senior Research Scholar at Georgetown's Kennedy Institute of Ethics, a think-tank on campus that specializes in bioethics.

Maggie did graduate work in philosophy at Oxford, Princeton, and Berkeley and came to Georgetown after two years' teaching at Bryn Mawr College. Her background is in analytic philosophy and feminist theory.

Her work falls predominately under the broad umbrella of ethics, with particular interests in moral particularism, moral epistemology, motivation, and feminist bioethics (see attached list).

She has recently co-edited, with Brad Hooker, a collection of essays entitled Moral Particularism with Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press 2000). She is finishing a book on abortion with the same press, entitled Compelling Intimacy: Abortion, Law, & Morality, and has a contract, also with Clarendon, on feminism, moral theory, and bioethics.

Within the field of feminist bioethics, Maggie has particular interests in issues of gestation and motherhood -- a topic on which her two young daughters, Helen and Kate, provide substantial research assistance.

Her publications include:

• "The Morality of Abortion," in A Companion to Applied Ethics (Cambridge University Press), eds. Christopher Wellman and Rey Frey, forthcoming; to be reprinted in Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine, 6th ed., eds. John D. Arras and Bonnie Steinbock (Mayfield Publishing)
• "On Knowing the 'Why': Particularism and Moral Theory," The Hastings Center Report, July/August 2001
• "Wittgensteinian Lessons on Particularism," in Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers: Essays on Wittgenstein, Medicine, and Bioethics ,ed. Carl Elliot, (Duke University Press), 2001, p. 161-180
• "Moral Generalities Revisited," in Moral Particularism, eds. Brad Hooker and Margaret Little, (Clarendon Press, Oxford), 2000, pp. 276-304
• "Abortion, Intimacy, and the Duty to Gestate," Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, vol. 2, 1999, pp. 295-312
• "Cosmetic Surgery, Suspect Norms, and Complicity," in Enhancing Human Capacities: Conceptual Complexities and Ethical Implications, ed. Eric Parens (Georgetown University Press), 1998, pp. 162-176
• "Care: From Theory to Orientation and Back," in Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, vol. 23, no. 2, April 1998, pp. 190-209
• "Virtue as Knowledge: Objections from the Philosophy of Mind," Nous, vol. 31, no. 1, l997, pp. 59-79
• "Suspect Norms of Appearance and the Ethics of Complicity," in In the Eye of the Beholder: Ethics and Medical Change of Appearance, eds. Inez de Beaufort, Medard Hilhorst, Soren Holm (Scandinavian University Press), 1996, pp. 151-167
• "Procreative Liberty, Biological Connections, and Motherhood," Journal of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, vol. 6, no. 4, Dec. 1996, pp. 392-396
• "Why A Feminist Bioethics?", Journal of The Kennedy Institute of Ethics, vol. 6, no 1, March 1996, pp. 1-18; reprinted in Meaning and Medicine, eds. James Lindemann Nelson and Hilde Lindemann Nelson (Routledge), 1999.
• "Seeing and Caring: The Role of Affect in Feminist Moral Epistemology," Hypatia, vol. 10, no. 3, Summer 1995, pp. 117-137
• "Recent Work in Moral Realism: Naturalism," Philosophical Books, vol. 35, no. 3, July 1994, pp. 145-153
• "Recent Work in Moral Realism: Non-Naturalism," Philosophical Books, vol. 35, no. 4, Oct. 1994, pp. 225-233