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42Varieties of Moral Personality: Ethics and Psychological RealismPhilosophical Review 102 (3): 435. 1993.
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113Love: self-propagation, self-preservation, or ekstasis?Canadian Journal of Philosophy 43 (4): 403-429. 2013.My title refers to three accounts of interpersonal love: the rationalist account that Terence Irwin ascribes to Plato; the anti-rationalist but strikingly similar account that Harry Frankfurt endorses in his own voice; and the ‘ekstatic’ account that I – following the lead of Martha Nussbaum – find in Plato's Phaedrus. My claim is that the ekstatic account points to important features of interpersonal love to which the other accounts fail to do justice, especially reciprocity and a regulative id…Read more
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35Eudaimonia, External Results, and Choosing Virtuous Actions for ThemselvesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 65 (2): 270-290. 2002.Aristotle’s requirement that virtuous actions be chosen for themselves is typically interpreted, in Kantian terms, as taking virtuous action to have intrinsic rather than consequentialist value. This raises problems about how to reconcile Aristotle’s requirement with (a) the fact that virtuous actions typically aim at ends beyond themselves (usually benefits to others); and (b) Aristotle’s apparent requirement that everything (including virtuous action) be chosen for the sake of eudaimonia. I of…Read more
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21Persons and Passions: Essays in Honor of Annette Baier (edited book)University of Notre Dame Press. 2005.Persons and passions : an introduction / Christopher Williams What are the passions doing in the Meditations? / Lisa Shapiro Love in the ruins : passion in Descartes’ Meditations / William Beardsley The passionate intellect : reading the opposition of reason and emotions in Descartes / Amy Schmitter Material falsity and the arguments for God’s existence in Descartes’ Meditations / Cecilia Wee Reason unhinged : passion and precipice from Montaigne to Hume / Saul Traiger Reflection and ideas in Hu…Read more
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45Rewriting the Soul (review)Philosophical Review 106 (4): 610-614. 1997.True to his longstanding bias against grand unifying theories, Hacking chooses to pursue these questions by focusing on a specific case of memory-thinking: the history of multiple personality. His excavation of the contemporary terrain leads him, however, to the surprisingly grand conclusion that the various sciences of memory—including neurological studies of localization, experimental studies of recall, and studies in the psychodynamics of memory—all emerged in connection with attempts to “sci…Read more
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266Human Nature and Intellectualism in AristotleArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 68 (1): 70-95. 1986.
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18Locomotive soul: the parts of soul in Aristotle's scientific works'Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 22 141-200. 2002.
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