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2Characters, Selves, Individuals.In Amelie Oksenberg Rorty (ed.), The Identities of Persons, University of California Press. 1976.
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Freud on Unconscious Affects, Mourning and the Erotic mindIn M. Levine (ed.), The Analytic Freud, Routledge. 2000.
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8Agent regretIn A. O. Rorty (ed.), Explaining Emotions, Univ of California Pr. pp. 489--506. 1980.
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2Commentary on NehamasProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 2 (1): 317-330. 1986.
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10From decency to civility by way of economics:'First let's eat and then talk of right and wrong'Social Research: An International Quarterly 64 (1). 1997.
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47The Politics of Spinoza’s Vanishing DichotomiesPolitical Theory 38 (1): 131-141. 2010.Spinoza’s project of showing how the mind can be freed from its passive affects and the State from its divisive factions ultimately coincides with the aims announced in the subtitle of the Tractatus-Theologico-Politicus “to demonstrate that [the] freedom to philosophize does not endanger the piety and obedience required for civic peace.”1 Both projects rest on a set of provisional isomorphic distinctions—between adequate and inadequate ideas, between reason and the imagination, between active an…Read more
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177Perspectives on Self-Deception (edited book)University of California Press. 1988.00 Students of philosophy, psychology, sociology, and literature will welcome this collection of original essays on self-deception and related phenomena such as ...
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154Explaining Emotions (edited book)Univ of California Pr. 1980.The contributors to this volume have approached the problem of characterizing and classifying emotions from the perspectives of neurophysiology, psychology, and ...
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The Many Faces of Philosophy. Reflections from Plato to ArendtTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 66 (2): 393-393. 2004.
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100Aristotle on the Virtues of RhetoricReview of Metaphysics 64 (4): 715-733. 2011.Aristotle’s phronimos is a model of the virtues: he fuses sound practical reasoning with well formed desires. Among the skills of practical reasoning are those of finding the right words and arguments in the process of deliberation. As Aristotle puts it, virtue involves doing the right thing at the right time and for the right reason. Speaking well, saying the right thing in the right way is not limited to public oratory: it pervades practical life. Aristotle’s phronimos must acquire the habits …Read more
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24Moral Prejudices (review)Philosophical Review 104 (4): 608-610. 1995.Annette Baier sets the title, the genre, and the task of her book from Hume’s essay "Of Moral Prejudices." Rather than arguing from or towards general principles, these essays call upon a wide range of reading, observation, and experience: we are not only meant to be enlightened, but also invited to adopt the reflective habits of mind they exemplify. Like Hume, Baier analyzes and evaluates our attitudes and customs; like him, she finds that our foibles and our strengths are closely linked; and l…Read more
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14The Functional Logic of Cartesian PassionsIn Sabrina Ebbersmeyer (ed.), Emotional Minds, De Gruyter. pp. 3. 2012.
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5The Many Faces of Philosophy: Reflections From Plato to Arendt (edited book)Oxford University Press USA. 2004.Philosophy is a dangerous profession, risking censorship, prison, even death. And no wonder: philosophers have questioned traditional pieties and threatened the established political order. Some claimed to know what was thought unknowable; others doubted what was believed to be certain. Some attacked religion in the name of science; others attacked science in the name of mystical poetry; some served tyrants; others were radical revolutionaries. This historically based collection of philosophers'…Read more
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115The Burdens of LoveThe Journal of Ethics 20 (4): 341-354. 2016.While we primarily love individual persons, we also love our work, our homes, our activities and causes. To love is to be engaged in an active concern for the objective well-being—the thriving—of whom and what we love. True love mandates discovering in what that well-being consists and to be engaged in the details of promoting it. Since our loves are diverse, we are often conflicted about the priorities among the obligations they bring. Loving requires constant contextual improvisatory adjustmen…Read more
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9Essays on Aristotle's de Anima (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 1992.Aristotle's philosophy of mind has recently attracted renewed attention and respect from philosophers. This volume brings together outstanding new essays on De Anima by a distinguished international group of contributors including, in this paperback efdition, a new essay by Myles Burnyeat. The essays form a running commentary on the work, covering such topics as the relation between body and soul, sense-perception, imagination, memory, desire, and thought. the authors, writing with philosophical…Read more
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39From Passions to Sentiments: The Structure of Hume's "Treatise"History of Philosophy Quarterly 10 (2): 165-179. 1993.
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24Review: Zöller & Louden (eds), Anthropology, History and Education (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (6). 2008.
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75Butler on Benevolence and ConsciencePhilosophy 53 (204). 1978.It is tempting and even useful to read the history of ethics from Hobbes to Rousseau, and even to Kant, as a response to the devastation of making self-interest—the movement to the satisfaction of particular ego-oriented desires—either the basic motive, or the basic form of motivational explanation. After Hobbes, philosophical ingenuity allied with Christian sensibility to search for countervailing forces
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60User friendly self-deception: A traveler's manualIn Roger T. Ames & Wimal Dissanayake (eds.), Self and Deception: A Cross-Cultural Philosophical Enquiry, Albany: Suny Press. 1996.
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126Essays on Aristotle's Poetics (edited book)Princeton University Press. 1992.Aimed at deepening our understanding of the Poetics, this collection places Aristotle's analysis of tragedy in its larger philosophical context.
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19Perspectives on Self-DeceptionUniversity of California Press. 1988.Students of philosophy, psychology, sociology, and literature will welcome this collection of original essays on self-deception and related phenomena such as wishful thinking, bad faith, and false consciousness. The book has six sections, each exploring self-deception and related phenomena from a different perspective
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33Descartes and Spinoza on Epistemological EgalitarianismHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 13 (1). 1996.
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