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64The Vanishing Subject: The Many Faces of SubjectivityHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 23 (3). 2006.
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390Essays on Aristotle’s Ethics (edited book)University of California Press. 1980.This compilation will mark a high point of excellence in its genre."--Gregory Vlastos, University of California, Berkeley
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49The Politics of Spinoza’s Vanishing DichotomiesPolitical Theory 38 (1). 2010.Spinoza's project of showing how the mind can be freed from its passive affects and the State from its divisive factions (E IV.Appendix and V.Preface) ultimately coincides with the aims announced in the subtitle of the Tractatus-Theologico-Politicus (TTP) "to demonstrate that [the] freedom to philosophize does not endanger the piety and obedience required for civic peace." Both projects rest on a set of provisional isomorphic distinctions—between adequate and inadequate ideas, between reason and…Read more
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4Philosophers on Education: New Historical Perspectives (edited book)Routledge. 1998.Philosophers on Education offers us the most comprehensive available history of philosopher's views and impacts on the directions of education. As Amelie Rorty explains, in describing a history of education, we are essentially describing and gaining the clearest understanding of the issues that presently concern and divide us. The essays in this stellar collection are written by some of the finest comtemporary philosophers. Those interested in history of philosophy, epistemology, moral psycholog…Read more
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549The Identities of Persons (edited book)University of California Press. 1976.In this volume, thirteen philosophers contribute new essays analyzing the criteria for personal identity and their import on ethics and the theory of action: it ...
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166Akratic BelieversAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 20 (2): 175-183. 1983.A person has performed an action akratically when he intentionally, voluntarily acts contrary to what he thinks, all things considered, is best to do. This is very misleadingly called weakness of the will; less misleadingly, akrasia of action. I should like to show that there is intellectual as well as practical akrasia. This might, equally misleadingly, be called weakness of belief; less misleadingly, akrasia of belief.
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18Naturalism, Paradigms, and IdeologyReview of Metaphysics 24 (4). 1971.A close and sympathetic reading of the tensions between naturalism and non-naturalism in Hume's theory shows us something of the ideological issues involved, issues rooted in the differences between the political and social conditions which make naturalism and non-naturalism seem plausible analyses of normative discourse. If we read Hume as a transitional figure, who documented and analyzed a shift in the paradigms of moral situations and problems, we see that the naturalistic controversy is not…Read more
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55The Directions of Aristotle's RhetoricReview of Metaphysics 46 (1). 1992.IN PREPARING A HANDBOOK ON RHETORIC, Aristotle proceeds as he does for a discussion of any craft or practice. After distinguishing it from other closely related arts, he defines its proper aim: that of finding the means that can be used to persuade an audience of any subject whatever. Since the most effective exercise of any craft or faculty is conceptually connected to its fulfilling its norm-defined aims, his counsel is directed to guiding the master craftsman who is responsive to the larger i…Read more
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1Essays on Aristotle's De Anima. First Paperback Edition, with an Additional Essay by M.F. Burnyeat (edited book)Clarendon Press. 1995.Bringing together a group of outstanding new essays on Aristotle's De Anima, this book covers topics such as the relation between soul and body, sense-perception, imagination, memory, desire, and thought, which present the philosophical substance of Aristotle's views to the modern reader. The contributors write with philosophical subtlety and wide-ranging scholarship, locating their interpretations firmly within the context of Aristotle's thought as a whole. The paperback edition includes an add…Read more
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11King Solomon and Everyman: A Problem in Coordinating Conflicting Moral IntuitionsAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 28 (3). 1991.
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34Rousseau's Therapeutic ExperimentsPhilosophy 66 (258). 1991.‘Our passions are psychological instruments,’ Rousseau says, ‘with which nature has armed our hearts for the defence of our persons and of all that is necessary for our well-being. [But] the more we need external things, the more we are vulnerable to obstacles that can overwhelm us; and the more numerous and complex our passions become. They are naturally proportionate to our needs.’
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255Where does the akratic break take place?Australasian Journal of Philosophy 58 (4). 1980.This Article does not have an abstract
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20Educating the practical imagination : a prolegomenaIn Harvey Siegel (ed.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy of education, Oxford University Press. pp. 195. 2009.
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90The Use and Abuse of MoralityThe Journal of Ethics 16 (1): 1-13. 2012.Both morality and theories of morality play many distinctive—and sometimes apparently conflicting—functions: they identify and prohibit wrongful aggression; they chart and analyze basic duties; they present ideals for emulation; they set the terms or justice, rights and entitlements; they characterize the norms of basic decency and neighborliness. Since many of these can, in practice, come into conflict with one another, morality provides guidance for integrating priorities. Claims to morality c…Read more
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151The two faces of stoicism: Rousseau and FreudJournal of the History of Philosophy 34 (3): 335-356. 1996.The Two Faces of Stoicism: Rousseau and Freud AMI~LIE OKSENBERG RORTY Nor do the Stoics mean that the soul of their wisest man resists the first visions and sudden fantasies that surprise [him]: but [he] rather consents that, as it were to a natural subjection, he yields .... So likewise in other passions, always provided his opinions remain safe and whole, and.., his reason admit no tainting or alteration, and he in no whit consents to his fright and sufferance. Montaigne, Essays, I. 1 THE STOI…Read more
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147Explaining Emotions (edited book)University of California Press. 1980.The philosopher must inform himself of the relevant empirical investigation to arrive at a definition, and the scientist cannot afford to be naive about the..
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20Political Sources of Emotions: Greed and AngerMidwest Studies in Philosophy 22 (1): 21-33. 1998.
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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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101Aristotle 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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14The Functional Logic of Cartesian PassionsIn Sabrina Ebbersmeyer (ed.), Emotional Minds: The Passions and the Limits of Pure Inquiry in Early Modern Philosophy, 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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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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117The 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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10Essays 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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Philosophy of Action |
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