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2Characters, Selves, Individuals.In Amélie Rorty (ed.), The Identities of Persons, University of California Press. 1976.
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Freud on Unconscious Affects, Mourning and the Erotic mindIn Michael Philip Levine (ed.), Analytic Freud: Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, Routledge. 1999.
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8Agent regretIn Amélie 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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51The 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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168Perspectives 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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158Explaining 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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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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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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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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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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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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11King Solomon and Everyman: A Problem in Coordinating Conflicting Moral IntuitionsAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 28 (3). 1991.
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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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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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