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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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176Perspectives 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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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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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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252Where does the akratic break take place?Australasian Journal of Philosophy 58 (4). 1980.This Article does not have an abstract
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20Political Sources of Emotions: Greed and AngerMidwest Studies in Philosophy 22 (1): 21-33. 1998.
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89The 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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149The 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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140Explaining 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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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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39From Passions to Sentiments: The Structure of Hume's "Treatise"History of Philosophy Quarterly 10 (2): 165-179. 1993.
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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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Harvard UniversityRegular Faculty
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Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Philosophy of Action |
Philosophy of Mind |
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |