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70XII. Narrative and Perspective; Values and Appropriate EmotionsRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 52 201-220. 2003.To the realists.—You sober people who feel well armed against passion and fantasies and would like to turn your emptiness into a matter of pride and ornament: you call yourselves realists and hint that the world really is the way it appears to you. As if reality stood unveiled before you only, and you yourselves were perhaps the best part of it … But in your unveiled state are not even you still very passionate and dark creatures compared to fish, and still far too similar to an artist in love? …Read more
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30Book Review: John M. Doris, Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behaviour (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), x + 272 pp. ISBN 0521631165 (hbk). Hardback/ Paperback: £48.00/£16.99 (review)Journal of Moral Philosophy 4 (2): 289-291. 2007.
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94The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Emotion (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2009.This Handbook presents thirty-one state-of-the-art contributions from the most notable writers on philosophy of emotion today. Anyone working on the nature of emotion, its history, or its relation to reason, self, value, or art, whether at the level of research or advanced study, will find the book an unrivalled resource and a fascinating read
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301Grief: A narrative accountRatio 24 (2): 119-137. 2011.Grief is not a kind of feeling, or a kind of judgement, or a kind of perception, or any kind of mental state or event the identity of which can be adequately captured at a moment in time. Instead, grief is a kind of process; more specifically, it is a complex pattern of activity and passivity, inner and outer, which unfolds over time, and the unfolding pattern over time is explanatorily prior to what is the case at any particular time. The pattern of a particular grieving is best understood and …Read more
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214Emotion, feeling, and knowledge of the worldIn Robert C. Solomon (ed.), Thinking About Feeling: Contemporary Philosophers on Emotions, Oxford University Press. 2004.There is a view of the emotions (I might tendentiously call it ‘cognitivism’) that has at present a certain currency. This view is of the emotions as playing an essential role in our gaining evaluative knowledge of the world. When we are angry at an insult, or afraid of the burglar, our emotions involve evaluative perceptions and thoughts, which are directed towards the way something is in the world that impinges on our well-being, or on the well-being of those that matter to us. Without emotion…Read more
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152Towards a virtue theory of artBritish Journal of Aesthetics 47 (4): 372-387. 2007.In this paper I sketch a virtue theory of art, analogous to a virtue theory of ethics along Aristotelian lines. What this involves is looking beyond a parochial conception of art understood as work of art, as product, to include intentions, motives, skills, traits, and feelings, all of which can be expressed in artistic activity. The clusters of traits that go to make up the particular virtues of art production and of art appreciation are indeed virtues in part because, when they are expressed i…Read more
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2Conceptual art and knowledgeIn Peter Goldie & Elisabeth Schellekens (eds.), Philosophy and Conceptual Art, Oxford University Press. pp. 157. 2007.
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107On personalityRoutledge. 2004.The pervasiveness of personality -- Good and bad people : a question of character -- The fragility of character -- Character, responsibility and circumspection -- personality, narrative and living a life.
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25Narrative and Consciousness: Literature, Psychology, and the BrainBritish Journal of Aesthetics 45 (4): 443-445. 2005.
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56Life, Fiction, and NarrativeIn Noel Carroll & John Gibson (eds.), Narrative, Emotion, and Insight, Penn State University. pp. 8. 2011.
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115Intellectual Emotions and Religious EmotionsFaith and Philosophy 28 (1): 93-101. 2011.What is the best model of emotion if we are to reach a good understanding of the role of emotion in religious life? I begin by setting out a simple model of emotion, based on a paradigm emotional experience of fear of an immediate threat in one’s environment. I argue that the simple model neglects many of the complexities of our emotional lives, including in particular the complexities that one finds with the intellectual emotions. I then discuss how our dispositions to have these kinds of emoti…Read more
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83Emotion, reason and virtueIn Dylan Evans & Pierre Cruse (eds.), Emotion, Evolution, and Rationality, Oxford University Press. pp. 249--267. 2004.
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The Mind’s Bermuda Triangle: Philosophy of Emotions and Empirical Science (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2010.
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294EmotionPhilosophy Compass 2 (6). 2007.After many years of neglect, philosophers are increasingly turning their attention to the emotions, and recently we have seen a number of different accounts of emotion. In this article, we will first consider what facts an account of emotion needs to accommodate if it is going to be acceptable. Having done that, we will then consider some of the leading accounts and see how they fare in accommodating the facts. Two things in particular will emerge. First, an adequate account of emotion cannot be…Read more
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Self-forgiveneess and the narrative sense of selfIn Christel Fricke (ed.), The Ethics of Forgiveness: A Collection of Essays, Routledge. 2011.
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17BUSKIRK, MARTHA. Creative Enterprise: Contemporary Art between Museum and Marketplace.(London: Continuum). 2012. pp. 392.£ 22.99 (pbk). CURRIE, GREG; KOATKO, Petr and POKORNY, MARTIN (eds.). Mimesis: Metaphysics, Cognition, Pragmatics.(London (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 52 (4): 439. 2012.
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74Not passion's slave: Emotions and choice, by Robert C. Solomon and from passions to emotions: The creation of a secular psychological category, by Thomas DixonEuropean Journal of Philosophy 15 (1). 2007.
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4Paul E. Griffiths, What Emotions Really Are: The Problem of Psychological Categories, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1997 (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 49 (4): 642-648. 1998.
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27Keith E. Yandell (ed.) Faith and narrative. (Oxford: Oxford university press, 2001). Pp. 271. £35.00 (hbk). ISBN 0 19 5131452 (review)Religious Studies 39 (1): 111-121. 2003.
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31The Self and Its Emotions By Kristján Kristjánsson Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. xiv + 272, £55 HB ISBN: 978052111478-3 (review)Philosophy 87 (1): 137-141. 2012.
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130Getting Feelings into Emotional Experiences in the Right WayEmotion Review 1 (3): 232-239. 2009.I argue that emotional feelings are not just bodily feelings, but also feelings directed towards things in the world beyond the bounds of the body, and that these feelings (feelings towards) are bound up with the way we take in the world in emotional experience
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500Emotions, feelings and intentionalityPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 1 (3): 235-254. 2002.Emotions, I will argue, involve two kinds of feeling: bodily feeling and feeling towards. Both are intentional, in the sense of being directed towards an object. Bodily feelings are directed towards the condition of one's body, although they can reveal truths about the world beyond the bounds of one's body – that, for example, there is something dangerous nearby. Feelings towards are directed towards the object of the emotion – a thing or a person, a state of affairs, an action or an event; such…Read more
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33Compassion: Α Natural, Moral EmotionIn Verena Mayer & Sabine A. Döring (eds.), Die Moralität der Gefühle, De Gruyter. pp. 199-212. 2002.
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49Loss of Affect in Intellectual ActivityEmotion Review 4 (2): 122-126. 2012.In this article I will consider how loss of affect in our intellectual lives, through depression for example, can be as debilitating as loss of affect elsewhere in our lives. This will involve showing that there are such things as intellectual emotions, that their role in intellectual activity is not merely as an aid to the intellect, and that loss of affect changes not only one’s motivations, but also one’s overall evaluative take on the world
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123Virtues of ArtPhilosophy Compass 5 (10): 830-839. 2010.The idea that there is an important place in philosophical aesthetics for virtues of art is not new, but it is now undergoing a serious re‐examination. Why might this be? What are the principles behind virtue aesthetics? Are there any good arguments for the theory? (I will take virtue aesthetics to be the theory that there is a central place for virtues of art.) What problems does virtue aesthetics face? And what might the implications be of virtue aesthetics both in philosophy and in related di…Read more
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212Virtues of art and human well-beingAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 82 (1): 179-195. 2008.What is the point of art, and why does it matter to us human beings? The answer that I will give in this paper, following on from an earlier paper on the same subject, is that art matters because our being actively engaged with art, either in its production or in its appreciation, is part of what it is to live well. The focus in the paper will be on the dispositions—the virtues of art production and of art appreciation—that are necessary for this kind of active engagement with art. To begin with…Read more
Peter Goldie
Manchester
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ManchesterDepartment Of PhilosophySamuel Hall Chair In Philosophy
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Aesthetics |
Meta-Ethics |