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37Pleased and Afflicted: Hume on the Paradox of Tragic PleasureHume Studies 30 (2): 213-236. 2004.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Hume Studies Volume 30, Number 2, November 2004, pp. 213-236 Pleased and Afflicted: Hume on the Paradox of Tragic Pleasure E. M. DADLEZ How fast can you run? As fast as a leopard. How fast are you going to run? A whistle sounds the order that sends Archie Hamilton and his comrades over the top of the trench to certain death. Racing to circumvent that order and arriving seconds too late, Archie's friend Frank screams in rage and despa…Read more
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384Truly funny: Humor, irony, and satire as moral criticismJournal of Aesthetic Education 45 (1): 1-17. 2011.Comparatively speaking, philosophy has not been especially long-winded in attempting to answer questions about what is funny and why we should think so. There is the standard debate of many centuries’ standing between superiority and incongruity accounts of humor, which for the most part attempt to identify the intentional objects of our amusement.1 There is the more recent debate about humor and morality, about whether jokes themselves may be regarded as immoral or about whether it can in certa…Read more
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56Seeing and Imagination: Emotional Response to Fictional FilmMidwest Studies in Philosophy 34 (1): 120-135. 2010.
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51Post‐Abortion Syndrome: Creating an AfflictionBioethics 24 (9). 2009.The contention that abortion harms women constitutes a new strategy employed by the pro-life movement to supplement arguments about fetal rights. David C. Reardon is a prominent promoter of this strategy. Post-abortion syndrome purports to establish that abortion psychologically harms women and, indeed, can harm persons associated with women who have abortions. Thus, harms that abortion is alleged to produce are multiplied. Claims of repression are employed to complicate efforts to disprove the …Read more
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82Post-abortion syndrome: Creating an afflictionBioethics 24 (9): 445-452. 2009.The contention that abortion harms women constitutes a new strategy employed by the pro-life movement to supplement arguments about fetal rights. David C. Reardon is a prominent promoter of this strategy. Post-abortion syndrome purports to establish that abortion psychologically harms women and, indeed, can harm persons associated with women who have abortions. Thus, harms that abortion is alleged to produce are multiplied. Claims of repression are employed to complicate efforts to disprove the …Read more
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117Rape, evolution, and pseudoscience: Natural selection in the academyJournal of Social Philosophy 40 (1): 75-96. 2009.No Abstract
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49Spectacularly bad: Hume and Aristotle on tragic spectacleJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 63 (4). 2005.
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48Aesthetics and Humean aesthetic norms in the novels of Jane AustenJournal of Aesthetic Education 42 (1): 46-62. 2008.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Aesthetics and Humean Aesthetic Norms in the Novels of Jane AustenEva M. Dadlez (bio)IntroductionThe eighteenth century, Paul Oskar Kristeller tells us, in addition to crystallizing what we now call the fine arts, is also marked by an increased lay interest both in the arts and in criticism.1 Amateurs as well as philosophers ventured critical commentary on the arts. Talk concerning taste or beauty or the sublime was so much a part of…Read more
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2664Pleased and Afflicted: Hume on the Paradox of Tragic PleasureHume Studies 30 (2): 213-236. 2004.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Hume Studies Volume 30, Number 2, November 2004, pp. 213-236 Pleased and Afflicted: Hume on the Paradox of Tragic Pleasure E. M. DADLEZ How fast can you run? As fast as a leopard. How fast are you going to run? A whistle sounds the order that sends Archie Hamilton and his comrades over the top of the trench to certain death. Racing to circumvent that order and arriving seconds too late, Archie's friend Frank screams in rage and despa…Read more
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34Comments on Deborah K. Heikes' "Let's Be ReasonableSouthwest Philosophy Review 25 (2): 31-35. 2009.
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161Ideal Presence: How Kames Solved the Problem of Fiction and EmotionJournal of Scottish Philosophy 9 (1): 115-133. 2011.The problem of fiction and emotion is the problem of how we can be moved by the contemplation of fictional events and the plight of fictional characters when we know that the former have not occurred and the latter do not exist. I will give a general sketch of the philosophical treatment of the issue in the present day, and then turn to the eighteenth century for a solution as effective as the best that are presently on offer. The solution is to be found in the account of ideal presence given by…Read more
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10What's Hecuba to Him?: Fictional Events and Actual EmotionsPennsylvania State University Press. 1997.The goal of this dissertation is to demonstrate that construals of our emotional responses to fictions as irrational or merely pseudo-emotional are not the only explanations available to us, and that necessary and sufficient conditions for an emotional response to a fiction can be established without abandoning either its intentionality or the assignment of a causal role to our beliefs. ;Colin Radford's claim that our emotional responses to fictions are irrational and inconsistent is challenged …Read more
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33Kames on Ideal PresenceSouthwest Philosophy Review 26 (1): 17-25. 2010.The problem of fiction and emotion is the problem of how we can be moved by the contemplation of fi ctional events and the plight of fictional characters when we know that the former have not occurred and the latter do not exist. I will give a general sketch of the philosophical treatment of the issue in the present day, and then turn to the eighteenth century for a solution as effective as the best that are presently on offer. The solution is to be found in the account of ideal presence given b…Read more
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84The Vicious Habits of Entirely Fictive People: Hume on the Moral Evaluation of ArtPhilosophy and Literature 26 (1): 143-156. 2002.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Philosophy and Literature 26.1 (2002) 143-156 [Access article in PDF] The Vicious Habits of Entirely Fictitious People: Hume on the Moral Evaluation of Art Eva M. Dadlez DAVID HUME'S ESSAY, "Of the Standard of Taste," identifies aesthetic merits and defects of narrative works of art. 1 There is a passage toward the end of this essay that has aroused considerable interest among philosophers. In it, Hume writes of cases in which "vicio…Read more
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14Comments on Deborah K. Heikes' "Let's Be ReasonableSouthwest Philosophy Review 25 (2): 31-35. 2009.
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13Kames on Ideal PresenceSouthwest Philosophy Review 26 (1): 17-25. 2010.The problem of fiction and emotion is the problem of how we can be moved by the contemplation of fi ctional events and the plight of fictional characters when we know that the former have not occurred and the latter do not exist. I will give a general sketch of the philosophical treatment of the issue in the present day, and then turn to the eighteenth century for a solution as effective as the best that are presently on offer. The solution is to be found in the account of ideal presence given b…Read more
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56A Humean Approach to the Problem of Disgust and Aesthetic AppreciationEssays in Philosophy 17 (1): 55-67. 2016.Carolyn Korsmeyer has offered some compelling arguments for the role of disgust in aesthetic appreciation. In the course of this project, she considers and holds up for justifiable criticism the account of emotional conversion proposed by David Hume in “Of Tragedy”. I will consider variant interpretations of Humean conversion and pinpoint a proposal that may afford an explanation of the ways in which aesthetic absorption can depend on and be intensified by the emotion of disgust.
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David Hume and Jane Austen on pride : ethics in the enlightenmentIn Alexander John Dick & Christina Lupton (eds.), Theory and Practice in the Eighteenth Century: Writing Between Philosophy and Literature, Pickering & Chatto. 2008.
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