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432Platonic ErosIn Kierkegaard and the Greek World, I: Socrates and Plato, ed. by Jon Stewart and Katalin Nun, . pp. 105-114. 2010.Plato's 'Symposium': Kierkegaard and Platonic Eros
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912A cure for worry? Kierkegaardian faith and the insecurity of human existenceInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion 72 (3): 157-175. 2012.Abstract In his discourses on ‘the lily of the field and the bird of the air,’ Kierkegaard presents faith as the best possible response to our precarious and uncertain condition, and as the ideal way to cope with the insecurities and concerns that his readers will recognize as common features of human existence. Reading these discourses together, we are introduced to the portrait of a potential believer who, like the ‘divinely appointed teachers’—the lily and the bird—succeeds in leading a lif…Read more
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794Kierkegaard and Greek philosophyIn John Lippitt & George Pattison (eds.), The Oxford handbook of Kierkegaard, Oxford University Press. pp. 129-149. 2013.This chapter analyses Soren Kierkegaard's thoughts and opinions about ancient Greek philosophy. It examines the significance of Kierkegaard's references to Greek philosophy in his writings and suggests that his use of classical thought was part of his effort to define his own intellectual project. The chapter investigates how Greek philosophy influenced Kierkegaard's works and views about ethics, existential thought, Socratic faith, love, and virtue, and also considers what Kierkegaard believed …Read more
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568The Value of Being: Thoreau on Appreciating the Beauty of the WorldIn Rick Anthony Furtak, Jonathan Ellsworth & James D. Reid (eds.), Thoreau's importance for philosophy, Fordham University Press. pp. 112-126. 2012.
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2Truth, Love, and Falsity: Kierkegaard, the Stoics, and the Reliability of EmotionDissertation, The University of Chicago. 2003.According to Stoic moral psychology, emotions are cognitive responses to perceived value in the contingent world. This dissertation begins by defending a contemporary version of this descriptive theory; it then proceeds with a critique of the Stoics' normative thesis that emotions involve amorally deplorable kind of cognitive error. I distinguish two senses in which this thesis is historically put forward, and show that both are thematically pertinent. The structural variant, as I call it, is a …Read more
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18Review of C. Stephen Evans, Kierkegaard: An Introduction (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (11). 2009.
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50Estrangement and Moral AgencyPhilosophy in the Contemporary World 11 (2): 37-44. 2004.By taking seriously the state of moral estrangement, we may learn something about the conditions of moral participation. Yet analytic discussions of this topic (for instance, by Hare and Nagel) have frequently been handicapped by an inadequate understanding of the intentionality of emotion. In the work of Albert Camus, we find a superior appreciation of the sense in which the individual’s revolt against prevailing values could be a justified response to objective conditions. Although a sense of …Read more
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369'I Used to Care, but Things Have Changed': Passion and the Absurd in Dylan's Later WorkIn Peter Vernezze (ed.), Bob Dylan and Philosophy, edited by Peter Vernezze, . pp. 16-28. 2006.
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362Poetics of SentimentalityPhilosophy and Literature 26 (1): 207-215. 2002.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Philosophy and Literature 26.1 (2002) 207-215 [Access article in PDF] Notes and Fragments Poetics of Sentimentality Rick Anthony Furtak IN HIS MAJOR WORK, The Passions, Robert Solomon argues that emotions are judgments. 1 Through a series of persuasive examples, he shows that emotions are best understood as mental states which involve certain beliefs about the world. This means that every emotion has an object: if I am angry at John …Read more
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37Three Faces of Desire (review)Review of Metaphysics 59 (3): 680-682. 2006.Drawing upon neuroscientific research, Schroeder argues that there is biological evidence in favor of his philosophical conclusions. Specifically, the brain areas that show activity correlated with feelings of pleasure are distinguishable from those that seem to be associated with the consciousness of possible reward; and, in theory, these latter areas “could exist” in an organic being that lacked the capacity for behavior. At this point, the partly theoretical basis of Schroeder’s scientific cl…Read more
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69Kierkegaard's 'Concluding Unscientific Postscript': A Critical Guide (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2010.Søren Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript has provoked a lively variety of divergent interpretations for a century and a half. It has been both celebrated and condemned as the chief inspiration for twentieth-century existential thought, as a subversive parody of philosophical argument, as a critique of mass society, as a forerunner of phenomenology and of postmodern relativism, and as an appeal for a renewal of religious commitment. These 2010 essays written by international Kierkeg…Read more
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248A Review of Stephen Evans' (2009) Kierkegaard: An Introduction and Patrick Stokes' (2010) Kierkegaard's Mirrors: Interest, Self, and Moral Vision (review)Southwest Philosophy Review 26 (2): 119-123. 2010.A review of two recent books on Kierkegaard's thought, with attention to his relevance for ethics, phenomenology, and metaphysics.
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