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69“This Endless Space between the Words”: The Limits of Love in Spike Jonze'sHerMidwest Studies in Philosophy 39 (1): 120-143. 2015.
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49“Like a Picture or a Bump on the Head”: Vision, Cognition, and the Language of PoetryMidwest Studies in Philosophy 33 (1): 131-158. 2009.No Abstract
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50Beauty, evil, andPhilosophy and Literature 28 (1): 23-40. 2004.: Can literature provide moral insight? Or can literary works do nothing more than reflect the moral views that readers bring to them? We argue that literary works can provide genuine moral insight by discussing one that does. Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient challenges two key assumptions about moral evil: that evil necessarily involves active malevolence, and that evil and aesthetic beauty are mutually exclusive. These assumptions play foundational roles both in everyday moral thinking, …Read more
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15Two. Love’s Blindness : Love’s Closed HeartIn Love's Vision, Princeton University Press. pp. 28-45. 2011.
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172Love’s VisionPrinceton University Press. 2011."Something in between : on the nature of love" -- Love's blindness (1) : love's closed heart -- Love's blindness (2) : love's friendly eye -- Beyond comparison -- Commitments, values, and frameworks -- Valuing persons -- Love and morality -- Afterword. Between the universal and the particular.
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12Five. Commitments, Values, and FrameworksIn Love's Vision, Princeton University Press. pp. 95-122. 2011.
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175Terrorism, War, and The Killing of the InnocentEthical Theory and Moral Practice 10 (4): 353-372. 2007.Commonsense moral thought holds that what makes terrorism particularly abhorrent is the fact that it tends to be directed toward innocent victims. Yet contemporary philosophers tend to doubt that the concept of innocence plays any significant role here, and to deny that prohibitions against targeting noncombatants can be justified through appeal to their moral innocence. I argue, however, that the arguments used to support these doubts are ultimately unsuccessful. Indeed, the philosophical posit…Read more
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8On LoyaltyRoutledge. 2012.Loyalty is a highly charged and important issue, often evoking strong feelings and actions. What is loyalty? Is loyalty compatible with impartiality? How do we respond to conflicts of loyalties? In a global era, should we be trying to transcend loyalties to particular political communities? Drawing on a fascinating array of literary and cinematic examples - The Remains of the Day , No Country for Old Men , The English Patient , The Third Man , and more - Troy Jollimore expertly unravels the phen…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Aesthetics |
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |