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6AcknowledgmentsIn Wisdom Won From Illness: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, Harvard University Press. pp. 317-320. 2017.
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8Chapter Three. What Is A Crisis Of Intelligibility?In Wisdom Won From Illness: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, Harvard University Press. pp. 50-62. 2017.
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4Chapter Six. The Ironic Creativity Of Socratic DoubtIn Wisdom Won From Illness: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, Harvard University Press. pp. 103-119. 2017.
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3Chapter Thirteen. The Psychic Efficacy Of Plato’S CaveIn Wisdom Won From Illness: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, Harvard University Press. pp. 227-243. 2017.
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1ContentsIn Wisdom Won From Illness: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, Harvard University Press. 2017.
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2IntroductionIn Wisdom Won From Illness: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, Harvard University Press. pp. 1-10. 2017.
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36Wisdom Won From Illness: Essays in Philosophy and PsychoanalysisHarvard University Press. 2017.What is the appropriate relation of human reason to the human psyche--indeed, to human life--taken as a whole? The essays in this volume range over literature and ethics, psychoanalysis, social theory, and ancient Greek philosophy. But, from different angles, they all address this question. Wisdom Won from Illness probes deep into the heart of psychoanalysis to understand how it illuminates the human condition. At the same time it goes back to the origins of psychological thinking in ancient Gre…Read more
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18Chapter One. Wisdom Won From IllnessIn Wisdom Won From Illness: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, Harvard University Press. pp. 11-29. 2017.
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61The difficulty of reality and a revolt against mourningEuropean Journal of Philosophy 26 (4): 1197-1208. 2018.This paper considers Cora Diamond's conception of the difficulty of reality. It asks how one might think of this experience of difficulty in relation to Aristotle's conception of happiness (and unhappiness). It then takes up the phenomena of mourning and our conceptions of how to live more or less well with death and loss. It investigates whether a “revolt against mourning” might be understood in terms of the difficulty of reality.
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28Colloquium 3: The Efficacy of Myth in Plato’s RepublicProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 19 (1): 35-56. 2004.
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1It is by now a terrifying commonplace–agreed to by people across the political spectrum, indeed across the divide of civilizations–that our future well-being, and that of future generations, depends on shaping the hearts and minds of the young. Why do we think this? And do we have any idea how to do it well? Plato is the first person in the western tradition to think seriously about these questions and it is worth going back to him; not only as a return to origins, but because there are aspects of his ... (review)In Gerasimos Xenophon Santas (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Plato's Republic, Blackwell. pp. 25. 2006.
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25Allegory and myth in Plato's republicIn Gerasimos Xenophon Santas (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Plato's Republic, Blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains section titled: I II III IV V VI.
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104Avowal and unfreedom (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 69 (2): 448-454. 2004.1. In Authority and Estrangement, Richard Moran shows us with marvelous clarity how our capacity for avowal is constitutive of our freedom as rational agents. But philosophers also need to acknowledge that avowal plays a crucial role in keeping us unfree. This eludes Moran’s attention, I suspect, because he uses the therapeutic situation as a contrasting paradigm to our ordinary capacity for avowal.
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24Ruhelosigkeit, Phantasie und der Begriff des GeistesDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 57 (1): 49-71. 2009.To understand the weird intelligibility of irrational acts, we must account for the immanence of irrationality to mind. Traditional approaches which divide the mind into mindlike parts enter the problem at the wrong level: the level of configurations of propositional attitudes. But as in the case of Freud's Rat Man who interprets his irrationality as a case of akrasia in this sense, such approaches presuppose too much rationality in order to capture the phenomenon of irrationality. An explanatio…Read more
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L'amour et sa place dans la nature. Une interprétation philosophique de la psychanalyse freudienneRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 185 (4): 577-577. 1995.
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40Ironic Eros: Notes on a Fantastic PregnancyJournal of Philosophical Research 40 (Supplement): 181-190. 2015.This paper is an investigation of Plato’s thought that the disruptive force of Eros can lead us in a good direction. It takes seriously Diotima’s teaching to Socrates that the erotic encounter with the beautiful beloved stimulates a pregnancy in the lover. This paper argues that Plato did not, and we should not, think of this pregnancy merely as a metaphor or an allegory. The paper also argues that we misread Diotoma’s account of erotic ascent if we think of the lover as coming to disdain his fi…Read more
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Che cosa significa essere privati di un mondo? [What is it to be deprived of a world?]la Società Degli Individui 31 38-60. 2008.Siamo creature che hanno bisogno di dare senso alle cose. Non si tratta soltanto di un’importante esigenza psicologica, ma di una condizione per poter essere chi siamo. Ma a quali condizioni le cose possono avere senso? Un modo per studiare l’intelligibilità – la possibilità, cioè, che le cose abbiano senso – consiste nel prendere in considerazione quelle situazioni in cui l’intelligibilità sembra venire meno. Comprendendo queste condizioni-limite – quando e perché le cose smettono di aver…Read more
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17CatharsisIn Garry Hagberg & Walter Jost (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature, Wiley-blackwell. 2007.
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94XII*—Aristotelian InfinityProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 80 (1): 187-210. 1980.Jonathan Lear; XII*—Aristotelian Infinity, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 80, Issue 1, 1 June 1980, Pages 187–210, https://doi.org/10.1093/aris.
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24The Force of Argument: Essays in Honor of Timothy Smiley (edited book)Routledge. 2009.Timothy Smiley has made ground-breaking contributions to modal logic, free logic, multiple-conclusion logic, and plural logic. He has illuminated Aristotle’s syllogistic, the ideas of logical form and consequence, and the distinction between assertion and rejection, and has worked to debunk the theory of descriptions. This volume brings together new articles by an international roster of leading logicians and philosophers in order to honour Smiley’s work. Their essays will be of significant inte…Read more
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