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79Emotions in Asian Thought: A Dialogue in Comparative Philosophy (edited book)SUNY Press. 1995.This book broadens the inquiry into emotion to comprehend a comparative cultural outlook. It begins with an overview of recent work in the West, and then proceeds to the main business of scrutinizing various relevant issues from both Asian and comparative perspectives. Original essays by experts in the field. Finally, Robert Solomon comments and summarizes.
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6The difference between motivation and desireIn J. Marks (ed.), The Ways of Desire, Precedent. pp. 133--147. 1986.
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77Moral moments: very short essays on ethicsUniversity Press of America. 2000.Very short essays, including op-ed articles, about ethical situations and issues in everyday life.
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Introduction: On the need for theory of desireIn J. Marks (ed.), The Ways of Desire, Precedent. pp. 1-15. 1986.
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118“There’s No Room in the Worksheet” and Other Fallacies about Professional Ethics in the CurriculumTeaching Ethics 4 (2): 77-88. 2004.Despite the apparently universal recognition of a pervasive "success at any cost" amorality in the professional and business world, and the need to do something about it, attempts to establish a campus-wide professional ethics curriculum continue to encounter resistance at many colleges and universities. The main stumbling block seems to be a purely practical one: How do you fit a course on professional ethics into academic worksheets that are already over-crowded with essential technical course…Read more
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241A theory of emotionPhilosophical Studies 42 (1): 227-242. 1982.I argue that emotions are belief/desire sets characterized by strong desire.
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64Review of O. H. Green's The Emotions: A Philosophical Theory (review)Ethics 103 (3): 574-576. 1993.
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132Ethics without morals: in defence of amoralityRoutledge. 2013.A defense of amorality as both philosophically justified and practicably livable. While in synch with their underlying aim of grounding human existence in a naturalistic metaphysics, this book takes both the new atheism and the mainstream of modern ethical philosophy to task for maintaining a complacent embrace of morality. It advocates instead replacing the language of morality with a language of desire. The book begins with an analysis of what morality is and then argues that the concept is no…Read more
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44Rats and Rationality and othersBioethics Forum. 2007.Various commentaries on the use of animals in biomedical research and related.
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109Animal Abolitionism Meets Moral Abolitionism: Cutting the Gordian Knot of Applied EthicsJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 10 (4): 1-11. 2013.The use of other animals for human purposes is as contentious an issue as one is likely to find in ethics. And this is so not only because there are both passionate defenders and opponents of such use, but also because even among the latter there are adamant and diametric differences about the bases of their opposition. In both disputes, the approach taken tends to be that of applied ethics, by which a position on the issue is derived from a fundamental moral commitment. This commitment in turn …Read more
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60On Due Recognition of Animals Used in ResearchJournal of Animal Ethics 1 (1): 6-8. 2011.The experimental laboratory can be a horror house for rats, monkeys, and other nonhuman animals. Yet their use in this setting is usually reported in a routine manner in publications that discuss the results. These contentions are illustrated with an analysis of the way animal evidence is presented in David J. Linden’s recent book, The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God (Harvard University Press, 2007). The article concludes with a call to science aut…Read more
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50A is for Animal: The Animal User’s LexiconBetween the Species 18 (1): 2-26. 2015.In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice, “When I use a word … it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” When Alice questions this license, Humpty Dumpty replies, “The question is … which is to be master — that’s all.” The present article offers a lexicon of words that are used by human beings, however unintentionally or ingenuously, to maintain their mastery or prerogatives over other animals. A motivating assumption of the article is …Read more
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