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16CHAPTER 8. Skeptic Purgatives: Disturbance and the Life without BeliefIn The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics, Princeton University Press. pp. 280-315. 2009.
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15Nature, function, and capability: Aristotle on political distributionWorld Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University. 1987.
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155. Public Philosophy and International FeminismIn Anne Applebaum (ed.), What is Philosophy?, Yale University Press. pp. 121-152. 2001.
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15Controversies in FeminismRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2000.Feminism was born in controversy and it continues to flourish in controversy. The distinguished contributors to this volume provide an array of perspectives on issues including: universal values, justice and care, a feminist philosophy of science, and the relationship of biology to social theory
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15Chapter SixProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 1 (1): 151-201. 1985.
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15Commentary on Halperin's' Plato and the Metaphysics of Desire'Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 5 (1): 53. 1989.
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152. The General Approach of Frontiers of Justice The general task of Frontiers of Justice was to continue a project I began in Women and Human Development (2000), confronting my version of the (review)In Eva Feder Kittay & Licia Carlson (eds.), Cognitive Disability and its Challenge to Moral Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 75. 2010.
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14Genética y Justicia: Tratar la enfermedad, respetar la diferenciaIsegoría 27 5-17. 2002.Las nuevas posibilidades abiertas por la investigación científica, especialmente en el campo de la genética, por un lado generan interrogantes morales hasta ahora desconocidos y, por otro, nos obligan a reformular de una manera totalmente nueva cuestiones y conceptos que hasta ahora funcionaban de forma adecuada. Así ocurre, por ejemplo, con las teorías de la justicia: estamos acostumbrados a que exista un acuerdo relativamente amplio en torno al concepto de persona, y la discusión se suele cent…Read more
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14A philosopher and a lawyer-economist examine the challenges of the last third of life. They write about friendship, sex, retirement communities, inheritance, poverty, and the depiction of aging women in films. These essays, or conversations, will help readers of all ages think about how to age well, or at least thoughtfully, and how to interact with older family members and friends.
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13CHAPTER 5. Beyond Obsession and Disgust: Lucretius on the Therapy of LoveIn The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics, Princeton University Press. pp. 140-191. 2009.
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13Transcendence and Human ValuesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 64 (2): 445-452. 2002.Robert Adams has written a most impressive book. To say that it is the major philosophical contribution to theocentric ethics in recent years, given moral philosophers’ general avoidance of religious topics, would be grossly inadequate praise. Nor would that judgment adequately convey the book’s fresh and subtle contributions to many more familiar topics in philosophical ethics, from the nature of ethical language to the virtues to the role of civil liberties in a pluralistic society. Most impre…Read more
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13Shame, separateness, and political unity: Aristotle's criticism of PlatoIn Amélie Rorty (ed.), Essays on Aristotle’s Ethics, University of California Press. pp. 395--435. 1980.
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13Changing Aristotle's MindIn Martha C. Nussbaum & Amelie Oksenberg Rorty (eds.), Essays on Aristotle's De Anima, Clarendon Press. pp. 27-56. 1992.
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13Review: Responses (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 68 (2). 2004.I am extremely grateful to these three fine philosophers for spending time on my arguments and for the valuable questions they pose. I feel that I am very lucky to have commentators whose views and writings on this topic I admire, and with whose ideas I have engaged before with pleasure and profit.
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12Why practice needs ethical theory: particularism, principle, and bad behaviorIn Brad Hooker & Margaret Olivia Little (eds.), Moral Particularism, Oxford University Press. pp. 227--55. 2000.
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12CHAPTER 10. The Stoics on the Extirpation of the PassionsIn The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics, Princeton University Press. pp. 359-401. 2009.
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12Power, Prose, and Purse: Law, Literature, and Economic Transformations (edited book)Oup Usa. 2019.Power, Prose, and Purse is an edited collection of essays that draw connections between literature, economics and law. The essays discuss novels that explore the time period between the Industrial Revolution and the Great Depression and analyze the insights that novelists may offer to law and economics, while noting the tensions among these paradigms.
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12Sex, Preference, and Family: Essays on Law and Nature (edited book)Oxford University Press USA. 1997.In this timely, provocative volume, essayists including Susan Moller Okin, Catherine A. MacKinnon, Cass Sunstein, Martha Minow, William Galston, and Sara McLanahan argue positions on sexuality, on the family, and on the proper role of law in these areas.
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11BibliographyIn The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics, Princeton University Press. pp. 517-530. 2009.
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11CHAPTER 7. “By Words, Not Arms”: Lucretius on Anger and AggressionIn The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics, Princeton University Press. pp. 239-279. 2009.
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11Perceptive equilibrium : literary theory and ethical theoryIn Garry Hagberg & Walter Jost (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Literature, Wiley-blackwell. 2007.This chapter contains sections titled: The Absence of the Ethical Reflective Equilibrium Straightness and Surprise Perception and Method Perception and Love Literary Theory and Ethical Theory.
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10CHAPTER 9. Stoic Tonics: Philosophy and the Self-Government of the SoulIn The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics, Princeton University Press. pp. 316-358. 2009.
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10Fatal Fictions: Crime and Investigation in Law and Literature (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2016.Writers of fiction have always confronted topics of crime and punishment. This age-old fascination with crime on the part of both authors and readers is not surprising, given that criminal justice touches on so many political and psychological themes essential to literature, and comes equippedwith a trial process that contains its own dramatic structure. This volume explores this profound and enduring literary engagement with crime, investigation, and criminal justice. The collected essays explo…Read more
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10Education for Citizenship in an Era of Global ConnectionIn Aaron Stoller & Eli Kramer (eds.), Contemporary Philosophical Proposals for the University: Toward a Philosophy of Higher Education, Springer Verlag. pp. 145-159. 2018.Higher education makes an important contribution to citizenship. In the United States, the required portion of the “liberal arts education” in colleges and universities can be reformed so as to equip students for the challenges of global citizenship. This chapter advocates focusing on three abilities: the Socratic ability to criticize one’s own traditions and to carry on an argument on terms of mutual respect for reason; the ability to think as a citizen of the whole world, not just some local r…Read more