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    The Interview
    The Philosophers' Magazine 52 (52): 21-30. 2011.
    “Philosophy is constitutive of good citizenship. It becomes part of what you are when you are a good citizen – a thoughtful person. Philosophy has manyroles. It can be just fun, a game that you play. It can be a way you try to approach your own death or illness, or that of a family member. I’m just focusing on the place where I think I can win over people, and say ‘Look here, you do care about democracy don’t you? Then you’d better see that philosophy has a place.’”
  •  167
    The Fragility of Goodness
    Journal of Philosophy 85 (7): 376-383. 1986.
  •  4
    Reflections
    with Sergei Uvarov
    Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children 7 (3): 31-31. 1988.
  •  5
    Philosophical Books vs. Philosophical Dialogue
    Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children 6 (2): 13-14. 1985.
  •  43
    Fictions of the Soul
    Philosophy and Literature 7 (2): 145-161. 1983.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Martha Nussbaum FICTIONS OF THE SOUL* Gertrude says, "O Hamlet speak no more. / Thou turnst mine eyes into my very soul." He made her see her soul, then, with a speech. And many types of speeches try to do what Hamlet did here. They present us with accounts or pictures of ourselves, attempting to communicate to us some truth about what we really are — or (to use what is already a certain sort of picture) to show us die insides of our…Read more
  •  4
    Commentary on Mourelatos
    Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 2 (1): 195-207. 1986.
  •  13
    Chapter Six
    Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 1 (1): 151-201. 1985.
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    Consequences and Character in Sophocles' Philoctetes
    Philosophy and Literature 1 (1): 25-53. 1976.
  •  21
    Aristotle's Man
    Philosophical Review 86 (2): 241. 1977.
  •  27
    The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World
    with Mary Midgley, Cass R. Sunstein, Michael Reiss, Roger Straughan, and Jeremy Rifkin
    Hastings Center Report 30 (2): 41. 2000.
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    The essays in this volume were written to celebrate the sixtieth birthday of G. E. L. Owen, who by his essays and seminars on ancient Greek philosophy has made a contribution to its study that is second to none.
  •  6
    Essays on Aristotle's de Anima (edited book)
    Oxford University Press UK. 1992.
    Aristotle's philosophy of mind has recently attracted renewed attention and respect from philosophers. This volume brings together outstanding new essays on De Anima by a distinguished international group of contributors including, in this paperback efdition, a new essay by Myles Burnyeat. The essays form a running commentary on the work, covering such topics as the relation between body and soul, sense-perception, imagination, memory, desire, and thought. the authors, writing with philosophical…Read more
  •  265
    Animal rights: current debates and new directions (edited book)
    Oxford University Press. 2004.
    Cass Sunstein and Martha Nussbaum bring together an all-star cast of contributors to explore the legal and political issues that underlie the campaign for animal rights and the opposition to it. Addressing ethical questions about ownership, protection against unjustified suffering, and the ability of animals to make their own choices free from human control, the authors offer numerous different perspectives on animal rights and animal welfare. They show that whatever one's ultimate conclusions, …Read more
  •  6
    The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance. In this classic work, Martha Nussbaum maintains that these Hellenistic schools have been unjustly neglected in recent philosophic accounts of what the classical "tradition" has to offer. By examining texts of philosophers such as Epicurus, Lucretius, and Seneca, she recovers a valuable source for current moral an…Read more
  •  7
    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
  •  14
    Amicus Brief
    Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 66 (1): 15-28. 2023.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Amicus BriefMartha C. Nussbaumii. summary of the argumentThis brief argues that the law requires reformation to protect our modern scientific and philosophical understanding that many animals can live their own meaningful lives and that the Court should reform the law in this case.1 Modern science demonstrates that elephants are complex beings that can form a conception of the self, as observed by Judge Fahey, form strong social and …Read more
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    Arion 2 (1)
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    The Utility of a Psychoanalytic Theory of Law
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 104 (3): 777-783. 2022.
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 104, Issue 3, Page 777-783, May 2022.
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    Putnam’s Aristotle
    In Sanjit Chakraborty & James Ferguson Conant (eds.), Engaging Putnam, De Gruyter. pp. 227-248. 2022.
  •  22
    Equity and Mercy
    In A. John Simmons, Marshall Cohen, Joshua Cohen & Charles R. Beitz (eds.), Punishment: A Philosophy and Public Affairs Reader, Princeton University Press. pp. 145-188. 1994.
  •  171
    Martha Nussbaum Interview
    The Philosophers' Magazine 52 21-30. 2011.
    “Philosophy is constitutive of good citizenship. It becomes part of what you are when you are a good citizen – a thoughtful person. Philosophy has manyroles. It can be just fun, a game that you play. It can be a way you try to approach your own death or illness, or that of a family member. I’m just focusing on the place where I think I can win over people, and say ‘Look here, you do care about democracy don’t you? Then you’d better see that philosophy has a place.’”
  •  64
    Goodness and Advice
    with Judith Jarvis Thomson, Philip Fisher, J. B. Schneewind, and Barbara Herrnstein Smith
    Princeton University Press. 2003.
    In my contribution to this volume, I (BHS) comment on on the stultifying rhetoric of contemporary analytic moral theory as illustrated in Judith Jarvis Thomson's Tanner Lectures, with particular reference to Thomson's anxieties about the moral relativism exhibited by college freshman and to her efforts--quite strained, in my view, and inevitably unsuccessful--to demonstrate the existence of objective judgments in matters of morality and taste .