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47Emotional CorrectnessJournal of Philosophy of Emotion 2 (2): 8-16. 2021.First, I offer an analytic summary of the 10 main theses in Stephen Asma and Rami Gabriel’s The Emotional Mind. Second, I raise an objection about Asma and Gabriel’s assumption that the emotions have phenomenal sameness in individual psychology, across species and cultures. Third, I focus and develop a critique of Asma and Gabriel’s objections to evaluating emotions in terms of “correctness,” “aptness,” or “fittingness.” I argue that analyzing correctness is an essential task of normative inquir…Read more
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118The Science of the MindMIT Press. 1984.Consciousness emerges as the key topic in this second edition of Owen Flanagan's popular introduction to cognitive science and the philosophy of psychology....
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224Consciousness ReconsideredMIT Press. 1992.Owen Flanagan argues that we are on the way to understanding consciousness and its place in the natural order.
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32The Disunity of Addictive CravingsPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 27 (3): 243-246. 2020.Zoey Lavallee attempts to offer a unified account of addictive craving that explain what craving is across all substance and process addictions. They think that their theory of craving, if true, “bolsters social and psychological views of addiction” and undermines neurobiological theories. My own view is that addictive carvings are a disunified hodgepodge and thus that it is not possible to corral cravings for one addiction type into a unified kind, let alone to do so across addiction types. I a…Read more
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12The Disappearance of IntrospectionPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 49 (3): 533-536. 1989.
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31Review of Jerome Kagan and Sharon Lamb: The Emergence of Morality in Young Children (review)Ethics 99 (3): 644-647. 1989.
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37Review of Hans Joas: G.H. Mead: A Contemporary Re-Examination of His Thought (review)Ethics 99 (1): 180-181. 1988.
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634Naturalizing ethicsIn Walter Sinnott Armstrong (ed.), Moral Psychology, Vol. 1: The Evolution of Morality: Adaptations and Innateness, . pp. 1-26. 2007.In this essay we provide (1) an argument for why ethics should be naturalized, (2) an analysis of why it is not yet naturalized, (3) a defense of ethical naturalism against two fallacies—Hume’s and Moore’s—that ethical naturalism allegedly commits, and (4) a proposal that normative ethics is best conceived as part of human ecology committed to pluralistic relativism. We explain why naturalizing ethics both entails relativism and also constrains it, and why nihilism about value is not an especial…Read more
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275What is the nature of morality? A response to Casebeer, Railton and RuseIn Walter Sinnott Armstrong (ed.), Moral Psychology, Vol.1: The Evolution of Morality: Adaptations and Innateness, . pp. 45-52. 2007.A response to comments by William Casebeer, Peter Railton, and Michael Ruse on "Naturalizing Ethics" (2007).
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544The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates (edited book)MIT Press. 1997." -- "New Scientist" Intended for anyone attempting to find their way through the large and confusingly interwoven philosophical literature on consciousness, ..
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31Against the Drug Cure Model: Addiction, Identity, and PharmaceuticalsIn Dien Ho (ed.), Philosophical Issues in Pharmaceutics: Development, Dispensing, and Use, Springer. 2017.Recent advances in brain imaging methods as well as increased sophistication in neuroscientific modeling of the brain’s reward systems have facilitated the study of neural mechanisms associated with addiction such as processes associated with motivation, decision-making, pleasure seeking, and inhibitory control. These scientific activities have increased optimism that the neurological underpinnings of addiction will be delineated, and that pharmaceuticals that target and change these mechanisms …Read more
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110The Moral Psychology of Anger (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield. 2017.The Moral Psychology of Anger is the first comprehensive study of the moral psychology of anger from a philosophical perspective. The collection provides an inclusive view of anger from a variety of philosophical perspectives.
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86Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2018.Neuroexistentialism brings together some of the world's leading philosophers, neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, and legal scholars to tackle our neuroexistentialist predicament and explore what the mind sciences can tell us about morality, love, emotion, autonomy, consciousness, selfhood, free will, moral responsibility, criminal punishment, meaning in life, and purpose.
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27The Geography of Morals: Varieties of Moral PossibilityOxford University Press. 2016.The Geography of Morals is a work of extraordinary ambition: an indictment of the parochialism of Western philosophy, a comprehensive dialogue between cultural and psychological anthropology, recent work in empirical moral psychology, behavioral economics, and cross-cultural philosophy.
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3885Neuroexistentialism: Third-Wave ExistentialismIn Gregg D. Caruso & Owen J. Flanagan (eds.), Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience, Oxford University Press. 2018.Existentialism is a concern about the foundation of meaning, morals, and purpose. Existentialisms arise when some foundation for these elements of being is under assault. In the past, first-wave existentialism concerned the increasingly apparent inability of religion, and religious tradition, to provide such a foundation, as typified in the writings of Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche. Second-wave existentialism, personified philosophically by Sartre, Camus, and de Beauvoir, developed in r…Read more
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