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34Review of G. E. Scott: Moral Personhood: An Essay in the Philosophy of Moral Psychology (review)Ethics 101 (4): 866-867. 1991.
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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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30Moral Science? Still Metaphysical After All These YearsIn Darcia Narvaez & Daniel Lapsley (eds.), Personality, Identity, and Character, Cambridge University Press. pp. 52. 2009.
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29Against 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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28Review of Jerome Kagan and Sharon Lamb: The Emergence of Morality in Young Children (review)Ethics 99 (3): 644-647. 1989.
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26The 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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23“Can do” attitudes: Some positive illusions are not misbeliefsBehavioral and Brain Sciences 32 (6). 2009.McKay & Dennett (M&D) argue that positive illusions are a plausible candidate for a class of evolutionarily misbeliefs. I argue (Flanagan 1991; 2007) that the class of alleged positive illusions is a hodge-podge, and that some of its members are best understood as positive attitudes, hopes, and the like, not as beliefs at all
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23Self Expressions: Mind, Morals, and the Meaning of LifePhilosophical Review 107 (1): 128. 1998.Owen Flanagan is a highly prolific writer and speaker whose work brings together results of research in several empirical disciplines overlapping with philosophy, particularly neuroscience and other areas of psychology. This book of thirteen essays, most of them revisions of work published elsewhere, exhibits both his intellectual and his stylistic range. Many of the essays are light and chatty, others analytical and slower-going.
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23Does Yoga Induce Metaphysical Hallucinations?: Interdisciplinarity at the Edge: Comments on Evan Thompson's Waking, Dreaming, BeingPhilosophy East and West 66 (3): 952-958. 2016.Waking, Dreaming, Being is an unusual book in many ways. I mention two. First, in some ways it is a memoir. Few philosophers started as a child doing the sort of philosophy that they did as a grown-up. Evan did. Evan grew up in the intellectually fertile world of the Lindisfarne Association, the collaborative of scientists, artists, ecologists, and contemplatives founded by his father, William Irwin Thompson, a polymath, whom I had the pleasure of meeting in 2004 at the Crestone Zen Monastery in…Read more
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22Virtue Epistemology Naturalized: Bridges between Virtue Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (edited book)Synthese Library. 2014.Bridges Between Virtue Epistemology and Philosophy of Science 1 Abrol Fairweather Part I Epistemic Virtue, Cognitive Science and Situationism The Function of Perception 13 Peter J Graham Metacognition and Intellectual Virtue 33 Christopher Lepock Daring to Believe: Metacognition, Epistemic Agency and Reflective Knowledge 49 Fernando Broncano Success, Minimal Agency and Epistemic Virtue 67 Carlos Montemayor Towards a Eudaimonistic Virtue Epistemology 83 Berit Brogaard Expanding the Situationist C…Read more
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22Varieties of Moral Personality: Ethics and Psychological RealismHarvard University Press. 1991.Owen Flanagan argues in this book for a more psychologically realistic ethical reflection and spells out the ways in which psychology can enrich moral philosophy. Beginning with a discussion of such "moral saints" as Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Oskar Schindler, Flanagan charts a middle course between an ethics that is too realistic and socially parochial and one that is too idealistic, giving no weight to our natures.
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21Naturalizing Epistemic Virtue (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2014.An epistemic virtue is a personal quality conducive to the discovery of truth, the avoidance of error, or some other intellectually valuable goal. Current work in epistemology is increasingly value-driven, but this volume presents the first collection of essays to explore whether virtue epistemology can also be naturalistic, in the philosophical definition meaning 'methodologically continuous with science'. The essays examine the empirical research in psychology on cognitive abilities and person…Read more
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15The State of Nature in Comparative Political Thought: Western and Non-Western Perspectives (edited book)Lexington Books. 2013.
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13The natural method: essays on mind, ethics, and self in honor of Owen Flanagan (edited book)The MIT Press. 2020.This collection offers cutting-edge chapters on themes related to the philosophical work of Owen Flanagan. Flanagan is an influential philosopher in the late 20th and early 21st Century, whose wide-ranging work spans philosophy of mind (especially consciousness, identity, and the self), ethics and moral psychology, comparative philosophy, and philosophical study of psychopathology (especially disorders of self, dreams, and addiction). Flanagan is the author of numerous scholarly and popular arti…Read more
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12Science and the Modest Image of EpistemologyHumana Mente 5 (21). 2012.In Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man Wilfrid Sellars raises a problem for the very possibility of normative epistemology. How can the “scientific image”, which celebrates the causal relation among often imperceptible physical states, make room for justificatory relations among introspectible propositional attitudes? We sketch a naturalistic model of reason and of epistemic decisions that parallels a compatibilist solution to the problem of freedom of action. Not only doesn’t science lea…Read more
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12The Disappearance of IntrospectionPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 49 (3): 533-536. 1989.
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12Moral sprouts and natural teleologies: 21st century moral psychology meets classical Chinese philosophyMarquette University Press. 2014.Contemporary Western moral philosophy in harmony with classical Chinese philosophy, especially Buddhism.
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11Narrative and Consciousness: Literature, Psychology, and the Brain (edited book)Oxford University Press USA. 2003.We define our conscious experience by constructing narratives about ourselves and the people with whom we interact. Narrative pervades our lives--conscious experience is not merely linked to the number and variety of personal stories we construct with each other within a cultural frame, but is subsumed by them. The claim, however, that narrative constructions are essential to conscious experience is not useful or informative unless we can also begin to provide a distinct, organized, and empirica…Read more
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9A Mirror is for Reflection: Understanding Buddhist Ethics (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2017.This volume offers a rich and accessible introduction to contemporary research on Buddhist ethical thought for interested students and scholars, yet also offers chapters taking up more technical philosophical and textual topics. A Mirror is For Reflection offers a snapshot of the present state of academic investigation into the nature of Buddhist Ethics, including contributions from many of the leading figures in the academic study of Buddhist philosophy. Over the past decade many scholars have …Read more
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7Anguished ArtIn Jesse R. Steinberg & Abrol Fairweather (eds.), Blues -- Philosophy for Everyone: Thinking Deep About Feeling Low, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 75--83. 2012.
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6The Varieties of Moral PersonalityJournal of Religious Ethics 22 (1): 187-210. 1994.Views of the self may be plotted on a set of coordinates. On the axis that runs from fragmentation to unity, Rorty and Rorty's Freud champion the decentered self while Wallwork, Taylor, and Ricoeur argue for a sovereign, unified self. On the other axis, which runs from the disengaged, inward-turning self to the engaged and "sedimented" self, Wallwork, would be positioned near Rorty, defending self-creation against the narrative identity affirmed by Taylor and Ricoeur. Despite his skepticism conc…Read more
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