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47Moral Contagion and Logical Persuasion in the Mozi ()Journal of Chinese Philosophy 35 (3): 473-491. 2008.No Abstract
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69Identity and addiction: what alcoholic memoirs teachIn K. W. M. Fulford, Martin Davies, Richard Gipps, George Graham, John Sadler, Giovanni Stanghellini & Tim Thornton (eds.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy and psychiatry, Oxford University Press. pp. 865. 2013.Chapter 51 focuses on the subjective side of alcoholism, specifically about what memoirs of alcoholism teach about alcoholism, and argue that a common theme in many memoirs is that drinking, sometimes heavy drinking, a prerequisite of addiction, was modelled, endorsed, and eventually achieved in a way that involves deep identification, and also argues that alcoholic memoirs, even assuming that they suffer from objectivity problems such as the latter, nonetheless serve an important function, and …Read more
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81Han Fei zi's philosophical psychology: Human nature, scarcity, and the neo-Darwinian consensusJournal of Chinese Philosophy 38 (2): 293-316. 2011.
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113Varieties 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 Shindler, 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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80Against HappinessColumbia University Press. 2023.The “happiness agenda” is a worldwide movement that claims that happiness is the highest good, happiness can be measured, and public policy should promote happiness. Against Happiness is a thorough and powerful critique of this program, revealing the flaws of its concept of happiness and advocating a renewed focus on equality and justice. Written by an interdisciplinary team of authors, this book provides both theoretical and empirical analysis of the limitations of the happiness agenda. The aut…Read more
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Conceptualizing James. The character of consciousnessIn David Howell Evans (ed.), Understanding James, Understanding Modernism, Bloomsbury. 2017.
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29Self 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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58Multiplex vs. multiple selves: Distinguishing dissociative disordersThe Monist 82 (4): 645-657. 1999.
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987Neuroexistentialism, Eudaimonics, and Positive IllusionsIn Byron Kaldis (ed.), Mind and Society: Cognitive Science Meets the Philosophy of the Social Sciences. SYNTHESE Philosophy Library Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, & Philosophy of Science, Springer Science+business. forthcoming.There is a distinctive form of existential anxiety, neuroexistential anxiety, which derives from the way in which contemporary neuroscience provides copious amounts of evidence to underscore the Darwinian message—we are animals, nothing more. One response to this 21st century existentialism is to promote Eudaimonics, a version of ethical naturalism that is committed to promoting fruitful interaction between ethical inquiry and science, most notably psychology and neuroscience. We argue that phil…Read more
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154Varieties of naturalismIn Philip Clayton & Zachory Simpson (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science, Oxford University Press. pp. 430--452. 2006.Accession Number: ATLA0001712242; Hosting Book Page Citation: p 430-452.; Language(s): English; General Note: Bibliography: p 451-452.; Issued by ATLA: 20130825; Publication Type: Essay
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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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1"The Disappearance of Introspection" by William Lyons (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 49 (3): 533. 1989.
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84The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material WorldBradford. 2007.If consciousness is "the hard problem" in mind science -- explaining how the amazing private world of consciousness emerges from neuronal activity -- then "the really hard problem," writes Owen Flanagan in this provocative book, is explaining how meaning is possible in the material world. How can we make sense of the magic and mystery of life naturalistically, without an appeal to the supernatural? How do we say truthful and enchanting things about being human if we accept the fact that we are f…Read more
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4The robust phenomenology of the stream of consciousnessIn Ned Block, Owen Flanagan & Guven Guzeldere (eds.), The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates, Mit Press. pp. 89--93. 1997.
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53Pragmatism, ethics, and correspondence truth: Response to Gibson and QuineEthics 98 (3): 541-549. 1988.
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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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13Science 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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77Science and the Modest Image of EpistemologyHuman.Mente - Journal of Philosophical Studies 21. 2012.
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2John Haugeland, Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea (review)Philosophy in Review 6 474-476. 1986.
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