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147Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Shame: Methods, Theories, Norms, Cultures, and Politics (edited book)Lexington Books. 2019.Shame is one of the most stigmatized and stigmatizing of emotions. Often characterized as an emotion in which the subject holds a global, negative self-assessment, shame is typically understood to mark the subject as being inadequate in some way, and a sizable amount of work on shame focuses on its problematic or unhealthy aspects, effects, or consequences. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Shame brings into view a more balanced understanding of what shame is and its value and social function. T…Read more
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132Social Shame vs. Private Shame: A Real Dichotomy?PhaenEx 8 (1): 28-58. 2013.In the many studies of shame that have been carried out in several disciplines during the past years, shame has generally been understood as an emotion that bears importantly on our sense of self and has crucial implications for ethics. While most accounts of shame agree on several core aspects, notably taking shame to be an emotion of negative self-assessment, one main area of disagreement focuses on the question of whether shame is a social or a private emotion: whether it is essentially anxie…Read more
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87Pride, Shame, and Group IdentificationFrontiers in Psychology 7. 2016.Self-conscious emotions such as shame and pride are emotions that typically focus on the self of the person who feels them. In other words, the intentional object of these emotions is assumed to be the subject that experiences them. Many reasons speak in its favor and yet this account seems to leave a question open: how to cash out those cases in which one genuinely feels ashamed or proud of what someone else does? This paper contends that such cases do not necessarily challenge the idea that sh…Read more
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75Envy and usEuropean Journal of Philosophy 27 (1): 227-242. 2018.Within emotion theory, envy is generally portrayed as an antisocial emotion because the relation between the envier and the rival is thought to be purely antagonistic. This paper resists this view by arguing that envy presupposes a sense of us. First, we claim that hostile envy is triggered by the envier's sense of impotence combined with her perception that an equality principle has been violated. Second, we introduce the notion of â hetero-induced self-conscious emotionsâ by focusing on the pa…Read more
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45Emotional Self-Knowledge (edited book)Routledge. 2023.This volume sheds light on the affective dimensions of self-knowledge and the roles that emotions and other affective states play in promoting or obstructing our knowledge of ourselves. It is the first book specifically devoted to the issue of affective self-knowledge. The relation between self-knowledge and human emotions is an often emphasized, but poorly articulated one. While philosophers of emotion tend to give affectivity a central role in making us who we are, the philosophical literature…Read more
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27Shame and the Internalized OtherEtica E Politica 1 (XVII): 181-200. 2015.In Shame and Necessity, Bernard Williams engages in a forceful vindication of the ethical significance of shame. In his view, shame is an extremely productive moral emotion because of the distinctive connection that it establishes between self, others and world, through a self-evaluation that is mediated by an internalized other. In this paper, I examine Williams’ conception of the internalized other and contrast it with other ways of conceiving the role of others in shame. I argue that, althoug…Read more
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24Intersubjectivity and interaction as crucial for understanding the moral role of shame: a critique of TOSCA-based shame researchFrontiers in Psychology 5. 2014.
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19Sara Protasi: The Philosophy of Envy Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Hardback (ISBN 978-1-316-51917-2), £75. 260 pp (review)Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 25 (3): 517-519. 2022.Envy is a complex and intriguing emotion that has received too little philosophical attention in recent years. Sara Protasi has come to remedy that gap with an original, thorough and carefully researched monograph that defends the view that envy is not all vicious, that one of its varieties can be fully virtuous, and that it plays an important role in our moral psychology.
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18Review of Matthew Ratcliffe, Grief worlds: a study of emotional experience, Cambridge, Massachusetts: the MIT Press, 2022 (review)Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 1-7. forthcoming.
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15Editorial: Self-conscious emotions and group-identification - theoretical, empirical, and normative questionsFrontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.
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8False-Belief Tests and Understanding Others: Comment on Gallagher's 'The Problem with 3-Year-Olds'Journal of Consciousness Studies 22 (1-2): 187-190. 2015.
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3Er skam en moralsk følelse? En sammenligning af individuel og gruppebaseret skamKultur Og Klasse 125 (46). 2018.Is shame a moral emotion? After the Muhammad cartoons controversy, many Danes argued that freedom of speech should be limited by a sense of decency, that insulting Islam for the sake of insult was shameful. Ten years later, the Danish government’s anti-refugee policy led some to say they were ashamed of being Danish. Here shame is given moral significance as the guardian of decency. However, psychologists like Tangney and Dearing have claimed that shame is morally counter-productive: it makes us…Read more
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Social Shame vs. Private Shame: A Real Dichotomy?Phaenex: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture 8 (1). 2013.In the many studies of shame that have been carried out in several disciplines during the past years, shame has generally been understood as an emotion that bears importantly on our sense of self and has crucial implications for ethics. While most accounts of shame agree on several core aspects, notably taking shame to be an emotion of negative self-assessment, one main area of disagreement focuses on the question of whether shame is a social or a private emotion: whether it is essentially anxie…Read more
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SHAME, RECOGNITION AND LOVE IN SHAKESPEARE'S KING LEAR/Vergüenza, reconocimiento y amor en El Rey Lear de ShakespeareAzafea: Revista de Filosofia 2014 (16): 73-93. 2014.In this paper, I explore the experience of shame and its connections to recognition and love as manifested in Shakespeare's King Lear. My main focus in this paper is the ethical relevance of shame. I start from Sartre's account of shame in Being and Nothingness, and I consider Webber's attempt to reformulate it in terms of bad faith. I reject this and propose a way to rethink shame through a study of the workings of recognition in King Lear, following Stanley Cavell's reading of this tragedy. I …Read more
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