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26Institutions, Emotions, and Group Agents (edited book)Springer. 2013.The contributions gathered in this volume present the state of the art in key areas of current social ontology. They focus on the role of collective intentional states in creating social facts, and on the nature of intentional properties of groups that allow characterizing them as responsible agents, or perhaps even as persons. Many of the essays are inspired by contemporary action theory, emotion theory, and theories of collective intentionality. Another group of essays revisits early phenomeno…Read more
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60Les ombres de l'âme: Penser les émotions négatives (edited book)Markus Haller. 2011.Les émotions peuvent être pénibles, voire néfastes. Pensons par exemple à la peur, la colère, la haine, la jalousie ou au mépris. De telles émotions sont souvent qualifiées de négatives. Mais que sont les émotions négatives et comment se distinguent-elles des émotions positives ? Plus généralement, qu’impliquent-elles pour notre compréhension des émotions ? Et quels sont concrètement leurs effets sur nos pensées et nos vies ? De plus, comment analyser l’ambivalence affective, comme quand on ress…Read more
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41Shadows of the Soul: Philosophical Perspectives on Negative Emotions (edited book)Routledge. 2011.Negative emotions are familiar enough, but they have rarely been a topic of study in their own right. This volume brings together fourteen chapters on negative emotions, written in a highly accessible style for non-specialists and specialists alike. It starts with chapters on general issues raised by negative emotions, such as the nature of valence, the theoretical implications of nasty emotions, the role of negative emotions in fiction, as well as the puzzles raised by ambivalent and mixed emot…Read more
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28IntroductionIn Christine Tappolet, Fabrice Teroni & Anita Konzelmann Ziv (eds.), Shadows of the Soul: Philosophical Perspectives on Negative Emotions, Routledge. pp. 1-9. 2018.
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120Bolzanian knowing: infallibility, virtue and foundational truthSynthese 183 (1): 27-45. 2011.The paper discusses Bernard Bolzano’s epistemological approach to believing and knowing with regard to the epistemic requirements of an axiomatic model of science. It relates Bolzano’s notions of believing, knowing and evaluation to notions of infallibility, immediacy and foundational truth. If axiomatic systems require their foundational truths to be infallibly known, this knowledge involves both evaluation of the infallibility of the asserted truth and evaluation of its being foundational. The…Read more
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33Knowledge, Emotion, Value and Inner Normativity: KEVIN Probes Collective PersonsPhilosophical Papers Dedicated to Kevin Mulligan. 2011.
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Self‐Evaluation – Philosophical PerspectivesIn Anita Konzelmann Ziv, Keith Lehrer & Hans Bernhard Schmid (eds.), Self‐Evaluation – Affective and Social Grounds of Intentionality, Springer. 2011.
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The Semantics of Shared EmotionUniversitas Philosophica 26 (52): 81-106. 2009.The paper investigates semantic properties of expressions that suggest the possibility that emotions are shared. An example is the saying that a sorrow shared is a sorrow halved. I assume that such expressions on sharing an emotion refer to a specific mode of subjective experience, displayed in first person attributions of the form 'We share E'. Subjective attributions of this form are intrinsically ambiguous on all levels of their semantic elements: 'emotion', 'sharing' and 'We'. One question t…Read more
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Zur Rolle von Kräften und Wahrscheinlichkeit in Bolzanos ErkenntnislehreDissertation, University of Geneva. 2005.
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« Beau à vomir »: L’écœurement devant la beauté physiqueIn Christine Tappolet, Fabrice Teroni & Anita Konzelmann Ziv (eds.), Les ombres de l’âme: Penser les émotions négatives, Haller. 2011.
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73Institutional virtue: how consensus mattersPhilosophical Studies 161 (1): 87-96. 2012.The paper defends the thesis that institutional virtue is properly modeled as a ‘‘consensual’’ property, along the lines of the Lehrer–Wagner model of consensus (LWC). In a first step, I argue that institutional virtue is not exhausted by duty-fulfilling, since institutions, contrary to natural individuals, are designed to fulfill duties. To avoid the charge of vacuity, virtue, if attributed to institutions, must be able to motivate supererogatory action. In a second step, I argue against …Read more
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L'intentionnalité collective – entre sujet pluriel et expérience individuelleIn Daniel Trom & Laurence Kaufmann (eds.), Qu'est‐ce qu'un collectif? Du commun à la politique, Ehess. 2010.
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Bernard Bolzano: Intentionality and the Foundations of MoralityIn Alessandro Salice (ed.), Intentionality, Philosophia. forthcoming.
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8Kräfte, Wahrscheinlichkeit und "Zuversicht": Bernard Bolzanos ErkenntnislehreAcademia Verlag. 2010.Die Studie untersucht die systematischen Beziehungen der zentralen Begriffe in Bernard Bolzanos Erkenntnistheorie, die einen logisch-semantischen Realismus mit einer kausalistischen Metaphysik des Geistes verknüpft. Bolzano situiert grundlegende epistemische Aktivitäten wie Vorstellen, Urteilen und Ableiten im Spannungsfeld von logischen Relationen und dem Kausalnexus mentaler Episoden. Die Studie erläutert die Bedeutung der prominenten Begriffe 'Kraft' und 'Wahrscheinlichkeit' im Hinblick auf d…Read more
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9Self-Evaluation – Affective and Social Grounds of Intentionality (edited book)Springer. 2011.The book contains contributions by leading figures in philosophy of mind and action, emotion theory, and phenomenology. As the focus of the volume is truly innovative we expect the book to sell well to both philosophers and scholars from neighboring fields such as social and cognitive science. The predominant view in analytic philosophy is that an ability for self-evaluation is constitutive for agency and intentionality. Until now, the debate is limited in two (possibly mutually related) ways: F…Read more
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