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292Pansexuality: A Closer Look at Sexual OrientationPhilosophies 8 (4): 60. 2023.‘What is ‘sexual orientation’ for?’ is a question we need to answer when addressing a more seemingly basic one, ‘what is sexual orientation?’. The concept of sexual orientation is grounded in the concepts of sex and/or gender since it refers to the sex or gender of the individuals one is sexually attracted to. Typical categories of sexual orientation such as ’heterosexual’, ‘homosexual’, and ‘bi-sexual’ all rely on a sex or gender binary. Yet, it is now common practice to recognize sex and gende…Read more
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1261Emotional InjusticeErgo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 11 (6): 150-176. 2024.In this article we develop a taxonomy of emotional injustice: what occurs when the treatment of emotions is unjust, or emotions are used to treat people unjustly. After providing an overview of previous work on this topic and drawing inspiration from the more developed area of epistemic injustice, we propose working definitions of ‘emotion’, ‘injustice’, and ‘emotional injustice’. We describe seven classes of emotional injustice: Emotion Misinterpretation, Discounting, Extraction, Policing, Expl…Read more
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157Ronnie de Sousa, French Philosopher?A Tribute to Ronald de Sousa. 2022.Although trained in the Anglophone analytic tradition, the French education of his formative years seems to have left its mark on Ronnie de Sousa’s thinking and writing. He appeals to temperament as an explanation for fundamental attitudes to life: neither the quest for a source of meaning in God or nature, nor his own tendency to relish life’s meaninglessness can be grounded in reason. To show this, Ronnie has argued that there is no such thing as human nature, and that appeals to evolution can…Read more
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1177The Moral Psychology of Love (or How to Think About Love): IntroductionIn Arina Pismenny & Berit Brogaard (eds.), The Moral Psychology of Love. pp. 1-10. 2022.
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850Vices of FriendshipIn Arina Pismenny & Berit Brogaard (eds.), The Moral Psychology of Love. pp. 231-253. 2022.In this paper, we argue that the neo-Aristotelian conception of “friendships of character” appears to misrepresent the essential nature of "genuine", or "true", friendship. We question the neo-Aristotelian imperative that true friendship entails disinterested love of the other “for their own sake” and strives at enhancing moral virtue. We propose an alternative conception of true friendship as involving affective and motivational features which we call closeness, intimacy, identity, and trust. E…Read more
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42Boredom and Its ValuesJournal of Philosophy of Emotion 3 (2): 27-34. 2022.In this commentary on Elpidorou‘s book, I first note a certain arbitrariness in his choice, for his purpose of showing the bright side of negative emotions, of boredom, frustration, and anticipation. Many other emotions carry negative valence and might be said to be useful in motivating us to avoid or escape them. I then focus on boredom, and consider four candidates for the role of its formal object. All four turn out to be problematic. I then consider the moral and prudential value of boredom,…Read more
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44The Moral Psychology of Love (edited book)Rowman and Littlefield. 2022.This book will explore the moral dimensions of love from the standpoint of political philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience.
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707The Amorality of Romantic LoveIn Rachel Fedock, Michael Kühler & T. Raja Rosenhagen (eds.), Love, Justice, and Autonomy: Philosophical Perspectives, Routledge. pp. 23-42. 2021.It has been argued that romantic love is an intrinsically moral phenomenon – a phenomenon that is directly connected to morality. The connection is elucidated in terms of reasons for love, and reasons of love. It is said that romantic love is a response to moral reasons – the moral qualities of the beloved. Additionally, the reasons that love produces are also moral in nature. Since romantic love is a response to moral qualities and a source of moral motivation, it is itself moral. This chapter…Read more
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17L'erotismeIn Julien A. Deonna & Emma Tieffenbach (eds.), Petit Traité des Valeurs, Edition D’ithaque. pp. 132-139. 2018.
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1573Is love an emotion?In Christopher Grau & Aaron Smuts (eds.), "Introduction" for the Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Love, Oxford University Press. 2024.What kind of mental phenomenon is romantic love? Many philosophers, psychologists, and ordinary folk treat it as an emotion. This chapter argues the category of emotion is inadequate to account for romantic love. It examines major emotion theories in philosophy and psychology and shows that they fail to illustrate that romantic love is an emotion. It considers the categories of basic emotions and emotion complexes, and demonstrates they too come short in accounting for romantic love. It assesse…Read more
The Graduate Center, CUNY
PhD, 2018
APA Eastern Division
Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Ethical Theories, Miscellaneous |
Moral Psychology |
Philosophy of Mind |
Theories of Emotion |
Philosophy of Love |