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    Impersonal Friends
    The Monist 74 (1): 3-29. 1991.
    The rationality of concern for oneself has been taken for granted by the authors of western moral and political thought in a way in which the rationality of concern for others has not. While various authors have differed about the morality of self-concern, and about the extent to which such concern is rationally required, few have doubted that we have at least some special reasons to care for our selves, reasons that differ either in degree or in kind from those we have to care for others. The r…Read more
  •  400
    Aristotle’s Function Argument
    Ancient Philosophy 8 (1): 33-48. 1988.
  •  388
    Aristotle, Kant, and the Stoics: Rethinking Happiness and Duty (edited book)
    Cambridge University Press. 1996.
    This major collection of essays offers the first serious challenge to the traditional view that ancient and modern ethics are fundamentally opposed. In doing so, it has important implications for contemporary ethical thought, as well as providing a significant re-assessment of the work of Aristotle, Kant and the Stoics. The contributors include internationally recognised interpreters of ancient and modern ethics. Four pairs of essays compare and contrast Aristotle and Kant on deliberation and mo…Read more
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    Human Nature and Intellectualism in Aristotle
    Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 68 (1): 70-95. 1986.
  •  198
    Eudaimonia, external results, and choosing virtuous actions for themselves
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65 (2): 270-290. 2002.
    Aristotle's requirement that virtuous actions be chosen for themselves is typically interpreted, in Kantian terms, as taking virtuous action to have intrinsic rather than consequentialist value. This raises problems about how to reconcile Aristotle's requirement with (a) the fact that virtuous actions typically aim at ends beyond themselves (usually benefits to others); and (b) Aristotle's apparent requirement that everything (including virtuous action) be chosen for the sake of eudaimonia. I of…Read more
  •  108
    Strong Dialectic, Neurathian Reflection, and the Ascent of Desire: Irwin and Mcdowell on Aristotle’s Methods of Ethics
    Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 17 (1): 61-122. 2002.
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    Love: self-propagation, self-preservation, or ekstasis?
    Canadian Journal of Philosophy 43 (4): 403-429. 2013.
    My title refers to three accounts of interpersonal love: the rationalist account that Terence Irwin ascribes to Plato; the anti-rationalist but strikingly similar account that Harry Frankfurt endorses in his own voice; and the ‘ekstatic’ account that I – following the lead of Martha Nussbaum – find in Plato's Phaedrus. My claim is that the ekstatic account points to important features of interpersonal love to which the other accounts fail to do justice, especially reciprocity and a regulative id…Read more
  •  91
    Form and Individuation in Aristotle
    History of Philosophy Quarterly 3 (4). 1986.
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    This chapter contains sections titled: I II III IV.
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    Hylomorphic virtue: cosmology, embryology, and moral development in Aristotle
    Philosophical Explorations 22 (2): 222-242. 2019.
    Aristotle is traditionally read as dividing animal souls into three parts, while dividing human souls into four parts (a rational part, with theoretical and pr...
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    Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory
    Philosophical Review 106 (4): 610. 1997.
    True to his longstanding bias against grand unifying theories, Hacking chooses to pursue these questions by focusing on a specific case of memory-thinking: the history of multiple personality. His excavation of the contemporary terrain leads him, however, to the surprisingly grand conclusion that the various sciences of memory—including neurological studies of localization, experimental studies of recall, and studies in the psychodynamics of memory—all emerged in connection with attempts to “sci…Read more
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    The nicomachean account of philia
    In Richard Kraut (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Blackwell. pp. 276--304. 2006.
    The prelims comprise: Preliminary Note Eudaimonism and Rational Egoism NE VIII.1: Nicomachean Context and Platonic Background NE VIII.2: Aristotle's Preliminary Account NE VIII.3–4: Three Forms of Philia? NE IX.4–6: Ta Philika versus the Defining Features of Philia Digression on Dia: Efficient Causal, Final Causal, or Both? NE IX.7 (VIII.8 and 12): Benefactors, Poets, and Parents Ethnocentrism and Aristotle's Ethocentric Ideal NE IX.9: The Lysis Puzzle Revisited Contemplative (versus Engaged) Pl…Read more
  •  64
    Metasubstance: Critical notice of Frede-Patzig and Furth
    Philosophical Review 100 (4): 607-639. 1991.
  •  58
    Back to “The Self and the Future”
    Philosophical Topics 26 (1-2): 441-477. 1999.
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    This collection of essays contains revised versions of papers delivered at a conference entitled “Duty, Interest, and Practical Reason: Aristotle, Kant, and the Stoics” that was organized by Stephen Engstrom and Jennifer Whiting at the University of Pittsburgh in 1994. One of the main aims of the conference was to bring together scholars on Aristotle, the Stoics, and Kant to reevaluate the common view that Greek and Kantian ethics represent fundamentally opposed conceptions of ethical theory and…Read more
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    Rewriting the Soul (review)
    Philosophical Review 106 (4): 610-614. 1997.
    True to his longstanding bias against grand unifying theories, Hacking chooses to pursue these questions by focusing on a specific case of memory-thinking: the history of multiple personality. His excavation of the contemporary terrain leads him, however, to the surprisingly grand conclusion that the various sciences of memory—including neurological studies of localization, experimental studies of recall, and studies in the psychodynamics of memory—all emerged in connection with attempts to “sci…Read more
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    Eudaimonia, External Results, and Choosing Virtuous Actions for Themselves
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65 (2): 270-290. 2002.
    Aristotle’s requirement that virtuous actions be chosen for themselves is typically interpreted, in Kantian terms, as taking virtuous action to have intrinsic rather than consequentialist value. This raises problems about how to reconcile Aristotle’s requirement with (a) the fact that virtuous actions typically aim at ends beyond themselves (usually benefits to others); and (b) Aristotle’s apparent requirement that everything (including virtuous action) be chosen for the sake of eudaimonia. I of…Read more
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    Comments on Susan Suavé's “Why Involuntary Actions Are Painful”
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 27 (S1): 159-167. 1989.
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    Aristotle on Form and Generation
    Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 6 (1): 35-63. 1990.
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    In her essay collection First, Second, and Other Selves: Essays on Friendship and Personal Identity, well-known scholar of ancient philosophy Jennifer Whiting gathers her previously published essays taking Aristotle's theories on friendship as a springboard to engage with contemporary philosophical work on personal identity and moral psychology. Whiting examines three themes throughout the collection, the first being psychic contingency, or the belief that the psychological structures characteri…Read more
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    Locomotive soul: the parts of soul in Aristotle's scientific works'
    Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 22 141-200. 2002.
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    Annette Baier is my philosophical foremother. This paper examines Baier’s views on such topics as personal identity and philosophical methodology. It also examines the idea of motherhood, and the various forms that it takes.
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    Body and soul: essays on Aristotle's hylomorphism
    Oxford University Press. 2023.
    Essays on Aristotle's "hylomorphism" - i.e., his conception of an organism's body as standing to its soul as matter (hulê) to form (morphê). Common readings - that there is only one form per species and that matter is what distinguishes individuals within a species from one another - are rejected in favor of the view that each member of a biological species has its own numerically distinct form. Original grounds are given for Aristotle's conception of soul as "the form and essence" of an organ…Read more
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    9. See the Right Thing: “Paternal” Reason, Love, and Phronêsis
    In Matthew Boyle & Evgenia Mylonaki (eds.), Reason in Nature: New Essays on Themes From John Mcdowell, Harvard University Press. pp. 243-284. 2022.
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    Persons and Passions: Essays in Honor of Annette Baier (edited book)
    with Joyce Jenkins and Christopher Williams
    University of Notre Dame Press. 2005.
    Persons and passions : an introduction / Christopher Williams What are the passions doing in the Meditations? / Lisa Shapiro Love in the ruins : passion in Descartes’ Meditations / William Beardsley The passionate intellect : reading the opposition of reason and emotions in Descartes / Amy Schmitter Material falsity and the arguments for God’s existence in Descartes’ Meditations / Cecilia Wee Reason unhinged : passion and precipice from Montaigne to Hume / Saul Traiger Reflection and ideas in Hu…Read more