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103Love's realism: Iris Murdoch and the importance of being humanEuropean Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.Defenders of two Rationality Views of love—the Qualities View and the Personhood View—have drawn on Iris Murdoch's philosophical writings to highlight a connection between love and a “realistic” perspective on the beloved. Murdoch does not inform the basic structure of these views—she is rather introduced as a supplement who shows that in love, we pay accurate, nuanced, unguarded, and unflinching attention to the other. In this paper, I contend that these authors have failed to see that Murdoch …Read more
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149Paradox and discovery: Iris Murdoch, John Wisdom, and the practice of linguistic philosophyEuropean Journal of Philosophy 31 (4): 982-995. 2023.This article argues that Iris Murdoch, who was supervised by John Wisdom during her 1947–48 fellowship at Newnham College Cambridge, went on to practice philosophy in a recognizably Wisdomian manner in her earliest paper, “Thinking and Language” (1951). To do so, I first describe how Wisdom understood philosophical perplexity and paradox. One task that linguistic philosophers should take up is to investigate the concrete cases that give paradoxical philosophical statements their sense and to sif…Read more
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149The Case of M and D in Context: Iris Murdoch, Stanley Cavell and Moral Teaching and LearningJournal of Philosophy of Education 54 (2): 425-448. 2020.Iris Murdoch's famous case of M and D illustrates the moral importance of learning to see others in a more favourable light through renewed attention. Yet if we do not read this case in the wider context of Murdoch's work, we are liable to overlook the attitudes and transformations involved in coming to change one's mind as M does. Stanley Cavell offers one such reading and denies that the case represents a change in M's sense of herself or the possibilities for her world of the kind exemplified…Read more
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20Teaching, learning and philosophising as metaphysical animals: IntroductionJournal of Philosophy of Education 56 (6): 807-811. 2022.In recent years, a new scholarly gaze has been cast on four women‒Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch‒who have come to be known as the ‘Wartime Quartet’. During the postwar period, when women were still scarce in the discipline, these four flourished as philosophers. New details about their wartime education give us materials to reflect on what enabled them to develop their unique philosophical voices. Their work dispels widespread philosophical dogmas, especially s…Read more
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174Iris Murdoch’s Practical Metaphysics: A Guide to her Early WritingsSpringer Verlag. 2023.This book explores Iris Murdoch as a philosopher who, through her distinctive methodology, exploits the advantages of having a mind on the borders of literature and politics in her early career writings (pre-The Sovereignty of Good). By focusing on a single decade of Murdoch’s early career, Jamieson tracks connections between her views on the state of literature and politics in postwar Britain and her approach to the philosophy of mind and moral philosophy. Furthermore, this close study reveals …Read more
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University of PardubiceCentre for Ethics As Study In Human Value, Department of Philosophy and Religious StudiesAssistant Professor
Pardubice, Czechia