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76The Glass Shatters and Ducks Turn into Rabbits: Bad Faith and Moral Luck: DialogueDialogue 47 (3-4): 583-602. 2008.ABSTRACT This article shows how the “problem of moral luck” and Sartre's concept of “bad faith” are mutually illuminating, since both have to do with confusions about how much we control, or are controlled by, our situations. I agree with three recent proposals that the problem of moral luck results from certain epistemic malfunctions. However, I argue that the problem cannot be dissolved by overcoming these malfunctions because they are rooted in bad faith. Against the currently dominant interp…Read more
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47The Meno's Metaphilosophical ExamplesSouthern Journal of Philosophy 45 (3): 395-412. 2007.I propose that an ill‐appreciated contrast between the examples Socrates gives Meno, to show him how he ought to philosophize, is the key to understanding the Meno. I contend that Socrates prefers his definitions of shape to his account of color because the former are concerned with what shape is, while the latter is concerned with how color comes to be. This contrast suggests that Plato intends an analogous contrast between the (properly philosophical) way of inquiry that leads to Socrates' def…Read more
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24Patients with bipolar disorder show a selective deficit in the episodic simulation of future eventsConsciousness and Cognition 20 (4): 1801-1807. 2011.A substantial body of evidence suggests that autobiographical recollection and simulation of future happenings activate a shared neural network. Many of the neural regions implicated in this network are affected in patients with bipolar disorder , showing altered metabolic functioning and/or structural volume abnormalities. Studies of autobiographical recall in BD reveal overgeneralization, where autobiographical memory comprises primarily factual or repeated information as opposed to details sp…Read more
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21Heidegger and Happiness: Dwelling on Fitting and BeingContinuum. 2009.If we were going to analyse the term 'happiness', we would want, for instance, to separate out its sense from those of ... We would be trying to determine just which phenomena count as happiness as opposed to something else, to decide ...
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12The Meno's Metaphilosophical ExamplesSouthern Journal of Philosophy 45 (3): 395-412. 2007.I propose that an ill‐appreciated contrast between the examples Socrates gives Meno, to show him how he ought to philosophize, is the key to understanding the Meno. I contend that Socrates prefers his definitions of shape to his account of color because the former are concerned with what shape is, while the latter is concerned with how color comes to be. This contrast suggests that Plato intends an analogous contrast between the (properly philosophical) way of inquiry that leads to Socrates' def…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Action |