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250“Doing and Allowing” and Doing and AllowingEthics 115 (4): 799-808. 2005.We reply to Scheffler's "Doing and Allowing."
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195Plural and conflicting valuesOxford University Press. 1989.Plural and conflicting values are often held to be conceptually problematic, threatening the very possibility of ethics, or at least rational ethics. Rejecting this view, Stocker first demonstrates why it is so important to understand the issues raised by plural and conflicting values, focusing on Aristotle's treatment of them. He then shows that plurality and conflict are commonplace and generally unproblematic features of our everyday choice and action, and that they do allow for a sound and r…Read more
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169Psychic feelings: Their importance and irreducibilityAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 61 (1): 5-26. 1983.This Article does not have an abstract
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127Some problems about affectivityPhilosophical Studies 108 (1-2): 151-158. 2002.Neu's work is splendid. In addition to offering wonderfully illuminating characterizations of various emotions, it helps show that these individual characterizations, rather than an overall characterization of emotions or affectivity, have always been Neu's main concern. Nonetheless he is concerned with specific instances of, and often the general nature of, affectivity: what differentiates mere thoughts, desires, and values from emotions where the complex is affectively charged. I argue that …Read more
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114Valuing EmotionsCambridge University Press. 1996.This 1996 book is the result of a uniquely productive union of philosophy, psychoanalysis and anthropology, and explores the complexity and importance of emotions. Michael Stocker places emotions at the very centre of human identity, life and value. He lays bare how our culture's idealisation of rationality pervades the philosophical tradition and leads those who wrestle with serious ethical and philosophical problems into distortion and misunderstanding. Professor Stocker shows how important ar…Read more
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102Morally Good IntentionsThe Monist 54 (1): 124-141. 1970.In this paper I present an analysis of morally good intentions. My starting point is one version of what can be called The Traditional Analysis
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93Acts, Perfect Duties, and Imperfect DutiesReview of Metaphysics 20 (3). 1967.What I have just said strikes me as not only paradoxical but true. In what follows I shall try to show that it is not all that paradoxical and that it is true. In order to show this, and in order to discuss some important and neglected features of act and duty individuation, I shall contrast the concepts of perfect duty and imperfect duty.
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75Responsibility and the Abuse ExcuseSocial Philosophy and Policy 16 (2): 175. 1999.Does a woman's being repeatedly battered by her husband excuse her killing him while he was asleep? This and similar questions are often dealt with by asking a more general question, “Should we accept abuse excuses? ” These questions engender a lot of heat, but little light, in the media and other public forums, and even in the writings of many theorists. They have been discussed as if there is a typical abuse excuse we can examine in order to examine abuse excuses in general. Similarly, the que…Read more
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61Shame and guiltIn Paul Bloomfield (ed.), Morality and Self-Interest, Oxford University Press. 2008.Confucius, Plato, and Aristotle would agree on three propositions: genuine virtue represents a kind of second nature, a result of education such that patterns of choice become natural and predictable that would not be natural and predictable for the average person; there are patterns of gratification attendant on genuine virtue, that involve deeper values than most of the things that people pursue in life; and because of these, genuine virtue is always in a person's self-interest. The word “grat…Read more
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61Shame and Guilt: Self Interest and MoralityIn Paul Bloomfield (ed.), Morality and Self-Interest, Oxford University Press. 2008.Confucius, Plato, and Aristotle would agree on three propositions: genuine virtue represents a kind of second nature, a result of education such that patterns of choice become natural and predictable that would not be natural and predictable for the average person; there are patterns of gratification attendant on genuine virtue, that involve deeper values than most of the things that people pursue in life; and because of these, genuine virtue is always in a person's self-interest. The word “grat…Read more
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59Valuing EmotionsPhilosophical Review 107 (4): 617. 1998.Stocker intends this book to redress the common failures of contemporary moral philosophers to see the importance of emotions for their field. His aim is not merely to point out deficiencies in current thinking about emotions and their place in ethics, however. It is also to show how emotions are important for ethics. The book is divided into ten chapters, four of which are written in collaboration with Elizabeth Hegeman, an anthropologist and psychoanalyst. The first seven present criticisms of…Read more
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56Self-Other Asymmetries and Virtue TheoryFrom Morality to Virtue (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 54 (3): 689. 1994.
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55Emotions and Ethical Knowledge: Some Naturalistic ConnectionsMidwest Studies in Philosophy 19 (1): 143-158. 1994.
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45Act and Agent EvaluationsReview of Metaphysics 27 (1). 1973.RECENT STUDIES IN NORMATIVE ETHICS have concentrated on act evaluations, neglecting, almost ignoring, agent evaluations. A partial explanation of this defect is found in two related ones: the neglect of act evaluations other than the obligation notions, and the failure to do justice even to them. In each case, neglecting the "other" concepts is implicated in serious misunderstandings of what is considered—or more accurately, what is over-considered. Take, for example, the view that it is obligat…Read more
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41Good intentions in greek and modern moral virtueAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 57 (3). 1979.This Article does not have an abstract
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23Dirty Hands and Conflicts of Values and of Desires in Aristotle's EthicsPacific Philosophical Quarterly 67 (1): 36-61. 1986.
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22Affectivity and Self‐Concern: The Assumed Psychology in Aristotle's EthicsPacific Philosophical Quarterly 64 (3): 211-229. 2017.
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21Aristotelian Akrasia and Psychoanalytic RegressionPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 4 (3): 231-241. 1997.