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6Sharon Krishek, Lovers in essence: a Kierkegaardian defense of romantic loveContinental Philosophy Review 1-5. forthcoming.
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8Love, Subjectivity, and Truth: Existential Themes in ProustOUP Usa. 2023.Love, Subjectivity, and Truth engages in a lively manner with the overlapping areas of philosophy and literature, philosophy of emotions, and existential thought. "Subjective truth," a phrase used in Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time, is rich with existential connotations. It invokes Kierkegaard above all, but significantly Nietzsche as well, and other philosophers who thematize love, subjectivity, and truth. In Search of Lost Time is especially concerned about what we can know about others …Read more
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The time is out of joint : on social ontology and criticism in Kierkegaard and HeideggerIn Roberto Sirvent & Silas Michael Morgan (eds.), Kierkegaard and political theology, Pickwick Publications. 2018.
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4The World-Directedness of Emotional Feeling: On Affect and Intentionality by Jean Moritz MüllerReview of Metaphysics 75 (2): 391-392. 2021.
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20Emotion, Action, and Passivity: A Commentary on MüllerEmotion Review 14 (4): 261-264. 2022.Emotion Review, Volume 14, Issue 4, Page 261-264, October 2022. According to Jean Moritz Müller's The world-directedness of emotional feeling, the reason why emotions do not apprehend or disclose value is that one cannot apprehend what one has already apprehended: the value in question, he claims, is apprehended prior to the emotional feeling. Emotions, then, should not be conceived as apprehending value since they already presuppose awareness of it. I can be acquainted with a fact without feeli…Read more
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102Loneliness, Love, and the Limits of LanguageSouthern Journal of Philosophy 59 (3): 435-459. 2021.In this article, we illuminate the affective phenomenon of loneliness by exploring the question of how it relates to love and other forms of friendship. We reflect in particular on the question of how different forms of loneliness are relevant to human existence. Distinguishing three forms of loneliness, we first introduce two border cases of loneliness: unfelt loneliness in which one’s individuality is denied and one therefore cannot feel lonely; and existential loneliness in which the possibil…Read more
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7Emotion: A Very Short Introduction, written by Dylan Evans (review)Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 51 (1): 122-127. 2020.
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15Knowing Emotions: Replies to de Sousa, Beisecker, and GallegosJournal of Philosophy of Emotion 1 (1): 135-145. 2019.Beginning with de Sousa's question about how my position is related to that of "enactive" theorists, I spell out my emphasis on the unity of affective experience, and say more about my conception of the emotional "a priori." In response to Beisecker, I elaborate by way of a literary example on how a significant fact can exist without yet having 'registered' in one's emotional awareness, and on the basis of this I reject the claim that emotions constitute significance. Finally, prompted by Galleg…Read more
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16Précis: Knowing EmotionsJournal of Philosophy of Emotion 1 (1): 98-105. 2019.Summary of Knowing Emotions: Truthfulness and Recognition in Affective Experience.
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21Wilderness in America: Philosophical Writings by Henry BugbeeTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 55 (3): 347-350. 2019.Those who are already familiar with Henry Bugbee's written work will almost invariably have encountered it first through his 1958 text The Inward Morning, subtitled A Philosophical Exploration in Journal Form. This book, which originally appeared with an introduction by the French existential philosopher Gabriel Marcel, was reissued in a 1999 edition thanks to Edward F. Mooney, who served as editor and added a new introduction of his own. In the volume under review, David W. Rodick brings more o…Read more
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13In Knowing Emotions, Furtak argues that it is only through the emotions that we can perceive meaning in life, and only by feeling emotions that we are able to recognize the value or significance of anything whatsoever. Our affective responses and dispositions therefore play a critical role in human existence, and their felt quality is intimately related to the awareness they provide.
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55Emotional Knowing: the Role of Embodied Feelings in Affective CognitionPhilosophia 46 (3): 575-587. 2018.The emotions play a crucial role in our apprehension of meaning, value, or significance — and their felt quality is intimately related to the sort of awareness they provide. This is exemplified most clearly by cases in which dispassionate cognition is cognitively insufficient, because we need to be emotionally agitated in order to grasp that something is true. In this type of affective experience, it is through a feeling of being moved that we recognize or apprehend that something is the case. A…Read more
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69Kierkegaard's 'Concluding Unscientific Postscript': A Critical Guide (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2010.Søren Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript has provoked a lively variety of divergent interpretations for a century and a half. It has been both celebrated and condemned as the chief inspiration for twentieth-century existential thought, as a subversive parody of philosophical argument, as a critique of mass society, as a forerunner of phenomenology and of postmodern relativism, and as an appeal for a renewal of religious commitment. These 2010 essays written by international Kierkeg…Read more
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245A Review of Stephen Evans' (2009) Kierkegaard: An Introduction and Patrick Stokes' (2010) Kierkegaard's Mirrors: Interest, Self, and Moral Vision (review)Southwest Philosophy Review 26 (2): 119-123. 2010.A review of two recent books on Kierkegaard's thought, with attention to his relevance for ethics, phenomenology, and metaphysics.
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4589The Virtues of AuthenticityInternational Philosophical Quarterly 43 (4): 423-438. 2003.Discussions of the concept of authenticity often fail to define the conditions of an appropriate emotional orientation toward the world. With a more solid philosophical understanding of emotion, it should be possible to define more precisely the necessary conditions of emotional authenticity. Against this background, I interpret Kierkegaard’s Either/Or as a narrative text that suggests a moral psychology of emotion that points toward the development of a better way of thinking about the ethics o…Read more
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22Review of Robert C. Solomon, In Defense of Sentimentality (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (10). 2005.
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2415Emotion, the bodily, and the cognitivePhilosophical Explorations 13 (1). 2010.In both psychology and philosophy, cognitive theories of emotion have met with increasing opposition in recent years. However, this apparent controversy is not so much a gridlock between antithetical stances as a critical debate in which each side is being forced to qualify its position in order to accommodate the other side of the story. Here, I attempt to sort out some of the disagreements between cognitivism and its rivals, adjudicating some disputes while showing that others are merely super…Read more
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185Review of George Pattison's The Philosophy of Kierkegaard (review)International Journal of Philosophical Studies 14. 2006.
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1Rainer Maria Rilke's 'Sonnets to Orpheus': A New English Version, With a Philosophical Introduction (edited book)University of Scranton Press. 2007.
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63Thoreau's importance for philosophy (edited book)Fordham University Press. 2012.The purpose of this volume is to remedy this neglect, to explain Thoreau's philosophical significance, and to argue that we can still learn from his polemical conception of philosophy.
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673Love as a Relation to Truth: Envisioning the Person in "Works of Love"Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook 2013 (1): 217-242. 2013.Name der Zeitschrift: Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook Jahrgang: 2013 Heft: 1 Seiten: 217-242.
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21A Review of Stephen Evans' (2009) Kierkegaard (review)Southwest Philosophy Review 26 (2): 119-123. 2010.
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450Wisdom in love: Kierkegaard and the ancient quest for emotional integrityArs Disputandi 6 1566-5399. 2006.
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1188Skepticism and perceptual faith: Henry David Thoreau and Stanley Cavell on seeing and believingTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 43 (3). 2007.: Thoreau's journal contains a number of passages which explore the nature of perception, developing a response to skeptical doubt. The world outside the human mind is real, and there is nothing illusory about its perceived beauty and meaning. In this essay, I draw upon the work of Stanley Cavell (among others) in order to frame Thoreau's reflections within the context of the skeptical questions he seeks to address. Value is not a subjective projection, but it also cannot be perceived without th…Read more
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Translator's Introduction: Rilke and the Poetics of RevelationIn Rainer Maria Rilke & Rick Anthony Furtak (eds.), Rainer Maria Rilke's 'Sonnets to Orpheus': A New English Version, With a Philosophical Introduction, University of Scranton Press. pp. 1-30. 2007.
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