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48Should We Want to Be Loved Unconditionally and Forever?Philosophies 8 (2): 34. 2023.People often say that romantic love should be unconditional, and they often want romantic love to last forever. These claims and desires are presumably linked: part of the reason it would be good for love to be unconditional is that it is assumed that such love, being detached from changing conditions, would last forever. This article argues that there are, indeed, kinds of unconditional and permanent love that are worth wanting, but also kinds that are not, and attempts to clarify just what it …Read more
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12John Gibson, ed., The Philosophy of PoetryEstetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 53 (1): 100. 2020.
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20Anxious feelings, anxious friends: on anxiety and friendshipSynthese 199 (5-6): 14709-14724. 2021.Although anxiety is frequently seen as a predominantly negative phenomenon, some recent researchers have argued that it plays an important positive function, serving as an alert to warn agents of possible problems or threats. I argue that not only can one’s own, first-personal anxiety perform this function; because it is possible for others—in particular, one’s friends—to feel anxious on one’s behalf, their anxious feelings can sometimes play the same role in our functioning, and make similar co…Read more
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31Beauty Always DiesMidwest Studies in Philosophy 44 (1): 213-230. 2019.Midwest Studies In Philosophy, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 213-230, December 2019.
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29Love Drugs: The Chemical Future of Relationships (review)The Philosophers' Magazine 90 126-128. 2020.
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14Review of The Prudence of Love: How Possessing the Virtue of Love Benefits the Lover, by Eric J. Silverman (review)Essays in Philosophy 13 (1): 384-391. 2012.
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21Morality, Perspective, and Fantasy: A Comment on Sarah BussJournal of Applied Philosophy 37 (1): 51-57. 2020.A response to Sarah Buss's article, ‘Some Musings about the Limits of an Ethics that Can Be Applied,’ focusing on issues connected with Buss’s claims about human insignificance, and the indifference to self that the recognition of insignificance allegedly engenders.
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The psychology of exclusivityLes Ateliers de L’Ethique 3 (1): 52-60. 2008.Friendship and romantic love are, by their very nature, exclusive relationships. This paper suggests that we can better understand the nature of the exclusivity in question by understanding what is wrong with the view of practical reasoning I call the Comprehensive Surveyor View. The CSV claims that practical reasoning, in order to be rational, must be a process of choosing the best available alternative from a perspective that is as detached and objective as possible. But this view, while it me…Read more
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42Carrie Jenkins’ What Love Is: And What It Could Be (review)The Philosophers' Magazine 78 108-110. 2017.
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34One. “Something In Between”: On the Nature of LoveIn Love’s Vision, Princeton University Press. pp. 1-27. 2011.
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39John Gibson, ed., The Philosophy of PoetryEstetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 53 (1): 100-110. 2016.A review of John Gibson´s The Philosophy of Poetry.
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24Friendship and Agent-Relative MoralityRoutledge. 2001.First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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71Goldstick on the 'Two Hats' ProblemUtilitas 15 (3): 369. 2003.The indirect-strategy consequentialist recommends that the consequentialist agent develop certain non-consequentialist feelings and dispositions. It is difficult to see, however, how such an agent could knowingly do this, given her moral beliefs. Goldstick has argued that the problem is not particular to consequentialism; deontologists, too, are obliged to admit the possibility of mental divisions of this sort. I argue, however, that the type of mental division to which the deontologist is commi…Read more
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210The Psychology of ExclusivityLes ateliers de l'éthique/The Ethics Forum 3 (1). 2008.Friendship and romantic love are, by their very nature, exclusive relationships. This paper sug- gests that we can better understand the nature of the exclusivity in question by understanding what is wrong with the view of practical reasoning I call the Comprehensive Surveyor View. The CSV claims that practical reasoning, in order to be rational, must be a process of choosing the best available alternative from a perspective that is as detached and objective as possible. But this view, while it …Read more
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103Meaningless Happiness and Meaningful SufferingSouthern Journal of Philosophy 42 (3): 333-347. 2004.
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11Afterword: Between the Universal and the ParticularIn Love’s Vision, Princeton University Press. pp. 169-172. 2011.
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70“This Endless Space between the Words”: The Limits of Love in Spike Jonze'sHerMidwest Studies in Philosophy 39 (1): 120-143. 2015.
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49“Like a Picture or a Bump on the Head”: Vision, Cognition, and the Language of PoetryMidwest Studies in Philosophy 33 (1): 131-158. 2009.No Abstract
Chico, California, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Aesthetics |
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |