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Philosophy

Swarthmore College

Philosophy Faculty Works

2018

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Review Of "Pragmatic Encroachment In Epistemology" Edited By B. Kim And M. Mcgrath, Peter Baumann Dec 2018

Review Of "Pragmatic Encroachment In Epistemology" Edited By B. Kim And M. Mcgrath, Peter Baumann

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If You Feel Ashamed Does That Mean You Are A Moral Failure?, Krista Karbowski Thomason Nov 2018

If You Feel Ashamed Does That Mean You Are A Moral Failure?, Krista Karbowski Thomason

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Nearly Solving The Problem Of Nearly Convergent Knowledge, Peter Baumann Oct 2018

Nearly Solving The Problem Of Nearly Convergent Knowledge, Peter Baumann

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What Will Be Best For Me? Big Decisions And The Problem Of Inter‐World Comparisons, Peter Baumann Jun 2018

What Will Be Best For Me? Big Decisions And The Problem Of Inter‐World Comparisons, Peter Baumann

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Big decisions in a person's life often affect the preferences and standards of a good life which that person's future self will develop after implementing her decision. This paper argues that in such cases the person might lack any reasons to choose one way rather than the other. Neither preference‐based views nor happiness‐based views of justified choice offer sufficient help here. The available options are not comparable in the relevant sense and there is no rational choice to make. Thus, ironically, in many of a person's most important decisions the idea of that person's good seems to have no application.


Review Of "What Philosophy Is For" By M. Hampe, Richard Thomas Eldridge May 2018

Review Of "What Philosophy Is For" By M. Hampe, Richard Thomas Eldridge

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What Was Liberal Education?, Richard Thomas Eldridge Jan 2018

What Was Liberal Education?, Richard Thomas Eldridge

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Naked: The Dark Side Of Shame And Moral Life, Krista Karbowski Thomason Jan 2018

Naked: The Dark Side Of Shame And Moral Life, Krista Karbowski Thomason

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We know shame can be a morally valuable emotion that helps us to realize when we fail to be the kinds of people we aspire to be. We feel shame when we fail to live up to the norms, standards, and ideals that we value as part of a virtuous life. But the lived reality of shame is far more complex and far darker than this -- the gut-level experience of shame that has little to do with failing to reach our ideals. We feel shame viscerally about nudity, sex, our bodies, and weaknesses or flaws that we can't control. …


"A Danger At Present Unperceived:" Self-Understanding, Imagination, Emotion, And Social Stance In "Emma", Richard Thomas Eldridge Jan 2018

"A Danger At Present Unperceived:" Self-Understanding, Imagination, Emotion, And Social Stance In "Emma", Richard Thomas Eldridge

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Philosophers concerned with self-understanding have often conceived of it as either a matter of immediate, unchallengeable introspective awareness or as a matter of gathering evidence about oneself scientifically and impersonally. In contrast, Gilbert Ryle rightly understood self-understanding as knowledge of one’s own commitments, desires, beliefs, wishes, and fears––all things that one has some share in forming and can to some extent alter. What Ryle misses or underplays, however, is the extent to which the forming and revising of commitments, desires, beliefs, wishes, and fears are also social processes, as agents-in-formation are subject to the gazes, expectations, and evaluations of others. …