Amelie Oksenberg Rorty
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3789119 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Amelie Oksenberg Rorty |
| NOMBRES | Amelie Oksenberg |
| APELLIDO | Rorty |
| FIRMA | RORTY A O |
| AFILIACIONES | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 78 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 8 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1972 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Cartesian Passions and the Union of Mind and Body
Essays on Aristotle's Ethics
Essays on Descartes' Meditations
Akrasia and Pleasure
The Vanishing Subject
Augustine says, What then is time? If no one asks me, know; if want to explain it, do not know. And yet know.1 Augusti e in troduces his perplexity by noting that while the present is evanescent, and neither time past nor time future exist, he can nevertheless tell the time of day, and correct himself when he finds he was mistaken. We can echo Augustine's dilemma in speaking about subjectivity. And indeed the two are connected: if no one asks us,…
The Use and Abuse of Morality
Questioning Moral Theories
Not a day passes but we find ourselves indignant about something or other. When is our indignation justified, and when does it count as moral indignation rather than a legitimate but non-moral gripe? You might think that we should turn to moral theories – to the varieties of utilitarian, Kantian, virtue theories, etc – to answer this question. I shall try to convince you that this is a mistake, that moral theory – as it is ordinarily presently co…
The Politics of Spinoza’s Vanishing Dichotomies
Spinoza’s project of showing how the mind can be freed from its passive affects and the State from its divisive factions (E IV.Appendix and V.Preface) ultimately coincides with the aims announced in the subtitle of the Tractatus-Theologico-Politicus (TTP) “to demonstrate that [the] freedom to philosophize does not endanger the piety and obedience required for civic peace.”1 Both projects rest on a set of provisional isomorphic distinctions—betwee…
The many faces of philosophy
Aristotle, Kant and the Stoics
Distinctive Measures of Epistemic Evaluation
Plato's Counsel on Education
Plato's dialogues can be read as a carefully staged exhibition and investigation of paideia , education in the broadest sense, including all that affects the formation of character and mind. The twentieth century textbook Plato — the Plato of the Myth of the Cave and the Divided Line, the ascent to the Good through Forms and Ideas — is but one of his elusive multiple authorial personae, each taking a different perspective on his investigations. A…
The Social and Political Sources of Akrasia
The Two Faces of Stoicism
The Two Faces of Stoicism: Rousseau and Freud AMI~LIE OKSENBERG RORTY Nor do the Stoics mean that the soul of their wisest man resists the first visions and sudden fantasies that surprise [him]: but [he] rather consents that, as it were to a natural subjection, he yields.... So likewise in other passions, always provided his opinions remain safe and whole, and.., his reason admit no tainting or alteration, and he in no whit consents to his fright…
Essays on Aristotle's De Anima
Runes and Ruins
Moral Prejudices
Moral Complexity, Conflicted Resonance and Virtue
In his admirably sensible book, Scheffler shows that it is possible-but difficult-to combine a morally upright life with one that is rich and satisfying.1 He identifies the psychological traits that can be enlisted as allies in our attempts to act justly, arguing that the range of projects-and our success in fulfilling them-varies with our political conditions. Among the harms perpetrated by an unjust state is that of forming the psychology of it…
Essays on Aristotle's Poetics
The Hidden Politics of Cultural Identification
User-Friendly Self-Deception
Since many varieties of self-deception are ineradicable and useful, it would be wise to be ambivalent about at least some of its forms.1 It is open-eyed ambivalence that acknowledges its own dualities rather than ordinary shifty vacillation that we need. To be sure, self-deception remains dangerous: sensible ambivalence should not relax vigilance against pretence and falsity, combating irrationality and obfuscation wherever they occur
Aristotle on Tragic and Comic Mimesis
Essays on Aristotle's Poetics
Aimed at deepening our understanding of the Poetics, this collection places Aristole's analysis of tragedy in its larger philosophical context. In these twenty-one essays, philosophers and classicists explore the corpus of Aristotle's work in order to link the Poetics to the rest of his views on psychology and on history, ethics, and politics. The essays address such topics as catharsis, pity and fear, pleasure, character and the unity of action,…
The Psychology of Aristotelian Tragedy
Pride produces the idea of self
1990). ‘Pride produces the idea of self’: Hume on moral agency. Australasian Journal of Philosophy: Vol. 68, No. 3, pp. 255-269
Identities of Persons
In this volume, thirteen philosophers contribute new essays analyzing the criteria for personal identity and their import on ethics and the theory of action: it presents contemporary treatments of the issues discussed in Personal Identity , edited by John Perry (University of California Press, 1975
Pride produces the idea of self
1990). ‘Pride produces the idea of self’: Hume on moral agency. Australasian Journal of Philosophy: Vol. 68, No. 3, pp. 255-269
The Hidden Politics of Cultural Identification
Experiments in Philosophic Genre
Self-deception. akrasia and irrationality
User-Friendly Self-Deception
Since many varieties of self-deception are ineradicable and useful, it would be wise to be ambivalent about at least some of its forms.1 It is open-eyed ambivalence that acknowledges its own dualities rather than ordinary shifty vacillation that we need. To be sure, self-deception remains dangerous: sensible ambivalence should not relax vigilance against pretence and falsity, combating irrationality and obfuscation wherever they occur
The Social and Political Sources of Akrasia
Varieties of rationality, varieties of emotion
Imagination and power
The Identities of Persons
Introduction, by Amelie O. Rorty 1. Survival and Identity, by David Lewis 2. Survival, by Georges Ray 3. The Importance of Being Identical, by John Perry 4. Lewis, Perry, and What Matters, by Derek Parfit 5. Embodiment and Behavior, by Sydney Shoemaker 6. Lock, Butler, and the Stream of Consciousness: And Men as Natural Kind, by David Wiggins 7. Conditions of Personhood, by Daniel Dennett 8. Persons, Character, and Morality by Bernard Williams 9.…
A Speculative Note on Some Dramatic Elements in the Theaetetus
Plato often gives the philosophic problems that concern him a dramatic presentation; the details of the drama provide touchstones for the analysis to follow. By representing our actual practices, relatively direct examples of the phenomena to be explained, they carry the reader safely through the undercurrents of the arguments. Sometimes when the arguments lead to negative conclusions, especially of a reductio sort, the dramatic by-play preserves…
The Transformations of Persons
In Book IV of The Odyssey , Menelaus tells Telemachus as much as he knows of Odysseus' wanderings. He reports that Odysseus, wanting to learn the end of his travels and needing directions for returning safely home through the dangerous seas, captured Proteus and held fast to him, though Proteus transformed himself into a bearded lion, a snake, a leopard, a bear, running water and finally into a flowering tree. Proteus eventually wearied, and cons…
The Place of Pleasure in Aristotle's Ethics
Identities of Persons
In this volume, thirteen philosophers contribute new essays analyzing the criteria for personal identity and their import on ethics and the theory of action: it presents contemporary treatments of the issues discussed in Personal Identity , edited by John Perry (University of California Press, 1975
The Place of Contemplation in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle has often been charged with indecision, and sometimes with holding contradictory views about the relative merits of a comprehensive practical life and one devoted primarily to contemplation.1 Sometimes he intimates that practical affairs might well be ordered so as to give the greatest opportunity for such theorizing (II77aI2-I8; II45a6-II).2 But he thinks we are endowed with a range of practical and productive capacities as well as pow…
The Identities of Persons
Introduction, by Amelie O. Rorty 1. Survival and Identity, by David Lewis 2. Survival, by Georges Ray 3. The Importance of Being Identical, by John Perry 4. Lewis, Perry, and What Matters, by Derek Parfit 5. Embodiment and Behavior, by Sydney Shoemaker 6. Lock, Butler, and the Stream of Consciousness: And Men as Natural Kind, by David Wiggins 7. Conditions of Personhood, by Daniel Dennett 8. Persons, Character, and Morality by Bernard Williams 9.…
VI. Akrasia and conflict
As Elster suggests in his chapter ‘Contradictions of the Mind’, in Logic and Society, akrasia and self‐deception represent the most common psychological functions for a person in conflict and contradiction. This article develops the theme of akrasia and conflict. Section I says what akrasia is not. Section II describes the character of the akrates, analyzing the sorts of conflicts to which he is subject and describing the sources of his debilitie…
The Place of Contemplation in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Essays on Aristotle’s Ethics
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics deals with character and its proper development in the acquisition of thoughtful habits directed toward appropriate ends. The articles in this unique collection, many new or not readily available, form a continuous commentary on the Ethics. Philosophers and classicists alike will welcome them.
Akrasia and Pleasure
Self-deception. akrasia and irrationality
Imagination and power
Experiments in Philosophic Genre
Varieties of rationality, varieties of emotion
Essays on Descartes’ Meditations
The essays in this volume form a commentary on Meditations. Following the sequence of the meditational stages, the authors analyze the function of each stage in transforming the reader, to realize his essential nature as a rational inquirer, capable of scientific, demonstrable knowledge of the world. There are essays on the genre of meditational writing, on the implications of the opening cathartic section of the book on Descartes' theory of perc…
Perspectives on Self-Deception
Students of philosophy, psychology, sociology, and literature will welcome this collection of original essays on self-deception and related phenomena such as wishful thinking, bad faith, and false consciousness. The book has six sections, each exploring self-deception and related phenomena from a different perspective.
Pride produces the idea of self
1990). ‘Pride produces the idea of self’: Hume on moral agency. Australasian Journal of Philosophy: Vol. 68, No. 3, pp. 255-269
The Psychology of Aristotelian Tragedy
Essays on Aristotle's Poetics
The Hidden Politics of Cultural Identification
User-Friendly Self-Deception
Since many varieties of self-deception are ineradicable and useful, it would be wise to be ambivalent about at least some of its forms.1 It is open-eyed ambivalence that acknowledges its own dualities rather than ordinary shifty vacillation that we need. To be sure, self-deception remains dangerous: sensible ambivalence should not relax vigilance against pretence and falsity, combating irrationality and obfuscation wherever they occur
Aristotle on Tragic and Comic Mimesis
Essays on Aristotle's Poetics
Aimed at deepening our understanding of the Poetics, this collection places Aristole's analysis of tragedy in its larger philosophical context. In these twenty-one essays, philosophers and classicists explore the corpus of Aristotle's work in order to link the Poetics to the rest of his views on psychology and on history, ethics, and politics. The essays address such topics as catharsis, pity and fear, pleasure, character and the unity of action,…
Essays on Aristotle's De Anima
Runes and Ruins
Philosophy (34 obras) · Epistemology (28 obras) · Psychology (21 obras) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (16 obras) · Sociology (12 obras) · Art (9 obras) · Literature (9 obras) · Philosophy (9 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras)