Rex Stout
Biographic Data
| ID | 301040 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rex Stout |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rex |
| FAMILY NAME | Stout |
| SIGNATURE | STOUT R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1834-590X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Bodily feelings and felt inclinations
Betrayal, Trust and Loyalty
I argue that while every betrayal is a breach of trust, not every breach of trust is a betrayal. I defend a conception of trust as primarily a feature of behaviour (i.e. trusting behaviour) and only secondarily a feature of a mental attitude. So it is possible to have the attitude of distrust towards someone while still trusting them in the way you behave. This makes sense of the possibility of Judas Iscariot breaching Jesus’ trust, and so betray…
Dormant and active emotional states
The paper is concerned with the metaphysics of emotion. It defends the claim that all emotional states, whether dormant or active, are dispositional, arguing against the prevailing view that dispositional emotional states are dispositions to go into actual emotional states. A clear distinction may be made between first-order and second-order emotional dispositions, where second-order emotional dispositions are dispositions of emotional sensitivit…
Vulnerability and Trust: An Introduction
Annette Baier (1986, 235) famously argued that a distinguishing mark of trust, as opposed to mere reliance and other attitudes in its neighbourhood, is that to trust is to accept vulnerability to a
Anti-Externalism - Joseph Mendola: Book Reviews
Joseph Mendola, following in the tradition of John Locke, is trying to account for our capacity to have thoughts about the world around us in terms of our having internally constituted ideas whose existence is independent of that world. He describes the approach as ‘qualia empiricism’. The central internalist claim of the book is that ‘all the conditions that constitute [people's] thoughts and sensations are internal to their skin and contemporan…
The Inner Life of a Rational Agent: In Defence of Philosophical Behaviourism
This book provides an up-to-date version of behaviourism, although not a form of behaviourism that denies the existence of consciousness, free will, rationality, etc., nor aims to reduce these to other sorts of things. Properly understood, the idea of being disposed to behave in a certain way is seen as being exactly as rich and interesting as the idea of being in a certain state of mind. The fact that our ways of behaving are sensitive to practi…
The Right Structure for a Causal Theory of Action
In this paper, I argue that the way to understand causal notions is in terms of how something is caused rather than by what. To characterize how something is caused is to describe the way it is caused and this is to describe it as belonging to a certain process
Things That Happen Because They Should: A Teleological Approach to Action
With enormous implications for philosophy, the law and all areas of human interactivity, the author argues that amongst all the natural phenomena, intentional actions are unique in that they occur because they should
Things That Happen Because They Should: A Teleological Approach to Action
With enormous implications for philosophy, the law and all areas of human interactivity, the author argues that amongst all the natural phenomena, intentional actions are unique in that they occur because they should
The Inner Life of a Rational Agent: In Defence of Philosophical Behaviourism
This book provides an up-to-date version of behaviourism, although not a form of behaviourism that denies the existence of consciousness, free will, rationality, etc., nor aims to reduce these to other sorts of things. Properly understood, the idea of being disposed to behave in a certain way is seen as being exactly as rich and interesting as the idea of being in a certain state of mind. The fact that our ways of behaving are sensitive to practi…
Things That Happen Because They Should: A Teleological Approach to Action
With enormous implications for philosophy, the law and all areas of human interactivity, the author argues that amongst all the natural phenomena, intentional actions are unique in that they occur because they should
The Right Structure for a Causal Theory of Action
In this paper, I argue that the way to understand causal notions is in terms of how something is caused rather than by what. To characterize how something is caused is to describe the way it is caused and this is to describe it as belonging to a certain process
The Inner Life of a Rational Agent: In Defence of Philosophical Behaviourism
This book provides an up-to-date version of behaviourism, although not a form of behaviourism that denies the existence of consciousness, free will, rationality, etc., nor aims to reduce these to other sorts of things. Properly understood, the idea of being disposed to behave in a certain way is seen as being exactly as rich and interesting as the idea of being in a certain state of mind. The fact that our ways of behaving are sensitive to practi…
Anti-Externalism - Joseph Mendola: Book Reviews
Joseph Mendola, following in the tradition of John Locke, is trying to account for our capacity to have thoughts about the world around us in terms of our having internally constituted ideas whose existence is independent of that world. He describes the approach as ‘qualia empiricism’. The central internalist claim of the book is that ‘all the conditions that constitute [people's] thoughts and sensations are internal to their skin and contemporan…
Vulnerability and Trust: An Introduction
Annette Baier (1986, 235) famously argued that a distinguishing mark of trust, as opposed to mere reliance and other attitudes in its neighbourhood, is that to trust is to accept vulnerability to a
Bodily feelings and felt inclinations
Betrayal, Trust and Loyalty
I argue that while every betrayal is a breach of trust, not every breach of trust is a betrayal. I defend a conception of trust as primarily a feature of behaviour (i.e. trusting behaviour) and only secondarily a feature of a mental attitude. So it is possible to have the attitude of distrust towards someone while still trusting them in the way you behave. This makes sense of the possibility of Judas Iscariot breaching Jesus’ trust, and so betray…
Dormant and active emotional states
The paper is concerned with the metaphysics of emotion. It defends the claim that all emotional states, whether dormant or active, are dispositional, arguing against the prevailing view that dispositional emotional states are dispositions to go into actual emotional states. A clear distinction may be made between first-order and second-order emotional dispositions, where second-order emotional dispositions are dispositions of emotional sensitivit…
Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Metaphysics (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Consciousness (2 works) · Emotions and Moral Behavior (2 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works)