Kate Abramson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597484 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kate Abramson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kate |
| FAMILY NAME | Abramson |
| SIGNATURE | ABRAMSON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
On Gaslighting
A philosopher examines the complicated phenomenon of gaslighting “Gaslighting” is suddenly in everyone’s vocabulary. It’s written about, talked about, tweeted about, even sung about (in “Gaslighting” by The Chicks). It’s become shorthand for being manipulated by someone who insists that up is down, hot is cold, dark is light—someone who isn’t just lying about such things, but trying to drive you crazy. The term has its origins in a 1944 film in w…
On Gaslighting
Love, Value, and Reasons
It is a familiar thought that in friendship and romance, people’s good qualities are reasons for loving them. This chapter clarifies the kinds of reasons—and the forms of reasons-responsiveness and evaluation—at issue. It offers a new model for understanding love as a form of valuing. On this model, love is both a response to reasons and a source of reasons, and the two sets of reasons are complementary parts of a single coherent, interlocking pa…
Turning Up the Lights on Gaslighting
The Reception of Aristotle's Ethics
Aristotle's ethics are the most important in the history of Western philosophy, but little has been said about the reception of his ethics by his many successors. The present volume offers thirteen newly commissioned essays covering figures and periods from the ancient world, starting with the impact of the ethics on Hellenistic philosophy, taking in medieval, Jewish and Islamic reception and extending as far as Kant and the twentieth century. Ea…
Love as a Reactive Emotion: Love as a Reactive Emotion
One variety of love is familiar in everyday life and qualifies in every reasonable sense as a reactive attitude. 'Reactive love' is paradigmatically (a) an affectionate attachment to another person, (b) appropriately felt as a non-self-interested response to particular kinds of morally laudable features of character expressed by the loved one in interaction with the lover, and (c) paradigmatically manifested in certain kinds of acts of goodwill a…
Hume's Distinction between Philosophical Anatomy and Painting
Although the implications of Hume's distinction between philosophical 'anatomy' and 'painting' have been the subject of lively scholarly debates, it is a puzzling fact that the details of the distinction itself have largely been a matter of interpretive presumption rather than debate. This would be unproblematic if Hume's views about these 'two species of philosophy' were obvious, or if there were a rich standard interpretation of the distinction…
Happy to Unite, or Not
At several key moments in his works, Hume draws our attention to the differences between two conceptions of philosophy. Deploying what were already then well-worn metaphors, he calls these two "species" of philosophy "anatomy" and "painting." Hume's remarks about philosophical anatomy and painting have recently given rise to a number of scholarly debates. I focus here on just one of these debates: did Hume intend to combine anatomy and painting i…
Two Portraits of the Humean Moral Agent
Among contemporary ethicists, Hume is perhaps best known for his views about morality's practical import and his spectator–centered account of moral evaluation. Yet according to the so–called “spectator complaint”, these two aspects of Hume's moral theory cannot be reconciled with one another. I argue that the answer to the spectator complaint lies in Hume's account of “goodness” and “greatness of mind”. Through a discussion of these two virtues,…
Correcting Our Sentiments about Hume's Moral Point of View
Turning Up the Lights on Gaslighting
Love as a Reactive Emotion: Love as a Reactive Emotion
One variety of love is familiar in everyday life and qualifies in every reasonable sense as a reactive attitude. 'Reactive love' is paradigmatically (a) an affectionate attachment to another person, (b) appropriately felt as a non-self-interested response to particular kinds of morally laudable features of character expressed by the loved one in interaction with the lover, and (c) paradigmatically manifested in certain kinds of acts of goodwill a…
Two Portraits of the Humean Moral Agent
Among contemporary ethicists, Hume is perhaps best known for his views about morality's practical import and his spectator–centered account of moral evaluation. Yet according to the so–called “spectator complaint”, these two aspects of Hume's moral theory cannot be reconciled with one another. I argue that the answer to the spectator complaint lies in Hume's account of “goodness” and “greatness of mind”. Through a discussion of these two virtues,…
Correcting Our Sentiments about Hume's Moral Point of View
Hume's Distinction between Philosophical Anatomy and Painting
Although the implications of Hume's distinction between philosophical 'anatomy' and 'painting' have been the subject of lively scholarly debates, it is a puzzling fact that the details of the distinction itself have largely been a matter of interpretive presumption rather than debate. This would be unproblematic if Hume's views about these 'two species of philosophy' were obvious, or if there were a rich standard interpretation of the distinction…
Happy to Unite, or Not
At several key moments in his works, Hume draws our attention to the differences between two conceptions of philosophy. Deploying what were already then well-worn metaphors, he calls these two "species" of philosophy "anatomy" and "painting." Hume's remarks about philosophical anatomy and painting have recently given rise to a number of scholarly debates. I focus here on just one of these debates: did Hume intend to combine anatomy and painting i…
Correcting Our Sentiments about Hume's Moral Point of View
Two Portraits of the Humean Moral Agent
Among contemporary ethicists, Hume is perhaps best known for his views about morality's practical import and his spectator–centered account of moral evaluation. Yet according to the so–called “spectator complaint”, these two aspects of Hume's moral theory cannot be reconciled with one another. I argue that the answer to the spectator complaint lies in Hume's account of “goodness” and “greatness of mind”. Through a discussion of these two virtues,…
Happy to Unite, or Not
At several key moments in his works, Hume draws our attention to the differences between two conceptions of philosophy. Deploying what were already then well-worn metaphors, he calls these two "species" of philosophy "anatomy" and "painting." Hume's remarks about philosophical anatomy and painting have recently given rise to a number of scholarly debates. I focus here on just one of these debates: did Hume intend to combine anatomy and painting i…
Hume's Distinction between Philosophical Anatomy and Painting
Although the implications of Hume's distinction between philosophical 'anatomy' and 'painting' have been the subject of lively scholarly debates, it is a puzzling fact that the details of the distinction itself have largely been a matter of interpretive presumption rather than debate. This would be unproblematic if Hume's views about these 'two species of philosophy' were obvious, or if there were a rich standard interpretation of the distinction…
Love as a Reactive Emotion: Love as a Reactive Emotion
One variety of love is familiar in everyday life and qualifies in every reasonable sense as a reactive attitude. 'Reactive love' is paradigmatically (a) an affectionate attachment to another person, (b) appropriately felt as a non-self-interested response to particular kinds of morally laudable features of character expressed by the loved one in interaction with the lover, and (c) paradigmatically manifested in certain kinds of acts of goodwill a…
The Reception of Aristotle's Ethics
Aristotle's ethics are the most important in the history of Western philosophy, but little has been said about the reception of his ethics by his many successors. The present volume offers thirteen newly commissioned essays covering figures and periods from the ancient world, starting with the impact of the ethics on Hellenistic philosophy, taking in medieval, Jewish and Islamic reception and extending as far as Kant and the twentieth century. Ea…
Turning Up the Lights on Gaslighting
Love, Value, and Reasons
It is a familiar thought that in friendship and romance, people’s good qualities are reasons for loving them. This chapter clarifies the kinds of reasons—and the forms of reasons-responsiveness and evaluation—at issue. It offers a new model for understanding love as a form of valuing. On this model, love is both a response to reasons and a source of reasons, and the two sets of reasons are complementary parts of a single coherent, interlocking pa…
On Gaslighting
A philosopher examines the complicated phenomenon of gaslighting “Gaslighting” is suddenly in everyone’s vocabulary. It’s written about, talked about, tweeted about, even sung about (in “Gaslighting” by The Chicks). It’s become shorthand for being manipulated by someone who insists that up is down, hot is cold, dark is light—someone who isn’t just lying about such things, but trying to drive you crazy. The term has its origins in a 1944 film in w…
On Gaslighting
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