Richard Moran
Biographic Data
| ID | 3788752 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Moran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Moran |
| SIGNATURE | MORAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 293 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Does Philosophy Need to Know Its History
On Transparency and self-knowledge
The Philosophical Retreat to the Here and Now: Notes on Living in Time
The ordinary human concerns with the past and the future can be seen both as forms of suffering (anxiety toward the future, regret toward the past, etc.) and as illusory because they involve the failure to appreciate the primary reality of the present. In this lecture I argue that while there are certainly ways of being occupied with past or future times that we have reason to criticize, such criticism cannot base itself on any metaphysical claim…
Being and Nothingness: An Essay in Phenomenological Ontology
Machine generated contents note: I.The idea of the phenomenon -- II.The phenomenon of being and the being of the phenomenon -- III.The prereflective cogito and the being of the percipere -- IV.The being of the percipi -- V.The ontological proof -- VI.Being in itself -- pt. ONE THE PROBLEM OF NOTHINGNESS -- ch. 1 The origin of negation -- I.Questioning -- II.Negations -- III.The dialectical conception of nothingness -- IV.The phenomenological conc…
Precis of The Exchange of Words
Replies to Lawlor, Goldberg, and Pritchard
Précis of The Exchange of Words
Much of the discussion in The Exchange of Words is oriented around two broad distinctions. From Thomas Reid I take the idea of “testifying a fact” as an example of what he calls a “social act of mi
Replies to my critics
I am very grateful to all the symposiasts for taking the time to engage with my book so thoughtfully, and I only regret that I have not been able to reply to all the different points they raise. Gu
The Self and Its Society
Throughout the history of philosophy, relations to oneself have been modeled on intersubjective relations, as the “internalization” of possible relations with others. Plato describes thought itself as a kind of internal dialogue, and Kant grounds normativity on “self-legislation” and the possibility of obligations to oneself. The conscience is pictured as an “internalized other.” This chapter argues for “self-other asymmetries” governing speech a…
The Exchange of Words: Speech, Testimony, and Intersubjectivity
The capacity to speak is not only the ability to pronounce words, but is the socially recognized capacity to make one’s words count in various ways. We rely on this capacity whenever we tell another person something and expect to be believed, and what we learn from others in this way is the basis for most of what we take ourselves to know about the world. The Exchange of Words is a philosophical exploration of human testimony, specifically as a f…
Frankfurt on Identification
In Harry Frankfurt’s work on freedom and the concept of a person, the idea of “identifying” with one desire rather than another plays an important role, and the difference between being “active” rather than “passive” with respect to a desire is important in explicating what is meant by “identification” in this context. The paper argues that to understand the relevant sense of being “active” here we must distinguish the first-person agency involve…
The Philosophical Imagination: Selected Essays
A collection of philosophical articles on subjects ranging from aesthetics, the philosophy of mind and action, the first person, to engagements with various contemporary philosophers.
The Topic of the Judgement of Beauty
A short critical response to Hannah Ginsborg’s book , The Normativity of Nature, in which I raise some questions about how to understand the idea that calling something beautiful is a form of praise of that thing
Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self-Knowledge
Kant, Proust, and the Appeal of Beauty
Unconscious Crime: Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London (review)
Reviewed by: Unconscious Crime: Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London Richard Moran Joel Peter Eigen . Unconscious Crime: Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xii + 223 pp. $39.95 (0-8018-7428-9). Unconscious Crime builds on Joel Eigen's previous work wherein he traced the development of the insanity defense from the trial of Earl Ferrers in 1760—…
Replies to Heal, Reginster, Wilson, and Lear
Précis of Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self‐Knowledge
Witnessing for Sociology: Sociologists in Court
Foreword by Marvin E. Wolfgang Old Stories, New Audiences: Sociological Knowledge in Courts by Steve Kroll-Smith and Pamela J. Jenkins The Numbers Game We Don't Deal in Probabilities Here: Tales of a Quantitative Sociologist in Court by Joseph E. Jacoby Shadowboxing with Mark Twain: Self Defense of the Statistical Expert by William E. Feinberg Humanizing the Defendant Sociology and Capital Murder: A Question of Life or Death by Craig J. Forsyth W…
The Expression of Feeling in Imagination
L'A. s'interroge sur le probleme de l'identification, au theâtre par exemple, qui nous fait imaginer la realisation de la fiction dans notre reel et par consequent ressentir des emotions
Arthur Collins's The Nature of Mental Things
If I believe that my friend Pierre is fond of me, this means that his friendship appears to me as the meaning of all his acts. [...] But if I know that I believe, the belief appears to me as pure subjective determination without external correlative. This is what makes the very word 'to believe' a term utilized indifferently to indicate the unwavering firmness of belief (My God, I believe in you) and its character as dis armed and strictly subjec…
Interpretation Theory and the First Person
Discusses the rationalizing view of psychological discourse and the requirements of common sense psychology, specifically that of accommodating both first- and third-person ascriptions of mental states. Intentional psychology as a theory; Self-ascription and univocality; Interpretation theory and the first person; Saving the asymmetries; Rationality and the two perspectives of intentional psychology
Seeing and Believing: Metaphor, Image, and Force
Making Up Your Mind: Self‐Interpretation and Self‐Constitution
Crime and Madness: The Origins and Evolution of the Insanity Defense
Being and Nothingness: An Essay in Phenomenological Ontology
Machine generated contents note: I.The idea of the phenomenon -- II.The phenomenon of being and the being of the phenomenon -- III.The prereflective cogito and the being of the percipere -- IV.The being of the percipi -- V.The ontological proof -- VI.Being in itself -- pt. ONE THE PROBLEM OF NOTHINGNESS -- ch. 1 The origin of negation -- I.Questioning -- II.Negations -- III.The dialectical conception of nothingness -- IV.The phenomenological conc…
The Expression of Feeling in Imagination
L'A. s'interroge sur le probleme de l'identification, au theâtre par exemple, qui nous fait imaginer la realisation de la fiction dans notre reel et par consequent ressentir des emotions
Seeing and Believing: Metaphor, Image, and Force
Kant, Proust, and the Appeal of Beauty
The Origin of Insanity as a Special Verdict: The Trial for Treason of James Hadfield (1800)
The pivotal case in the history of the plea of insanity occurred in London during the reign of George III. In the year 1800, James Hadfield discharged a horse pistol at the king as he entered the royal box at Drury Lane Theatre. Hadfield pleaded insanity to a charge of high treason and was acquitted. The verdict caused much judicial concern, for the law's power over him was at best unclear. Hadfield was taken to Newgate Prison while Parliament ha…
Criminal Homicide: External Restraint and Subculture of Violence
Interpretation Theory and the First Person
Discusses the rationalizing view of psychological discourse and the requirements of common sense psychology, specifically that of accommodating both first- and third-person ascriptions of mental states. Intentional psychology as a theory; Self-ascription and univocality; Interpretation theory and the first person; Saving the asymmetries; Rationality and the two perspectives of intentional psychology
Replies to Lawlor, Goldberg, and Pritchard
Replies to Heal, Reginster, Wilson, and Lear
The Modern Foundation for the Insanity Defense: The Cases of James Hadfield (1800) and Daniel McNaughtan (1843)
The modern foundation for the insanity defense was put in place during the first half of the nineteenth century, between the years 1800 and 1843. During this brief period the reaction to the acquittals by reason of insanity of James Hadfield (1800) and Daniel McNaughtan (1843) shaped the present function and administration of the insanity defense in the Anglo-American world. In the case of Hadfield, the reaction of the House of Commons to his acq…
Criminal Homicide: External Restraint and Subculture of Violence
Thinking about Crime
Awaiting the Crown's Pleasure the Case of Daniel M'naughton
This article seeks to place the Daniel M'Naughton case in its political context: to argue that the court's verdict of insanity cannot be satisfactorily understood unless it is recognized that Daniel M'Naughton was apolitical criminal. The insanity verdict served to discredit M'Naughton and the political ideas he represented by interpreting his act as the product of a diseased mind. The widespread political problems that the Tory government was ex…
Criminal Victimization of the Elderly in Three Types of Urban Housing Environments
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRichard MoranRichard Moran is an assistant profesor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, 100 Merrill House, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts 01075.Stephen SchaferThe late Stephen Schafer was a professor in the Department of Sociology, Northeastern University
Political Criminality: The Defiance and Defense of Authority
Actions have to be defined as criminal by those in authority. This study of rebellion, revolution, police enforcement, and law examines the creation of the category of criminality for acts and people that threaten the power of those in authority. It also examines the wider apparatus for identifying and controlling political opponents: intelligence, information control, intimidation, democratic elections, or the elimination of grievances
Knowing Right from Wrong: The Insanity Defense of Daniel McNaughtan
Vice in a Vicious Society: Crime and Convicts in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New South Wales
The Modern Foundation for the Insanity Defense: The Cases of James Hadfield (1800) and Daniel McNaughtan (1843)
The modern foundation for the insanity defense was put in place during the first half of the nineteenth century, between the years 1800 and 1843. During this brief period the reaction to the acquittals by reason of insanity of James Hadfield (1800) and Daniel McNaughtan (1843) shaped the present function and administration of the insanity defense in the Anglo-American world. In the case of Hadfield, the reaction of the House of Commons to his acq…
The Origin of Insanity as a Special Verdict: The Trial for Treason of James Hadfield (1800)
The pivotal case in the history of the plea of insanity occurred in London during the reign of George III. In the year 1800, James Hadfield discharged a horse pistol at the king as he entered the royal box at Drury Lane Theatre. Hadfield pleaded insanity to a charge of high treason and was acquitted. The verdict caused much judicial concern, for the law's power over him was at best unclear. Hadfield was taken to Newgate Prison while Parliament ha…
Crime and Madness: The Origins and Evolution of the Insanity Defense
Making Up Your Mind: Self‐Interpretation and Self‐Constitution
Seeing and Believing: Metaphor, Image, and Force
The Expression of Feeling in Imagination
L'A. s'interroge sur le probleme de l'identification, au theâtre par exemple, qui nous fait imaginer la realisation de la fiction dans notre reel et par consequent ressentir des emotions
Arthur Collins's The Nature of Mental Things
If I believe that my friend Pierre is fond of me, this means that his friendship appears to me as the meaning of all his acts. [...] But if I know that I believe, the belief appears to me as pure subjective determination without external correlative. This is what makes the very word 'to believe' a term utilized indifferently to indicate the unwavering firmness of belief (My God, I believe in you) and its character as dis armed and strictly subjec…
Interpretation Theory and the First Person
Discusses the rationalizing view of psychological discourse and the requirements of common sense psychology, specifically that of accommodating both first- and third-person ascriptions of mental states. Intentional psychology as a theory; Self-ascription and univocality; Interpretation theory and the first person; Saving the asymmetries; Rationality and the two perspectives of intentional psychology
Witnessing for Sociology: Sociologists in Court
Foreword by Marvin E. Wolfgang Old Stories, New Audiences: Sociological Knowledge in Courts by Steve Kroll-Smith and Pamela J. Jenkins The Numbers Game We Don't Deal in Probabilities Here: Tales of a Quantitative Sociologist in Court by Joseph E. Jacoby Shadowboxing with Mark Twain: Self Defense of the Statistical Expert by William E. Feinberg Humanizing the Defendant Sociology and Capital Murder: A Question of Life or Death by Craig J. Forsyth W…
Replies to Heal, Reginster, Wilson, and Lear
Précis of Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self‐Knowledge
Unconscious Crime: Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London (review)
Reviewed by: Unconscious Crime: Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London Richard Moran Joel Peter Eigen . Unconscious Crime: Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xii + 223 pp. $39.95 (0-8018-7428-9). Unconscious Crime builds on Joel Eigen's previous work wherein he traced the development of the insanity defense from the trial of Earl Ferrers in 1760—…
Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self-Knowledge
Kant, Proust, and the Appeal of Beauty
The Topic of the Judgement of Beauty
A short critical response to Hannah Ginsborg’s book , The Normativity of Nature, in which I raise some questions about how to understand the idea that calling something beautiful is a form of praise of that thing
Frankfurt on Identification
In Harry Frankfurt’s work on freedom and the concept of a person, the idea of “identifying” with one desire rather than another plays an important role, and the difference between being “active” rather than “passive” with respect to a desire is important in explicating what is meant by “identification” in this context. The paper argues that to understand the relevant sense of being “active” here we must distinguish the first-person agency involve…
The Philosophical Imagination: Selected Essays
A collection of philosophical articles on subjects ranging from aesthetics, the philosophy of mind and action, the first person, to engagements with various contemporary philosophers.
The Self and Its Society
Throughout the history of philosophy, relations to oneself have been modeled on intersubjective relations, as the “internalization” of possible relations with others. Plato describes thought itself as a kind of internal dialogue, and Kant grounds normativity on “self-legislation” and the possibility of obligations to oneself. The conscience is pictured as an “internalized other.” This chapter argues for “self-other asymmetries” governing speech a…
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