Nancy Sherman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3873507 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Sherman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Sherman |
| SIGNATURE | SHERMAN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3883-0213 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
How to End a War: Essays on Justice, Peace, and Repair
How and when should we end a war? What place should the pathways to a war's end have in war planning and decision-making? This volume treats the topic of ending war as part and parcel of how wars begin and how they are fought – a unique, complex problem, worthy of its own conversation. New essays by leading thinkers and practitioners in the fields of philosophical ethics, international relations, and military law reflect on the problem and show t…
Shame & Guilt: From Deigh to Strawson & Hume, and now to the Stoics
Dancers and Soldiers Sharing the Dance Floor
Modern dance was born as a radical reaction to the formal decorum and limited vocabulary of ballet. Ballet may have provided consummate exercises for 'shaping and moulding man's exterior', in the words of ballet, but to the pioneers of modern dance it was at the cost of disconnecting the outside from within. Modern dance, aims at expressing from the 'inside out'. In Graham's terms, the task was to create a 'technique for revelation of experience'…
The Place of Emotions in Kantian Morality
The image of the cold, heartless, duty-bound agent is yielding, in certain Kantian circles, to a portrait of an agent who values and cultivates the human gesture.1 Similarly Kant's notorious impatience with Romanticism and his eagerness to expose the unreliability and natural lottery in the distribution of emotional temperaments finds itself poised against a view of the emotions as supporting moral interest. To a large extent I am sympathetic wit…
Recovering lost goodness: Shame, guilt, and self-empathy
In this paper, I explore self-empathy as a component in the healing of moral injury in war. I have written recently on this subject, in The Untold War, and in particular, on how soldiers experience guilt as a response to good and bad moral luck, such as surviving buddies or causing their deaths by accident (Sherman, 2010). This kind of guilt is obviously not restricted to war, but war provides an important and timely context for studying it. Impo…
Maladaptively High and Low Openness: The Case for Experiential Permeability
The domain of Openness within the Five‐Factor Model ( FFM ) has received inconsistent support as a source for maladaptive personality functioning, at least when the latter is confined to the disorders of personality included within the American Psychiatric Association's ( APA ) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM‐IV ‐ TR ; APA , ). However, an advantage of the FFM relative to the DSM‐IV ‐ TR is that the former was develope…
Aristotle, the Stoics, and Kant on anger
This chapter considers three familiar cases of anger. The first two, of the Iranian family members and of Achilles, are cases of vengeful anger. The third case of anger is one of moral protest and outcry on behalf of others that then inspires an act of heroic courage. The chapter argues that certain forms of anger are, on a Kantian view, a morally necessary expression of our vulnerability, and takes up Aristotle, the Stoics (principally Seneca), …
Stoic meditations and the shaping of character: The case of educating the military
Using the five-factor model to identify a new personality disorder domain: The case for experiential permeability
Two studies were conducted to demonstrate that maladaptive aspects of high and low Openness to Experience were related to characterological impairment and that this aspect of personality may define a new domain of personality dysfunction. The 55-item Experiential Permeability Inventory (EPI; containing 4 scales) was developed and demonstrated to have acceptable psychometric properties. Evidence of convergent, discriminant, and incremental validit…
Stoic Warriors
Nancy Sherman is a philosopher who has taught at the US Naval Academy and in this work, delves into the role of the stoic in the military, both ancient and contemporary.
Stoic Warriors: The Ancient Philosophy behind the Military Mind
Manners and Morals
This chapter considers the important role that manners and demeanor play in the cultivation of virtue. It explores the emphasis in military training on things that are “outer”—appearances, decorum, deference rituals, and demeanor. The issue is central to the military and its core belief that training in decorum is an integral part of training character. This chapter also discusses Stoic texts and the insights one can glean from Stoic theory on is…
Torturers and the Tortured
Patrick Lenta and Jessica Wolfendale have written two very thoughtful discussions on torture. A central question that arises in responding to these essays in terms of my recent book, Stoic Warriors, is whether ancient Stoicism affords any insights into both the propensity to inflict torture as well as the capacity to endure it. Wolfendale suggests that the learned capacity to endure torture, and in particular, becoming desensitised to pain, may b…
Stoic warriors
Of Manners and Morals
In this paper I explore the role of manners and morals.1 In particular, what is the connection between emotional demeanor and the inner stuff of virtue? Does the fact that we can pose faces and hide our inner sentiments, i.e., ‘fake it,’ detract from or add to our capacity for virtue? I argue, following a line from the Stoics, that it can add to our virtue and that, as a result, moral education needs to take seriously both a commitment to good ch…
It is no little thing to make mine eyes to sweat compassion”: APA comments of Martha Nussbaum's Upheavals of Thought
Intellectual Virtue: Emotions, Luck, and the Ancients
This chapter defends an Aristotelian position which says that because emotions are not entirely voluntary and inextricably influence one's belief-forming processes, it does not follow that one is not responsible for the kind of beliefs one forms. Drawing from the work of Aristotle and the Stoics, it provides insight into the cognitive core of emotions, thereby offering ways in which emotions can be revised. Because emotions are central components…
Lost Tribes
That fall, the only flat I could afford was in southwestern London, where the heel of the city lay wedged toward Surrey and Putney and the famously pristine English gardens I never actually laid eyes on. You took the train to Tooting Bec, the last station on the line, and from there the red bus to Streatham High Road, and then you walked: down the blaring Road, past the enraged Cypriot widow's fish-and-chips shop, past the doors opening and swing…
A First Look at the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Personality Disorders Screening Questionnaire: More Than Just a Screener
This study examined the psychometrics of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM -1V Personality Disorders Personality Questionnaire (SC1D-IIP) self-report personality questionnaire. The responses to the instrument were found reliable and evidenced good self-other convergence. Correlations with external criteria showed the SCID-III’ to contain broad personological information. The scale s basis in DSM - IV nosology makes it a potentially import…
Disgust Sensitivity and Attitudes Toward Organ Donation Among African-American College Students
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Disgust Sensitivity and Attitudes toward Organ Donation among African-American College Students
241 African-American college students (94 men and 147 women, mean age = 20.3 +/- 3.4 yr.) completed the 1994 Disgust Scale of Haidt, McCauley, and Rozin and a modified form of Parisi-Rizzo's 1987 Attitudes Toward Organ Donation Scale (negative subscale only) as well as a behavioral measure of intention to donate organs after death. Analyses indicated that the higher the disgust sensitivity, the more negative the attitude toward organ donation and…
Concrete Kantian Respect
When we think about Kantian virtue, what often comes to mind is the notion of respect. Respect is due to all persons merely in virtue of their status as rational agents. Indeed, on the Kantian view, specific virtues, such as duties of beneficence, gratitude, or self-perfection, are so many ways of respecting persons as free rational agents. To preserve and promote rational agency, to protect individuals from threats against rational agency, i.e.,…
Sensitivity to Disgust Among College Women by Major
Empathy, Respect, and Humanitarian Intervention
This essay explores several moral attitudes that undergird a commitment to humanitarian intervention. Humanitarian intervention is usually understood to mean assistance or relief, often in the form of a rescue response by the international community to such emergencies as natural disasters, systematic human rights violations, or genocides that take place within the borders of sovereign states. But the term can equally mean aid before the fact, or…
Making a Necessity of Virtue: Aristotle and Kant on Virtue
This book is the first to offer a detailed analysis of Aristotelian and Kantian ethics together, in a way that remains faithful to the texts and responsive to debates in contemporary ethics. Recent moral philosophy has seen a revival of interest in the concept of virtue, and with it a reassessment of the role of virtue in the work of Aristotle and Kant. This book brings that re-assessment to a new level of sophistication. Nancy Sherman argues tha…
Aristotle on Friendship and the Shared Life
In this paper I want to consider the value of friendship from an Aristotelian point of view. The issue is of current interest given recent challenges to impartialist ethics to take more seriously the commitments and attachments of a person.' In what follows I want to enter that debate in only a restricted way by strengthening the challenge articulated in Aristotle's systematic defense of friendship and the shared life. After some introductory rem…
The Fabric of Character: Aristotle's Theory of Virtue
The Fabric of Character explores Aristotle's account of virtuous character and its development. I argue that traditional conceptions of Aristotelian habituation have ignored the critical role of practical reason in both the development of virtue and the emotions constitutive of virtue. Virtue is, thus, neither the product of mindless drill nor of well‐behaved, but ultimately stupid emotions. If the virtuous person is, as Aristotle insists, also p…
Using the five-factor model to identify a new personality disorder domain: The case for experiential permeability
Two studies were conducted to demonstrate that maladaptive aspects of high and low Openness to Experience were related to characterological impairment and that this aspect of personality may define a new domain of personality dysfunction. The 55-item Experiential Permeability Inventory (EPI; containing 4 scales) was developed and demonstrated to have acceptable psychometric properties. Evidence of convergent, discriminant, and incremental validit…
Empathy, Respect, and Humanitarian Intervention
This essay explores several moral attitudes that undergird a commitment to humanitarian intervention. Humanitarian intervention is usually understood to mean assistance or relief, often in the form of a rescue response by the international community to such emergencies as natural disasters, systematic human rights violations, or genocides that take place within the borders of sovereign states. But the term can equally mean aid before the fact, or…
Making a necessity of virtue: Aristotle and Kant on virtue
This book is the first to offer a detailed analysis of Aristotelian and Kantian ethics together in a way that remains faithful to the texts and responsive to debates in contemporary ethics. Recent moral philosophy has seen a revival of interest in the concept of virtue, and with it a reassessment of the role of virtue in the work of Aristotle and Kant. This book brings that reassessment to a new level of sophistication. Nancy Sherman argues that …
The Virtues of Common Pursuit
When we think about being good, morally good that is, what comes to mind is being good to others, and in less definite, though still important way, being good to ourselves. One set of virtues which comes into consideration are generosity, beneficence, and justice, with the focus perhaps, on welfare and rights. In Hume's words, a mind will never be able to bear its own survey, that has been wanting in its part to mankind and society.' In less defi…
The effects of a masturbation seminar on high school males' attitudes, false beliefs, guilt, and behavior
Effects of a single session masturbation seminar en high school males' beliefs, guilt, and behavior regarding masturbation were examined. It was predicted that the treatment group would, as compared to a control group, (a) be more positive in their attitudes toward masturbation in general, (b) have fewer false beliefs about the harmful nature of masturbation (sex myths), (c) have less sex guilt associated with masturbating, and (d) report a great…
Stoic warriors
Reasons and Feelings in Kantian Morality
The Elderly's Reactions toward the Dying: The Effects of Perceived Age Similarity
A 2 × 2 factorial experiment was conducted to investigate the elderly's feelings about and willingness to help (by telephoning or visiting) a similar (old) or dissimilar (young) aged dying patient versus a non-dying patient. Based on reasoning from experimental and clinical research, it was predicted and confirmed that elderly respondents would exhibit less positive affect and greater avoidance (decreased willingness to volunteer) towards a patie…
The effects of a masturbation seminar on high school males' attitudes, false beliefs, guilt, and behavior
Effects of a single session masturbation seminar en high school males' beliefs, guilt, and behavior regarding masturbation were examined. It was predicted that the treatment group would, as compared to a control group, (a) be more positive in their attitudes toward masturbation in general, (b) have fewer false beliefs about the harmful nature of masturbation (sex myths), (c) have less sex guilt associated with masturbating, and (d) report a great…
Aristotle on Friendship and the Shared Life
In this paper I want to consider the value of friendship from an Aristotelian point of view. The issue is of current interest given recent challenges to impartialist ethics to take more seriously the commitments and attachments of a person.' In what follows I want to enter that debate in only a restricted way by strengthening the challenge articulated in Aristotle's systematic defense of friendship and the shared life. After some introductory rem…
The Shared Life
In Aristotle's view, the good life is a life lived amongst friends, and in particular, amongst friends of virtue or good character. I contrast this emphasis on attachment and intimacy with the themes of a more impartialist ethics, such as Kant presents. I then discuss friendship as a relational form of external good and discuss issues relating to both chosen friendships and natural philia.
Discerning the Particulars
Here I consider the way in which practical reason involves a discrimination of salience. My concern is thus with practical reason as a kind of perception and sensitivity to changing particulars. I first introduce the issue in the context of Aristotle's discussion of equity (epieikeia) and flexible and fair judgement of cases in the law. I then extend the discussion by considering what Aristotle might regard as lacking in a Kantian account of mora…
The Choices of a Character
I frame the chapter by taking up two related objections—that Aristotle lacks an adequate account of moral reasoning about the ends of good living and that he lacks an account of future intention. I try to meet both objections, arguing that Aristotle has a systematic account of deliberation about how best to live over the course of a life and that this is a form of deliberating about future plans and intentions. Central to the account is the notio…
The Fabric of Character: Aristotle's Theory of Virtue (Clarendon Paperbacks)
The Habituation of Character
According to traditional interpretations, the habituation of character is a mechanical process that chronologically precedes more reflective and cognitive moral development. I challenge this view, arguing that habituation is primarily a form of critical practice dependent on cognitive capacities of choice, perception, and deliberation. We are not children and then, at once, at the age of majority, reflective adults. Rather, as children we are gra…
The Fabric of Character: Aristotle's Theory of Virtue
The Fabric of Character explores Aristotle's account of virtuous character and its development. I argue that traditional conceptions of Aristotelian habituation have ignored the critical role of practical reason in both the development of virtue and the emotions constitutive of virtue. Virtue is, thus, neither the product of mindless drill nor of well‐behaved, but ultimately stupid emotions. If the virtuous person is, as Aristotle insists, also p…
Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle
Aristotle on the Shared Life
The Virtues of Common Pursuit
When we think about being good, morally good that is, what comes to mind is being good to others, and in less definite, though still important way, being good to ourselves. One set of virtues which comes into consideration are generosity, beneficence, and justice, with the focus perhaps, on welfare and rights. In Hume's words, a mind will never be able to bear its own survey, that has been wanting in its part to mankind and society.' In less defi…
Sovereign Virtue: Aristotle on the Relation between Happiness and Prosperity
The Moral Perspective and the Psychoanalytic Quest
Reasons and Feelings in Kantian Morality
Ancient Conceptions of Happiness
Julia Annas has written a monumental work that is in the best sense of the word, a with ancient theories of morality. Indeed what we have in the Morality of Happiness is a sustained conversation with the various ancient schools on the nature of eudaimonia and the moral dimensions of the best life for humans. This is a work that takes the Hellenists seriously, and as such, gives us both a fresh way of assessing Aristotle in terms of the refinement…
Making a Necessity of Virtue: Aristotle and Kant on Virtue
This book is the first to offer a detailed analysis of Aristotelian and Kantian ethics together, in a way that remains faithful to the texts and responsive to debates in contemporary ethics. Recent moral philosophy has seen a revival of interest in the concept of virtue, and with it a reassessment of the role of virtue in the work of Aristotle and Kant. This book brings that re-assessment to a new level of sophistication. Nancy Sherman argues tha…
Reclaiming the History of Ethics: Essays for John Rawls
The essays in this volume offer an approach to the history of moral and political philosophy that takes its inspiration from John Rawls. All the contributors are philosophers who have studied with Rawls and they offer this collection in his honour. The distinctive feature of this approach is to address substantive normative questions in moral and political philosophy through an analysis of the texts and theories of major figures in the history of…
Making a necessity of virtue: Aristotle and Kant on virtue
This book is the first to offer a detailed analysis of Aristotelian and Kantian ethics together in a way that remains faithful to the texts and responsive to debates in contemporary ethics. Recent moral philosophy has seen a revival of interest in the concept of virtue, and with it a reassessment of the role of virtue in the work of Aristotle and Kant. This book brings that reassessment to a new level of sophistication. Nancy Sherman argues that …
Concrete Kantian Respect
When we think about Kantian virtue, what often comes to mind is the notion of respect. Respect is due to all persons merely in virtue of their status as rational agents. Indeed, on the Kantian view, specific virtues, such as duties of beneficence, gratitude, or self-perfection, are so many ways of respecting persons as free rational agents. To preserve and promote rational agency, to protect individuals from threats against rational agency, i.e.,…
Sensitivity to Disgust Among College Women by Major
Empathy, Respect, and Humanitarian Intervention
This essay explores several moral attitudes that undergird a commitment to humanitarian intervention. Humanitarian intervention is usually understood to mean assistance or relief, often in the form of a rescue response by the international community to such emergencies as natural disasters, systematic human rights violations, or genocides that take place within the borders of sovereign states. But the term can equally mean aid before the fact, or…
Disgust Sensitivity and Attitudes Toward Organ Donation Among African-American College Students
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Disgust Sensitivity and Attitudes toward Organ Donation among African-American College Students
241 African-American college students (94 men and 147 women, mean age = 20.3 +/- 3.4 yr.) completed the 1994 Disgust Scale of Haidt, McCauley, and Rozin and a modified form of Parisi-Rizzo's 1987 Attitudes Toward Organ Donation Scale (negative subscale only) as well as a behavioral measure of intention to donate organs after death. Analyses indicated that the higher the disgust sensitivity, the more negative the attitude toward organ donation and…
Intellectual Virtue: Emotions, Luck, and the Ancients
This chapter defends an Aristotelian position which says that because emotions are not entirely voluntary and inextricably influence one's belief-forming processes, it does not follow that one is not responsible for the kind of beliefs one forms. Drawing from the work of Aristotle and the Stoics, it provides insight into the cognitive core of emotions, thereby offering ways in which emotions can be revised. Because emotions are central components…
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