Owen Flanagan
Biographic Data
| ID | 445011 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Owen Flanagan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Owen |
| FAMILY NAME | Flanagan |
| SIGNATURE | FLANAGAN O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wellesley College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5658-8083 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Varieties of Cosmopolitanism
Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development
This book presents an in-depth and deeply engaged conversation among interfaith religious leaders and interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners in pursuit of an ethical consensus that could ground sustainable development efforts
The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Early Chinese Ethics and Political Philosophy
Focusing on early Chinese ethical and political thought across multiple schools and thinkers, this book presents a comprehensive overview of the research being done in Chinese comparative ethics and political philosophy. In addition to chapters on Chinese comparative and interpretative thought, The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Early Chinese Ethics and Political Philosophy brings early Chinese ethics and political philosophy into conversation w…
Modern Times and Modern Rites
Classical Confucianism says that ritual propriety (li 禮) is necessary to bind society and produce a harmonious and peaceful social order. Secular liberal moral and political theories are skeptical that shared manners, etiquette, rituals, and rites are necessary to bind society and produce intra- state harmony and peace. Liberalism, especially liberalism adapted to cosmopolitan and multicultural states, proposes that an overlapping consensus about…
Is Oneness an Over‐belief
Neuroexistentialism
Existentialism is a concern about the foundation of meaning, morals, and purpose. Existentialisms arise when some foundation for these elements of being is under assault. In the past, first-wave existentialism concerned the increasingly apparent inability of religion and religious tradition to provide such a foundation, as typified in the writings of Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche. Second-wave existentialism, personified philosophically b…
Moral Sedimentation: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience
Jesse Prinz begins this chapter by noting that existentialism is often regarded as a philosophy of radical freedom—leading existentialists emphasized the human capacity for choice and self-creation. At the same time, a countercurrent in existentialist thought calls freedom into question. This countercurrent draws attention to the ways in which behavior is determined by forces outside of our control. This is especially vivid in the moral domain. B…
A Mirror Is for Reflection
This volume offers a snapshot of the present state of academic investigation into the nature of Buddhist ethics. Over the past decade many scholars have come to think that the project of fitting Buddhist ethical thought into Western philosophical categories may be of limited utility, and the focus of investigation has shifted in a number of new directions. Contributions to these recent investigation from many of the leading figures in the academi…
Zen Buddhism and the Space of Ethics: Understanding Buddhist Ethics
This essay discusses Buddhist ethics from Zen and Huayan Buddhist perspectives. It proposes that Zen Buddhist ethics underlines the importance of the ethical agent’s awareness of the fundamental gap between the reality of the world and the agent’s capacity to fully understand the total reality, and this gap inevitably creates a tension in the ethical agent’s mind. This tension is a positive guideline that demands of the ethical agent a constant a…
The Geography of Morals: Varieties of Moral Possibility
'The Geography of Morals' is a work of extraordinary ambition: an indictment of the parochialism of Western philosophy, a comprehensive dialogue between cultural and psychological anthropology, recent work in empirical moral psychology, behavioural economics, and cross-cultural philosophy
Naturalizing Epistemic Virtue
Moral Sprouts and Natural Teleologies: 21St Century Moral Psychology Meets Classical Chinese Philosophy (The Aquinas Lecture, 2014)
The View from the East Pole: Buddhist and Confucian Tolerance
This chapter addresses the question of why Buddhists and Confucians are more tolerant, less conflict prone, less war-like, etc., than Abrahamic peoples. It formulates a hypothesis for how the difference-maker may have to deal with God, or better, with beliefs about God's nature and modus operandi. The hypothesis is not that Buddhism and Confucianism are more rational, less superstitious than the Abrahamic religions. It is that Buddhism and Confuc…
Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World
The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World
A noted philosopher proposes a naturalistic (rather than supernaturalistic) way to solve the "really hard problem": how to live in a meaningful way—how to live a life that really matters—even as a finite material being living in a material world. If consciousness is "the hard problem" in mind science—explaining how the amazing private world of consciousness emerges from neuronal activity—then "the really hard problem," writes Owen Flanagan in thi…
Multiplex vs. Multiple Selves: Distinguishing Dissociative Disorders
Journal Article Multiplex vs. Multiple Selves: Distinguishing Dissociative Disorders Get access Valerie Gray Hardcastle, Valerie Gray Hardcastle Virginia Tech Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Owen Flanagan Owen Flanagan Duke University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Monist, Volume 82, Issue 4, 1 October 1999, Pages 645-657, https://doi.org/10.5840/…
Self Expressions: Mind, Morals, and the Meaning of Life
Continuing the old philosophical project of reconciling a scientific view of ourselves with the view of ourselves as agents of free will and meaning, but bringing to this project the latest insights of neuroscience, cognitive science, and psychiatry, Flanagan's collection of essays explores topics such as a scientific explanation of consciousness, the moral socialization of children, and the nature and issues of psychological phenomena such as mu…
Consciousness: A philosophical tour
Deconstructing Dreams: The Spandrels of Sleep
Self expressions: Mind, Morals, and the Meaning of Life
What makes the life of any animal, even one as sophisticated as Homo sapiens, worth anything? What place in a material world is there for God? And if there is no place for a God, then what hold can morality possibly have on us? Why isn't everything allowed? In this trailblazing collection of essays on free will and the human mind, distinguished philosopher Owen Flanagan tackles these questions and more. He pursues the old philosophical project of…
Consciousness Reconsidered
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Consciousness Reconsidered. By Owen Flanagan. (MIT Press, 1992. Pp. xiv + 234. Price £ 22.50.) Lynn Stephens Lynn Stephens University of Alabama at Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 46, Issue 184, July 1996, Pages 417–421, https://doi.org/10.2307/2956462 Published: 01 July 1996
The Moment of Truth on Dublin Bridge: A Response to Andrew Pickering
Research Article| April 01 1995 The Moment of Truth on Dublin Bridge: A Response to Andrew Pickering Owen Flanagan Owen Flanagan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1995) 94 (2): 467–474. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-94-2-467 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Owen Flanagan; The Moment of Truth on Dublin Bridge: A Response to Andrew…
Consciousness Reconsidered
Varieties of Moral Personality: Ethics and Psychological Realism
Real-time knowledge of tumor position during radiation therapy is essential to overcome the adverse effect of intra-fractional organ motion. The goal of this work is to develop a tumor tracking strategy by effectively utilizing the inherent image features of stereoscopic x-ray images acquired during dose delivery. In stereoscopic x-ray image guided radiation delivery, two orthogonal x-ray images are acquired either simultaneously or sequentially.…
Varieties of Moral Personality: Ethics and Psychological Realism
PART 1: ETHICS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL REALISM Prologue: Saints 1. Ethics and Psychology The Topic Ethics, Psychology, and the Human Sciences The Autonomy Thesis 2. The Principle of Minimal Psychological Realism Minimal Psychological Realism Psychological Distance Natural and Social Psychological Traits Environmental Sensitivity Natural Teleology and the Naturalistic Fallacy 3. Psychological Realism and the Personal Point of View The Argument from the …
Multiplex vs. Multiple Selves: Distinguishing Dissociative Disorders
Journal Article Multiplex vs. Multiple Selves: Distinguishing Dissociative Disorders Get access Valerie Gray Hardcastle, Valerie Gray Hardcastle Virginia Tech Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Owen Flanagan Owen Flanagan Duke University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Monist, Volume 82, Issue 4, 1 October 1999, Pages 645-657, https://doi.org/10.5840/…
Moral Sedimentation: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience
Jesse Prinz begins this chapter by noting that existentialism is often regarded as a philosophy of radical freedom—leading existentialists emphasized the human capacity for choice and self-creation. At the same time, a countercurrent in existentialist thought calls freedom into question. This countercurrent draws attention to the ways in which behavior is determined by forces outside of our control. This is especially vivid in the moral domain. B…
Consciousness Reconsidered
The sociobiological challenge to psychology: On the proposal to "cannibalize" comparative psychology
Psychology, progress, and the problem of reflexivity: A study in the epistemological foundations of psychology
Buss's thesis that, throughout the history of psychology, psychological theories have alternated between two contradictory models of human nature is examined and supported. One model sees humans as actively constructing themselves; the other model sees humans as constructed from the outside. The thesis that the inherent reflexive quality of psychological inquiry is the cause of this alternation is then examined. Three different hypotheses as to h…
Moral Structures
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The Disappearance of Introspection
Mermaids, Stray Dogs, Those That Have Just Broken a Heterotopia
Consciousness Reconsidered
Consciousness is neither miraculous nor ultimately mysterious. In this broad, entertaining, and persuasive account Owen Flanagan argues that we are on the way to understanding consciousness and its place in the natural order. No aspect of consciousness escapes Flanagan's probe. Qualia, self-consciousness, autobiographical memory, perceptions, sensations, the stream of consciousness, disorders such as blindsight, various kinds of amnesia, and mult…
Varieties of Moral Personality: Ethics and Psychological Realism
Real-time knowledge of tumor position during radiation therapy is essential to overcome the adverse effect of intra-fractional organ motion. The goal of this work is to develop a tumor tracking strategy by effectively utilizing the inherent image features of stereoscopic x-ray images acquired during dose delivery. In stereoscopic x-ray image guided radiation delivery, two orthogonal x-ray images are acquired either simultaneously or sequentially.…
Varieties of Moral Personality: Ethics and Psychological Realism
PART 1: ETHICS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL REALISM Prologue: Saints 1. Ethics and Psychology The Topic Ethics, Psychology, and the Human Sciences The Autonomy Thesis 2. The Principle of Minimal Psychological Realism Minimal Psychological Realism Psychological Distance Natural and Social Psychological Traits Environmental Sensitivity Natural Teleology and the Naturalistic Fallacy 3. Psychological Realism and the Personal Point of View The Argument from the …
Varieties of Moral Personality: Ethics and Psychological Realism
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Varieties of Moral Personality: Ethics and Psychological Realism. By Owen Flanagan. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991. Pp. xiv + 393. Price £27.95.) David Carr David Carr Moray House Institute, Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 170, January 1993, Pages 104–107, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219947 Publi…
Varieties of Moral Personality: Ethics and Psychological Realism
The Malaise of Modernity.Charles Taylor
Consciousness Reconsidered
The Moment of Truth on Dublin Bridge: A Response to Andrew Pickering
Research Article| April 01 1995 The Moment of Truth on Dublin Bridge: A Response to Andrew Pickering Owen Flanagan Owen Flanagan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1995) 94 (2): 467–474. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-94-2-467 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Owen Flanagan; The Moment of Truth on Dublin Bridge: A Response to Andrew…
Deconstructing Dreams: The Spandrels of Sleep
Self expressions: Mind, Morals, and the Meaning of Life
What makes the life of any animal, even one as sophisticated as Homo sapiens, worth anything? What place in a material world is there for God? And if there is no place for a God, then what hold can morality possibly have on us? Why isn't everything allowed? In this trailblazing collection of essays on free will and the human mind, distinguished philosopher Owen Flanagan tackles these questions and more. He pursues the old philosophical project of…
Consciousness Reconsidered
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Consciousness Reconsidered. By Owen Flanagan. (MIT Press, 1992. Pp. xiv + 234. Price £ 22.50.) Lynn Stephens Lynn Stephens University of Alabama at Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 46, Issue 184, July 1996, Pages 417–421, https://doi.org/10.2307/2956462 Published: 01 July 1996
Consciousness: A philosophical tour
Self Expressions: Mind, Morals, and the Meaning of Life
Continuing the old philosophical project of reconciling a scientific view of ourselves with the view of ourselves as agents of free will and meaning, but bringing to this project the latest insights of neuroscience, cognitive science, and psychiatry, Flanagan's collection of essays explores topics such as a scientific explanation of consciousness, the moral socialization of children, and the nature and issues of psychological phenomena such as mu…
Multiplex vs. Multiple Selves: Distinguishing Dissociative Disorders
Journal Article Multiplex vs. Multiple Selves: Distinguishing Dissociative Disorders Get access Valerie Gray Hardcastle, Valerie Gray Hardcastle Virginia Tech Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Owen Flanagan Owen Flanagan Duke University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Monist, Volume 82, Issue 4, 1 October 1999, Pages 645-657, https://doi.org/10.5840/…
The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World
A noted philosopher proposes a naturalistic (rather than supernaturalistic) way to solve the "really hard problem": how to live in a meaningful way—how to live a life that really matters—even as a finite material being living in a material world. If consciousness is "the hard problem" in mind science—explaining how the amazing private world of consciousness emerges from neuronal activity—then "the really hard problem," writes Owen Flanagan in thi…
Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World
The View from the East Pole: Buddhist and Confucian Tolerance
This chapter addresses the question of why Buddhists and Confucians are more tolerant, less conflict prone, less war-like, etc., than Abrahamic peoples. It formulates a hypothesis for how the difference-maker may have to deal with God, or better, with beliefs about God's nature and modus operandi. The hypothesis is not that Buddhism and Confucianism are more rational, less superstitious than the Abrahamic religions. It is that Buddhism and Confuc…
Naturalizing Epistemic Virtue
Moral Sprouts and Natural Teleologies: 21St Century Moral Psychology Meets Classical Chinese Philosophy (The Aquinas Lecture, 2014)
The Geography of Morals: Varieties of Moral Possibility
'The Geography of Morals' is a work of extraordinary ambition: an indictment of the parochialism of Western philosophy, a comprehensive dialogue between cultural and psychological anthropology, recent work in empirical moral psychology, behavioural economics, and cross-cultural philosophy
Philosophy (22 works) · Epistemology (20 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Consciousness (6 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (5 works) · Cognitive science (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works)