Matt Ferkany
Biographic Data
| ID | 5149975 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matt Ferkany |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matt |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferkany |
| SIGNATURE | FERKANY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4260-3777 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Lisa Kretz, Ethics, Emotion, Education, and Empowerment
How and Why We Should Argue with Angry Uncle
How should we talk to Angry Uncle, or attempt to persuade any very ignorant audience? This paper discusses several strategies, including fact dumping, consistency checking, pandering, and just being friendly. It defends the continued value of fact dumping and consistency checking despite skeptical doubts rooted in recent cognitive science literature about their strategic efficacy. Pandering and friendliness often fail to confront our audience wit…
Philosophy in the Field
The Objectivity of Wellbeing
Subjective theories of wellbeing place authority concerning what benefits a person with that person herself, or limit wellbeing to psychological states. But how well off we are seems to depend on two different concerns, how well we are doing and how well things are going for us. I argue that two powerful subjective theories fail to adequately account for this and that principled arguments favoring subjectivism are unsound and poorly motivated. In…
The Importance of Participatory Virtues in the Future of Environmental Education
The Educational Importance of Self-Esteem
Journal Article The Educational Importance of Self-Esteem Get access Matt Ferkany Matt Ferkany Department of Philosophy, 506 S. Kedzie Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA Correspondence: Matt Ferkany, Department of Philosophy, 506 S. Kedzie Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of …
The Objectivity of Wellbeing
Subjective theories of wellbeing place authority concerning what benefits a person with that person herself, or limit wellbeing to psychological states. But how well off we are seems to depend on two different concerns, how well we are doing and how well things are going for us. I argue that two powerful subjective theories fail to adequately account for this and that principled arguments favoring subjectivism are unsound and poorly motivated. In…
The Educational Importance of Self-Esteem
Journal Article The Educational Importance of Self-Esteem Get access Matt Ferkany Matt Ferkany Department of Philosophy, 506 S. Kedzie Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA Correspondence: Matt Ferkany, Department of Philosophy, 506 S. Kedzie Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of …
The Importance of Participatory Virtues in the Future of Environmental Education
The Educational Importance of Self-Esteem
Journal Article The Educational Importance of Self-Esteem Get access Matt Ferkany Matt Ferkany Department of Philosophy, 506 S. Kedzie Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA Correspondence: Matt Ferkany, Department of Philosophy, 506 S. Kedzie Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of …
The Importance of Participatory Virtues in the Future of Environmental Education
The Objectivity of Wellbeing
Subjective theories of wellbeing place authority concerning what benefits a person with that person herself, or limit wellbeing to psychological states. But how well off we are seems to depend on two different concerns, how well we are doing and how well things are going for us. I argue that two powerful subjective theories fail to adequately account for this and that principled arguments favoring subjectivism are unsound and poorly motivated. In…
Philosophy in the Field
How and Why We Should Argue with Angry Uncle
How should we talk to Angry Uncle, or attempt to persuade any very ignorant audience? This paper discusses several strategies, including fact dumping, consistency checking, pandering, and just being friendly. It defends the continued value of fact dumping and consistency checking despite skeptical doubts rooted in recent cognitive science literature about their strategic efficacy. Pandering and friendliness often fail to confront our audience wit…
Lisa Kretz, Ethics, Emotion, Education, and Empowerment
Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Engineering ethics (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Citizen journalism (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)