Peter N Singer
Biographic Data
| ID | 5655964 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter N Singer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter N |
| FAMILY NAME | Singer |
| SIGNATURE | SINGER P N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London, [email protected] |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What is a Pathos? Where Medicine Meets Philosophy
What is happening to us when we experience a powerful emotion? Is pathos primarily an ethical or a medical concept - or does it admit of a coherent psycho-physical account? Galen provides a particularly fruitful site for the investigation of these questions, as both a prominent participant in the philosophical discourse on the emotions and a medical theorizer of the relationship between pathe psuches and physical and physiological phenomena. This…
The Mockery of Madness
The present paper poses the question of the different ways in which madness is laughed at—or with—in Attic Tragedy and in Old Comedy. What is the significance of each kind of “mad laughter”? I shall identify fundamental differences, related to the different kinds of character, mental aberration and dramatic conflict presented in each genre, and more broadly to the dramatic structure and function of each. A first distinction can be made between la…
The Mockery of Madness
The present paper poses the question of the different ways in which madness is laughed at—or with—in Attic Tragedy and in Old Comedy. What is the significance of each kind of “mad laughter”? I shall identify fundamental differences, related to the different kinds of character, mental aberration and dramatic conflict presented in each genre, and more broadly to the dramatic structure and function of each. A first distinction can be made between la…
The Mockery of Madness
The present paper poses the question of the different ways in which madness is laughed at—or with—in Attic Tragedy and in Old Comedy. What is the significance of each kind of “mad laughter”? I shall identify fundamental differences, related to the different kinds of character, mental aberration and dramatic conflict presented in each genre, and more broadly to the dramatic structure and function of each. A first distinction can be made between la…
What is a Pathos? Where Medicine Meets Philosophy
What is happening to us when we experience a powerful emotion? Is pathos primarily an ethical or a medical concept - or does it admit of a coherent psycho-physical account? Galen provides a particularly fruitful site for the investigation of these questions, as both a prominent participant in the philosophical discourse on the emotions and a medical theorizer of the relationship between pathe psuches and physical and physiological phenomena. This…
Art (2 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Blessing (1 work) · Classical Antiquity Studies (1 work) · Comedy (1 work) · Curse (1 work)