Mavis Biss
Biographic Data
| ID | 6100651 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mavis Biss |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mavis |
| FAMILY NAME | Biss |
| SIGNATURE | BISS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Maryland Baltimore Maryland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reparative Trust
This paper engages work by philosophers from multiple intellectual traditions to analyze practical dilemmas of social trust in public space that are not suitably captured by judgment-based accounts of trust and trustworthiness. Repurposing concepts developed by Eve Sedgwick, I argue that deficient trust judgments, especially in the form of excessive distrust, may not be correctable without a change in the imaginative stance that underlies a perso…
Deep Interdisciplinarity
This essay discusses an interdisciplinary art history/philosophy course cotaught by a professor from each discipline. Fundamental questions about how we experience, understand, and communicate about art can be answered more effectively through such interdisciplinary collaboration than through each discipline alone. Students in the course tended to think of art either in purely subjective terms, in which art was simply an expression of personal ta…
On trying too hard
The goal of moral education is moral formation and moral improvement. Kant's duty of moral self-perfection applies to people who have undergone preliminary stages of moral formation and are in the position to strive for moral improvement based on a grasp of principle and an understanding of ends that are also duties. We are familiar with standard shorthand expressions of moral encouragement such as ‘Do as much good as you can’ or ‘Do your best’. …
A Kantian Response to the Problem of Reception
This paper addresses the problem of explaining the relationship between social recognition and justification of moral action, or “the problem of reception.” It is an especially acute and distinctive problem for agents who resist oppression by challenging established norms because action may be necessary even when good reception cannot be expected. I draw on recent work in Kantian ethics that acknowledges the conditions of socially embedded ration…
Radical Moral Imagination
This paper develops the basis for a new account of radical moral imagination, understood as the transformation of moral understandings through creative response to the sensed inadequacy of one's moral concepts or morally significant appraisals of lived experience. Against Miranda Fricker, I argue that this kind of transition from moral perplexity to increased moral insight is not primarily a matter of the “top‐down” use of concepts. Against Susan…
On trying too hard
The goal of moral education is moral formation and moral improvement. Kant's duty of moral self-perfection applies to people who have undergone preliminary stages of moral formation and are in the position to strive for moral improvement based on a grasp of principle and an understanding of ends that are also duties. We are familiar with standard shorthand expressions of moral encouragement such as ‘Do as much good as you can’ or ‘Do your best’. …
Radical Moral Imagination
This paper develops the basis for a new account of radical moral imagination, understood as the transformation of moral understandings through creative response to the sensed inadequacy of one's moral concepts or morally significant appraisals of lived experience. Against Miranda Fricker, I argue that this kind of transition from moral perplexity to increased moral insight is not primarily a matter of the “top‐down” use of concepts. Against Susan…
Radical Moral Imagination
This paper develops the basis for a new account of radical moral imagination, understood as the transformation of moral understandings through creative response to the sensed inadequacy of one's moral concepts or morally significant appraisals of lived experience. Against Miranda Fricker, I argue that this kind of transition from moral perplexity to increased moral insight is not primarily a matter of the “top‐down” use of concepts. Against Susan…
A Kantian Response to the Problem of Reception
This paper addresses the problem of explaining the relationship between social recognition and justification of moral action, or “the problem of reception.” It is an especially acute and distinctive problem for agents who resist oppression by challenging established norms because action may be necessary even when good reception cannot be expected. I draw on recent work in Kantian ethics that acknowledges the conditions of socially embedded ration…
On trying too hard
The goal of moral education is moral formation and moral improvement. Kant's duty of moral self-perfection applies to people who have undergone preliminary stages of moral formation and are in the position to strive for moral improvement based on a grasp of principle and an understanding of ends that are also duties. We are familiar with standard shorthand expressions of moral encouragement such as ‘Do as much good as you can’ or ‘Do your best’. …
Deep Interdisciplinarity
This essay discusses an interdisciplinary art history/philosophy course cotaught by a professor from each discipline. Fundamental questions about how we experience, understand, and communicate about art can be answered more effectively through such interdisciplinary collaboration than through each discipline alone. Students in the course tended to think of art either in purely subjective terms, in which art was simply an expression of personal ta…
Reparative Trust
This paper engages work by philosophers from multiple intellectual traditions to analyze practical dilemmas of social trust in public space that are not suitably captured by judgment-based accounts of trust and trustworthiness. Repurposing concepts developed by Eve Sedgwick, I argue that deficient trust judgments, especially in the form of excessive distrust, may not be correctable without a change in the imaginative stance that underlies a perso…
Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Ethics in medical practice (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Moral disengagement (2 works)