Jeremiah Tillman
Biographic Data
| ID | 7102266 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeremiah Tillman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeremiah |
| FAMILY NAME | Tillman |
| SIGNATURE | TILLMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Philosophy Department Luther College Decorah Iowa USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9349-1851 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Ethical Seduction
Many of us worry that seduction belongs in the category of sexual wrongdoing alongside coercion and rape. But this worry plays down our ambivalence towards seduction. Despite our discomfort, we sometimes desire to be seduced: We want other people to sweep us off our feet and woo us. This tension makes clear that seduction has some appeal and implies that it is not a straightforward moral problem. In this paper, I argue that seduction is neither i…
Grief Rekindles
Love and evaluative conflict
Lovers often disagree. We may reject the specific goals our loved ones pursue or the broad values they hold. Some philosophers suggest that such evaluative conflict makes romantic love in its ideal form deficient. I argue that this is mistaken. On the contrary, our ideal of love holds that we can love people for “who they are” (as we say), even as we profoundly disagree with them. My argument draws on intuitive cases from screwball comedy about l…
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Love and evaluative conflict
Lovers often disagree. We may reject the specific goals our loved ones pursue or the broad values they hold. Some philosophers suggest that such evaluative conflict makes romantic love in its ideal form deficient. I argue that this is mistaken. On the contrary, our ideal of love holds that we can love people for “who they are” (as we say), even as we profoundly disagree with them. My argument draws on intuitive cases from screwball comedy about l…
Grief Rekindles
Ethical Seduction
Many of us worry that seduction belongs in the category of sexual wrongdoing alongside coercion and rape. But this worry plays down our ambivalence towards seduction. Despite our discomfort, we sometimes desire to be seduced: We want other people to sweep us off our feet and woo us. This tension makes clear that seduction has some appeal and implies that it is not a straightforward moral problem. In this paper, I argue that seduction is neither i…
Philosophical Ethics and Theory (2 works) · Sketch (2 works) · Worry (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Ambivalence (1 work) · Appeal (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Character (mathematics (1 work) · Comedy (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work)