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The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (4): 441–447.
Published: 01 October 2024
...-properties—a view that is officially designated by its authors with a moniker that also serves as the book’s title. “Rational Sentimentalism,” say D’Arms and Jacobson, has three tenets. The first is its sentimentalist part: the claim that the sentimental values—a group that includes the disgusting...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (3): 480–484.
Published: 01 July 2020
...). For intention, the relevant facts concern what you will do: “If you will φ, believe that you intend to φ” (INT). And for disgust (an example of emotion), the relevant facts concern what is disgusting: “If x is disgusting and produces disgust reactions in you, believe that you feel disgust at x” (DIS...
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The Philosophical Review (2016) 125 (2): 287–289.
Published: 01 April 2016
... at one point that “disgust may not be an emotion at all, but a sensory reflex” (41) without explaining how, say, disgust at a glass of water that one knows had a bug in it five minutes ago could be a sensory reflex. The philosophy is not handled particularly well either. Harry Frankfurt's theory...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 305–308.
Published: 01 April 2023
... locating the alleged disvalue of morality principally in the fact that its function is self-undermining: it is a ‘danger’ because it is self-defeating. It is hard to see this feature of morality as what motivates the alarm and disgust in Nietzsche’s narrative voice in the Genealogy . He sees himself...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (4): 481–527.
Published: 01 October 2017
... “values” actually shadow response-independent properties. To get a feel for the position, consider the natural emotions of fear and disgust. A response-dependent treatment of them would say that the associated values are the fearsome (whatever merits fear) and the disgusting (whatever merits disgust...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (3): 352–356.
Published: 01 July 2019
... with ourselves’ but only by being the concept of attributes concerning which there is no disgust” (303). This definition does not help to distinguish persons from much else, most importantly from selves. Perhaps Ganeri has in mind the Mahāyāna distinction between persons and selves, according to which persons...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (1): 155–158.
Published: 01 January 2023
... envies Lenu’s education, intelligence, and friends. Each feels excruciatingly inferior to the other at times. They go through periods of close friendship and estrangement as a result. It was this envy that so disgusted my friends. Envy is, as Sara Protasi points out in her book The Philosophy...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (3): 416–419.
Published: 01 July 2005
... about technology in our country is weak. I wonder, though, whether the tone he takes in some essays might have the opposite effect from the one he desires, as he sometimes leans in the direction of moral skepticism and cultural disgust. Such overtones are unlikely to encourage those still clutching...
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The Philosophical Review (2025) 134 (1): 96–100.
Published: 01 January 2025
....) Finally, in part 3, Krebs puts forward evolutionary explanations for our motivations to instantiate particular virtues. Here they are in brief. Self-control evolved to help us manage and suppress our selfish desires. Purity evolved to help us avoid health hazards (via disgust mechanisms) and was later co...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (3): 419–423.
Published: 01 July 2005
... discourse about technology in our country is weak. I wonder, though, whether the tone he takes in some essays might have the opposite effect from the one he desires, as he sometimes leans in the direction of moral skepticism and cultural disgust. Such overtones are unlikely to encourage those still...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (2): 295–300.
Published: 01 April 2017
... labor, which provides economic security, sustains valued social practices, and provides (let's imagine) a viable alternative to slaughtering members of the enslaved racial group out of disgust at their way of life. So, Cuneo needs to explain why the burden on slave owners doesn't undermine...
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (4): 611–617.
Published: 01 October 2011
... Press. x þ 249 pp. Korsmeyer, Carolyn. 2011. Savoring Disgust: The Foul and the Fair in Aesthetics. New York: Oxford University Press. vi þ194 pp. 613 BOOKS RECEIVED Lahire, Bernard. 2011. The Plural Actor. Translated by David...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (2): 309–316.
Published: 01 April 2012
... and Institution: Aesthetics in the Late Works of Merleau- Ponty. New York: Continuum. ix þ163 pp. Kelly, Daniel R. 2011. Yuck! The Nature and Moral Significance of Disgust. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. x þ 194 pp. Khader, Serene J. 2011. Adaptive Preferences and Women’s Empowerment. New York: Oxford...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (3): 475–481.
Published: 01 July 2012
... of Disgust. New York: Oxford University Press. viii þ 248 pp. McIntyre, Kenneth B. 2011. Herbert Butterfield: History, Providence, and Skeptical Politics. Wilmington: ISI Books. xv þ 238 pp. Melnick, Arthur. 2011. Phenomenology and the Physical Reality of Consciousness. Philadelphia: John...
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The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (4): 387–422.
Published: 01 October 2019
... on protecting ourselves from criticism. 12. Another proponent of the Sanction View is Gerald Dworkin (2000: 187) , for whom criticism is one of “the sanctions of morality—censure, ostracism, blame, disapproval, disgust”. See also Smith 2007: 477 , where reproach, demanding an apology, shunning...
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The Philosophical Review (2004) 113 (2): 293–302.
Published: 01 April 2004
....: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. Pp. xxii, 285. Philosophy in Practice: An Introduction to the Main Questions. 2d ed.. By Adam Morton. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. Pp. xv, 446. Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law. By Martha C. Nussbaum. Princeton: Princeton University...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (2): 159–191.
Published: 01 April 2008
... be applied from various evaluative perspectives. Obviously imprudence counts decisively as “wrong-making from a prudential point of view,” but that is irrelevant to the point at hand. 172 Utilitarianism without Consequentialism disgust. Moral judgments...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (3): 339–383.
Published: 01 July 2021
... information itself; even if I only love tastiness, I should still sometimes try flavors that seem likely to be disgusting. The task of this article is to extend the idea of such a trade-off to the case of belief formation and change: should we ever believe solely in order to explore? To summarize...