21 found
Order:
  1.  67
    Time and the shared world: Heidegger on social relations.Irene McMullin - 2013 - Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press.
    Introduction: Time and the shared world -- The "subject" of inquiry -- Mineness and the practical first-person -- Being and otherness: Sartre's critique -- Heideggerian aprioricity and the categories of being -- The temporality of care -- Fursorge: acknowledging the other Dasein -- Authenticity, inauthenticity, and the extremes of Fursorge -- Conclusion.
  2.  64
    Existential Flourishing: A Phenomenology of the Virtues.Irene McMullin - 2018 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    By putting existential phenomenology into conversation with virtue ethics, this book offers a new interpretation of human flourishing. It rejects characterizations of flourishing as either a private subjective state or an objective worldly status, arguing that flourishing is rather a successfully negotiated self-world fit – a condition involving both the essential dependence of the self upon the world and others, and the lived normative responsiveness of the agent striving to be in the world well. A central argument of the book (...)
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   12 citations  
  3. A modest proposal: Accounting for the virtuousness of modesty.Irene McMullin - 2010 - Philosophical Quarterly 60 (241):783-807.
    Recent attempts to explain why modesty should be considered a virtue have failed. A more adequate account is that modesty involves understanding how far one's accomplishments ought to be taken as definitive of one's value. Modest people communicate this self-understanding through behaviour motivated by the desire to ensure that their accomplishments do not cause pain to others. This virtuous mode of self-awareness involves recognizing that one is both defined by social standards of success and irreducible to these assessments. Modest agents (...)
    Direct download (6 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   13 citations  
  4. Kant on Radical Evil and the Origin of Moral Responsibility.Irene McMullin - 2013 - Kantian Review 18 (1):49-72.
    The notion of radical evil plays a more important role in Kant's moral theory than is typically recognized. In Religion Within the Limits of Mere Reason, radical evil is both an innate propensity and a morally imputable act – a paradoxical status that has prompted commentators to reject it as inconsistent with the rest of Kant's moral theory. In contrast, I argue that the notion of radical evil accounts for the beginning of moral responsibility in Kant's theory, since the act (...)
    Direct download (11 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   7 citations  
  5.  40
    Norm and Ideal: Kant’s Postulates of Practical Reason and their Heideggerian Reconceptualization.Irene McMullin - 2020 - In Matthew Burch & Irene McMullin (eds.), Transcending Reason: Heidegger on Rationality. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 187-210.
    The received view of Martin Heidegger’s work is that he leaves little room for reason in the practice of philosophy or the conduct of life. Citing his much-scorned remark that reason is the “stiff-necked adversary of thought”, critics argue that Heidegger’s philosophy effectively severs the tie between reason and normativity, leaving anyone who adheres to his position without recourse to justifying reasons for their beliefs and actions. Transcending Reason is a collection of essays by leading Heidegger scholars that challenges this (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  6. The Amnesia of the Modern: Arendt on the Role of Memory in the Constitution of the Political.Irene McMullin - 2011 - Philosophical Topics 39 (2):91-116.
    In this paper I consider the essential role that public memory plays in the establishment and maintenance of the political arena and its space of appearance. Without this space and the shared memory that allows it to appear, Hannah Arendt argues, transience and finitude would consume the excellence of word and deed—just as the "natural ruin of time" consumes its mortal performer. The modern era displays a kind of mnemonic failure, however, a situation arising not only from technological developments that (...)
    Direct download (7 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  7.  29
    Normativity, Meaning, and the Promise of Phenomenology.Matt Burch & Irene McMullin (eds.) - 2019 - New York, NY, USA: Routledge.
    The aim of this volume is to critically assess the philosophical importance of phenomenology as a method for studying the normativity of meaning and its transcendental conditions. Using the pioneering work of Steven Crowell as a springboard, phenomenologists from all over the world examine the promise of phenomenology for illuminating long-standing problems in epistemology, the philosophy of mind, action theory, the philosophy of religion, and moral psychology. The essays are unique in that they engage with the phenomenological tradition not as (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  8. Sharing the 'now': Heidegger and the temporal co-constitution of world.Irene McMullin - 2009 - Continental Philosophy Review 42 (2):201-220.
    In this paper I respond to the view that Heidegger is unable to account for the possibility of immediately experiencing others in their concrete particularity. Critics have argued that since Mitsein characterizes Dasein’s mode of being regardless of the presence or absence of others, Heidegger has essentially granted it the status of an a priori category. In doing so, they argue, Heidegger reduces the other to a mere interchangeable token whose uniqueness is subsumed under the generality of the established category. (...)
    Direct download (5 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   3 citations  
  9. Love and Entitlement: Sartre and Beauvoir on the Nature of Jealousy.Irene Mcmullin - 2011 - Hypatia 26 (1):102-122.
    This paper argues that an essential and often overlooked feature of jealousy is the sense that one is entitled to the affirmation provided by the love relationship. By turning to Sartre's and Beauvoir's analyses of love and its distortions, I will show how the public nature of identity can inhibit the possibility of genuine love. Since we must depend on the freedom of others to show us who we are, the uncertainty this introduces into one's sense of self can trigger (...)
    Direct download (6 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  10.  17
    Trust in the World.Irene Mcmullin - 2023 - Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 44 (1):71-97.
    Danish philosopher K.E. Løgstrup provides a moral theory according to which communal life is for the most part characterized by unthinking and immediate relationships of trust, communication, and compassion. When these are disrupted by our tendency toward self-absorption, the ethical claim then shows up in experience as a demand that we prioritise the other’s needs. Løgstrup argues that this demand contains an implicit “understanding of life”; namely, that it is a gift or gratuitous good for which we can take no (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  11.  76
    Articulating Discourse.Irene McMullin - 2006 - Southwest Philosophy Review 22 (1):173-183.
  12. Embodied Expression: The Role of the Lived Body in Husserl's Notion of Intention Fulfilment.Irene McMullin - 2017 - European Journal of Philosophy 25 (4):1739-1767.
  13.  14
    Transcending Reason: Heidegger on Rationality.Matthew Burch & Irene McMullin (eds.) - 2020 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    This book offers the first edited volume to thematically foreground Heidegger’s complex relation to “the life of reason” and its relation to normativity. Authored by world-class phenomenologists and Heidegger scholars, it presents cutting-edge, convention-challenging scholarship on Heidegger’s relationship to the phenomenological traditions.
    No categories
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  14. Transcending Reason.Matt Burch & Irene McMullin (eds.) - forthcoming - Rowman & Littlefield.
    No categories
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  15.  44
    A Response to Mark D. White’s “A Modest Comment on McMullin: A Kantian Account of Modesty”.Irene McMullin - 2015 - Journal of Philosophical Research 40:7-11.
    In response to Mark D. White's Kantian critique of my article "A Modest Proposal: Accounting for the Virtuousness of Modesty," I argue that invoking Kant's notions of dignity and respect in order to provide an egalitarian account of modesty brings with it conceptual commitments that are not always easy to reconcile with the moral phenomenology of that virtue. In light of this I question White's claim that a Kantian account of modesty offers a better explanation than the existential phenomenological approach (...)
    Direct download (5 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  16.  32
    Levinas and Løgstrup on the Phenomenology (and Metaphysics?) of Moral Agency.Irene McMullin - 2020 - The Monist 103 (1):38-62.
    For both Levinas and Løgstrup, the moral encounter is characterized by an asymmetrical prioritization of the other over the self. Some take Løgstrup’s account to be an improvement on Levinas’s, however, insofar as it appears to both foreswear the hyperbole of the latter’s view and ground the ethical claim in the natural conditions of human life. This paper argues, in contrast, that Løgstrup’s own account is equally hyperbolic in its characterization of the self as fundamentally evil, and that his attempt (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  17. Philosophical Topics.Irene McMullin & Karin Fry - 2011 - Philosophical Topics: Hannah Arendt 39 (2).
    No categories
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  18.  25
    Resoluteness and Gratitude for the Good.Irene McMullin - 2019 - In Matt Burch & Irene McMullin (eds.), Normativity, Meaning, and the Promise of Phenomenology. New York, NY, USA: Routledge. pp. 137-154.
    The aim of this volume is to critically assess the philosophical importance of phenomenology as a method for studying the normativity of meaning and its transcendental conditions. Using the pioneering work of Steven Crowell as a springboard, phenomenologists from all over the world examine the promise of phenomenology for illuminating long-standing problems in epistemology, the philosophy of mind, action theory, the philosophy of religion, and moral psychology. The essays are unique in that they engage with the phenomenological tradition not as (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  19.  41
    Response to Commentators on Existential Flourishing.Irene McMullin - 2020 - International Journal of Philosophical Studies 28 (2):239-253.
    In this piece I respond to questions and criticisms raised by commentators on my recent book, Existential Flourishing: A Phenomenology of the Virtues. I argue for...
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  20.  57
    Love's Vision. By Troy Jollimore. (Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. 220. Price $35.00.). [REVIEW]Irene McMullin - 2012 - Philosophical Quarterly 62 (249):871-874.
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  21. Review of Iain D. Thomson. Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity. Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. [REVIEW]Irene McMullin - 2013 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 51 (2):324-325.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity by Iain D. ThomsonIrene McMullinIain D. Thomson. Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity. Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xix + 245. Paper, $27.99.Iain Thomson’s Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity is an exceptional piece of Heidegger scholarship, providing detailed, informative analysis while remaining highly readable.Thomson begins by reprising the argument from his earlier Heidegger on Ontotheology: Technology and the Politics of Education (Cambridge, 2005), namely, that (...)
    Direct download (9 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark