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    Knowing Emotions: Truthfulness and Recognition in Affective Experience.Rick Anthony Furtak - 2018 - Oup Usa.
    In Knowing Emotions, Furtak argues that it is only through the emotions that we can perceive meaning in life, and only by feeling emotions that we are able to recognize the value or significance of anything whatsoever. Our affective responses and dispositions therefore play a critical role in human existence, and their felt quality is intimately related to the awareness they provide.
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  2. Loneliness, Love, and the Limits of Language.Ruth Rebecca Tietjen & Rick Anthony Furtak - 2021 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 59 (3):435-459.
    In this article, we illuminate the affective phenomenon of loneliness by exploring the question of how it relates to love and other forms of friendship. We reflect in particular on the question of how different forms of loneliness are relevant to human existence. Distinguishing three forms of loneliness, we first introduce two border cases of loneliness: unfelt loneliness in which one’s individuality is denied and one therefore cannot feel lonely; and existential loneliness in which the possibility of intimacy and existential (...)
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  3. Wisdom in love: Kierkegaard and the ancient quest for emotional integrity.Rick Anthony Furtak - 2006 - Ars Disputandi 6:1566-5399.
     
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    Emotion, Action, and Passivity: A Commentary on Müller.Rick Anthony Furtak - 2022 - Emotion Review 14 (4):261-264.
    Emotion Review, Volume 14, Issue 4, Page 261-264, October 2022. According to Jean Moritz Müller's The world-directedness of emotional feeling, the reason why emotions do not apprehend or disclose value is that one cannot apprehend what one has already apprehended: the value in question, he claims, is apprehended prior to the emotional feeling. Emotions, then, should not be conceived as apprehending value since they already presuppose awareness of it. I can be acquainted with a fact without feeling aware of the (...)
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  5. Emotion, the bodily, and the cognitive.Rick Anthony Furtak - 2010 - Philosophical Explorations 13 (1):51 – 64.
    In both psychology and philosophy, cognitive theories of emotion have met with increasing opposition in recent years. However, this apparent controversy is not so much a gridlock between antithetical stances as a critical debate in which each side is being forced to qualify its position in order to accommodate the other side of the story. Here, I attempt to sort out some of the disagreements between cognitivism and its rivals, adjudicating some disputes while showing that others are merely superficial. Looking (...)
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  6. A cure for worry? Kierkegaardian faith and the insecurity of human existence.Sharon Krishek & Rick Anthony Furtak - 2012 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 72 (3):157-175.
    Abstract In his discourses on ‘the lily of the field and the bird of the air,’ Kierkegaard presents faith as the best possible response to our precarious and uncertain condition, and as the ideal way to cope with the insecurities and concerns that his readers will recognize as common features of human existence. Reading these discourses together, we are introduced to the portrait of a potential believer who, like the ‘divinely appointed teachers’—the lily and the bird—succeeds in leading a life (...)
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  7. Kierkegaard and Greek philosophy.Rick Anthony Furtak - 2013 - In John Lippitt & George Pattison (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Kierkegaard. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press UK. pp. 129-149.
    This chapter analyses Soren Kierkegaard's thoughts and opinions about ancient Greek philosophy. It examines the significance of Kierkegaard's references to Greek philosophy in his writings and suggests that his use of classical thought was part of his effort to define his own intellectual project. The chapter investigates how Greek philosophy influenced Kierkegaard's works and views about ethics, existential thought, Socratic faith, love, and virtue, and also considers what Kierkegaard believed was the legacy of ancient Greek philosophy.
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    Thoreau's importance for philosophy.Rick Anthony Furtak, Jonathan Ellsworth & James D. Reid (eds.) - 2012 - New York: Fordham University Press.
    The purpose of this volume is to remedy this neglect, to explain Thoreau's philosophical significance, and to argue that we can still learn from his polemical conception of philosophy.
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  9. Love as a Relation to Truth: Envisioning the Person in "Works of Love".Rick Anthony Furtak - 2013 - Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook 2013 (1):217-242.
    Name der Zeitschrift: Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook Jahrgang: 2013 Heft: 1 Seiten: 217-242.
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  10. Thoreau's emotional stoicism.Rick Anthony Furtak - 2003 - Journal of Speculative Philosophy 17 (2):122-132.
  11. The Virtues of Authenticity.Rick Anthony Furtak - 2003 - International Philosophical Quarterly 43 (4):423-438.
    Discussions of the concept of authenticity often fail to define the conditions of an appropriate emotional orientation toward the world. With a more solid philosophical understanding of emotion, it should be possible to define more precisely the necessary conditions of emotional authenticity. Against this background, I interpret Kierkegaard’s Either/Or as a narrative text that suggests a moral psychology of emotion that points toward the development of a better way of thinking about the ethics of authenticity. In the process, I also (...)
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    The death of the embodied philosopher and the life of the mind: On the literary and poetic features of Plato's Phaedo.Rick Anthony Furtak - 2024 - Philosophical Investigations 47 (3):382-395.
    Socrates is a man of faith whose love and pursuit of the truth is grounded in religious conviction. Faith, whatever else it may be, involves guiding one's life in terms of a transcendent dimension, recognizing a reality lying behind any particular experience. In Plato's Phaedo, a literary and philosophical masterpiece, we enter the narrative of Socrates' trial and execution on the day of his death, examining arguments for the immortality of the psyche. The dialogue combines logical argument and mythological speculation, (...)
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    Sharon Krishek, Lovers in essence: a Kierkegaardian defense of romantic love.Rick Anthony Furtak - 2024 - Continental Philosophy Review 57 (1):135-139.
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    Emotional Knowing: the Role of Embodied Feelings in Affective Cognition.Rick Anthony Furtak - 2018 - Philosophia 46 (3):575-587.
    The emotions play a crucial role in our apprehension of meaning, value, or significance — and their felt quality is intimately related to the sort of awareness they provide. This is exemplified most clearly by cases in which dispassionate cognition is cognitively insufficient, because we need to be emotionally agitated in order to grasp that something is true. In this type of affective experience, it is through a feeling of being moved that we recognize or apprehend that something is the (...)
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  15. Martha C. Nussbaum’s "Political Emotions".Rick Anthony Furtak - 2014 - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 13 (4):643-650.
    Martha Nussbaum’s new book Political Emotions is a contribution to political philosophy and, simultaneously, a moral-psychological study of the emotions. In it, she revisits some of the most prominent themes in her 2004 book Hiding from Humanity and her 2001 treatise, Upheavals of Thought. As Nussbaum points out in the opening pages of Political Emotions, one of her goals in this work is to answer a call issued by John Rawls for a “reasonable moral psychology” that would be conceptually refined (...)
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  16. Skepticism and perceptual faith: Henry David Thoreau and Stanley Cavell on seeing and believing.Rick Anthony Furtak - 2007 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 43 (3):542 - 561.
    : Thoreau's journal contains a number of passages which explore the nature of perception, developing a response to skeptical doubt. The world outside the human mind is real, and there is nothing illusory about its perceived beauty and meaning. In this essay, I draw upon the work of Stanley Cavell (among others) in order to frame Thoreau's reflections within the context of the skeptical questions he seeks to address. Value is not a subjective projection, but it also cannot be perceived (...)
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  17. The Kierkegaardian ideal of 'essential knowing' and the scandal of modern philosophy.Rick Anthony Furtak - 2010 - In Kierkegaard's 'Concluding Unscientific Postscript': A Critical Guide. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 87-110.
  18. The Value of Being: Thoreau on Appreciating the Beauty of the World.Rick Anthony Furtak - 2012 - In Rick Anthony Furtak, Jonathan Ellsworth & James D. Reid (eds.), Thoreau's importance for philosophy. New York: Fordham University Press. pp. 112-126.
  19. Platonic Eros.Rick Anthony Furtak - 2010 - In Jon Bartley Stewart & Katalin Nun (eds.), Kierkegaard and the Greek world. Burlington, VT: Ashgate. pp. 105-114.
    Plato's 'Symposium': Kierkegaard and Platonic Eros.
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  20. 'I Used to Care, but Things Have Changed': Passion and the Absurd in Dylan's Later Work.Rick Anthony Furtak - 2006 - In Peter Vernezze (ed.), Bob Dylan and Philosophy: It's Alright, Ma. Open Court. pp. 16-28.
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  21. Poetics of Sentimentality.Rick Anthony Furtak - 2002 - Philosophy and Literature 26 (1):207-215.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Philosophy and Literature 26.1 (2002) 207-215 [Access article in PDF] Notes and Fragments Poetics of Sentimentality Rick Anthony Furtak IN HIS MAJOR WORK, The Passions, Robert Solomon argues that emotions are judgments. 1 Through a series of persuasive examples, he shows that emotions are best understood as mental states which involve certain beliefs about the world. This means that every emotion has an object: if I am angry at (...)
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    Believing in Time.Rick Anthony Furtak - 2004 - Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook 2004 (1):100-116.
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    Estrangement and Moral Agency.Rick Anthony Furtak - 2004 - Philosophy in the Contemporary World 11 (2):37-44.
    By taking seriously the state of moral estrangement, we may learn something about the conditions of moral participation. Yet analytic discussions of this topic (for instance, by Hare and Nagel) have frequently been handicapped by an inadequate understanding of the intentionality of emotion. In the work of Albert Camus, we find a superior appreciation of the sense in which the individual’s revolt against prevailing values could be a justified response to objective conditions. Although a sense of the absurd is itself (...)
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    Henry David Thoreau.Rick Anthony Furtak - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  25. Kierkegaard and the Passions of Hellenistic Philosophy.Rick Anthony Furtak - 2007 - Kierkegaardiana 24:68-85.
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    Kierkegaard's 'Concluding Unscientific Postscript': A Critical Guide.Rick Anthony Furtak (ed.) - 2010 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Søren Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript has provoked a lively variety of divergent interpretations for a century and a half. It has been both celebrated and condemned as the chief inspiration for twentieth-century existential thought, as a subversive parody of philosophical argument, as a critique of mass society, as a forerunner of phenomenology and of postmodern relativism, and as an appeal for a renewal of religious commitment. These 2010 essays written by international Kierkegaard scholars offer a plurality of critical approaches to (...)
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    Love, Subjectivity, and Truth: Existential Themes in Proust.Rick Anthony Furtak - 2023 - New York, US: OUP Usa.
    Love, Subjectivity, and Truth engages in a lively manner with the overlapping areas of philosophy and literature, philosophy of emotions, and existential thought. "Subjective truth," a phrase used in Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time, is rich with existential connotations. It invokes Kierkegaard above all, but significantly Nietzsche as well, and other philosophers who thematize love, subjectivity, and truth. In Search of Lost Time is especially concerned about what we can know about others through love. Insofar as it conveys (...)
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    The death of the embodied philosopher and the life of the mind: On the literary and poetic features of Plato's Phaedo.Rick Anthony Furtak - 2024 - Philosophical Investigations 47 (3).
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  29. Translator's Introduction: Rilke and the Poetics of Revelation.Rick Anthony Furtak - 2007 - In Rainer Maria Rilke & Rick Anthony Furtak (eds.), Rainer Maria Rilke's 'Sonnets to Orpheus': A New English Version, With a Philosophical Introduction. University of Scranton Press. pp. 1-30.
     
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  30. Truth, Love, and Falsity: Kierkegaard, the Stoics, and the Reliability of Emotion.Rick Anthony Furtak - 2003 - Dissertation, The University of Chicago
    According to Stoic moral psychology, emotions are cognitive responses to perceived value in the contingent world. This dissertation begins by defending a contemporary version of this descriptive theory; it then proceeds with a critique of the Stoics' normative thesis that emotions involve amorally deplorable kind of cognitive error. I distinguish two senses in which this thesis is historically put forward, and show that both are thematically pertinent. The structural variant, as I call it, is a qualified critique of the particular (...)
     
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    The World-Directedness of Emotional Feeling: On Affect and Intentionality by Jean Moritz Müller.Rick Anthony Furtak - 2021 - Review of Metaphysics 75 (2):391-392.
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    Wilderness in America: Philosophical Writings by Henry Bugbee.Rick Anthony Furtak - 2019 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 55 (3):347-350.
    Those who are already familiar with Henry Bugbee's written work will almost invariably have encountered it first through his 1958 text The Inward Morning, subtitled A Philosophical Exploration in Journal Form. This book, which originally appeared with an introduction by the French existential philosopher Gabriel Marcel, was reissued in a 1999 edition thanks to Edward F. Mooney, who served as editor and added a new introduction of his own. In the volume under review, David W. Rodick brings more of Bugbee's (...)
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  33. The time is out of joint : on social ontology and criticism in Kierkegaard and Heidegger.James D. Reid & Rick Anthony Furtak - 2018 - In Roberto Sirvent & Silas Michael Morgan (eds.), Kierkegaard and political theology. Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications.
  34. Rainer Maria Rilke's 'Sonnets to Orpheus': A New English Version, With a Philosophical Introduction.Rainer Maria Rilke & Rick Anthony Furtak (eds.) - 2007 - University of Scranton Press.
     
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  35. Literary Form, Philosophical Content. [REVIEW]Rick Anthony Furtak - 2011 - Teaching Philosophy 34 (2):182-184.
  36. (1 other version)A Review of Stephen Evans' (2009) Kierkegaard: An Introduction and Patrick Stokes' (2010) Kierkegaard's Mirrors: Interest, Self, and Moral Vision. [REVIEW]Rick Anthony Furtak & Shahrzad Safavi - 2010 - Southwest Philosophy Review 26 (2):119-123.
    A review of two recent books on Kierkegaard's thought, with attention to his relevance for ethics, phenomenology, and metaphysics.
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  37. Review of George Pattison's The Philosophy of Kierkegaard. [REVIEW]Rick Anthony Furtak - 2006 - International Journal of Philosophical Studies 14.
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    Review of C. Stephen Evans, Kierkegaard: An Introduction[REVIEW]Rick Anthony Furtak - 2009 - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (11).
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    Review of Robert C. Solomon, In Defense of Sentimentality[REVIEW]Rick Anthony Furtak - 2005 - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (10).
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    Three Faces of Desire. [REVIEW]Rick Anthony Furtak - 2006 - Review of Metaphysics 59 (3):680-682.
    Drawing upon neuroscientific research, Schroeder argues that there is biological evidence in favor of his philosophical conclusions. Specifically, the brain areas that show activity correlated with feelings of pleasure are distinguishable from those that seem to be associated with the consciousness of possible reward; and, in theory, these latter areas “could exist” in an organic being that lacked the capacity for behavior. At this point, the partly theoretical basis of Schroeder’s scientific claims might worry a reader who has doubts about (...)
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    Emotion: A Very Short Introduction, written by Dylan Evans. [REVIEW]Imke von Maur & Rick Anthony Furtak - 2020 - Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 51 (1):122-127.
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