A. Primary Literature: Books and Papers by Iris Murdoch

A.1 Books

Only one of her 26 novels is listed: A Fairly Honorable Defeat.

• 1953 [1987], Sartre: Romantic Rationalist, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Reprinted with a new, substantial, introduction by Murdoch, New York: Penguin Books, 1987.
• [FHD] 1970, A Fairly Honorable Defeat, New York: Penguin, 1970. (Scholar)
• [SG] 1970, The Sovereignty of Good, New York: Routledge, 1970. (Scholar)
• 1977, The Fire and the Sun: Why Plato Banished the Artists, Oxford: Clarendon Press; reprinted in [EM], pp. 386–463.
• [MGM] 1992, Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, New York: Penguin. (Scholar)
• [EM] 1997, Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature, Peter Conradi (ed.), New York: Penguin Books. (Scholar)

A.2 Articles

• [KV] 1956, “‘Knowing the Void’: Review of Simone Weil’s Notebooks”, The Spectator, November 1956: 613–614; reprinted in [EM], pp. 157–160. (Scholar)
• [VCM] 1956, “Vision and Choice in Morality”, Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume: Dreams and Self-Knowledge, 30: 32–58; reprinted in [EM], pp. 76–98. (Scholar)
• [M&E] 1957, “Metaphysics and Ethics”, in D. F. Pears (ed.), The Nature of Metaphysics, London: Macmillan, 1957: 99–123; reprinted in [EM], pp. 59–75. (Scholar)
• [HT] 1958, “A House of Theory”, in N. Mckenzie (ed.), Conviction, London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1958: 218–33; reprinted in [EM], pp. 171–186. (Scholar)
• [SBL] 1959, “The Sublime and the Good”, in Chicago Review, 1959: 42–55; reprinted in [EM], pp. 205–220. (Scholar)
• [IP] 1964 [1970/1997], “The Idea of Perfection”, 1962 Ballard Matthews Lecture in the University College of North Wales, first published 1964, The Yale Review, 53(3): 342–380. Collected in [SG], pp. 1–45; reprinted in [EM], pp. 299–336. (Scholar)
• [DPR] 1966, “The Darkness of Practical Reason: Review of Stuart Hampshire’s Freedom of the Individual”, Encounter, July 1966: 46–50; reprinted in [EM], pp. 193–202. (Scholar)
• [SGC] 1967 [1970/1997], “The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts”, Leslie Stephen Lecture, 14 November 1967, first published as a pamphlet by Cambridge University Press, 1967. Collected in [SG], pp. 77–104; reprinted in [EM], 363–385. (Scholar)
• [OGG] 1969 [1970/1997], “On ‘God’ and ‘Good”, first published in 1969, The Anatomy of Knowledge; Papers Presented to the Study Group on Foundations of Cultural Unity, Bowdoin College, 1965 and 1966, Marjorie Grene (ed.), Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press. Collected in [SG], pp. 46–76; reprinted in [EM], pp. 337–362. (Scholar)

A.3 Interviews

• 1977, “Literature and Philosophy: A Conversation with Bryan Magee”, in Bryan Magee, Men of Ideas, London: BBC Books; reprinted in [EM], pp. 3–30. (Scholar)
• 2003, From a Tiny Corner in the House of Fiction: Conversations with Iris Murdoch, Gillian Dooley (ed.), Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press. A collection of 23 interviews by many people over the course of Murdoch’s life.

B. Secondary literature

B.1 Cited Works

• Anscombe, G.E.M., 1958 [1997], “Modern Moral Philosophy”, Philosophy, 33(124): 1–19; reprinted in Crisp and Slote 1997: 26–44. doi:10.1017/S0031819100037943 (Scholar)
• Antonaccio, Maria, 1996, “Form and Contingency in Iris Murdoch’s Ethics”, in Antonaccio and Schweiker 1996: 110–137. (Scholar)
• –––, 2000, Picturing the Human: The Moral Thought of Iris Murdoch, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2012, “The Virtues of Metaphysics: A Review of Murdoch’s Philosophical Writings”, in Broackes 2012b: 155–180. (Scholar)
• Antonaccio, Maria and William Schweiker (eds.), 1996, Iris Murdoch and the Search for Human Goodness, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• Bakhurst, David, 2020, “Analysis and Transcendence in The Sovereignty of Good”, European Journal of Philosophy, 28(1): 214–223. doi:10.1111/ejop.12539 (Scholar)
• Bayley, John, 1999, Elegy for Iris, New York: Picador. (Scholar)
• Blum, Lawrence, 2012, “Visual Metaphors in Murdoch’s Moral Philosophy”, in Broackes 2012b: 307–324. (Scholar)
• –––, forthcoming, “Murdoch and Politics”, in Hopwood and Panizza forthcoming. (Scholar)
• Bolton, Lucy, forthcoming, “Murdoch and Feminism”, in Hopwood and Panizza forthcoming. (Scholar)
• Bowden, Peta, 1997, Caring: Gender-Sensitive Ethics, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• –––, 1998, “Ethical Attention: Accumulating Understandings”, European Journal of Philosophy, 6(1): 59–77. doi:10.1111/1468-0378.00050 (Scholar)
• Brewer, Talbot, 2009, The Retrieval of Ethics, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Broackes, Justin, 2012a, “Introduction”, in Broackes 2012b: 1–92. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 2012b, Iris Murdoch, Philosopher: A Collection of Essays, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Browning, Gary (ed.), 2018a, Murdoch on Truth and Love, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan. (Scholar)
• –––, 2018b, Why Iris Murdoch Matters, London: Bloomsbury Academic. (Scholar)
• –––, 2019, The Metaphysics of Morals and Politics (MGM ch 12), in Dooley and Hämäläinen 2019: 179–194. (Scholar)
• Chappell, Sophie-Grace, 2018, “Love and Knowledge in Murdoch”, in Browning 2018a: 89–108. (Scholar)
• Clarke, Bridget, 2012, “Iris Murdoch and the Prospects for Critical Moral Perception”, in Broackes 2012b: 227–253. (Scholar)
• Conradi, Peter J., 1986 [2001], Iris Murdoch: The Saint and the Artist, Basingstoke: Macmillan; third edition printed as The Saint and the Artist: A Study of the Fiction of Iris Murdoch, London: HarperCollins, 2001. (Scholar)
• –––, 2001, Iris: The Life of Iris Murdoch, London: HarperCollins. (Scholar)
• Cordner, Christopher, 2009, “Waiting, Patience and Love”, in Ghassan Hage (ed.), Waiting, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 169–183. (Scholar)
• –––, 2016, “Lessons of Murdochian Attention”, Sophia, 55(2): 197–213. doi:10.1007/s11841-016-0540-2 (Scholar)
• –––, 2019, “Vision and Encounter in Moral Thinking”, in Dooley and Hämäläinen 2019: 209–226. (Scholar)
• Diamond, Cora, 1996, “We Are Perpetually Moralists: Iris Murdoch, Fact, and Value”, in Antonaccio and Schweiker 1996. (Scholar)
• –––, 2010, “Murdoch the Explorer”, Philosophical Topics, 38(1): 51–85. (Scholar)
• Crary, Alice, 2007, Beyond Moral Judgment, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Crisp, Roger and Michael Slote (eds.), 1997, Virtue Ethics, London: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Dooley, Gillian and Nora Hämäläinen (eds.), 2019, Reading Iris Murdoch’s Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. (Scholar)
• Driver, Julia, 2012, “’For every Foot its own shoe’: Method and Moral Theory in the Philosophy of Iris Murdoch”, in Broackes 2012b: 293–306. (Scholar)
• Emmet, Dorothy, 1966, Rules, Roles, and Relations, New York: St. Martin’s Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1979, The Moral Prism, London: MacMillan. (Scholar)
• –––, 1994, The Role of the Unrealisable: A Study in Regulative Ideals, New York: St. Martin’s Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1996, Philosophers and Friends: Reminiscences of Seventy Years in Philosophy, London: Macmillan. (Scholar)
• Flynn, Thomas, 2004 [2013], “Jean-Paul Sartre”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2013 edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2013/entries/sartre/> (Scholar)
• Forsberg, Niklas, 2017, “M and D and Me: Iris Murdoch and Stanley Cavell on Perfectionism and Self-Transformation”, Iride: Journal of Philosophy and Public Debate, 2017(2): 361–372. (Scholar)
• Grimshaw, Jean, 1986, Philosophy and Feminist Thinking. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. (Scholar)
• Hämäläinen, Nora, 2019, “Which Void? (MGM chapter 18)”, in Dooley and Hämäläinen 2019: 261–275. (Scholar)
• Hampshire, Stuart, 1959 [1982], Thought and Action, London: Chatto and Windus; new edition, Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1982. (Scholar)
• –––, 1965, Freedom of the Individual, New York: Harper and Row. (Scholar)
• Hare, R.M., 1952, The Language of Morals, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Holland, Margaret G., 1998, “Touching the Weights: Moral Perception and Attention”, International Philosophical Quarterly, 38(3): 299–312. doi:10.5840/ipq199838324 (Scholar)
• –––, 2012, “Social Convention and Neurosis as Obstacles to Moral Freedom”, in Broackes 2012b: 255–274. (Scholar)
• Hooker, Brad and Margaret Little (eds.), 2000, Moral Particularism, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Hopwood, Mark, 2018, “‘The Extremely Difficult Realization That Something Other Than Oneself Is Real’: Iris Murdoch on Love and Moral Agency: Iris Murdoch on Love and Moral Agency”, European Journal of Philosophy, 26(1): 477–501. doi:10.1111/ejop.12260 (Scholar)
• –––, 2019, “Fields of Force: Murdoch on Axioms, Duties, and Eros (MGM chapter 17)”, in Dooley and Hämäläinen 2019: 243-260. (Scholar)
• Hopwood, Mark and Silvia Panizza (eds.), forthcoming, The Murdochian Mind, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Lipscomb, Benjamin J.B., 2021, The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics, New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780197541074.001.0001 (Scholar)
• Lovibond, Sabina, 2011, Iris Murdoch, Gender, and Philosophy, New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203830017 (Scholar)
• –––, 2020, “The Elusiveness of the Ethical: From Murdoch to Diamond”, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 87: 181–200. doi:10.1017/s1358246119000195 (Scholar)
• MacCumhaill, Clare and Rachael Wiseman, 2022, Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life, London: Chatto and Windus, and New York: Doubleday. (Scholar)
• MacIntyre, Alasdair, 1993, “Which World Do You See?”, New York Times (Book Section), 03 January 1993; [MacIntyre 1993 available online]. (Scholar)
• MacIntyre, Alasdair and Stanley Hauerwas (eds.), 1983, Revisions: Changing Perspectives in Moral Philosophy, Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. (Scholar)
• MacKinnon, Donald M., 1957 [1962], A Study in Ethical Theory, London: A. & C. Black; reprinted, New York: Collier Books, 1962. (Scholar)
• McDowell, John, 1979 [1997], “Virtue and Reason”, Monist, 62(3): 331–350; reprinted in Crisp and Slote 1997: 141–162. doi:10.5840/monist197962319 (Scholar)
• –––, 1998, Mind, Value, and Reality, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Meyers, Diana T., 1994, Subjection and Subjectivity: Psychoanalytic Feminism and Moral Philosophy, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Millgram, Elijah, 2002 [2005], “Murdoch, Practical Reasoning, and Particularism”, Notizie di Politeia, 18(66): 64–87; reprinted in his Ethics Done Right: Practical Reasoning as a Foundation for Moral Theory, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 168–197. (Scholar)
• Moran, Richard, 2012, “Iris Murdoch and Existentialism”, in Broackes 2012b: 181–196. (Scholar)
• Mylonaki, Evgenia, 2019, “The Individual in Pursuit of the Individual; A Murdochian Account of Moral Perception”, The Journal of Value Inquiry, 53(4): 579–603. doi:10.1007/s10790-018-9675-4 (Scholar)
• Norlock, Kathryn, 2019, “Feminist Ethics”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2019 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2019/entries/feminist-ethics/>. (Scholar)
• Nussbaum, Martha, 1990, Love’s Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2001, “When She was Good/Iris Murdoch: Novelist and Philosopher” The New Republic, 31 December 2001 and 7 January 2002. [Nussbaum 2001 available online]. (Scholar)
• Panizza, Silvia, 2020, “Moral Perception Beyond Supervenience: Iris Murdoch’s Radical Perspective”, The Journal of Value Inquiry, 54(2): 273–288. doi:10.1007/s10790-019-09695-4 (Scholar)
• Putnam, Hilary, 2002, “The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy” in The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays, Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Robjant, David, 2012, “The Earthy Realism of Plato’s Metaphysics, or: What Shall We Do with Iris Murdoch?, Philosophical Investigations, 35(1): 43–67. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9205.2011.01455.x (Scholar)
• Rose, W.K., 1968 [2003], “Iris Murdoch, Informally”, interview, London Magazine, 8(3): 59–73; reprinted in Murdoch, From a Tiny Corner in the House of Fiction: Conversations with Iris Murdoch, G. Dooley (ed.), Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2003: 16–29. (Scholar)
• Rozelle-Stone, A. Rebecca and Benjamin P. Davis, 2021, “Simone Weil”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2021 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2021/entries/simone-weil/>. (Scholar)
• Ruddick, Sara, 1989, Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace, Boston, MA: Beacon Press. (Scholar)
• Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1945, L’existentialisme est un Humanisme, Les Edition Nagel, Methuen and Co.; English translation, Existentialism is a Humanism, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007.
• Saul, Jennifer and Ronald Brownstein (eds.), 2016, Implicit Bias and Philosophy, vols. 1 and 2, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Sandel, Michael, 2020, The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good, New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. (Scholar)
• Setiya, Kieran, 2013, “Murdoch on the Sovereignty of Good”, Philosophers’ Imprint, 13: art. 9 (21 pages). [Setiya 2013 available online] (Scholar)
• Sidgwick, Henry, 1874 [1907], The Methods of Ethics, London: Macmillan. Seventh edition, 1907. (Scholar)
• –––, 1886 [1902], Outlines of the History of Ethics for English Readers, London: MacMillan; fifth edition, 1902. (Scholar)
• Tronto, Joan, 1993, Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Velleman, J. David, 1999 [2006], “Love as a Moral Emotion”, Ethics, 109(2): 338–374; reprinted in his Self to Self: Selected Essays, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. doi:10.1086/233898 (Scholar)
• Walker, Margaret Urban, 1989, “Moral Understandings: Alternative ‘Epistemology’ for a Feminist Ethics”, Hypatia, 4(2): 15–28. doi:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1989.tb00570.x (Scholar)
• Warnock, Mary, 1960, Ethics Since 1900, London: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Weil, Simone 1942 [1977], “La personne et le sacré”, written in 1942, published in Écrits de Londres et dernières lettres, Paris: Gallimard, 1957; translated as “Human Personality”, in George A. Panichas (ed.), The Simone Weil Reader, New York: David McKay Company, 1977, 313–339. (Scholar)
• –––, 1942 [1973a], “Réflexions sur le bon usage des études scolaires en vue de l’amour de Dieu” (“Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God”), written 1942, printed in Weil 1950 [1973b: 105–116]. (Scholar)
• –––, 1950 [1973b], Attente de Dieu, Paris: La Colombe. Translated as Waiting for God, Emma Craufurd (trans.), New York: Putnam, 1951; reprinted New York: Harper Colophon Books, 1973. (Scholar)
• White, Frances, 2020, “Anti-Nausea: Iris Murdoch and the Natural Goodness of the Natural World”, Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2020: art. 59. doi:10.4000/ebc.10212 (Scholar)
• Williams, Bernard, 1985, Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Wiseman, Rachael, 2020, “What If the Private Linguist Were a Poet? Iris Murdoch on Privacy and Ethics”, European Journal of Philosophy, 28(1): 224–234. doi:10.1111/ejop.12538 (Scholar)
• Wolf, Susan, 2014, “Loving Attention: Lessons in Love From The Philadelphia Story”, in Understanding Love: Philosophy, Film, and Fiction, Susan Wolf and Christopher Grau (eds.), New York: Oxford University Press, 369–386. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195384512.003.0017 (Scholar)

B.2 Other Secondary Literature

• Altorf, Hannah Marije, 2008, Iris Murdoch and the Art of Imagining, New York: Continuum. (Scholar)
• Antonaccio, Maria, 2012a, A Philosophy to Live By: Engaging Iris Murdoch, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2012b, “The Virtues of Metaphysics: A Review of Murdoch’s Philosophical Writings”, in Broackes 2012b: 155–180. (Scholar)
• Bagnoli, Carla, 2012, “The Exploration of Moral Life”, in Broackes 2012b: 197–226. (Scholar)
• Blum, Lawrence A., 1986 [1994], “Iris Murdoch and the Domain of the Moral”, Philosophical Studies, 50(3): 343–367; reprinted in Blum 1994: 12–29. doi:10.1007/BF00353837 (Scholar)
• –––, 1991 [1994], “Moral Perception and Particularity”, Ethics, 101(4): 701–725; reprinted in Blum 1994: 30–61. doi:10.1086/293340 (Scholar)
• –––, 1994, Moral Perception and Particularity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511624605 (Scholar)
• Bronzwaer, W., 1988, “Images of Plato in ‘The Fire and the Sun’ and ‘Acastos’”, in R. Todd (ed.), Encounters with Iris Murdoch: Proceedings of an Informal Symposium on Iris Murdoch’s Work held at the Free University, Amsterdam, on 20 and 21 October 1986, Amsterdam: Free University Press: 55–67. (Scholar)
• Foot, Philippa, 1978, Virtues and Vices, Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press. (Scholar)
• Forsberg, Niklas, 2013, Language Lost and Found: On Iris Murdoch and the Limits of Philosophical Discourse, New York: Bloomsbury Academic. (Scholar)
• Emmet, Dorothy, 1945, The Nature of Metaphysical Thinking, London: MacMillan. (Scholar)
• Gaita, Raimond, 2004, Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception, second edition, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Gilligan, Carol, 1982, In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Gomes, Anil, forthcoming, “Moral Vision”, in Hopwood and Panizza forthcoming. (Scholar)
• Hare, R.M., 1963, Freedom and Reason, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Jordan, Jessy E. G., 2013, “Thick Ethical Concepts in the Philosophy and Literature of Iris Murdoch”, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 51(3): 402–417. doi:10.1111/sjp.12037 (Scholar)
• Laverty, Megan, 2007, Iris Murdoch’s Ethics: A Consideration of her Romantic Vision, New York: Continuum. (Scholar)
• –––, 2019, “Iris Murdoch as Educator”, in Dooley and Hämäläinen 2019: 125–144. (Scholar)
• Lloyd, Genevieve, 1982, “Iris Murdoch on the Ethical Significance of Truth”, Philosophy and Literature, 6(1–2): 62–75. doi:10.1353/phl.1982.0006 (Scholar)
• Lovibond, Sabina, 1983, Realism and Imagination in Ethics, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. (Scholar)
• Midgley, Mary, 2005, The Owl of Minerva: A Memoir, New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203027394 (Scholar)
• Noddings, 1984 [2013], Caring: A Relational Approach to Ethics and Moral Education, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. (Scholar)
• Nussbaum, Martha, 2012, “‘Faint With Secret Knowledge’: Love and Vision in Murdoch's The Black Prince”, in Broackes 2012b: 135–154. (Scholar)
• Rowe, Anne, 2019, Iris Murdoch, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. (Scholar)
• Taylor, Charles, 1989, Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Vice, Samantha, 2007, “Self-Concern in Iris Murdoch’s The Sovereignty of Good”, in Anne Rowe (ed.), Iris Murdoch: A Re-Assessment, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 60–71. (Scholar)
• Weil, Simone, 1952 [1957], “Dieu dans Platon” Intuitions pré-chrétiennes, Paris, La Colombe, Editions du Vieux Colombier, 1951; translated as “God in Plato”, in Elizabeth C. Geissbuhler (ed.) Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1957, ch. 7: 74–88. (Scholar)
• White, Frances, 2014, Becoming Iris Murdoch, Kingston-upon-Thames: Kingston University. (Scholar)