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Higgs, McIntosh, Connelly & Mumford (2020) Self-Focused Emotions and Ethical Decision-Making: Comparing the Effects of Regulated and Unregulated Guilt, Shame, and Embarrassment

Higgs, Cory; McIntosh, Tristan ; Connelly, Shane & Mumford, Michael (2020). Self-Focused Emotions and Ethical Decision-Making: Comparing the Effects of Regulated and Unregulated Guilt, Shame, and Embarrassment. Science and Engineering Ethics 26 (1):27-63. Guilt, Shame, and EmbarrassmentWhen considering which emotions may be relevant in the context of ethical deci sion-making, Haidt’s (2003) mora..

Huebner, Bruno, & Sarkissian (2010) What Does the Nation of China Think About Phenomenal States?

Huebner, Bryce ; Bruno, Michael & Sarkissian, Hagop (2010). What Does the Nation of China Think About Phenomenal States? Review of Philosophy and Psychology 1 (2):225-243. 1 IntroductionFor example, the question, “What is it like to be Microsoft?” seems to stand in stark contrast to the well-worn philosophical question, “What is it like to be a bat?” To put the contrast bluntly, faced with the q..

Stichter (2020) Learning from Failure: Shame and Emotion Regulation in Virtue as Skill

Stichter, Matt (2020). Learning from Failure: Shame and Emotion Regulation in Virtue as Skill. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 23 (2):341-354. becoming more skillful requires learning from one’s failures, but that turns out to be especially challenging when dealing with moral failures. The distress prompted by the prospect of having acted wrongly can often cause defensiveness in response, rath..

Tollefsen (2003) Participant Reactive Attitudes and Collective Responsibility

Perron Tollefsen, D. (2003). Participant Reactive Attitudes and Collective Responsibility. Philosophical Explorations, 6(3), 218–234.In this paper I suggest that we can approach the metaphysical problems surrounding the issue of collective responsibility in a roundabout manner. My approach is reminiscent of that taken by P.F. Strawson in “Freedom and Resentment” (1968). In that paper Strawson at..

Value Thoery/Ethcis 2025.05.13

Ingram (2020) Guilt feelings and the intelligibility of moral duties

Ingram, Andrew Tice (2020). Guilt feelings and the intelligibility of moral duties. Ratio 33 (1):56-67.According to the dominant view in moral psychology, guilt is a deontic experience. The thought that separates guilt from other negative feelings occasioned by bad deeds, like remorse or shame, is that one has done something wrong, that one has infringed one's obligation. This view is shared by ..

Value Thoery/Ethcis 2025.05.12