Philosophy's Dangerous Pupil: Murdoch and Derrida

Nominal Rewriting ? Maribel Fernández and Murdoch

Nominal rewriting is based on the observation that if we add support for alphaequivalence to first-order syntax using the nominal-set approach, then systems with binding, including higher-order reduction schemes such as lambda-calculus betareduction, can be smoothly represented. Nominal rewriting maintains a strict distinction between variables of the objectlanguage (atoms) and of the meta-lang...

An Evening with Iris Murdoch

ence Steen. Professor Davies began by quoting from something Miss Murdoch had written years ago linking the novelists function with therapy. While perhaps art might at times have a therapeutic effect, she did not think that should be the aim of the artist. Art should seek something fundamental whatever the artist chooses. Here your correspondent feels that his notes and his memory are not adequ...

Derrida, Butler and an Education in Otherness

Metaphor and Philosophy: An Encounter with Derrida

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Iris Murdoch and the Domain of the Moral

In The Sovereignty of Good' Iris Murdoch suggests that the central task of the moral agent involves a true and loving perception of another individual, who is seen as a particular reality external to the agent. Writing in the 1960s she claimed that this dimension of morality had been "theorized away" in contemporary ethics. I will argue today that 20 years later, this charge still holds true of...