abstract and papers

OTHER PAPERS last revised March 2012

Some of these links lead to full texts, some to abstracts.
Some of the abstracts have links to full text.
Some of the papers are published, some not.
Some are more boring than others.

© Ronald de Sousa
University of Toronto

Note on copyright:
for the spirit in which all material here is copyrighted, yet freely available, see

Peter Suber's statement on copyright

"A rose by many other names", in Estética das Emoções, ed. F.G. COsta & I. Furão Humus ed., Lisbon, Portugal.51-69.

Will a Stroke of Neuroscience ever Eradicate Evil? (with Doug Heinrichs) now published in Responsibility and Psychopathy , ed. L. Malatesti and J. McMillan.

Here's how I feel: Don't trust your feeling: in Sabine Roeser, ed. Emotions and Risky Technologies

Repetition and Novelty in Art, Life and Emotion (published (in German translation) in Bewegte Erfahrungen: Zwischen Emotionalität und Ästhetik 2008)

Existentialism as Biology in Emotion Review Vol 2. No 1 2010.

The Mind's Bermuda Triangle: Philosophy of Emotions and Empirical Science in Peter Goldie, ed. Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of EMotions. OUP 2009

What else is there? Emotions, value and morality. from Critical Quarterly. 2008

Gender Dichotomies, Sexual Continua, and Emotional Taxonomy (published in Gender Feelings, ed. Verena Mayer and Daniela Ripl.)

Restoring Emotions’ Bad Rep: The Moral Randomness of Norms. (In European J. of Analytic Phil)

Truth, Authenticity and Rationality of Emotions (in Dialectica)

Epistemic Feelings (In Epistemology and Emotions, ed. Georg Brun,Ulvi Doguoglu and Dominique Kuenzle.)

Grades of Communication (in Sociobiology of Communication, ed. Hughes & D’Ettore.)

Logic and Biology: Emotional Inference and Emotion in Reasoning (in Reasoning, ed. by Adler and Rips)

Against Emotional Modularity

Style, Individuality, and Will: Reflections on Nietzsche (1994)

Philosophizing about Sex (.pdf slides)