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Reading Iris Murdoch’s Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals Edited by Nora Hämäläinen · Gillian Dooley Reading Iris Murdoch’s Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals Nora Hämäläinen · Gillian Dooley Editors Reading Iris Murdoch’s Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals Editors Nora Hämäläinen Gillian Dooley University of Pardubice Flinders University Pardubice, Czech Republic Adelaide, SA, Australia ISBN 978-3-030-18966-2 ISBN 978-3-030-18967-9 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18967-9 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This work is subject to copyright. 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Cover illustration: ‘View of Gardanne’ by Paul Cézanne Contributor: World History Archive/Alamy Stock Photo This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland To the memory of Kate Larson 1961–2018 A cknowledgements This publication was supported within the project of Operational Programme Research, Development and Education (OP VVV/OP RDE), ‘Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value’, registration No. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/15_003/0000425, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the state budget of the Czech Republic. vii c ontents 1 Reading Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals: An Introduction 1 Nora Hämäläinen and Gillian Dooley 2 The Gifford-Driven Genesis and Subliminal Stylistic Construction of Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals 17 Frances White 3 Unity and Art in a Mood of Scepticism (MGM Chapter 1) 33 Niklas Forsberg 4 Murdoch’s Question of the Work of Art: The Dialogue Between Western and Japanese Conceptions of Unity (MGM Chapters 1 and 8) 51 Fiona Tomkinson 5 Fact and Value (MGM Chapter 2) 67 Craig Taylor 6 Schopenhauer and the Mystical Solution of the Riddle (MGM Chapter 3) 79 Mariëtte Willemsen ix x CONTENTS 7 Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals: The Debate Between Literature and Philosophy 93 Gillian Dooley 8 Disciplines of Attention: Iris Murdoch on Consciousness, Criticism, and Thought (MGM Chapters 6–8) 107 David J. Fine 9 Iris Murdoch as Educator 125 Megan Jane Laverty 10 ‘I Think I Disagree’: Murdoch on Wittgenstein and Inner Life (MGM Chapter 9) 145 Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen 11 ‘We Are Fantasising Imaginative Animals’ (MGM Chapter 11) 163 Hannah Marije Altorf 12 The Metaphysics of Morals and Politics (MGM Chapter 12) 179 Gary Browning 13 Iris Murdoch’s Ontological Argument (MGM Chapter 13) 195 Andrew Gleeson 14 Vision and Encounter in Moral Thinking (MGM Chapter 15) 209 Christopher Cordner 15 The Urge to Write: Of Murdoch on Plato’s Demiurge 227 David Robjant CONTENTS xi 16 Fields of Force: Murdoch on Axioms, Duties, and Eros (MGM Chapter 17) 243 Mark Hopwood 17 Which Void? (MGM Chapter 18) 261 Nora Hämäläinen Index 277 n c otes on ontributors Hannah Marije Altorf is Reader in Philosophy at St. Mary’s University, Strawberry Hill, London. She has written on the philosophical and lit- erary works of Iris Murdoch and on different forms of philosophical dialogue. She is the author of Iris Murdoch and the Art of Imagining (Continuum, 2008) and together with Mariëtte Willemsen she translated The Sovereignty of Good into Dutch (Boom, 2003). Gary Browning is Professor of Political Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University and Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. He has written a number of books including Why Iris Murdoch Matters: Making Sense of Experience in Modern Times (Bloomsbury, 2018), A History of Modern Political Thought: The Question of Interpretation (Oxford University Press, 2014), Plato and Hegel: Two Modes of Philosophizing About Politics (Routledge, 2012), and Global Theory from Kant to Hardt and Negri (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Southern Denmark. She has published widely on the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and ethics, especially Wittgensteinian ethics and virtue ethics. Christopher Cordner is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. His main area of philosophical interest is ethics, including its classical Greek and Judaeo-Christian heritage, and its overlap with art and aesthetics. He is currently writing a book on simple goodness. xiii
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