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Forthcoming in Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2023
Forthcoming in the Journal of the History of Philosophy
S. Brill and C. McKeen (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy., 2024
The History of Hylomorphism: From Aristotle to Descartes (ed. David Charles), Oxford University Press, 2023
Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 2021
In this paper I examine the moral psychology of the Phaedo and argue that the philosophical life ... more In this paper I examine the moral psychology of the Phaedo and argue that the philosophical life in this dialogue is a temperate life, and that temperance consists in exercising epistemic discernment by actively withdrawing assent to incorrect evaluations the body inclines us to make. Philosophers deal with bodily affections by taking a correct epistemic stance. Exercising temperance thus understood is a necessary condition both for developing and strengthening rational capacities and for fixing accurate beliefs about value. Along the way, I argue that philosophers must neither avoid situations and activities that cause bodily affections as much as possible, nor ignore or care little about them.
Apeiron, 2021
In the Philebus, Socrates argues that pleasures can be false in the same way that beliefs can be ... more In the Philebus, Socrates argues that pleasures can be false in the same way that beliefs can be false. On the basis of Socrates' analysis of malicious pleasure, a mixed pleasure of the soul and a passion, I defend the view that, according to Socrates, pleasures can be false when they represent as pleasant something that is not worthy of our enjoyment, where that means that they represent as pleasant something that is not pleasant in its own right (αὐτὸ καθ'αὐτό) because it is not fine (καλόν). Since these pleasures misrepresent the value of their objects, they involve an evaluative error. In contrast, a pleasure is true when it correctly represents the actual value of things.
Teleology, Oxford Philosophical Concepts, (ed. J. McDonough), Oxford University Press, May 2020
Galen of Pergamum (130-210 AD) was the most celebrated physician of Antiquity, one of the foundin... more Galen of Pergamum (130-210 AD) was the most celebrated physician of Antiquity, one of the founding fathers of experimental medicine, and a great anatomist. He is famous for his spectacular, and often public, animal dissections and vivisections-aside from many Barbary apes, he dissected a giraffe, a snake, an ostrich, a dolphin, and at least one, perhaps even two, elephants. He is remembered for systematizing the now defunct, but once popular, humoral theory, for his extensive use of "venesection" or blood-letting, and for advocating a combination of experience and reason in medical investigation. 1
Ancient Philosophy 39(1) (accepted for publication in 2017), 2019
Philosophy of Mind in Antiquity: The History of the Philosophy of Mind, (ed. J. Sisko), Routledge Press, 2018
Philosophy East and West, 2021
Book Reviews by Patricia Marechal
The Philosophical Review 131 (3): 361–364., 2022
How can we become virtuous by doing virtuous actions? This question, which has received unceasing... more How can we become virtuous by doing virtuous actions? This question, which has received unceasing attention from scholars working in Aristotle's ethical theory, is at the center of Marta Jimenez's book, Aristotle on Shame and Learning to Be Good. Jimenez articulates clearly the challenges faced when trying to provide an account of moral development in Aristotle's works. She also meets these challenges with energy and originality, by weaving together a series of remarks scattered throughout Aristotle's ethical treatises into a persuasive and coherent picture of ethical education. Jimenez's book offers a rigorous treatment of central issues in Aristotelian ethics and moral development, and is essential reading for anyone researching or teaching on these topics. Jimenez aims at offering an answer to what she calls 'the moral upbringing gap'. Aristotle famously says that we become virtuous by performing virtuous actions. He also claims that virtue involves acting from the right motives and affective framework-that is, because of the nobility of the actions and with enjoyment. Yet, it is not immediately clear how repeatedly performing actions of a virtuous type can result in steady dispositions to act virtuously. Repeating good actions could make us skilled at acting as the virtuous person would, only to conform to societal expectations and pressures, to get external rewards or avoid punishments, and without any enjoyment or appreciation for these actions' nobility. Jimenez argues that conditioning agents to enjoy doing what is right through rewards and punishments will not do the trick. After all, if my kid enjoys the candy I give to her every time she shares a toy with her playdate, she will not (we may think) come to enjoy sharing for its own sake and because of its nobility, but rather for the external reward. Neither can the pleasure we feel when we perform actions that have become familiar to us account for the peculiar desire for, and enjoyment of, doing what is right. Indeed, these pleasures of familiarity are not the pleasures proper to virtue because they are not felt at the nobility of the actions. These accounts of Aristotelian habituation fail, according to Jimenez, because they suffer from a 'discontinuity' problem: they cannot account for the acquisition of virtue because they start with actions that are not done in a virtuous manner, that is, from virtuous motives and with virtuous affective dispositions. But if the 'learning-by-doing' thesis, as typically understood, cannot fully account for the development of a truly virtuous character, then what does? An answer to this question, Jimenez insists, must guarantee
Books by Patricia Marechal
by Ulises Leandro Drisner, Maria Angelica Fierro, Carolina C M Modenutti, Abril Sain, Milena Lozano Nembrot, Fernanda Catullo, Marcelo Mingorance, Jesica Mac Dougall, Diego Javier Dindurra, Patricia Marechal, Juan Facundo Araujo, and Cristian Emiliano Valenzuela Issac
Usos polémicos de los textos de la Antigüedad clásica: Platón entre la filología y el imaginario, 2024
Los trabajos de este libro se proponen explorar zonas de discontinuidad y heteroglosia que se adv... more Los trabajos de este libro se proponen explorar zonas de discontinuidad y heteroglosia que se advierten en los textos clásicos y en sus diversas apropiaciones. A partir de una relación crítica pero productiva con la disciplina filológica, se examinan aquí tópicos de la filosofía platónica que lecturas mayormente consagradas con frecuencia han marginado. Algunas de estas temáticas son la desconfianza y el temor frente a la esperanza de una existencia post-mortem, la importancia del cuerpo y la sexualidad, el valor positivo de la retórica. También incursionan los autores de este volumen en las apropiaciones de Filón de Alejandría, Avicena y Wyclif, y estudian diversas lecturas modernas del platonismo, como las del romanticismo, Saki y Blanchot. A través de un recorrido desde la Antigüedad griega hasta nuestra modernidad más próxima, pasando por la época helenística y el Medioevo, estas páginas intentan un desmontaje de la interpretación de los textos filosóficos, a fin de poner al descubierto los supuestos de algunas lecturas tradicionales y de visibilizar áreas silenciadas o poco transitadas, que habilitan otro tipo de usos de las fuentes clásicas.
Forthcoming in Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2023
Forthcoming in the Journal of the History of Philosophy
S. Brill and C. McKeen (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy., 2024
The History of Hylomorphism: From Aristotle to Descartes (ed. David Charles), Oxford University Press, 2023
Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 2021
In this paper I examine the moral psychology of the Phaedo and argue that the philosophical life ... more In this paper I examine the moral psychology of the Phaedo and argue that the philosophical life in this dialogue is a temperate life, and that temperance consists in exercising epistemic discernment by actively withdrawing assent to incorrect evaluations the body inclines us to make. Philosophers deal with bodily affections by taking a correct epistemic stance. Exercising temperance thus understood is a necessary condition both for developing and strengthening rational capacities and for fixing accurate beliefs about value. Along the way, I argue that philosophers must neither avoid situations and activities that cause bodily affections as much as possible, nor ignore or care little about them.
Apeiron, 2021
In the Philebus, Socrates argues that pleasures can be false in the same way that beliefs can be ... more In the Philebus, Socrates argues that pleasures can be false in the same way that beliefs can be false. On the basis of Socrates' analysis of malicious pleasure, a mixed pleasure of the soul and a passion, I defend the view that, according to Socrates, pleasures can be false when they represent as pleasant something that is not worthy of our enjoyment, where that means that they represent as pleasant something that is not pleasant in its own right (αὐτὸ καθ'αὐτό) because it is not fine (καλόν). Since these pleasures misrepresent the value of their objects, they involve an evaluative error. In contrast, a pleasure is true when it correctly represents the actual value of things.
Teleology, Oxford Philosophical Concepts, (ed. J. McDonough), Oxford University Press, May 2020
Galen of Pergamum (130-210 AD) was the most celebrated physician of Antiquity, one of the foundin... more Galen of Pergamum (130-210 AD) was the most celebrated physician of Antiquity, one of the founding fathers of experimental medicine, and a great anatomist. He is famous for his spectacular, and often public, animal dissections and vivisections-aside from many Barbary apes, he dissected a giraffe, a snake, an ostrich, a dolphin, and at least one, perhaps even two, elephants. He is remembered for systematizing the now defunct, but once popular, humoral theory, for his extensive use of "venesection" or blood-letting, and for advocating a combination of experience and reason in medical investigation. 1
Ancient Philosophy 39(1) (accepted for publication in 2017), 2019
Philosophy of Mind in Antiquity: The History of the Philosophy of Mind, (ed. J. Sisko), Routledge Press, 2018
Philosophy East and West, 2021
The Philosophical Review 131 (3): 361–364., 2022
How can we become virtuous by doing virtuous actions? This question, which has received unceasing... more How can we become virtuous by doing virtuous actions? This question, which has received unceasing attention from scholars working in Aristotle's ethical theory, is at the center of Marta Jimenez's book, Aristotle on Shame and Learning to Be Good. Jimenez articulates clearly the challenges faced when trying to provide an account of moral development in Aristotle's works. She also meets these challenges with energy and originality, by weaving together a series of remarks scattered throughout Aristotle's ethical treatises into a persuasive and coherent picture of ethical education. Jimenez's book offers a rigorous treatment of central issues in Aristotelian ethics and moral development, and is essential reading for anyone researching or teaching on these topics. Jimenez aims at offering an answer to what she calls 'the moral upbringing gap'. Aristotle famously says that we become virtuous by performing virtuous actions. He also claims that virtue involves acting from the right motives and affective framework-that is, because of the nobility of the actions and with enjoyment. Yet, it is not immediately clear how repeatedly performing actions of a virtuous type can result in steady dispositions to act virtuously. Repeating good actions could make us skilled at acting as the virtuous person would, only to conform to societal expectations and pressures, to get external rewards or avoid punishments, and without any enjoyment or appreciation for these actions' nobility. Jimenez argues that conditioning agents to enjoy doing what is right through rewards and punishments will not do the trick. After all, if my kid enjoys the candy I give to her every time she shares a toy with her playdate, she will not (we may think) come to enjoy sharing for its own sake and because of its nobility, but rather for the external reward. Neither can the pleasure we feel when we perform actions that have become familiar to us account for the peculiar desire for, and enjoyment of, doing what is right. Indeed, these pleasures of familiarity are not the pleasures proper to virtue because they are not felt at the nobility of the actions. These accounts of Aristotelian habituation fail, according to Jimenez, because they suffer from a 'discontinuity' problem: they cannot account for the acquisition of virtue because they start with actions that are not done in a virtuous manner, that is, from virtuous motives and with virtuous affective dispositions. But if the 'learning-by-doing' thesis, as typically understood, cannot fully account for the development of a truly virtuous character, then what does? An answer to this question, Jimenez insists, must guarantee
by Ulises Leandro Drisner, Maria Angelica Fierro, Carolina C M Modenutti, Abril Sain, Milena Lozano Nembrot, Fernanda Catullo, Marcelo Mingorance, Jesica Mac Dougall, Diego Javier Dindurra, Patricia Marechal, Juan Facundo Araujo, and Cristian Emiliano Valenzuela Issac
Usos polémicos de los textos de la Antigüedad clásica: Platón entre la filología y el imaginario, 2024
Los trabajos de este libro se proponen explorar zonas de discontinuidad y heteroglosia que se adv... more Los trabajos de este libro se proponen explorar zonas de discontinuidad y heteroglosia que se advierten en los textos clásicos y en sus diversas apropiaciones. A partir de una relación crítica pero productiva con la disciplina filológica, se examinan aquí tópicos de la filosofía platónica que lecturas mayormente consagradas con frecuencia han marginado. Algunas de estas temáticas son la desconfianza y el temor frente a la esperanza de una existencia post-mortem, la importancia del cuerpo y la sexualidad, el valor positivo de la retórica. También incursionan los autores de este volumen en las apropiaciones de Filón de Alejandría, Avicena y Wyclif, y estudian diversas lecturas modernas del platonismo, como las del romanticismo, Saki y Blanchot. A través de un recorrido desde la Antigüedad griega hasta nuestra modernidad más próxima, pasando por la época helenística y el Medioevo, estas páginas intentan un desmontaje de la interpretación de los textos filosóficos, a fin de poner al descubierto los supuestos de algunas lecturas tradicionales y de visibilizar áreas silenciadas o poco transitadas, que habilitan otro tipo de usos de las fuentes clásicas.