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Conclusion: Remorse as a Challenge to Be Met—Biography and Bibliotherapy
Murdoch’s peculiar insistence on remorse towards the end of her life suggests that it holds particular philosophical and personal significance for...
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Skeptical Theism and the Problems of Evil
I tease out the implications of skeptical theism with respect to different problems of evil. More specifically, I show that skeptical theism...
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On an Epistemic Cornerstone of Skeptical Theism: in Defense of CORNEA
Skeptical theism is a family of responses to arguments from evil. One important member of that family is Stephen Wykstra’s CORNEA-based criticism of...
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A Meeting of Minds: Iris Murdoch and the Theory of Remorse
This chapter outlines the growth of Murdoch’s standing in twenty-first-century critical acclaim and analyses her unique philosophical and literary...
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Co-authorship in chemistry at the turn of the twentieth century: the case of Theodore W. Richards
It is widely recognized that conceptual and theoretical innovations and the employment of new instruments and experimental techniques are important...
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Murdoch and Visual Art
The years preceding Iris Murdoch’s first meeting with Harry Weinberger in 1975 prepared the ground for their fruitful friendship. Murdoch’s enduring...
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‘Something in a Dark Picture’: Reconceptualising Angels
Iris Murdoch’s re-imaginings of angels in her novels and poetry were interwoven with, and given fresh impetus by, her dialogue with Harry Weinberger....
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‘A Fearfully Complex Theological Concept’: Remorse, Repentance, and Salvation in A Word Child and The Book and the Brotherhood
This chapter engages with Murdoch’s contribution to the ‘turn to theology’ as her thinking on remorse participates in her neo-theology. Her...
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Neo-Cartesianism and the expanded problem of animal suffering
Several well-known theodicies, whatever their merits, seem to make little sense of animal suffering. Here we argue that the problem of animal...
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Lyly, John
John Lyly was a writer, playwright, and courtier in the service of Elizabeth I.
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Kindred Spirits
During the mid to late 1970s, Iris Murdoch’s evolving discourse with Harry Weinberger began to invigorate her work and thought in a number of...
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‘If Only’ and ‘Too Late’: Remorse, Philosophy, and Time in The Nice and the Good and The Philosopher’s Pupil
This chapter demonstrates Murdoch’s relevance to philosophical debate on the moral basis and ethical significance of remorse. The foundations of both...
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Murdoch and Visual Artists
Throughout her life Iris Murdoch sought the company of visual artists. In so doing she was, consciously or unconsciously, positioning herself within...
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‘In My Beginning Is My End’: Threads and Themes from Under the Net to Jackson’s Dilemma
In this chapter, ‘“In my beginning is my end”: Threads and Themes from Under the Net to Jackson’s Dilemma’, Frances White offers an overarching...
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‘Shadow-Bound Consciousness’: The Mask as Icon
Iris Murdoch acknowledges that reality is too complex to be contained by any form. She recognises also that a degree of mediation of reality by...
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Totalization Fallacies
An exposition and critique of the common fallacy that If the existence of every member of a set is explained, the existence of that set as a whole is...
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Moral Philosophy, Moralism, and the Socialist Imagination
This chapter examines the relationship between moral philosophy and moralism. While Murdoch’s contemporaries saw linguistic analysis as a way to...
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Axiological Skeptical Theism Proved
I provide an argument for thinking Axiological Skeptical Theism is true and address numerous objections to it, such as equiprobability objections and...
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Friendship, Sex, and the Moral Life in Iris Murdoch’s Novels
This chapter, ‘Friendship and the Moral Life in Iris Murdoch’s Novels’ revisits the subject of sexual relationships, not from the problematic...
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Iris Murdoch, Australia and Me
In this chapter Gillian Dooley surveys ‘Iris Murdoch, Australia and Me’. (Dooley’s monograph, Listening to Iris Murdoch: Music, Sounds and Silences...