Prof Peter Goldie

Before coming to Manchester, Peter was Reader in Philosophy at King’s College London, and prior to that a lecturer at Magdalen College Oxford.

He lives in Manchester and in Notting Hill in London, is married to a lawyer, and has two sons who are in their twenties.

Peter’s main philosophical interests are in the philosophy of mind, ethics and aesthetics, and particularly in questions concerning value and how the mind engages with value. He is continuing his research on emotion and character, and is also working on narrative and its connections with his other areas of interest.

Peter has also been principal investigator in two AHRC projects in aesthetics, one of conceptual art (about which he is currently writing a book), and one on aesthetic psychology. He is part of HUMAINE, a major EU Network of Excellence Research Project into human-machine emotional interactions.

Current undergraduate teaching:

PHIL20231

Graduate teaching:

I have supervised a large number of graduate theses on a wide range of topics in ethics, aesthetics and philosophy of mind. Most of these topics have been close to my own research interests, so I am able to work together with the student and share ideas in ways that are highly constructive and productive, and which are fully up to date with recent developments. At the moment I am supervising (either as first or second supervisor) graduate students on topics including: the possibility of altruism; evolutionary explanations of emotions; expressivism in ethics; emotion and moral intuition; explanations of depression; truth in narrative; the nature of empathy; the metaphysics of beauty; and the epistemology of other minds.

I encourage anyone interested in coming to Manchester Philosophy and in working with me in these or related areas to get in touch. In the first place, the best way to do that is by email, but if possible I would be glad to arrange to meet up and talk through plans and possibilities in more detail.

Publications Database

Books

• The Emotions: A Philosophical Exploration, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-823891-6
• Understanding Emotions: Mind and Morals (as editor), Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2002. https://www.ashgate.com/shopping/title.asp?isbn=0%207546%200365%202
• On Personality, London, Routledge, 2004. http://www.ebooksubscriptions.com/Home/html/moreinfo.asp?etailerid=19&bookId=536912202
• Philosophy and Conceptual Art (as co-editor with Elisabeth Schellekens), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
  http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199285556

Chapters in edited collections

• ‘Introduction’ to Understanding Emotions: Mind and Morals, P. Goldie ed., 2002, co-authored with Finn Spicer, pp. 1-22. Download [.doc 93 KB]
• ‘Emotion, Personality and Simulation', in Understanding Emotions: Mind and Morals, P. Goldie ed., pp. 97-109. Download [.doc 62 KB]
• 'Narrative and perspective: Values and Appropriate Emotions', in Philosophy and the Emotions, A. Hatzimoysis ed., Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements Series, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 201-220. Download [.doc 95 KB]
• 'Narrative, Emotion and Perspective', in Imagination and the Arts, M. Kieran and D. Lopes eds., London: Routledge, 2003. Download [.pdf 75 KB]
• 'Emotion, Reason and Virtue', in Emotion, Evolution and Rationality, P. Cruse and D. Evans eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Download [.doc 93 KB]
• 'Emotion, Feeling, and Knowledge of the world', in Thinking about Feeling: Contemporary Philosophers on Emotion, R. Solomon ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Download [.doc 92 KB]
• ‘Narrative, emotion, and understanding’, in Narrative Research in Health and Illness, B. Hurwitz, T. Greenhalgh and V. Skultans eds., London: Blackwell, BMJ Books, 2004, pp. 156-67. Download [.doc 73 KB]
• ‘Charley’s world: narratives of aesthetic experience’, in Knowing Art: Essays in Aesthetics and Epistemology, M. Kieran and D. Lopes eds, Dordrecht Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Press, 2006. Download [.doc 73 KB]
• ‘Dramatic irony and the external perspective’, in Narrative and Understanding Persons, D. Hutto, ed., Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements Series, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2007 Download [.doc 86 KB]
• ‘Conceptual art and knowledge’, in Philosophy and Conceptual Art, P. Goldie and E. Schellekens, eds, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006, pp. 157-170 Download [.doc 111 KB]
• ‘Introduction’, co-written with Elisabeth Schellekens, in Philosophy and Conceptual Art,P. Goldie and E. Schellekens, eds, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, pages ix-xx
• ‘There are reasons and reasons’, in Folk Psychology Reassessed, D. Hutto and M. J. Ratcliffe, eds, Dordrecht Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Press. 2007, pp. 103-114 Download [.pdf 188 KB]
• ‘Emotional experience and understanding’, in Consciousness and Emotion: Radical Enactivism, ed. Richard Menary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 2006, pp 151-5. Download [.doc 73 KB]
• ‘Misleading Emotions’, in Epistemology and the Emotions, D. Kuenzle, G. Brun and U. Dogluogu eds., Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2008, pp 149-65. Download [.doc 108 KB]
• ‘La Grande Illusion’, in Ethics in Film, eds W. Jones and S. Vice, Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming. Download [.doc 86 KB]
• ‘Thick concepts and emotion’, in Reading Bernard Williams, ed. D. Callcut, London: Routledge. In press. Download [.doc]
• ‘Freud and the Oceanic Feeling’, in Religious Emotions: Some Philosophical Explorations, W. Lemmens and W. Van Herck eds., Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008, pp. 219-29. Download [.doc]

Papers in journals

• 'How we think of others' emotions', Mind and Language Vol 14 No 4, December 1999. Download [.doc 156 KB]
• 'Explaining expressions of emotion', Mind Vol 109 No 433, January 2000, pp. 25-38. Download [.doc 50 KB]
• 'Compassion: A Natural, Moral Emotion' in 'Die Moralitaet der Gefuehle', Special Issue of Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 4, 2002, S.A.Doering and V. Mayer (eds.), Berlin: Akademie, pp 199-211. Download [.doc 72 KB]
• 'Emotions, Feelings and Intentionality', Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 1, 2002, pp 235-54. Download [.doc 92 KB]
• ‘One’s Remembered Past: Narrative Thinking, Emotion, and the External Perspective’, Philosophical Papers 32, 2003, pp. 301-19. Download [.pdf 181 KB]
• ‘Conceptual art, social psychology and deception’, Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics 1, 2004, pp. 32-41. Download [.pdf 60 KB]
• ‘The Life of the Mind: Commentary on "Emotions in Everyday Life"’, Social Science Information 43, 2004, pp. 591-8. Download [.doc 55 KB]
• ‘Wollheim on Emotion and imagination’, Philosophical Studies 127, 2006, pp. 1-17. Download [.pdg 161 KB]
• ‘Imagination and the distorting power of emotion’, Journal of Consciousness Studies 12, 2005, pp. 130-142. Download [.pdf 96 KB]
•  ‘Seeing what is the kind thing to do: perception and emotion in morality’, dialectica 61, 2007, pp. 347-62. Download [.pdf 96 KB]
• ‘Towards a virtue theory of art’, British Journal of Aesthetics 47, 2007, pp. 372-87. ‘Virtues of art and human well-being’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supp. Vol. LXXXII, 2008, pp. 179-95. Download [.doc 103 KB]
• ‘Emotion’ for Philosophy Compass Online Download [.pdf]
• ‘Virtues of art and human well-being’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supp. Vol. LXXXII, 2008, pp. 179-95. Download [.pdf]
•  ‘Getting feelings into emotional experience in the right way’, Emotion Review, special edition on emotional experience, eds S. Döring and R. Reisenzein. Download [.pdf]
•  ‘Narrative thinking, emotion, and planning’, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 67: 1, a special edition on narrative, guest editor Noel Carroll. Download [.pdf]

Recent book reviews:

• Review of Gut Reactions , J. Prinz, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, Mind 115, 2006. Download [.pdf 433 KB]
• Review of Not Passion’s Slave: Emotions and Choice, Robert C. Solomon, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003, and of  From Passions to Emotions: The Creation of a Secular Psychological Category, Thomas Dixon, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, European Journal of Philosophy 15, 2007, pp. 110. http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/ejop/15/1
• Review of Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behaviour, John Doris, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, Journal of Moral Philosophy 4, 2007, pp. 290-2. Download [.pdf 102 KB]