The Murdochian Mind

Silvia Caprioglio Panizza is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Centre for Ethics, University of Pardubice, and a fellow of the PEriTiA project (Policy, Expertise, and Trust in Action) at the Centre for Ethics in Public Life, University College Dublin. She has edited and translated Simone Weil’s Venice Saved with Philip Wilson (2019) and is the author of The Ethics of Attention: Engaging the Real with Iris Murdoch and Simone Weil (2022). Mark Hopwood is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at The University of the South, Sewanee, USA. He has published articles on a range of topics in moral philosophy, including love, narcissism, hypocrisy, and the nature of moral judgment, and is currently writing a book on Iris Murdoch’s ethics.

Introduction Silvia Caprioglio Panizza and Mark Hopwood Part 1: Reading Murdoch 1. The Importance of Murdoch`s early encounters with Marcel and Anscombe Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman 2. How to read The Sovereignty of Good Justin Broackes 3. How to read The Fire and the Sun David Robjant 4. How to read Acastos: Murdoch’s Platonic dialogues Hannah Marije Altorf 5. How to read Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals Mark Hopwood 6. How Iris Murdoch can change your life Frances White 7. Murdoch and me: A personal reflection Stanley Hauerwas Part 2: Core themes and concepts 8. Thinking, language, and concepts Niklas Forsberg 9. Inwardness in ethics Sophie Grace Chappell 10. Moral vision Anil Gomes 11. Attention Silvia Caprioglio Panizza 12. Love Christopher Cordner 13. Virtue Maria Silvia Vaccarezza 14. The Good Craig Taylor 15. The ontological argument Nora Hämäläinen 16. Care for the ordinary Sandra Laugier Part 3: Critical encounters 17. Murdoch and Plato Catherine Rowett 18. Murdoch and Kant Melissa Merritt 19. Murdoch and Hegel Gary Browning 20. Murdoch and Heidegger Michelle Mahoney 21. Murdoch and Sartre Alison Scott-Baumann 22. Murdoch and Weil Eva-Maria Düringer 23. Murdoch and Wittgenstein Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen 24. Murdoch and K.E. Løgstrup Robert Stern Part 4: Art, religion, and politics 25. Art, beauty, and morality Chiara Brozzo and Andy Hamilton 26. Is Murdoch a philosophical novelist? Miles Leeson 27. Writing morally Rowan Williams 28. Murdoch and Christianity Elizabeth Burns 29. Murdoch and Buddhism Christopher W. Gowans 30. Murdoch and Jewish thought Victor Jeleniewski Seidler 31. Murdoch and politics Lawrence Blum 32. Murdoch and feminism Lucy Bolton Part 5: Contemporary moral issues 33. Nature and the environment Lucy Oulton 34. Loving attention to animals Tony Milligan 35. Psychiatric ethics Anna Bergqvist 36. Moral injury Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon 37. Civility Megan Jane Laverty. Index