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Dr Edward Harcourt

University Lecturer (CUF) in Philosophy
Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Keble College

edward.harcourt@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

Keble College
Oxford OX1 3PG

Research Interests

Ethics, in particular moral psychology, neo-Aristotelianism and child development, ethical dimensions of psychoanalysis, meta-ethics; Nietzsche's ethics; literature and philosophy; Wittgenstein

Edward Harcourt

Career & Education

Edward Harcourt has been a Fellow of Keble since 2005. From 1998 to 2005 he was Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Kent, and from 1993 to 1998 Domus Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. He has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley (1996) and Visiting Lecturer at the Institut für Philosophie, University of Leipzig (1998). Before taking the BPhil and DPhil in Oxford he was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read Philosophy (Part I) and History (Part II). He was awarded a Mind Association Research Fellowship for 2007.


Publications

Articles

  1. ‘Nietzsche and the “aesthetics of character”’, in S. May (ed.), On the Genealogy of Morality: A Critical Guide, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming

  2. ‘Self-Knowledge, Knowledge of Others, and “the thing called love”’, in Self-Evaluation - Affective and Social Grounds of Intentionality, Anita Konzelmann Ziv, Keith Lehrer & H. B. Schmid (eds.), Frankfurt: Ontos, 2011

  3. ‘Self-Love and Practical Rationality’, in Carla Bagnoli (ed.), Morality and the Emotions, Oxford: OUP, 2011

  4. ‘Wittgenstein and Bodily Self-Knowledge’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 77:2 (2008)

  5. ‘Nietzsche and Eudaemonism’, in Gudrun von Tevenar (ed.), Nietzsche and Ethics, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007

  6. ‘Guilt, Shame, and the “Psychology of Love”’, in Louise Braddock and Michael Lacewing (eds.), The Academic Face of Psychoanalysis, London: Routledge, 2007

  7. ‘Quasi-Realism and Ethical Appearances’, Mind 114 (2005), pp. 249-275

  8. ‘Instrumental Desires, Instrumental Rationality’, in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supp. Vol. 1xxvii (2004), pp. 111-130

  9. ‘Wittgenstein and “the Whereabouts of Pain”’, in S. Schroeder (ed.), Wittgenstein and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001, pp. 194-209 

  10. Introduction to E. Harcourt (ed.), Morality, Reflection, and Ideology, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 1-20 

  11. ‘The First Person: problems of sense and reference’, in R. Teichmann (ed.), Logic, Cause and Action: Essays in honour of Elizabeth Anscombe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 25-46

  12. Frege on “I”, “now”, “today” and some other linguistic devices’, Synthese 121 (1999), pp. 329-356; reprinted in M. Beaney and E. Reck (eds.), Frege: Critical Assessments, vol.4, London: Routledge, 2005

  13. ‘Interpretationism, the First Person and “that” –clauses’, Nous 33:3 (1999), pp. 459-472

  14. ‘Mill’s “Sanctions”, Internalization and the Self’, European Journal of Philosophy 6.3 (1998), pp. 318-334

  15. ‘Integrity, Practical Deliberation and Utilitarianism’, Philosophical Quarterly 48 (1998), pp. 189-198


Shorter Pieces

  1. ‘Wittgenstein, Ludwig’, in H. LaFollette (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming

  2. ‘Truth and the “work” of literary fiction’, British Journal of Aesthetics 50 (2010), pp. 93-7 

  3. ‘Action Explanation and the Unconscious’, in T. O’Connor and C. Sandis (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Action, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

  4. ‘Velleman on Love and Ideals of Rational Humanity’, Philosophical Quarterly 59:235 (2009), pp. 349-56 

  5. ‘Crisp’s “Ethics Without Reasons?”: A Note on Invariance’, Journal of Moral Philosophy, 4:1 (2007)

  6. ‘Psychoanalysis’, in A.C. Grayling et al. (eds.), Encyclopedia of British Philosophy, Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2006

  7. ‘Frege on Indexicals: A Problem from the “Logic” of 1897’, in G. Meggle and J. Nida-Rumelin (eds.), Analyomen-2: Proceedings of the 2nd Conference “Perspectives in Analytic Philosophy”, Berlin: De Gruyter, 1997, pp. 112-7

  8. ‘Are Hybrid proper Names the Solution to the Completion Problem? A Reply to Wolfgang Künne’, Mind 102 (1993), pp. 301-313


Podcasts, Blog pieces, etc.

  1. ‘Love’, Resonance FM, 22 Nov. 2011

  2. ‘Civilization and Its Discontents’, Resonance FM, 11 Oct. 2011

  3. ‘Questions of Character’, Prospect, 12 May 2011

  4. ‘Defending the Humanities’, Prospect, 8 Nov. 2010

  5. ‘Philippa Foot: Trolleys and Natural Goodness’, Prospect, 7 Oct. 2010

  6. ‘Why Medical Policy-makers should beware Aristotle’, Prospect, 21 Sept. 2010