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Ralph D. Ellis received his Ph.D. from Duquesne University, Pennsylvania and a postdoctoral M.S. from Georgia State University. A lifelong practitioner of Gendlin's 'focusing' method, he has worked as a social worker as well as a teacher, and is interested in integrating the social sciences with enactive consciousness theory. His books include An Ontology of Consciousness (2010), Theories of Criminal Justice (1990), Coherence and Verification in Ethics (1991), Questioning Consciousness (1995), Eros in a Narcissistic Culture (2012), Just Results: Ethical Foundations for Policy Analysis (1998), Love and the Abyss (2004), Curious Emotions (2005), and he has co-authored a book with Natika Newton on enactivist consciousness theory called How the Mind Uses the Brain (2010).
Part I. Love of Truth and 'Moral Sentiments': 1. The paradox of the
charitable terrorist; 2. Can we have naturalism without the naturalistic
fallacy? 3. Love of truth and 'vital lies': basic conflicting emotions in
moral and political psychology; 4. Moral realism, hermeneutics, and
enactive epistemology: the truth 'resists us'; Part II. Truth-Seeking and
the Hermeneutic Circle: 5. 'Attention must be paid!' Hermeneutics and the
demand for universalization; 6. The coherence of moral worldviews: beyond
the privileging of nihilism; 7. Kantian abstractions and the embarrassment
of reason: the need for hermeneutics; 8. The limits of hedonism: paradoxes
of 'expanded egoism'; 9. The hermeneutic process in action: fallibilism and
the role of emotion in moral and political psychology.