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  1. “How Do I Live in This Strange Place?”.Samantha Vice - 2010 - Journal of Social Philosophy 41 (3):323-342.
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    The Ethics of Animal Beauty.Samantha Vice - 2017 - Environmental Ethics 39 (1):75-96.
    Taking hunting as an example, an account of animal beauty as animation can be developed. Our delight in many kinds of animals is crucially a matter of an aesthetic property which can be called “the animate” or “animation.” A proper response to animate animal beauty is a virtuous character trait that hunters lack. The beauty of animals calls for particular responses from observers: it brings along certain duties and requires the cultivation of certain traits of character—ones that are incompatible with (...)
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    Aesthetically Appreciating Animals: On The Abundant Herds.Samantha Vice - 2023 - Environmental Values 32 (2):195-214.
    This is an essay in appreciation of The Abundant Herds, a study of the ama-Zulu's naming practices for their Nguni cattle. The book reveals an aesthetic vision in which contemplative and practical attention are intertwined and a complex classificatory system does not undermine an appreciation of the individuality of the cattle. The book and the practices it celebrates permit a richer account of the beauty of farm animals to the standard functionalist approach.
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  4. Cynicism and Morality.Samantha Vice - 2011 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice.
    Our attitude towards cynicism is ambivalent: On the one hand we condemn it as a character failing and a trend that is undermining political and social life; on the other hand, we are often impressed by the apparent realism and honesty of the cynic. My aim in this paper is to offer an account of cynicism that can explain both our attraction and aversion. After defending a particular conception of cynicism, I argue that most of the work in explaining the (...)
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  5. The Ethics of Self-Concern.Samantha Vice - 2006 - In Anne Rowe (ed.), Iris Murdoch: A reassessment. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 60--71.
     
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    The moral life: essays in honour of John Cottingham.John Cottingham, Nafsika Athanassoulis & Samantha Vice (eds.) - 2008 - New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.
    Few contemporary philosophers have made as wide-ranging and insightful a contribution to philosophical debate as John Cottingham. This collection brings together friends, colleagues and former students of Cottingham, to discuss major themes of his work on moral philosophy. Presented in three parts the collection focuses on the debate on partiality, impartiality and character; the role of emotions and reason in the good life; the meaning of a worthwhile life and the place of theistic considerations in it. The original contributions to (...)
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    Introduction.Tom Martin & Samantha Vice - 2012 - Philosophical Papers 41 (3):331-333.
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    Knowledge and the Aesthetics of Nature.Samantha Vice - 2024 - British Journal of Aesthetics 64 (4):603-624.
    Conceptualism in natural aesthetics takes knowledge of natural objects to be necessary for their appropriate appreciation. Concentrating on animals, I explore a particular version of conceptualism – functionalism – in light of debates about the effects of cognition on perception - so-called ‘cognitive penetration of perception.’ I establish the claims about cognitive penetration to which functionalism is committed, and assess the implications of its assumptions for the normative claim that functional appreciation is most appropriate to nature. I argue that functionalism (...)
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    Ethics at the cinema.Ward E. Jones & Samantha Vice (eds.) - 2011 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    This volume of contributed, previously unpublished essays focuses on general theoretical, meta-ethical and aesthetic issues in philosophy and the ways in which ...
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    Beauty, Mourning and the Commemoration of Evil.Samantha Vice - 2012 - Midwest Studies in Philosophy 36 (1):142-162.
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    Emigration and community.Samantha Vice - 2017 - South African Journal of Philosophy 36 (1):13-23.
    In this paper I discuss Gillian Brock’s and Michael Blake’s discussion of emigration in Debating Brain Drain in relation to the particular case of South Africa, and explore whether skilled white people have a duty to remain in the country. Focusing on the role of community in this debate, I argue that communities and allegiances in South Africa are still too divided and antagonistic for them to play the duty-grounding role that Brock requires.
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    Essentialising Rhetoric and Work on the Self.Samantha Vice - 2016 - Philosophical Papers 45 (1-2):103-131.
    This paper is a response to recent student protests at South African universities, and the essentialising rhetoric and practices that characterise South African public debates. I explore the likely responses of white South Africans to views that seem to make their whiteness inescapable and necessarily morally bad.
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    Meaning in Life: An Analytic Study, by Thaddeus Metz.Samantha Vice - 2016 - Mind 125 (497):264-269.
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    On Persons and Immortality Symposium on Pedro Tabensky, Happiness: Personhood, Community, Purpose.Samantha Vice - 2004 - South African Journal of Philosophy 23 (4):365-374.
    This paper considers Tabensky's method of critical introspection, and in particular the conception of personhood that informs it. By interrogating the lives of pure hedonism, divinity and immortality from our already existing conception of personhood, Tabensky argues that such lives are incompatible with what it is to be a person, and desiring to live them is therefore irrational. Concentrating on the example of immortality, I argue that, while there are undoubtedly disadvantages associated with the immortal life, these are contingent rather (...)
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    On the Tedium of the Good.Samantha Vice - 2005 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 8 (4):459-476.
    It seems to be a phenomenon of contemporary life that we consider goodness embarrassing and rather dull. In contrast, the activities and inner lives of villains are deemed more complex and fascinating than those of good people. This paper attempts to understand the conception of goodness that underlies this phenomenon, and I suggest that informing it is the combination of two ideas, in tension with each other: firstly, a distorted understanding of the ancient conception of full virtue as the absence (...)
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    Personal autonomy: philosophy and literature.Samantha Wynne Vice - unknown
    Gerald Dworkin's influential account of Personal Autonomy offers the following two conditions for autonomy: Authenticity - the condition that one identify with one's beliefs, desires and values after a process of critical reflection, and Procedural Independence - the identification in must not be "influenced in ways which make the process of identification in some way alien to the individual" . I argue in this thesis that there are cases which fulfil both of Dworkin's conditions, yet are clearly not cases of (...)
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    The Ethics of Animal Beauty.Samantha Vice - 2023 - Lanham: Lexington Books.
    This book presents a novel account of the aesthetics of animals. The author argues that the appreciation of animal beauty carries profound ethical consequences for our relations to our fellow creatures.
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  18. The Insignificance of the Self: Partiality and Spirituality.Samantha Vice - 2008 - In John Cottingham, Nafsika Athanassoulis & Samantha Vice (eds.), The moral life: essays in honour of John Cottingham. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan. pp. 9.
     
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  19. The virtues of the useless: on goodness, evil and beauty.Samantha Vice - 2009 - In Pedro Alexis Tabensky (ed.), The positive function of evil. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.
     
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    Book Review: Damien Cox, Marguerite La Caze and Michael P. Levine, Integrity and the Fragile Self Ashgate, 2003. [REVIEW]Samantha Vice - 2003 - Philosophical Papers 32 (2):225-234.
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    Review of Joel K. Kupperman, Six Myths About the Good Life: Thinking About What has Value[REVIEW]Samantha Vice - 2006 - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (8).
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    Stain removal: Ethics and race. [REVIEW]Samantha Vice - 2020 - Contemporary Political Theory 19 (1):33-36.