Publications

For publications of the whole Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies see here.

Publications authored or edited by the members of the Centre for Ethics:

• Monographs
• Edited volumes
• Articles and book chapters: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017

New books:

 

Monographs by Centre members

• John Lippitt: Kierkegaard’s Early Discourses: Virtues and Vices in Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses (Cambridge University Press, 2026). 
• Ondřej Beran: Ecological Emotions (Palgrave MacMillan 2025)
• Lesley Jamieson: Iris Murdoch's Practical Metaphysics: A Guide to her Early Writings (Palgrave MacMillan 2023)
• Antony Fredriksson: A Phenomenology of Attention and the Unfamiliar: Encounters with the Unknown (Palgrave MacMillan 2022) 
• Silvia Caproglio Panizza: The Ethics of Attention: Engaging the Real with Iris Murdoch and Simone Weil (Routledge 2022)
• Tomáš Hejduk: Nepolitická politika v díle Ladislava Hejdánka (Filosofia 2022)
• Niklas Forsberg: Lectures on a Philosophy Less Ordinary (Routledge 2021)
• Hugo Strandberg: Forgiveness and Moral Understanding (Palgrave 2021)
• Ondřej Beran: Examples and Their Role in Our Thinking (Routledge 2021)
• Nora Hämäläinen: Är Trump postmodern? (Förlaget 2019)
• Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon: Moral Injury and the Promise of Virtue (Palgrave Macmillan 2019)
• Maria Balaska: Wittgenstein and Lacan at the Limit: Meaning and Astonishment (Palgrave Macmillan 2019).
• Kamila Pacovská: Vina, láska, náhoda (Nakladatelství Pavel Mervart 2018)

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Edited books and Collections

• Silvia Caprioglio Panizza (ed.) Moral Impossibility: Ethical, Political, and Psychological Perspectives (Routledge, 2026)
• Niklas Forsberg, Anne-Marie S. Christensen, Raffaele Rodogno (eds.), Contextual Ethics (Palgrave MacMillan, 2025)
• O. Beran, L. Candiotto, N. Forsberg, A. Fredriksson, D. Rozen (eds.), The Philosophy of Environmental Emotions: Grief, Hope, and Beyond, New York: Routledge, 2024.
• Cecilie Eriksen and Nora Hämäläinen (eds.): New Perspectives on Moral Change (Berghahn Books 2022)
• Ulrika Björk and Niklas Forsberg (eds.): The Dissident. Six Readings of "The Power of the Powerless" by Václav Havel (special issue of Filosofický časopis, 2022)
• Hon-Lam Li and Michael Campbell (eds.): Public Reason and Bioethics (Palgrave Macmillan 2021)
• Michael Campbell and Lynette Reid (eds.): Ethics, Society and Politics: Themes from the Philosophy of Peter Winch (Springer 2020)
• Michael Campbell and Sarah Tropper (eds.): Peter Winch, Spinoza on Ethics and Understanding (Anthem Press 2020)
• Nora Hämälainen and Gillian Dooley: Reading Iris Murdoch's Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (Palgrave Macmillan 2019).

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Articles and book chapters

2026

• Ondřej Beran, "Happily and Consciously Settled in One's Failure" in: Journal of Aesthetics and Culture
• Ondřej Beran, "Alone Together: Some Reflections on Talking to ChatGPT, Listening to Music, and Private Language" in: Nordic Wittgenstein Review.
• Laura Candiotto and Serhij Kiš, "Participatory sense-making in deep disagreements: enriching multi-modal theory of argumentation with the enactive approach to linguistic bodies" in: Language Sciences.
• Silvia Caprioglio Panizza, "The Madness of Reality | The Journal of Value Inquiry" in: The Journal of Value Inquiry
• Antony Fredriksson, "There is a language in the landscape: towards an ecology of meaning" in: Language Sciences. 
• Lesley Jamieson, "Why Fun Aunties Matter: A Modest Account" in: Journal of Applied Philosophy
• John Lippitt, 'Social Comparison and the Vices of Pride: A Kierkegaardian Perspective' in: Philosophia
• Kamila Pacovská, "Humility, Ambition, and Social Status" in: Philosophia

2025

• Ondřej Beran, Olli Lagerspetz, "Unhappy Lovers’? Difficulties of Spiritual Transition and the Case of Environmentalist ‘New Animism’" in: Religions. 
• Laura Candiotto, "The Problem of Sentience" in: Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.
• Silvia Caprioglio Panizza, "Attending like a dog: On learning ethical attention from other animals" in: Environmental Values. 
• Silvia Caprioglio Panizza, "Deep Moral Disagreement and Unthinkable Possibilities" in: International Journal of Philosophical Studies. 
• Matej Cibik, "Morality vs. Politics as a Framing Problem: How (Not) to Misunderstand the Fight Against Climate Change" in: Topoi
• Matej Cíbik, Vladimir Lukić, "Nostalgia, Moral Change, and the Intelligibility of Social Values" in: Philosophia
• Matej Cibik, Pavol Hardoš, "Fractured Pluralism: The Prospects of Political Liberalism in the Age of Vibes" in: Etica & Politica
• Niklas Forsberg, "Our(?) Concept of Food or, They are Eating Their Pets" in: European Journal of Philosophy. 
• Niklas Forsberg, "How to Measure the Firmness of a Belief?" in: Religions
• Niklas Forsberg, "How Movies About the Climate Crisis Work to Make Us Forget About the Climate Crises" in: SATS
• Lesley Jamieson, "Moral Attention and Bad Sentimentality," in: The Journal of Ethics
• Serhij Kiš, “Arguments for Non-Adversiality Are Not Self-Defeating.” in: Topoi
• Serhij Kiš, “Frustrated and Aware: Knowing When Disagreement Is Deep.” In: Informal Logic
• Kamila Pacovská, ‘Fame goes to one’s head’: The lures of fame and the moral perils of addiction, pride and vanity", in: The Philosophy of Fame and Celebrity (Bloomsbury).
• Kamila Pacovská, "Humility as a Virtue for Success and Failure," in: Filosoficky Caspopis.

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2024

• Ondřej Beran, "Ecological Grief Observed from a Distance", Philosophies.
• Ondřej Beran, "Don't Look Askance", Visual Resources 38..
• Ondřej Beran, "Ailments of the Soul", New Blackfriars..
• Laura Candiotto, "Eros In-Between and All-Around" in Human Studies.
• Laura Candiotto (with Mog Stapleton). “Assistive Technology as Affective Scaffolding”, in: Topoi.
• Silvia Caprioglio Panizza (with Maria Silvia Vaccarezza) "Moral transformation as shifting (im)possibilities" in: The Journal of Ethics.
• Silvia Caprioglio Panizza (with P. Wilson) ‘Literature’. In: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Simone Weil (Bloomsbury).
• Silvia Caprioglio Panizza (with P. Wilson) ‘The philosopher at the gate of the word: a study of Simone Weil’s transformative literature’. In: Fictional Worlds and the Political Imagination (Palgrave Macmillan).
• Matej Cibik "Morality vs. politics as a framing problem: how (not) to misunderstand the fight against climate change", in: Topoi.
• Matej Cibik, "Tacit consent and political legitimacy", in: European Journal of Political Theory.
• Niklas Forsberg, "In Hindsight: An Essay Concerning My Limited Moral Understanding" in: The Journal of Ethics.
• Lesley Jamieson, "Love's Realism: Iris Murdoch and the importance of being human," in: European Journal of Philosophy.
• Kamila Pacovská, “Being at Home in the World”, in: Platonism. Proceedings of the 43th International Wittgenstein Symposium.

 

2023

• Myrthe Bartels, ‘Recontextualising philia: Two verbal echoes of Crito’s argument in the Speech of the Laws in Plato’s Crito’, in: NEC Yearbook.
• Ondřej Beran, "Ailments of the Soul", in: Blackfriars.
• Laura Candiotto, “Emotions”. In: Bloomsbury Handbook of Plato.
• Laura Candiotto,  “Emotions in knowledge production”, in: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews.
• Laura Candiotto, “A Strange State of Mournful Contentment: The Role of Compassion in Moral Betterment”, in: Passion: Journal of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotion.
• Laura Candiotto (with Martin Weichold), “Ethics of Sense-Making”. Frontiers in Psychology. Sec. Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology.
• Silvia Caprioglio Panizza, 'Iris Murdoch: Trust in the World'. In: Perspectives on Trust in the History of Philosophy (Rowman and Littlefield).
• Silvia Caprioglio Panizza, ‘The Reification of Non-Human Animals’, in: Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics.
• Silvia Caprioglio Panizza, ‘Perception, Self, and Zen: On Iris Murdoch and the Taming of Simone Weil’ in: Philosophies.    
• Matej Cibik, "Elected Extremists, Political Communication and the Limits of Containment", in: Topoi.
• Antony Fredriksson, “Non-human Images: Environment and Emotion in two films by Viera Čákanyová”, in: Visual Resources.
• Lesley Jamieson, "Paradox and Discovery: Iris Murdoch, John Wisdom, and the Practice of Linguistic Philosophy", in: European Journal of Philosophy.

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2022

• Ondřej Beran, The Moral Luck of Rules, in: Philosophical Investigations.
• Ondřej Beran,"Who Should Have Children? (Us?) When Should We Have Children? (Now?)", SATS 23 (2022): 55-74.
• Ondřej Beran,"Flattening the Curve of Moral Imagination", Organon F 29 (2022): 174-199.
• Ondřej Beran,(with Kai Marchal) "Iris Murdoch between Buddhism and Christianity: Moral change, Conceptual Loss/Recovery, Unselfing", International Journal of Philosophy and Theology 83 (2022): 180-199.
• Laura Candiotto, Epistemic Emotions and Co-inquiry: A Situated Approach, in: Topoi.
• Laura Candiotto, "Extended Loneliness: When Hyperconnectivity makes us feel alone", in: Ethics and Information Technology.
• Laura Candiotto, "What I cannot do without you. Towards a truly embedded and embodied account of the socially extended mind", in: Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.
• Laura Candiotto, “The space in-between”, in: Constructivist Foundations. 
• Laura Candiotto, “Loving the Earth by loving a place”, in: Constructivist Foundations, 
• Silvia Caprioglio Panizza (with Maria Baghramian), "Scepticism and the Value of Distrust", in: Inquiry.
• Siliva Caprioglio Panizza, "The Reification of Non-Human Animals", in: Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. 
• Matej Cibik, "Freedom, Resentment and Anger: Emotions in Political Societies", in: Czech Journal of Political Science.
• Matej Cibik (with Pavol Hardoš), "Conspiracy Theories and Reasonable Pluralism", in: European Journal of Political Theory.
• Niklas Forsberg, "Unintentional Investigations: Truth in drama and "all that 'ordinary' in the phrase 'ordinary language philosophy' means" Policy Futures in Education.
• Antony Fredriksson, "Václav Havel, Simone Weil and our desire for totalitarianism”, in The Dissident: Six Readings of “The Power of the Powerless” by Václav Havel, Special Issue of Filosofický časopis.
• Antony Fredriksson and Silvia Panizza. “Ethical Attention and the Self in Iris Murdoch and Maurice Merleau-Ponty", in Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology. 
• Tomáš Hejduk, "Decency and Love (One or Two Paths to the Life of Goodness in Gaita’s Work?)" in: Philosophia.
• Lesley Jamieson, "Teaching, Learning and Philosophising as Metaphysical Animals" in: Journal of Philosophy of Education. 
• Ondřej Krasa, "Two Concepts of a Lie: Václav Havel on Living in a Communist Regime". in: The Dissident, special issue of Filosofický časopis.
• Kamila Pacovská, “Try to be loved & not-admired.” Lili Bart’s Moral Struggle" in Ethical Inquiries After Wittgenstein (Springer, Nordic Wittgenstein Studies).

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2021

• Ondřej Beran, ‘Environmentalism Without Ideology’ and the Dreams of Wiping out Humanity, in: Philosophy and Society.
• Ondřej Beran, "Morální intuice". Co si můžeme nebo máme odnést z četby Haidta, in: Filosofie dnes.
• Ondřej Beran, "A to se vyplatí!" Morálka jako spolupráce?, in: Reflexe.
• Ondřej Beran and Camilla Kronqvist, Living with Love in Today’s World: Philosophical Reflections on Some of Its Complexities, in: International Handbook of Love (Springer)
• Ondřej Beran, The Wisdom of Insight, in: Philosophy East and West.
• Ondřej Beran, To Each Incel According to His Needs?, in: SATS.
• Matej Cíbik, Michal Pullmann a filosofické aspekty sporu o charakter normalizace, in: Reflexe.
• Niklas Forsberg, Att filosofera genom livets alla skikt, in: Filosofisk tidskrift.
• Niklas Forsberg, Unintentional investigations: Truth in drama and “all that ‘ordinary’ in the phrase ‘ordinary language philosophy’ means”", in: Policy Futures in Education.
• Nora Hämäläinen, Wittgenstein, ethics and fieldwork in philosophy, in: Ethics after Wittgenstein (Bloomsbury).
• Nora Hämäläinen, Sara Lidman's Secular Reading of Original Sin, in: Philosophy and Literature.
• Nora Hämäläinen, Conflict and moral change: LGBTQ+ rights education, religion and renegotiation, in: Journal of Philosophy of Education.
• Nora Hämäläinen, Contextuality, Bioethics, and the Nature of Philosophy: Reflections on Murdoch, Diamond, Walker, and the Groningen Approach, in: ​International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics.
• Tomáš Hejduk, Trojí pojetí svobody, in: Filozofia
• Kamila Pacovská, Remorse and Self‑love: Kostelnička’s Change of Heart, in: The Journal of Ethics.
• Mira Reyes, When Pompey's Elephants Trumpeted for Mercy, in: Love and Friendship Across Cultures (Springer)
• Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon, What Can I Call That Hurt? Iris Murdoch, Interiority, and Moral Injury, in: Journal of Religious Ethics. 

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2020

• Marina Barabas, Winch on Political Authority and Obedience, in: Ethics, Society and Politics: Themes from the Philosophy of Peter Winch (Springer)
• Ondřej Beran, O čem se nedá mluvit, o tom se musí zpívat, nebo aspoň rapovat, in: Filosofický časopis.
• Michael Campbell, Calling Solomon's Bluff: Ethics, Aspect-Perception and the Unity of the Tractatus, in: Philosophical Investigations.
• Matej Cíbik, Legitimita politické moci a sebeporozumění občanů, in: Reflexe.
• Matej Cíbik, V čo môže veriť politický realista? Bernard Williams a jeho koncepcia politickej slobody, in: Politické vedy.
• Matej Cíbik, Rozumnost a konsensus, in: Filosofický časopis.
• Matej Cíbik and Pavol Hardoš, Cospiracy Theories and Reasonable Pluralism, in European Journal of Political Theory.
• Matej Cíbik, On the Immorality of Tattoos, in The Journal of Ethics.
• Niklas Forsberg, The Freedom that Comes with Love, in: Love, Justice, and Autonomy (Routledge).
• Niklas Forsberg, Perception and Prejudice: Attention and Moral Progress in Iris Murdoch’s Philosophy and C. S. Lewis’s A Grief Observed, in: Partial Answers.
• Antony Fredriksson and Silvia Panizza, Ethical Attention and the Self in Iris Murdoch and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, in: Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology.
• Antony Fredriksson, Werner Herzog and the Documentary as a Revelatory Practice, in: The Philosophy of Werner Herzog, M. Blake Wilson (ed). Lexington Books.
• Nora Hämäläinen, Inconsistency in Ethics, in: Philosophy.
• Nora Hämäläinen, Iris Murdoch on Pure Consciousness and Morality, in: Methodological Reflections on Women’s Contribution and Influence in the History of Philosophy (Springer)
• Nora Hämäläinen, A Case for Moral History–Universality and Change in Ethics after Wittgenstein, in: Philosophical Investigations.
• Ondřej Krása, Bodies and Space in the Timaeus, in: Plato's Timaeus (Brill)
• Kamila Pacovská, Wanting to Be Better: On the Self-Defeating Character of Moral Perfection, in: Ethics, Society and Politics: Themes from the Philosophy of Peter Winch (Springer)
• Hugo Strandberg, In Search of the Context of a Question, in: SATS.
• Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon, A Distress that Cannot Be Forgotten”: Imagination, Injury, and Moral Vulnerability, in: Philosophy Today. 

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2019

• Ondřej Beran, Science, Knowledge and Understanding, in: Horizon..
• Ondřej Beran, Love in the Absence of Judgment, in: Philosophy and Literature..
• Ondřej Beran, Addiction as Degradation of Life in: Ethics and Medicine..
• Ondřej Beran: Problémy s teodiceou ve wittgen­steinovské tradici in: Filosofický časopis. 
• Christopher Cordner: What Matters in Caring: Some Reflections on Derek Parfit’s On What Matters in: Sophia.
• Christopher Cordner: Vision and Encounter in Moral Thinking in: Reading Iris Murdoch's Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (Palgrave Macmillan)
• Niklas Forsberg: From self-reliance to that which relies: Emerson and critique as self-criticism in: Educational Philosophy and Theory.
• Niklas Forsberg: Narrativity in Variation, in The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Literature (Palgrave Macmillan)
• Niklas Forsberg: Unity of Art in a Mood of Scepticism in: Reading Iris Murdoch's Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (Palgrave Macmillan).
• Nora Hämäläinen, Literature and Moral Change: Rupture, Universality and Self-Understanding, in: Narrative and Self-Understanding (Palgrave Macmillan)
• Nora Hämäläinen, Wolf Hall and moral personhood, in: Ethics and Bioethics.
• Nora Hämälainen: Which Void? in Reading Iris Murdosch's Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (Palgrave Macmillan).
• Tomáš Hejduk, Moral Education in Secondary Schools: What, how, and why?, in: Pedagogika. 
• Tomáš Hejduk: Socrates and Theognis on True Love in: The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition. 
• Tomáš Hejduk: Koncept nepolitické politiky v díle Ladislava Hejdánka in: Filosofický časopis. 
• Kamila Pacovská, Moral Character and the Significance of Action: Judging Dmitri Karamazov in:Philosophical Investigations.
• Hugo Strandberg, Forgiveness and Plurality in: Arendt Studies.
• Hugo Strandberg: Life and Truth in: Nordic Wittgenstein Review, Special Issue.
• Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon: Mapping Moral Injury: Comparing Discourses of Moral Harm in: Journal of Medicine and Philosophy.

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2018

• Maria Balaska: Seeing the Stove as World: Significance (Bedeutung) in the Early Wittgenstein in: Philosophical Investigations.. 
• Maria Balaska: Can There Be Happiness in Psychoanalysis?: Creon and Antigone in Lacan’s Seminar VII in: Project Muse.
• Ondřej Beran, "An Attitude Towards an Artificial Soul? Responses to the 'Nazi Chatbot'", in Philosophical Investigations..
• Ondřej Beran: "Give Me an Example": Peter Winch and Learning from the Particular in: Nordic Wittgensten Review. 
• Ondřej Beran: Metaphor as That Which Makes Us See in: Poetry, Philosophy, and Figurative Language (Peter Lang).
• Michael Campbell (with Nie Ling-Bao): 'Where Our Common Language Lies': Virtues, Embodiment and Faith in Global Bioethics in: Healthcare Ethics, Law and Professionalism (Routledge).
• Matej Cíbik: Liberální universalismus dnes in: Acta Politologica.. 
• Matej Cíbik: Expectations and Obligations in: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. 
• Matej Cíbik: Československo a jeho rozpad ve světle filosofických teorií nacionalismu in: Reflexe.. 
• Niklas Forsberg (with James Conant): Inheriting Wittgenstein in: Nordic Wittgenstein Review. 
• Niklas Forsberg: Narrativity in Variation: Merleau-Ponty and Murdoch on Literary and Philosophical Narratives in: The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Literature (Palgrave Macmillan). 
• Niklas Forsberg: Carver, Cavell, and the Uncanniness of the Ordinary in: New Literary History.
• Niklas Forsberg: ‘Taking the Linguistic Method Seriously’: On Iris Murdoch on Language and Linguistic Philosophy' in: Murdoch on Truth and Love (Palgrave Macmillan).
• Kamila Pacovská, "Love and the Pitfall of Moralism", in Philosophy.
• Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon: Dirty Hands and Moral Injury in: Philosophy.

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2017

• Ondřej Beran, "The Role of the Private in Inter-Gender Misunderstanding", in Organon F.
• Ondřej Beran, "Misunderstanding the Talk(s) of the Divine", in Sophia.
• Michael Campbell, “Companions in Guilt Arguments and Moore’s Paradox”, in Symposion
• Christopher Cordner, "Justice and Unconditional Valuing in Nietzsche’s Genealogy", in The Philosophical Forum. 
• Niklas Forsberg, "From self-reliance to that which relies: Emerson and critique as self-criticism", in Educational Philosophy and Theory.
• Niklas Forsberg, “M and D and Me. Iris Murdoch and Stanley Cavell on Perfectionism and Self-Transformation”, in Iride.
• Niklas Forsberg, "Thinking about a Word - Love, for Example", in Metaphilosophy.
• Niklas Forsberg, "Iris Murdoch on Love", in Grau - Smuts (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Love.
• Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon, "Moral Injury as Inherent Political Critique: The Prophetic Possibilities of a New Term", in Political Theology.

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