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
Biography
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.
'The Murdochian Mind is a whole three-day conference between covers. … The 2022 Iris Murdoch Conference took place while I was working on this review. Interleaved with my reading were emails and social media posts making me feel that, while I am on the other side of the world, the conversations are continuing wherever Murdochians meet, in person, on paper, or online. Books like this one enrich these conversations, and I congratulate Caprioglio Panizza and Hopwood – Silvia and Mark – on the enormous intellectual and organisational feat they have accomplished in bringing this book together.' - Gillian Dooley, Iris Murdoch Review
