Bridget Clarke

Areas of Interest

“Iris Murdoch and the Prospects for Critical Moral Perception,” forthcoming in a collection of essays entitled Iris Murdoch, Philosopher, Oxford University Press, edited by Justin Broackes.
Theory, Practice, and Progress,” forthcoming in a collection of essays on Martha Nussbaum in the Library of Living Philosophers Series, Open Court Press, edited by Randall Auxier.
“Iris Murdoch and the Politics of Imagination,” Philosophical Papers, Vol. 35, No. 3 (November 2006).
“Form and Persuasion in Descartes’ Meditations,” in Visions of Value and Truth: Understanding Philosophy and Literature, eds. Ruikonen and Werner, Acta Philosophica Fennica Series, Vol. 79 (2006).
Commentary on Anthony Price’s “Was Aristotle a Particularist?,” Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Vol. XXI (2005).

Review of Picturing the Human: The Moral Thought of Iris Murdoch, by Maria Antonaccio, in Iris Murdoch News Letter, No. 15 (Winter 2001).
Review of The Making of Social Movements in Latin America, edited by A. Escobar and S.E. Alvarez, in The Ecologist (July/August 1993).

Comment on Albert Borgmann, Real American Ethics, The University of Montana, February 22, 2007.
“Iris Murdoch and the Politics of Imagination,” for a meeting of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, University of Helsinki, June 2-7, 2005.
Reply to A.W. Price, “Was Aristotle a Particularist?,” for a meeting of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Dartmouth College, May 19, 2005.
“Form and Persuasion in Descartes’ Meditations,” for a conference on Meditation and the Exercises of Discourse and Visuality in the Early Modern Period, Johns Hopkins University, October 15-16, 2004.
“Literary Form and Rational Persuasion in Descartes’ Meditations,” for a conference on Philosophical Reflections on Literature, University of Helsinki, August 5-7, 2004.
“Imagination and Political Resistance in Murdoch's Ethics,” for a symposium of the International Association of Women Philosophers, Göteborg Sweden, June 17-19, 2004.
Reply to Martha Nussbaum, “Love and Vision in Murdoch’s The Black Prince,” for a conference on Iris Murdoch’s Philosophy, Brown University, April 22-23, 2001.
“Murdoch’s Attempt to Restore the Self,” for a meeting of the Women and Philosophy Group, University of Chicago, February, 2001.