Lubomira Radoilska
My research interests include ethics, political philosophy, and ancient philosophy. The interactions between competing autonomy conceptions provide a major focus for my current research. I am particularly interested in exploring this issue with reference to paradoxical agency, e.g. weakness of will. Further on-going projects include: the role of moral knowledge in an Aristotelian conception of practical rationality, and the relationship between ethical and intellectual virtues.
I studied philosophy at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris and the University of Sofia, Bulgaria. Since 2003, I have held the following positions at the University of Cambridge: Research Fellow at Clare Hall, Director of Studies at New Hall and Downing College, and Wellcome Trust Fellow at the Faculty of Philosophy, where I am currently an Affiliated Lecturer.
Work-in-progress
Addiction, Akrasia and Weakness of Will. Under contract with Oxford University Press.
The book aims to address an apparent tension between two central autonomy conceptions by exploring instances of paradoxical agency where evaluation and motivation seem to come apart.
PUBLICATIONS
Aristotle and the Moral Philosophy of Today. (L'Actualité d'Aristote en morale), Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2007, 308pp., ISBN 978-2-13-056176-7
The monograph compares various kinds of internalism and externalism about moral judgments and reasons for action. By drawing on Aristotle’s theory of action, it challenges key assumptions of the current debate and proposes an alternative approach to moral judgments aiming to reconcile the cognitive and motivational features they exhibit.
Autonomy and Mental Disorder. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, 320pp., ISBN: 978-0-19-959542-6. (In press)
This collection of essays offers a comprehensive inquiry into the nature and scope of autonomy with reference to mental disorder. It helps address different kinds of emerging scepticism, questioning either the theoretical appeal of a general concept of autonomy or its relevance to specific areas of normative thought.
Akrasia and Ordinary Weakness of Will. In Mauri, M.M. (ed.).The Relevance of Aristotle's Practical Philosophy: Topicos (special issue), 2012 (In press)
Inverse Akrasia and Autonomy. In Rapp, C. and Destrée, P. (eds.). Aristotle's Ethics Today. Forthcoming.
Autonomy and Depression. In Fulford, K.W.M., Davies, M., Graham, G., Sadler, J., Stanghellini, G. and Thornton, T. (eds.). Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012 (In press)
Autonomy and Ulysses Arrangements. In Radoilska, L. (ed.). Autonomy and Mental Disorder. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, pp.xi–xliii
Introduction: Personal Autonomy, Decisional Capacity, and Mental Disorder. In Radoilska, L. (ed.). Autonomy and Mental Disorder. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 252–280
(with K.W.M. Fulford) Three Challenges from Delusion for Theories of Autonomy. In Radoilska, L. (ed.) Autonomy and Mental Disorder. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 44–74
An Aristotelian Approach to Cognitive Enhancement. Journal of Value Inquiry 2010, 44(3): 365–375: www.springerlink.com/content/k4g6294881l16512/
Public Health Ethics and Liberalism. Public Health Ethics 2009, 2(2): 135–145: phe.oxfordjournals.org/content/2/2/135
Truthfulness and Business. Journal of Business Ethics 2008, 79: 21–28
Need. In Marzano, M. (ed.), Dictionnaire du Corps. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2007, pp. 120-123
Ethics and Medication. In Marzano, M. (ed.), Dictionnaire du Corps. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2007, pp. 573-575
The Intimate, the Private and the Public. In Ibrahim, L. (ed.), Intimité. Clérmont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires de Baise Pascal, 2005, pp. 343–355
Privacy and Public Expression. Cités 2003, 15: 31–4
The Virtues of Truthfulness. L'Année Sociologique 2005: 625–629. Extended review of Williams, B. Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002
The Variety of Moral Realisms. Divinatio 2000, 11: 173–183 Extended review of Ogien, R. (ed.) Le Réalisme moral. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1999
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