Publications
Prof. Ben-Ze'ev Aaron
Ph.D. Dissertation
Perception as a Cognitive System (1981). Adviser: Professor Stephen Toulmin.
Books
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In the Name of Love: The Romantic Ideology and its Victims (Oxford: Oxford University
Press: forthcoming). (With R. Goussinsky)
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Ben-Ze'ev, A. and Goussinsky, R. In the Name of Love (Oxford: Oxford University Press:
forthcoming).
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Love Online: Emotions on the Internet (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
The book is being translated into Chinese, Hebrew, Korean, and Polish.
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The Subtlety of Emotions (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000).
This book has been adapted and modified for its Hebrew version; in Hebrew it has been
published in two books: Straight from the Heart: Emotions in Everyday Life (1998) and
The Secrecy of Emotions (2001); both books are published by Zemora-Bitan (Tel-Aviv).
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The Perceptual System: A Philosophical and Psychological Perspective (New York: Peter
Lang, 1993).
This book has been adapted and modified for its Hebrew version: Mind (Haifa: Haifa
University Press and Zemora-Bitan, 1996).
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Aristotle's On the Soul (Tel-Aviv: Hakibbutz Hammehuad, 1989), (Hebrew).
Edited Books
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Good Gossip (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994).
A somewhat different Hebrew version was published by Hakibbutz Hamehuad (TelAviv, 1993). The English version is edited with Robert Goodman, the Hebrew version
with Avinoam Ben-Ze'ev.
Articles
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“Detattachment: The Unique Nature of Online Romantic Relationships,” in Y.
Amichai-Hamburger (Ed.), The Social Net: The Social Psychology of the Internet
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 115-138.
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Ben-Ze'ev, A. and Revhon, N., "Emotional Complexity in Everyday Life," Social
Science Information, 43 (2004), 581-589.
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“Emotions Are Not Mere Judgments,” Philosophical and Phenomenological
Research 68 (2004), 452-459.
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“Emotions as a General Mental Mode,” in R. Solomon (Ed.) Thinking about Feeling:
Contemporary Philosophers on Emotion (New York: Oxford University Press,
2004), 250-268.
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“Flirting On and Offline,” Convergence, 10 (2004), 24-42.
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“‘Emotionally, You’re an Idiot’: Review of The Science and Myth of Emotional
Intelligence,” Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7 (2003), 282-283.
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“Privacy, Emotional Closeness, and Openness in Cyberspace,” Computers in
Human Behavior, 19 (2003), 451-467.
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“Perceptual Objects may have Nonphysical Properties,” Behavioral and Brain
Sciences, 26 (2003), 22-23.
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“Appraising Appraisal Theories,” American Journal of Psychology, 116 (2003), 318325.
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“The Logic of Emotions,” Philosophy, Supplement: 52, 147-162; A. Hatzimoysis
(Ed.), Philosophy and the Emotions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2003).
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“Aristotle on Emotions Toward the Fortune of Others,” in D. Konstan and N. K.
Rutter (Eds.), Envy, Spite, and Jealousy: The Rivalrous Emotions in Ancient
Greece (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003), 99-121.
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Austerlitz, N., Aravot, I., and Ben-Ze'ev A.: “Emotional Phenomena and the
Student-Instructor Relationships,” Landscape and Urban Planning, 60 (2002), 105115.
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“Intentionality and Feelings in Theories of Emotion,” Consciousness & Emotion, 3
(2002), 263-271.
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“Emotions Are Not Feelings,” Consciousness & Emotion, 3 (2002), 81-89.
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“Are Envy, Anger, and Resentment Moral Emotions? Philosophical Explorations, 5
(2002).
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“Emotional Intelligence: The Conceptual Issue,” in N. Ashkanasy, Zerbe &
Harteland (Eds.), Emotions in the Workplace (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2002), 164183.
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“Precis of The Subtlety of Emotions,” Pyscoloquy, 12 (2001).
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“Describing the Emotions,” in G. Hon and S. S. Rakover (Eds.), Explanation:
Theoretical Approaches and Applications (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2001), 167-184.
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“Is the Virtuous Person a Thinking Person or a Sensitive Person?,” in Y. Iram, et al.
(Eds.), Crossroads: Values and Education in Israeli Society (Jerusalem: Ministry of
Education, 2001), 156-189. (Hebrew)
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“Are Emotions So Simple?” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23 (2000), 194.
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“I Only Have Eyes For You: The Partiality of Positive Emotions,” Journal for the
Theory of Social Behaviour, 30 (2000), 341-351.
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“Review of Griffiths’ Book ‘What Emotions Really Are’” The European Legacy, 5
(2000), 267-269.
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“Reid on the Emotions,” Reid’s Studies, 3 (2000), 29-41.
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“The Rationality and Functionality of Emotions,” The European Legacy, 5 (2000),
49-63.
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“Emotions and Responsibility,” in T. van den Beld (Ed.), Moral Responsibility and
Ontology (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2000), 219-231.
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“Tolerance and Emotions,” in R. Cohen-Almagor (Ed.), Challenges to Democracy
(London: Ashgate, 2000), 79-88.
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“Regret: The Past Is Not Dead,” Dvarim, 2 (1999), 72-81 (Hebrew).
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"Emotions and Change: A Spinozistic Account," In Y. Yuval (Ed.), Desire and
Affect: Spinoza as Psychologist (New York: Little Room Press, 1999), 139-154.
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“The Meaning of Life: The Emotional Aspect,” in A. Kasher (Ed.), The Meaning of
Life (Tel-Aviv: Hakibbutz Hammehuad, 1999), (Hebrew).
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“The Emotional Aspects of the Path to Peace,” in J. Ginat & O. Winckler (Ed.), The
Jordanian-Palestinian-Israeli Triangle: Smoothing the Path to Peace (Brighton:
Sussex Academic Press, 1998), 99-106.
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“The Nature of Hatred,” in Av. Ben-Ze’ev (Ed.). Hatred (Tel-Aviv: Zemora-Bitan,
1997), (Hebrew), 15-29.
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“The Affective Realm,” New Ideas in Psychology, 15 (1997), 247-259.
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“Emotions and Morality,” Journal for Value Inquiry, 31 (1997), 195-212.
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"Romantic Love and Sexual Attraction," Philosophia, 25 (1997), 3-32.
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"Appraisal Theories of Emotions," Journal of Philosophical Research, 22 (1997),
129-143.
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Ben-Ze'ev, A. & Oatley, K. "The Intentional and Social Nature of Human
Emotions: Reconsideration of the Distinctions between Basic and Non-Basic
Emotions," Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 26, (1996), 81-94.
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"Emotional Intensity," Theory & Psychology, 6 (1996), 509-532. A somewhat
revised version, “Determinants of Emotional Intensity is published in A. Kaszniak
(Ed.), Emotions, Qualia, and Consciousness (Singapore: World Scientific, 2001),
59-74.
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Ben-Ze'ev, A. & Oatley, K. "The Development of Social Emotions and a
Constructor Agent," Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 19 (1996).
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"The Alternative to the Storehouse Metaphor," Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 19,
(1996), 192-193.
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"Emotions and Argumentation," Informal Logic, 17 (1995), 1-11.
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"Typical Emotions," in W. O'Donohue and R. Kitchener (Eds.), Philosophy of
Psychology (London: Sage, 1996), 228-243; A revised version, “The Nature of
Typical Emotions,” is published in A. Kaszniak (Ed.), Emotions, Qualia, and
Consciousness (Singapore: World Scientific, 2001), 42-58.
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"Envy and Jealousy," Dictionnaire de Philosophie Morale (Paris: Presses
Universitaires de France, 1996), (French).
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"Explaining Cognitive Progress," In R. F. Goodman and W. R. Fisher (Eds.), Rethinking
Knowledge: Reflections across the Disciplines (Albany: SUNY, 1995), 41-56.
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"Emotions," and "Philosophy of Psychology," in Encyclopaedia Hebraica, (Tel-Aviv:
Sifriat Poalim, 1995) (Hebrew).
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"Pity and Compassion," In A. Kasher and A. Nemder (Eds.), Virtues and Emotions
(Ramat-Gan: Hoshen Lamishpat, 1995), 31-47, (Hebrew).
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"Gossip, Emotions, and Morality," Iyyun, 43 (1994), 417-426, (Hebrew).
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"Understanding Emotions: A review of Lazarus' Emotion and Adaptation, and
Oatley's Best Laid Schemes," History of European Ideas, 18 (1994), 97-100.
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"The Vindication of Gossip," in R. Goodman and A. Ben-Ze'ev (Eds.), Good Gossip
(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994), 11-24. A slightly revised version
appears in J. Portmann (Ed.), In Defense of Sin (New York: St. Martin’s, 2001).
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"Emotions, Morality, and Religion," in D. Statman and A. Sagi (Eds.), Studies in
Ethics and Religion (Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 1993), 11-22,
(Hebrew).
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"The Virtue of Modesty," American Philosophical Quarterly, 30 (1993), 235-246.
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"Envy and Pity," International Philosophical Quarterly, 33, (1993), 3-19.
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"You Always Hurt the One You Love," Journal of Value Inquiry, 27 (1993), 487-495.
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"Another Look at Pleasure-in-Others'-Misfortune," Iyyun, 42 (1993), 431-440.
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"Envy and Inequality," Journal of Philosophy, 89 (1992), 551-581.
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"Problems with Explaining the Perceptual Environment," The Behavioral and Brain
Sciences, 15 (1992), 30-31.
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"Anger and Hate," Journal of Social Philosophy, 23 (1992), 85-110.
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"Emotional and Moral Evaluations," Metaphilosophy, 23 (1992), 214-229.
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"Pleasure-in-Others'-Misfortune," Iyyun, 41 (1992), 41-61.
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"Cognitive Development: Two Paradigms," in H. G. Geissler, S. W. Link, and J. T.
Townsend (Eds.) Cognition, Information Processing and Psychophysics: Basic
Issues (Hillsdale: Erlbaum, 1992), 67-90.
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"Seeing our Seeing and Knowing our Knowing," Man and World, 24 (1991), 89-92.
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"The Nature of Prejudices," in Av. Ben-Ze'ev et al (Eds.) Prejudices (Tel-Aviv:
Hakibbutz Hammehuad, 1991), (Hebrew).
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"Envy and Jealousy," Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 20 (1990), 487-516.
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"Describing the Emotions," Philosophical Psychology, 3 (1990), 305-317.
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"Conscious and Unconscious States," Philosophical Studies, 32 (Ireland), (1990),
44-62.
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"Why Did Psammenitus not Pity his Son?," Analysis, 50 (1990), 118-126.
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"Reid and the Cartesian Framework," Journal of the History of the Behavioral
Sciences, 26 (1990), 38-47.
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"Explaining the Subject-Object Relation in Perception," Social Research, 56 (1989),
511-543.
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"Reexamining Berkeley's Notion of Suggestion," Conceptus, 23 (1989), 21-30.
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"The Relational Nature of Cognition," International Studies in Philosophy, 21
(1989), 1-12.
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"Reid's Opposition to the Theory of Ideas," in M. Dalgarno and E. Matthews (Eds.),
The Philosophy of Thomas Reid (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1989), 91-101.
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"The Schema Paradigm in Perception," Journal of Mind and Behavior, 9 (1988),
487-513.
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"Can Nonpure Perception be Direct?" Philosophical Quarterly, 38 (1988), 315-325.
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"Values and Reality in the Kibbutz," in D. Zait (ed.), Together: The Kibbutz Today
(Jerusalem: Ma`alot, 1988), 23-47, (Hebrew).
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"The Nature of Emotions," Philosophical Studies, 52 (1987), 393-409.
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"A Critique of the Inferential Paradigm in Perception," Journal for the Theory of
Social Behaviour, 17 (1987), 243-263.
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"Making Mental Properties More Natural," The Monist, 69 (1986),434-446.
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"Two Approaches to Memory," Philosophical Investigations, 9 (1986), 288-301.
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"Lewis Predicament Regarding the Given," The New Scholasticism, 60 (1986),
366-374.
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"Reid's Direct Approach to Perception," Studies in History and Philosophy of
Science, 17 (1986), 99-114.
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"Aristotle, Final Cause, and The Intentional Stance," Behavioral and Brain
Sciences, 8 (1985), 758-759.
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"From 'Camp' to 'Home': The Development of the Kibbutz," The Kibbutz, 11 (1985),
101-115, (Hebrew).
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"The Description of Mental States," in R.M. Chisholm et al. (Eds.), Philosophy of
Mind: Proceedings of the 9th International Wittgenstein-Symposium (Wien: HPT,
1985), 281-284.
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"The Passivity Assumption of the Sensation-Perception Distinction," British Journal
for the Philosophy of Science, 35 (1984), 327-343.
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"What is a Perceptual Mistake?" Journal of Mind and Behavior, 5 (1984), 261-278.
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"Two Concepts of the Given," Dialogos, 19 (1984), 159-164.
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"Aristotle on Perceptual Truth and Falsity," Apeiron, 18 (1984), 118-125.
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"The Moral Subject and Object," Iyyun, 33 (1984), 480-497, (Hebrew).
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Ben-Ze'ev, A. & Strauss, M. "The Dualistic Approach to Perception," Man and
World, 17 (1984), 3-18.
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"The Kantian Revolution in Perception," Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour,
14 (1984), 69-84.
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"Psychological Categorization," Methodology and Science, 16 (1983), 243-256.
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"Toward a Different Approach to Perception," International Philosophical Quarterly,
23 (1983), 45-64.
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"Perceptual Mistakes," Philosophical Inquiry, 5 (1983), 145-153.
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"Who is a Rational Agent?," Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 12 (1982), 647-661.
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"J.J. Gibson and the Ecological Approach to Perception," Studies in History and
Philosophy of Science, 12 (1981), 107-139.
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"G.E. Moore and the Relation Between Intrinsic Value and Human Activity," Journal
of Value Inquiry, 15 (1981), 69-78.
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"The Analytic, Synthetic and A Priori," Scientia, 144 (1979), 481-493.