Nancy Sherman
Title
University Professor
Fellow of Kennedy Institute
Fellow of Kennedy Institute
Department
Department of Philosophy
Publications
Publications
Books
- Nancy Sherman. The Untold War: Inside The Hearts, Minds, And Souls of Our Soldiers. New York: W. W. Norton, 2010.
- Nancy Sherman. Stoic Warriors: The Ancient Philosophy Behind the Military Mind. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Nancy Sherman. Critical Essays on the Classics: Aristote’s Ethics. : Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1999.
- Nancy Sherman, A. Donovan, D. Johnson, G. Lucas Jr., P. Roush . Ethics for Military Leaders. : American Heritage Custom Publishing, 1997.
- Nancy Sherman. Making a Necessity of Virtue: Aristotle and Kant on Virtue. : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
- Nancy Sherman. The Fabric of Character: Aristotle’s Theory of Virtue. : Oxford University Press, 1989.
Articles in journals
- Nancy Sherman. "From Nuremberg to Guantanamo." Washington University Global Studies Law Review (2007).
- Nancy Sherman. "Torturers and the Tortured." South African Journal of Philosophy (2006).
- Nancy Sherman. "Holding Doctors Responsible at Guantanamo." Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 16.2 (2006): 199-203.
- Nancy Sherman. "Of Manners and Morals." British Journal of Educational Studies 53.3 (2005): 272-289.
- Nancy Sherman. "Contemporary Perspectives on Emotions." Il Forum (2004).
- Nancy Sherman. "The Moral Perspective and the Pyschoanalytic Quest." The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis 23.2 (1999): 223-241.
- Nancy Sherman. "The Heart’s Knowledge." Internationale Zeitschrift fur Philosophie 2 (1999): 204-219.
- Nancy Sherman. "Empathy, Respect and Humanitarian Intervention." Ethics and International Affairs 12 (1998): 103-19.
- Nancy Sherman. "Empathy and Imagination." Philosophy of Emotions, Midwest Studies in Philosophy 22 (1998): 82-119.
- Nancy Sherman. "The Role of Emotions in Aristotelian Virtue." Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 9 (1994): 1-33.
- Nancy Sherman. "The Virtues of Common Pursuit." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53.2 (1993): 277-299.
- Nancy Sherman. "Wise Maxims/Wise Judging." Monist 76.1 (1993): 41-65.
- Nancy Sherman. "Common Sense and Uncommon Virtue." Midwest Studies in Philosophy (1988): 97-114.
- Nancy Sherman. "Aristotle on Friendship and the Shared Life." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 47.4 (1987): 589-613.
- Nancy Sherman. "Character, Planning and Choice in Aristotle." Review of Metaphysics 39.1 (1985): 83-106.
- Nancy Sherman. "Hegel’s Two Dialectics." Kant-Studien 71.2 (1980): 238-253.
Articles in books
- Nancy Sherman. "For Cause or Comrade?." Truth and Faith. Ed. Hayden Ramsey. : Imprint Academic, 2011.
- Nancy Sherman. "Aristotle, the Stoics, and Kant on Anger." Perfecting Virtue: New Essays on Kantian Ethics and Virtue Ethics. Ed. Lawrence Jost and Julian Wuerth. : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- Nancy Sherman. "B?dziecie przera?eniu: Stoicka lekcja na temat strachu." Wspó?czesna etyka cnót: mo?liwo?ci i ograniczenia. Ed. Natasza Szutta. : Semper Press, 2010.
- Nancy Sherman. "Revenge and Demonization." War and Political Philosophy. Ed. Larry May . : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Nancy Sherman. "Virtue and a Warrior’s Anger." Working Virtue: Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems. Ed. R.L. Walker and P. J. Ivanhoe. : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Nancy Sherman. "Prendre la place d’autrui dans l’imagination." Philosophie Morale: Amitié . Ed. Jean Cristophe Merle and Bernard Schumacher. : Les Presses Universitaires de France, 2005: 209-231
- Nancy Sherman. "The Look and Feel of Virtue." Norms, Virtue, and Objectivity: Issues in Ancient and Modern Ethics. Ed. Christopher Gill. : Oxford University Press, 2005: 59-82
- Nancy Sherman. "Changing Places in Fancy." Philosophie Morale: Amitié. Ed. Jean Christophe Merle and Bernard Schumacher. : Les Presses Universitaires de France, 2005.
- Nancy Sherman. "Virtue and a Warrior’s Anger." Working Virtue: Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems. Ed. R.L. Walker, P.J. Ivanhoe. : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Nancy Sherman. "Virtue and Emotional Demeanor." Feelings and Emotions: Interdisciplinary Explorations. Ed. Anthony Manstead, Nico Fridja, and Agneta Fischer. : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- Nancy Sherman. "Empathy and the Family." Acta Philosophica. Ed. Marco D’Avenia. : -, 2004.
- Nancy Sherman. "Educating the Stoic Warrior." Morality in Assymetric War and Military Intervention. Ed. Patrick Mileham. : Whitehall Papers, 2004.
- Nancy Sherman. "A Stoic Glimpse at a Warrior’s Anger." Cognitive, Emotive, and Ethical Aspects of Decision Making in Humans and in Artificial Intelligence (Vol 2). Ed. I. Smit, W. Wallach, G. Lasker. Windsor, Ontario, Canada: The International Institute for Advanced Studies in System Research and Cybernetics, 2003: 105-110
- Nancy Sherman. "Stoic Meditations and the Shaping of Character: The Case of Educating the Military." Spirituality, Philosophy, and Education. Ed. D. Carr and J. Haldane. : Routledge, 2003.
- Nancy Sherman, Heath White. "Intellectual Virtue, Luck, and the Ancients." Intellectual Virtue. Ed. M. DePaul, L. Zagzebski. : Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Nancy Sherman . "A Brief Look at a Warrior’s Anger." Cognitive, Emotive and Ethical Aspects of Decision Making in Humans and in Artificial Intelligence (Vol 2). Ed. Smit, I. Wallach, W. Lasker. Windsor, Ontario, Canada: The International Institute for Advanced Studies in System Research and Cybernetics, 2003: 105-110
- Nancy Sherman, Michael Walzer, Philip Petit, Amartya Sen. "Empatia, Respecto, & Intervention Humanitaria." Debats. Ed. . Vernano: Institucio Alfons et Magnanim, 2002.
- Nancy Sherman. "Educating the Stoic Warrior." Bringing in a New Era of Character Education. Ed. Wiiliam Damon. Stanford: Hoover Institution, 2002.
- Nancy Sherman. "Is the Ghost of Aristotle Haunting Freud’s House?." Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy. Ed. J. Cleary and G. Gurtler. : , 2001: 63-81
- Nancy Sherman. "Wise Emotions." Understanding Wisdom. Ed. Warren Brown. : Templeton Foundation Press, 2000: 319-39
- Nancy Sherman. "Emotional Agents." The Analytic Freud. Ed. Michael Levine. : Routledge, 1999: 154-76
- Nancy Sherman. "Taking Responsibility for our Emotions." Social Philosophy and Policy. Ed. E. Paul, F. Miller, S. Paul. : Cambridge University Press, 1999: 294-323
- Nancy Sherman. "Character Development and Aristotelian Virtue." Virtue Theory and Moral Education. Ed. D. Carr, J. Steutel. : Routledge, 1999: 35-48
- Nancy Sherman. "Aristotles og Kant om folelsenes nodvendighet." Dydsetikk. Ed. A. J. Vetlesen. Oslo, Norway: Humanist Forlag, 1998: 126-150
- Nancy Sherman. "Concrete Kantian Respect." Social Philosophy and Policy. Ed. -. : -, 1998.
- Nancy Sherman. "Concrete Kantian Respect." Virtue and Vice. Ed. E. Paul, F. Miller, J. Paul. : Cambridge University Press, 1998: 119-48
- Nancy Sherman. "Kantian Virtue: Priggish or Passional?." Reclaiming the History of Ethics: Essays for John Rawls. Ed. B. Herman, C. Korsgaard, A. Reath. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1997: 270-296
- Nancy Sherman. "Kant on Sentimentalism and Stoic Apathy." Proceedings of the Eighth International Kant Congress. Ed. . : Marquette University Press, 1995: 705-711
- Nancy Sherman. "Virtue and Hamartia." Essays on Aristotle’s Poetics. Ed. A. O. Rorty. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992: 177-196
- Nancy Sherman. "The Place of Emotions in Kantian Morality." Character, Psychology and Morality. Ed. O. Flanagan, A. O. Rorty. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990: 158-170
Book reviews
- Nancy Sherman. "It is no little thing to make mine eyes to sweat compassion - Essay review of Martha Nussbaum’s ’Upheavals of Thought’ (2001)." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2004).
- Nancy Sherman. "Reason and Feeeling in Kantian Morality - Review of Paul Guyer’s ’Kant and the Experience of Freedom’ (1993)." Philosophy and Phenomenoligical Research 55.2 (1995): 369-77.
- Nancy Sherman. "Ancient Conceptions of Happiness - Review of Julia Annas’ ’The Morality of Happiness’ (1993)." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 55.4 (1995): 913-919.
- Nancy Sherman. "Review of ’Sovereign Virtue,’ Stephen White." Philosophical Review (1994): 178-81.
- Nancy Sherman. "Review of ’Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle,’ Anthony Price." International Studies in Philosophy (1991): 127-128.
- Nancy Sherman. "Review of ’Aristotle’s Theory of Moral Insight,’ Troels Engberg-Pedersen." Ethics 95 (1984): 175-76.
- Nancy Sherman, Marshall Presser. "Review of: ’The Aristotelian Ethics,’ Anthony Kenny." Journal of the History of Philosophy 19.3 (1981): 379-84.
- Nancy Sherman. "Philosophical Issues in Feminism." Harvard Educational Research 50.1 (1980).
Other
- “The Moral Logic of Guilt,” The New York Times, on line op-ed column, Opinionator Blog: The Stone, July 3, 2011..
- “Heel Blijven: Het Slagveld van binnen,” [Dutch trans. of “Remaining Whole: After the Battlefield”] Lead Feature Cover Story in Trouw, May 28, 2011. .
- “A Crack in the Stoic Armor,” The New York Times, on line op-ed column, Opinionator Blog: The Stone, May 31, 2010..
- “A Crack in the Stoic Armor,” The International Herald Tribune, print edition, June 1, 2010..
- “Soldier’s Moral Wounds,” The Chronicle Review of the Chronicle of Higher Education, April 11, 2010..
- “The Guilt They Carry: Wounds of Iraq and Afghanistan,” DISSENT, Spring 2010..
- “What Good Soldiers Bear,” America (The American Catholic Weekly), Cover Story, May 31, 2010..
- “Ideas of the Century: The Moral Psychology of War,” TPM: The Philosopher’s Magazine, Issue 50, Dec. 20, 2010..
- “From Nuremberg to Guantanamo: Medical Ethics Then and Now” DISSENT, Winter 2007, pp. 9-13..
- “Their Great Sacrifices,” Veteran’s Day lead story, America Vol. 195, No. 15, Nov. 13, 2006, pp. 10-12. .
- “The Stoics on Taking Responsibility for Emotions,” International Studies for Research on Emotion Proceedings, 2006..
- "Friendship." Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2006..
- “Stoic Warriors: On modern soldiers and ancient wisdom,” TPM: The Philosopher’s Magazine, Issue 32, 4th quarter, 2005, pp. 34-38..
- “Being in Sync,” TPM: The Philosopher’s Magazine, Issue 29, 1st quarter, 2005, pp. 49-51..
- “Mind Games at Gitmo,” LA Times, Dec. 12, 2005..
- “When Johnny Comes Home,” Boston Globe, June 20, 2005..
- “Jim Stockdale was a Stoic Warrior until the End,” Post and Courier/ S.C. and Peoria Journal Star, Aug. 6, 2005..
- “Heal our warriors’ minds, bodies,” Denver Post, Aug. 7, 2005..
- “Returning Warriors Deserve Better,” Baltimore Sun, Aug. 15, 2005..
- “Psychological Burdens of War are Never Lifted,” Peoria Journal Star, Aug.21, 2005..
- “Permission to Grieve,” Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Aug. 21, 2005..
- "Biography of Martha Nussbaum." Encyclopedia Americana Online. 2002..
- "The Emotions." Encyclopedia of Bioethics. Ed. Warren T. Reich. Macmillan: 2002 (3rd edition), 664-71. Revised from 1st edition: 1995..
- "Excellence," Encyclopedia of Ethics. Ed. Lawrence Becker, Garland Press, 2001 2nd edition - revised and expanded from 1st edition, 1991, 342-344..
- "Practical Wisdom," Encyclopedia of Ethics. Ed. Lawrence Becker, Garland Press, 2001 2nd edition - revised and expanded from 1st edition, 1991, 1000-1002..
- Commentary on T. Irwin’s ’Aristotle’s Conception of Morality,’ Proccedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosphy. University Press of America. Ed. J. Cleary. 1986. 144-50..