Sophie Rietti
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and thereby authorized to supervise theses.
Office: ARTS 203
Telephone: 613-562-5800, ext. 3680
E-mail: srietti@uOttawa.ca
University degrees
PhD in Philosophy, Edinburgh University
MSc in Philosophy, Edinburgh University
BA in Philosophy, politics and economics, Oxford University
BA in Philosophy, psychology and french, University of Bergen
Fields of interest
- Value theory, philosophy of mind
- Social and political philosophy
Ongoing research
- Social aspects of emotion
- Psychological realism in meta-ethics
Courses taught
- PHI1102 Moral Reasoning
- PHI2174 Ethics
- PHI2312 Greek Wisdom
- PHI2396 Bioethics
- PHI3164 Contemporary moral theory
- PHI4164 Seminar in ethics
- PHI4312 Contemporary problems in ethics
Seminars
- PHI5345 Ethics I
- PHI5370 Ethics III
Selected publications
“Rationalities of emotion”, forthcoming, Organon F
“Emotional intelligence and moral agency: some worries and a suggestion”, forthcoming, Philosophical Psychology
“Utilitarianism and psychological realism”, forthcoming, Utilitas
“Emotion-work and the philosophy of emotion”, Journal of Social Philosophy, vol. 40, 2009, 55–74.
“Emotional intelligence as educational goal: a case for caution”, Journal of Philosophy of Education, vol. 42, 2008, 631-643; also forthcoming in Cigman and Davies (eds.) New Philosophies of Learning, Blackwell 2009
“Responsibility for others' emotions”, European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, vol. 2, 2006, 27-44.