My main research interests lie in moral psychology and the philosophy of emotions, with a particular emphasis on envy and on love.
For an updated list of publications and their pre-print versions, please check out my philpapers profile. BOOKS The Philosophy of Envy, Cambridge University Press, 2021. Praise for The Philosophy of Envy: "One of the things that shines through in this book is Protasi’s humanity. Here is no moralistic finger wagging but instead a compassionate look at the complexity of human striving, human excellence, and the ubiquitous desire for admiration and respect. This is seen no more clearly than in her tightly argued chapter on love and envy. Envy is not invariably the enemy of love, Saint Paul notwithstanding, she argues. Envy is possible, indeed may be unavoidable, in loving relationships. Not chronic envy, of course, but envy that comes and goes as a life shared changes and evolves." Heidi Maibom, The Philosophical Review, 2023. "Analysing emotions can be messy work, given the number of interacting considerations and questions, but Protasi manages to give us a precise map of the terrain without compromising accessibility. The thoroughness with which she details this history and presents her own analysis is itself worthy of being envied (emulatively) by anyone writing on the emotions." Adam Piovarchy, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2022. "Protasi has produced a carefully researched, nuanced and highly original contribution to the study of envy and human moral psychology in general, an engaging read that brings philosophy into a fruitful dialogue with empirical psychology and offers a clear introduction to the topic, while containing many novel arguments for those well-versed in the debates." Alba Montes Sánchez, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2022. "The book fills an important gap in the philosophical literature on emotions. Being particularly accessible, it is a worthwhile read for anyone with an interest in the philosophy and psychology of emotions." Agnès Baehni, The Journal of Value Inquiry, 2022. The Moral Psychology of Envy (editor), Rowman and Littlefield, 2022. RESEARCH ARTICLES “Envy as a Civic Emotion”, forthcoming in Political Emotions: Towards a Decent Public Sphere, ed. by Thom Brooks, Palgrave Macmillan. “The Things We Envy: Fitting Envy and Human Goodness”, forthcoming in Fittingness, ed. by Christopher M. Howard and Richard Rowland, New York: Oxford University Press. “Envy and Resentment in the Time of Coronavirus”, Journal of Hate Studies, 2021. “An interdisciplinary perspective on the value of envy” (with Jens Lange as first author), in Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-021-00548-3 “Teaching Ancient Women Philosophers: A Case Study”, in Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, 6(3), 2020, pp. 1-26. https://doi.org/10.5206/fpq/2020.3.8437 “Happy Self-Surrender and Unhappy Self-Assertion: A Comparison between Admiration and Emulative Envy”, in Alfred Archer and André Grahle (eds.), The Moral Psychology of Admiration, Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 45-60. “Mama, Do You Love Me? A Defense of Unloving Parents”, in Adrienne Martin (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy, Routledge, 2018. “I’m Not Envious, I’m Just Jealous! On the Difference between Envy and Jealousy”, The Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 3(3), 2017, pp. 313-333. DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2017.18 “Invideo et Amo: On Envying the Beloved”, Philosophia, 45(4), 2017, pp. 1765-1784, DOI 10.1007/s11406-017-9863-7 “The Perfect Bikini Body: Can We All Really Have It? Loving Gaze as an Anti-Oppressive Beauty Ideal”, forthcoming in Thought: A Journal of Philosophy “Varieties of Envy”, Philosophical Psychology, 29(4), 2016. DOI 10.1080/09515089.2015.1115475 “Loving People For Who They Are (Even When They Don’t Love You Back)”, European Journal of Philosophy, 24(10), 2016, 214-234. DOI: 10.1111/ejop.12077 “The Fictional Character of Pornography” (co-authored with S. Liao), in Hans Maes (ed.), Pornographic Art and the Aesthetics of Pornography, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, pp. 100-118 OTHER PUBLICATIONS “Love Your Frenemy”, Aeon: https://aeon.co/essays/envy-can-poison-love-but-it-can-also-nourish-growth Review of Virtuous Emotions by Kristján Kristjánsson, OUP, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2019. https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/virtuous-emotions/ Review of The Minority Body by E. Barnes, OUP, in European Journal of Philosophy, 25, pp. 892-894. Review of The Variety of Values: Essays on Morality, Meaning, and Love, by S. Wolf, in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2015. https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/58246-the-variety-of-values-essays-on-morality-meaning-and-love/ Interview with Martha Nussbaum, in Humana.Mente, vol. 22 (Making Sense of Gender, Sex, Race and the Family), 2012. http://www.humanamente.eu/PDF/Issue22_Complete.pdf “Love: The Only Risk House Can’t Take”, in Henry Jacoby (ed.), House and Philosophy: Everybody Lies, Blackwell, 2009. “A Necessary Conflict: Eros and Philia in a Love Relationship”, Nordicum-Mediterraneum, vol. 3, 2008. |