Academic Publications

My interests in philosophy lie in the overlap between ethics and philosophy of psychology, in particular, moral psychology and psychoanalysis.

A truthful way to live? Objectivity, ethics and psychoanalysis In Passions and the Emotions (Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 85), 2019, pp. 175-193.
Can non-theists appropriately feel existential gratitude? Religious Studies, 52 (2016), pp. 145-165.
Expert moral intuition and its development: a guide to the debate. Topoi, 34 (2015), pp. 409-425.
Emotion, perception and the self in moral epistemology. dialectica, 69 (2015), pp. 335-355.
Emotions and the virtues of self-understanding. In: Todd, Cain & Roeser, Sabina (eds.) Emotion and Value. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 199-211.
The psychology of evil: a contribution from psychoanalysis. In: Tabensky, Pedro (ed.) The Positive Function of Evil. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp. 112-126.
What reason can’t do. In: Athanassoulis, Nafsika & Vice, Samantha (eds.) The Moral Life: Essays in Honour of John Cottingham. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp. 139-165.
Emotional self-awareness and ethical deliberation. Ratio, 18 (2005), pp. 65-81.

Know thyself (with Richard Gipps), in Gipps, R. & Lacewing, M. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (Oxford University Press, 2019).
How should we understand the unconscious, in Gipps, R. & Lacewing, M. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (Oxford University Press, 2019).
The science of psychoanalysis. Philosophy, Psychiatry, Psychology, 25 (2), 2018, pp. 95-111.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy, insight and therapeutic action. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 21 (2014), pp. 156-173.
Could psychoanalysis be a science? In: Fulford, KWM, et al, (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. 1103-1127.
The problem of suggestion in psychoanalysis: an analysis and solution. Philosophical Psychology, 26 (2013), pp. 718-743.
Inferring motives in psychology and psychoanalysis. Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, 19 (2012), pp. 197-212.
(with Louise Braddock) (Eds) The Academic Face of Psychoanalysis. London: Routledge, 2007.
Do unconscious emotions involve unconscious feelings? Philosophical Psychology, 20 (2007), pp. 81-104.
Emotion and cognition: Recent developments and therapeutic practice. Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology, 11 (2004), pp. 175-186.

Salmela, M. True Emotions. dialectica, 70 (2016), pp. 257-65.
Brakel, L. Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and the Arational Mind. The Philosophical Quarterly, 246 (2012), pp. 425-7.
Cavell, M. Becoming a Subject. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2006).
Dancy, J. Ethics Without Principles. The Philosophical Quarterly, 55 (2005), pp. 684-6.
Roberts, R. Emotions: An essay in aid of moral psychology. Journal of Moral Philosophy, 1 (2004), pp. 105-108.
Trigg, R. Philosophy Matters. Think, 3 (2003), pp. 107-111.
McMahan, J. The Ethics of Killing. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2002).
Pugmire, D. Rediscovering Emotions. Ratio, 3 (2000), pp. 287-292.

Michael Lacewing