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Owen Flanagan Jr.
James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Philosophy

Owen Flanagan was born and raised in Westchester County New York. He received his Ph.D. in 1978 from Boston University. He taught for sixteen years (1978-1993) at Wellesley College as Class of 1919 Professor of Philosophy. In 1993 he came to Duke where he is James B. Duke University Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Center for Comparative Philosophy. He also holds appointments in Psychology and Neuroscience, and is a Faculty Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience and a steering committee member of the "Philosophy, Arts, and Literature" (PAL) program, and an Affiliate of the Graduate Program in Literature.

His work is in Philosophy of Mind and Psychiatry, Ethics, Moral Psychology, Cross-Cultural Philosophy

His latest book is *The Geography of Morals: Varieties of Moral Possibility* (pub. October 2016; Oxford 2017)

In 2016-2017 Flanagan is Berggruen Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University CA

In 2015-2016 Flanagan was Rockefeller Fellow at the National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park NC

In February 2014 he gave the 77th Aquinas Lecture at Marquette University.

In the Fall of 2013, he was distinguished research professor at City University Hong Kong and lectured widely in East Asia on 21st c. Moral Psychology & East Asian Philosophy

In 2012 he was the Indian Council for Philosophical Research (ICPR) Annual Distinguished Lecturer on *Comparative Philosophy, Virtue, and Well-Being*

In 2006 he gave the Templeton research Lectures at USC in Los Angeles on *Human Flourishing in the Age of Mind Science.*

In 1998, he was recipient of the Romanell National Phi Beta Kappa award, given annually to one American philosopher for distinguished contributions to philosophy and the public understanding of philosophy.

In 1993-94 Flanagan was President of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

He has lectured on every continent except Antarctica, where however he has been. Besides enjoying writing articles, reviews, and contributing to colloquia, Flanagan has written the following books and edited several:

The Science of the Mind (MIT press, 1984; 2nd edition, 1991)
Identity, Character, and Morality: Essays in Moral Psychology, edited with Amelie O. Rorty (MIT Press, 1990)
Varieties of Moral Personality: Ethics and Psychological Realism (Harvard University Press, 1991),
Consciousness Reconsidered (MIT Press, 1992)
Self Expressions: Mind, Morals, and the Meaning of Life (Oxford University Press, 1996)
The Nature of Consciousness edited with Ned Block and Güven Güzeldere (MIT Press, 1998)
Dreaming Souls: Sleep, Dreams, and the Evolution of the Conscious Mind (Oxford University, 1999)
The Problem of the Soul: Two Visions of Mind and How to Reconcile Them*
The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World* (MIT Press 200
The Bodhisattva's Brain: Buddhism Naturalized* (October, 2011), MIT PRESS.

Office Hours

On leave 2016-2017

Current Appointments & Affiliations

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Philosophy, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1997 - 2022
Professor with Tenure, Philosophy, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1993
Professor of Neurobiology, Neurobiology, Basic Science Departments 2000
Affiliate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society, Duke Science & Society, Initiatives 2014

Contact Information

201E West Duke Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Duke Box 90743, Durham, NC 27708-0743
ojf@duke.edu (919) 660-3056
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Background
Duke Appointment History
- Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, University Institutes and Centers 2002 - 2006
- Chairman, Department of Philosophy, Philosophy, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1998 - 1999
- Professor of Neurobiology, Neurobiology, Basic Science Departments 1995 - 1999
- Professor of Psychology: Experimental, Psychology and Neuroscience, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1997 - 1999
- Chair, Philosophy, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1993 - 1997
- Professor of Psychology: Experimental, Psychology and Neuroscience, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1993 - 1996
Recognition
Awards & Honors
- Summer Stipends Awards. National Endowment for the Humanities. 1991
Expertise
Global Scholarship
- Expertise
  - India (Country)
- Research
  - China (Country)
  - South Korea (Country)
- Teaching
  - China (Country)
  - India (Country)
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Caruso, G., and O. Flanagan. Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, morals, and purpose in the age of neuroscience, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190460723.001.0001.
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  - Flanagan, O. Foreword: Cross-cultural philosophy and the moral project, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190499778.001.0001.
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  - Flanagan, O. Moral Sprouts and Natural Teleology: 21st century Moral Psychology Meets Classical Chinese Philosophy. Marquette University Press, 2014.
  - Fireman, G. D., T. E. McVay, and O. J. Flanagan. Narrative and Consciousness: Literature, Psychology and the Brain, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195140057.001.0001.
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  - Fairweather, A. Naturalizing epistemic virtue, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139236348.
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  - Flanagan, O. The Bodhisattva’s Brain: Buddhism Naturalized. MIT Press, 2011.
  - Flanagan, O. The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World. MIT Press, 2007.
  - Flanagan, O. Almas Que Suenan. Oceano, 2003.
  - Flanagan, O. The Problem of the Soul: Two Visions of Mind and How to Reconcile Them. Basic Books, 2003.
  - Flanagan, O. Dreaming Souls. Oxford University Press, 1999.
  - Flanagan, O. Self Expressions: Mind, Morals and the Meaning of Life. Oxford University Press, 1996.
  - Flanagan, O. Consciousness Reconsidered. MIT Press, 1992.
  - Flanagan, O. Varieties of Moral Personality: Ethics and Psychological Realism. Harvard University Press, 1991.
  - Flanagan, O. The Science of the Mind. MIT Press, 1984.
- Academic Articles
  - Flanagan, O. “Is Oneness an Over-belief?” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 99, no. 2 (September 1, 2019): 508–13. https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12631.
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  - Tononi, G., and O. Flanagan. “Philosophy and Science Dialogue: Consciousness.” Frontiers of Philosophy in China 13, no. 3 (January 1, 2018): 332–48. https://doi.org/10.3868/s030-007-018-0026-1.
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  - Flanagan, O. “Addiction Doesn’t Exist, But it is Bad for You.” Neuroethics 10, no. 1 (April 1, 2017): 91–98. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-016-9298-z.
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  - Flanagan, O. “Does yoga induce metaphysical hallucinations? Interdisciplinarity at the edge: Comments on Evan Thompson's waking, dreaming, being.” Philosophy East and West 66, no. 3 (July 1, 2016): 952–58. https://doi.org/10.1353/pew.2016.0074.
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  - Flanagan, O. “Buddhism and the scientific image: Reply to critics.” Zygon 49, no. 1 (January 1, 2014): 242–58. https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12080.
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  - Flanagan Jr, O., and Tim Lane. “Neuroexistentialism, Eudaimonics, and Positive Illusions.” Synthese Philosophy Library: Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, 2013.
  - Flanagan, O. “Buddhism and The Scientific Image.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, 2013.
  - Flanagan, O. “The social epistemological normalization of contestable narratives: Stories of just deserts,” January 1, 2013, 358–75.
  - Flanagan, O., and S. Geisz. “Confucian Moral Sources.” Edited by Brian Burya, 2013.
  - Flanagan, Owen. “The shame of addiction.” Frontiers in Psychiatry 4 (January 2013): 120. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2013.00120.
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  - Jr, O Flanagan. “The View From the East Pole: Buddhist and Confucian Tolerance.” Edited by S. Clarke and R. Powell, 2013.
  - Flanagan Jr, O., A. Ancell, S. Martin, and G. Steenbergen. “What do the Psychology and Biology of Morality have to do with Ethics?: Ethics as Human Ecology.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2012.
  - Flanagan, O. “Phenomenal and historical selves.” Grazer Philosophische Studien 84 (January 1, 2012): 217–40. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401207904_011.
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  - Paulson, Steve, Owen Flanagan, Paul Bloom, and Roy Baumeister. “Quid pro quo: the ecology of the self.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1234 (October 2011): 29–43. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06182.x.
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  - Flanagan, O., and Jing Hu. “HAN FEI ZI'S PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY: HUMAN NATURE, SCARCITY, AND THE NEO-DARWINIAN CONSENSUS.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 38, no. 2 (June 2011): 293–316. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6253.2011.01632.x.
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  - Jr, O Flanagan. “HAN FEI ZI’S PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY: HUMAN NATURE, SCARCITY, AND THE NEO- DARWINIAN CONSENSUS with Jing Hu.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 38 (June 2011): 293–316.
  - Flanagan, O. “Wittgenstein's Ethical Nonnaturalism: An Interpretation of Tractatus 6.41-47 and the 'Lecture on Ethics'.” American Philosophical Quarterly 48, no. 2 (April 2011): 185–98.
  - Flanagan, O. “Neuroscience: Knowing and feeling.” Nature 469, no. 7329 (January 13, 2011): 160–61. https://doi.org/10.1038/469160a.
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  - Flanagan, Owen. “I, hypocrite.” New Scientist 208, no. 2791 (December 18, 2010): 44–44. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0262-4079(10)63116-8.
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  - Flanagan, O. “Neuroexistentialism, with David Barack.” Euramerica 40, no. 3 (September 2010).
  - Flanagan, Owen, and Robert Anthony Williams. “What does the modularity of morals have to do with ethics? Four moral sprouts plus or minus a few.” Topics in Cognitive Science 2, no. 3 (July 2010): 430–53. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1756-8765.2009.01076.x.
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  - Flanagan, O. “Can do attitudes: Some positive illusions are not misbeliefs.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 32, no. 6 (December 1, 2009): 519–20. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X09991439.
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  - Flanagan, O. “The Literate Ape.” New Scientist, November 23, 2009.
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  - Flanagan, O. “The Ego Tunnel.” New Scientist, March 21, 2009.
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  - Flanagan, Owen. “One Enchanted Being: Neuroexistentialism & Meaning.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 44, no. 1 (March 2009): 41–49. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2009.00984.x.
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  - Flanagan, O. “Where in the World is the Mind?” New Scientist 201 (January 17, 2009): 42–43.
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  - Flanagan, O. “Your mind is more than your brain.” New Scientist 201, no. 2691 (January 14, 2009): 42–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0262-4079(09)60167-6.
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  - Flanagan, O. “The Structures of Meaningful Life Stories.” Argentinian Journal of Philosophy and Psychology, 2009.
  - Flanagan, O. “Moral contagion and logical persuasion in the Mozi.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 35, no. 3 (September 1, 2008): 473–91. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6253.2008.00492.x.
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  - Flanagan, O. “The Neural Pathway to the White House.” The New Scientist, July 2008.
  - Flanagan, O. “Review: The Political Mind by George Lakoff.” New Scientist 198, no. 2658 (May 31, 2008): 48–49. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0262-4079(08)61371-8.
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  - Flanagan, O. “Consciousness,” February 26, 2008, 176–85. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405164535.ch9.
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  - Flanagan, O. “Moral Contagion and Logical Persuasion in the Mozi.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 2008, 473–91.
  - Fader, Ruth, O. Flanagan, and O. et. al. “Moral Issues of Human-Non-Human Primate Neural Grafting.” Science 309, no. 5733 (July 15, 2005): 385–86.
  - Greene, Mark, Kathryn Schill, Shoji Takahashi, Alison Bateman-House, Tom Beauchamp, Hilary Bok, Dorothy Cheney, et al. “Ethics: Moral issues of human-non-human primate neural grafting.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 309, no. 5733 (July 2005): 385–86. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1112207.
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  - Flanagan, O. “The colour of happiness.” New Scientist 178, no. 2396 (December 1, 2003).
  - Flanagan, O. “Emotional Expressions.” Edited by O. Radick and O. Hodge, 2003.
  - Polger, T, and Flanagan, O. "A decade of teleofunctionalism: Lycan's consciousness and consciousness and experience." Minds and Machines 11, no. 1 (February 1, 2001): 113-126. Full Text
  - Flanagan, O. “Dreaming is not an adaptation.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23, no. 6 (December 1, 2000): 936–39. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00404024.
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  - Hardcastle, V. G., and O. Flanagan. “Multiplex vs. multiples selves: Distinguishing dissociative disorders.” Monist 82, no. 4 (October 1999): 645–57. https://doi.org/10.5840/monist199982431.
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  - Jr, O Flanagan, and Guven Guzeldere. “"Consciousness: A Philosophical Tour".” Edited by E. Rolls, 1997.
  - Jr, O Flanagan. “"Consciousness as a Pragmatist Views It".” Edited by Ruth Anna Putnam, 1997.
  - Jr, O Flanagan. “"How to Study Consciousness Empirically: The Case of Dreams".” Edited by E. Rolls, 1997.
  - Jr, O Flanagan. “"Moral Confidence: Three Cheers for Naturalistic Ethics".” Edited by Fox Westbrook and Fox Bethe-Elstain, 1997.
  - Flanagan, O., and Thomas Polger. “Zombies and the Function of Consciousness.” The Journal of Consciousness Studies 2 (1996).
  - Flanagan, O. “Consciousness and the natural method.” Neuropsychologia 33, no. 9 (September 1995): 1103–15. https://doi.org/10.1016/0028-3932(95)00051-4.
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  - FLANAGAN, O. “THE MOMENT OF TRUTH ON DUBLIN BRIDGE, A RESPONSE TO PICKERING,ANDREW.” South Atlantic Quarterly 94, no. 2 (1995): 467–74.
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  - Flanagan, O. “The Moment of Truth on the Dublin Bridge.” South Atlantic Quarterly 94 (1995).
  - Jr, O Flanagan. “"Stream of Consciousness".” Edited by Ted Honderich, 1995.
  - Jr, O Flanagan. “"D. C. Dennett".” Edited by Ted Honderich, 1995.
  - Jr, O Flanagan. “"Multiple Identity, Character Transformation, and Self-Reclamation".” Edited by G. Graham and L. Stephens, 1995, 135–62.
  - FLANAGAN, O. “VALIDATION IN THE CLINICAL THEORY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS - A STUDY IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS - GRUNBAUM,A.” Tls the Times Literary Supplement, no. 4726 (October 29, 1993): 3–4.
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  - Flanagan, Owen. “The Malaise of Modernity.Charles Taylor.” Ethics 104, no. 1 (October 1993): 192–94. https://doi.org/10.1086/293596.
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  - Flanagan, Owen. “Identity, Gender, and Strong Evaluation.” Noûs 25, no. 2 (April 1991): 198–198. https://doi.org/10.2307/2215579.
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  - Flanagan, O. “The modularity of consciousness.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14, no. 3 (January 1, 1991): 446–47. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00070692.
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  - Flanagan, Owen. “Virtue and Ignorance.” The Journal of Philosophy 87, no. 8 (August 1990): 420–420. https://doi.org/10.2307/2026736.
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  - Flanagan, Owen. “Pragmatism, Ethics, and Correspondence Truth: Response to Gibson and Quine.” Ethics 98, no. 3 (April 1988): 541–49. https://doi.org/10.1086/292971.
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  - Flanagan, Owen, and Kathryn Jackson. “Justice, Care, and Gender: The Kohlberg-Gilligan Debate Revisited.” Ethics 97, no. 3 (April 1987): 622–37. https://doi.org/10.1086/292870.
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  - Flanagan, Owen. “Materialism and immaterialism: A reply to Robinson.” Contemporary Psychology: A Journal of Reviews 31, no. 9 (September 1986): 722–722. https://doi.org/10.1037/025101.
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  - Flanagan, O. J. “Psychoanalysis as a social activity.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 9, no. 2 (January 1, 1986): 238–39. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00022391.
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  - Flanagan, O. “Psychoanalysis and Social Practice: A Comment on Grünbaum.” The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, no. Fall (1986).
  - Flanagan, O. “Admirable Immorality and Admirable Imperfection.” The Journal of Philosophy 83, no. 1 (1986): 41–60. https://doi.org/10.2307/2026466.
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  - FLANAGAN, O. “CONSCIOUSNESS, NATURALISM, AND NAGEL.” Journal of Mind and Behavior 6, no. 3 (June 1, 1985): 373–90.
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  - Flanagan, O., and J. Adler. “Impartiality and Particularity.” Social Research 50, no. 3 (1983): 576–96. https://doi.org/10.2307/40970910.
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  - Flanagan, Owen J. “Quinean Ethics.” Ethics 93, no. 1 (October 1982): 56–74. https://doi.org/10.1086/292405.
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  - Flanagan, Owen J. “A Reply to Lawrence Kohlberg.” Ethics 92, no. 3 (April 1982): 529–32. https://doi.org/10.1086/292360.
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  - Flanagan, Owen J. “Virtue, Sex, and Gender: Some Philosophical Reflections on the Moral Psychology Debate.” Ethics 92, no. 3 (April 1982): 499–512. https://doi.org/10.1086/292358.
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  - Flanagan, O. J. “Moral Structures?” Philosophy of the Social Sciences 12, no. 3 (January 1, 1982): 255–70. https://doi.org/10.1177/004839318201200302.
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  - Flanagan, O. J. “Psychology, progress and the problem of reflexivity: a study in the epistemological foundations of psychology.” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 17 (January 1981): 375–86. https://doi.org/10.1002/1520-6696(198107)17:3<375::aid-jhbs2300170308>3.0.co;2-u.
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  - Flanagan, O. “Skinnerian Metaphysics and the Problem of Operationism.” Behaviorism 8, no. 1 (1980): 1–13. https://doi.org/10.2307/27758948.
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  - Flanagan, O. J., and T. McCreadie-Albright. “Malcolm and the fallacy of behaviorism.” Philosophical Studies 26, no. 5–6 (December 1, 1974): 425–30. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00368508.
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  - Flanagan, O. “"The Neurobiology of Sexual Self-Consciousness: Mind and the Interplay of Brain and Body".” Edited by Eds Gary Fireman, Ted McVay, and Owen Flanagan, n.d.
  - Flanagan, Owen. “Deconstructing Dreams: The Spandrels of Sleep.” Journal of Philosophy 92, no. 1 (n.d.): 5–27. https://doi.org/10.2307/2940806.
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- Book Sections
  - Flanagan, O., and W. Zhao. “The self and its good vary cross-culturally: A dozen self-variations and Chinese familial selves.” In Self, Culture and Consciousness: Interdisciplinary Convergences on Knowing and Being, 287–301, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5777-9_17.
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  - Flanagan, O., and G. Caruso. “Neuroexistentialism: Third-wave existentialism.” In Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience, 1–22, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190460723.003.0001.
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  - Gyal, P., and O. Flanagan. “The role of pain in buddhism: The conquest of suffering.” In The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Pain, 288–96, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315742205.
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  - Flanagan, O. “Negative dialectics in comparative philosophy: The case of Buddhist free will quietism.” In Buddhist Perspectives on Free Will: Agentless Agency?, 59–71, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315668765.
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  - Flanagan, O., H. Sarkissian, and D. Wong. “Naturalizing Ethics.” In The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism, 16–33, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118657775.ch2.
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  - Flanagan, O., and H. Wallace. “William James and the problem of consciousness.” In Consciousness and the Great Philosophers: What Would They Have Said about Our Mind-Body Problem?, 152–61, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315678023.
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  - Flanagan, O. “Foreword,” ix–xiv, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315713571.
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  - Crome, I., L. -. T. Wu, R. T. Rao, and P. Crome. “Introduction,” xxiv–xxv, 2014.
  - Flanagan, O. “PERFORMING ONESELF.” In Philosophy of Creativity, edited by E. Samuels and S. B. Kaufmann. Oxford University Press, 2014.
  - Flanagan, O. “Phenomenal Authority: The Epistemic Authority of Alcoholics Anonymous.” In The Nature of Addiction, edited by N. Levy. Oxford University Press, 2014.
  - Flanagan, O. “*It Takes a Metaphysics, Raising Virtuous Buddhists*.” In *Cultivating Virtue*, edited by Nancy Snow. Oxford University Press, 2014.
  - Flanagan, O., and Jing Hu. “Han Fei Zi’s Philosophical Psychology: Human Nature, Scarcity, and the Neo-Darwinian Consensus.” In The State of Nature in Comparative Political Thought: Western and Non-Western Perspectives, edited by Jon D. Carlson and Russelle Arben Fox. Lexington Books, 2014.
  - Flanagan, O. “The Social Epistemological Normalization of Contestable Narratives:* Stories of Just Deserts.” In What Happened In and To Moral Philosophy in the Twentieth Century, edited by Fran O. Rourke. Notre Dame University Press, 2013.
  - Flanagan, O. “The View From the East Pole: Buddhist and Confucian Tolerance.” In Religion and Tolerance, edited by S. Clarke and R. Powell. Oxford University Press, 2013.
  - Flanagan, O., Aaron Ancell, Stephen Martin, and Gordon Steenbergen. “Empiricism and Normative Ethics What do the biology and the psychology of morality have to do with ethics?” In Evolved Morality: The Biology & Philosophy of Human Conscience, edited by Frans de Waal and PS Churchland et al. Brill, 2013.
  - Flanagan, O., and S. Geisz. “Confucian Moral Sources.” In The Philosophical Challenge from China, edited by Brian Burya. MIT Press, 2013.
  - Flanagan, B., and O. Flanagan. “Anguished Art: Coming Through the Dark to the Light the Hard Way.” In Blues-Philosophy for Everyone: Thinking Deep About Feeling Low, 75–83, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118153284.ch7.
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  - Einstein, G., and O. Flanagan. “Sexual Identities and Narratives of Self.” In Narrative and Consciousness: Literature, Psychology and the Brain, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195140057.003.0011.
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  - Fairweather, A. “Introduction: Naturalized virtue epistemology.” In Naturalizing Epistemic Virtue, 1–14, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139236348.001.
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  - Flanagan, O. “My Non-Narrative, Non-Forensic Dasein: The First and Second Self.” In Self and Consciousness, edited by Jee Loo Liu and John Perry, 214–40. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
  - Flanagan, O. “Performing Oneself.” In Philosophy and Creativity, edited by Elliot Paul and Scott Barry Kaufmann. Oxford University Press, 2011.
  - Flanagan, O. “What is it Like to be an Addict?” In Addiction and Responsibility, edited by G. Graham and G. Poland. MIT Press, 2010.
  - Flanagan, O. “Neuro-Eudaimonics, or Buddhists Lead Neuroscientists to the Seat of Happiness.” In Oxford Handbook on Philosophy and Neuroscience, edited by J. Bickle, 2009.
  - Flanagan, O. “Five Questions.” In Mind & Consciousness, edited by Patrick Grim. VIP Press, 2009.
  - Flanagan, O. ““Buddhist Persons & Eudaimonia Buddha”.” In Routledge Companion to Philosophical Psychology, edited by J. Symons, 2009.
  - Flanagan, O. “Moral Science? Still Metaphysical After All These Years.” In Moral Personality, Identity and Character: Explorations in Moral Psychology, edited by Darcia Narvaez and Daniel K. Lapsley, 52–78. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
  - Flanagan, O. “Ethical expressions: Why moralists scowl, frown and smile.” In The Cambridge Companion to Darwin, 413–34, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521884754.018.
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  - Flanagan, O. “Where is the Happiness.” In Oxford Companion to Philosophy and Neuroscience. Oxford University Press (OUP), 2008.
  - Flanagan, O., H. Sarkissian, and D. Wong. “"What is the Nature of Morality?" A Response to Casebeer, Railton, and Ruse.” edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, 1:45–52. MIT Press, 2007.
  - Flanagan, O., H. Sarkissian, and D. Wong. “Naturalizing Ethics.” In *Moral Psychology: The Evolution of Morality*, edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, 1:1–26. MIT Press, 2007.
  - Flanagan, O., H. Sarkissian, and D. Wong. “"What is the Nature of Morality? A Response to Casebeer, Railton, and Ruse".” In *Moral Psychology: The Evolution of Morality*, edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, 1:45–52. MIT Press, 2007.
  - Flanagan, O. “The Bodhisattva’s Brain: Neuroscience and Happiness.” In The Buddha’s Way: The Confluence of Buddhist Thought and Applied Psychological Research in the Post-Modern Age, edited by D. K. Nauriyal and Y. B. Drummond. London: Routledge, 2006.
  - Flanagan, O. “Varieties of Naturalism.” In Oxford Companion to Religion and Science. OUP, 2006.
  - Flanagan, O. “The Neurobiology of Sexual Self-Consciousness: Mind and the Interplay of Brain and Body.” In Narrative and Consciousness: Literature, Psychology, and the Brain., edited by G. Fireman, Ted McVay, and Owen Flanagan. Oxford University Press, 2003.
  - Flanagan, O. “Emotional Expressions: Why Moralists Scowl, Frown, and Smile.” In The Cambridge Companion to Darwin, edited by G. Radick and J. Hodges. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
  - Flanagan, O. “Ethical expressions: Why moralists scowl, frown and smile.” In The Cambridge Companion to Darwin, 377–98, 2003. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521771978.017.
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  - Polger, Thomas, and Owen Flanagan. “Is Consciousness an Adaptation?” In Evolving Consciousness, edited by G. Mulhauser. Johns Benjamin, Amsterdam, 2001.
  - Polger, Thomas, and Owen Flanagan. “Natural Questions to Natural Answers.” In Biology Meets Psychology: Constraints, Connections, Conjectures, Vol. 5. MIT Press, 2001.
  - Flanagan, O. “Consciousness as a Pragmatist Views It.” In The Cambridge Companion to William James, edited by Ruth Anna Putnam. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  - Flanagan, O. “How to Study Consciousness Empirically: The Case of Dreams.” In Consciousness, Cognition, and Computation, edited by E. Rolls. Oxford University Press, 1997.
  - Flanagan, O. “Moral Confidence: Three Cheers for Naturalistic Ethics.” In In The Face of Facts: Moral Inquiry in American Scholarship, edited by O. Westbrook, O. Bethe-Elstain, and O. Fox. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  - Flanagan, O., and Guven Guzeldere. “Consciousness: A Philosophical Tour.” In Consciousness, Cognition, and Computation, edited by E. Rolls. Oxford University Press, 1997.
  - Flanagan, Owen, and Donald Dryden. “Consciousness and the Mind.” In Invitation to Cognitive Science, edited by S. Sternberg. MIT Press, 1997.
  - Flanagan, O. “Prospects For A Unified Theory of Consciousness or, What Dreams are Made Of.” In Scientific Approaches to the Question of Consciousness: 25th Carnegie Symposium on Cognition, edited by J. Cohen and J. Schooler. Erlbaum, 1996.
  - Flanagan, O. “Moral Network.” In The Churchlands and Their Critics, edited by R. McCauley. Basil Blackwell, 1996.
  - Flanagan, O. “Ethics Naturalized: Ethics and Human Ecology.” In Mind and Morals, edited by O. May, O. Clark, and O. Friedman. MIT Press, 1996.
  - Flanagan, O. “Consciousness.” In The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, edited by Ted Honderich. Oxford University Press, 1995.
  - Flanagan, O. “History of the Philosophy of Mind.” In The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, edited by Ted Honderich. Oxford University Press, 1995.
  - Flanagan, O. “Stream of Consciousness.” In The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, edited by Ted Honderich. Oxford University Press, 1995.
  - Flanagan, O. “D. C. Dennett.” In The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, edited by Ted Honderich. Oxford University Press, 1995.
  - Flanagan, O. “Behaviorism.” In The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, edited by Ted Honderich. Oxford University Press, 1995.
  - Flanagan, O. “Multiple Identity, Character Transformation, and Self-Reclamation.” In Philosophical Psychopathology, edited by G. Graham and L. Stephens, 135–62. MIT, 1995.
  - Flanagan, O. “Situations and Dispositions.” In Readings in Philosophy and Cognitive Science, edited by Alvin I. Goldman, 681–95. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993.
  - Flanagan, O. “Other Minds, Obligation, and Honesty.” In Social and Cognitive Factors in Preschoolers’ Deception, edited by S. Ceci, M. DeSimone, and M. E. Putnick. Lawrence Erlbaum, 1992.
  - Flanagan, O. “Identity and Strong and Weak Evaluation.” In Identity, Character, and Morality, edited by Owen Flanagan and Amélie O. Rorty, 37–65, 1990.
- Conference Papers
  - Flanagan, O. “Deconstructing dreams: The spandrels of sleep.” In Toward a Science of Consciousness, edited by S. R. Hameroff, A. W. Kaszniak, and A. C. Scott, 67–88. M I T PRESS, 1996.
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