Philosophy

Arina Pismenny is Assistant Instructional Professor in Philosophy, and affiliate faculty in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies. She earned her Ph.D. from City University of New York, The Graduate Center. Her research is primarily in moral psychology, ethics, and philosophy of sex and gender. Her recent projects include elucidating the relationship between romantic love and morality, analyzing the political and ontological dimensions of sex and sexual identities, and explicating the ways in which emotions can contribute to injustice.

Edited Book

2022. The Moral Psychology of Love, co-edited with Berit Brogaard as part of the Moral Psychology of Emotions series by Mark Alfano, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Publications

• Forthcoming. "When is Jealousy Appropriate?" Dialectica.
• 2022. "Ronnie de Sousa, French Philosopher?" In A Tribute to Ronald de Sousa, edited by Julien A. Deonna, Christine Tappolet, and Fabrice Teroni. http://www.unige.ch/cisa/related-sites/ronald-de-sousa/.
• 2022. "Vices of Friendship" with Berit Brogaard. In A. Pismenny & B. Brogaard (Eds.), The Moral Psychology of Love, pp. 231-253. Rowman and Littlefield.
• 2022. "The Moral Psychology of Love (or How to Think about Love): Introduction" with Berit Brogaard. In A. Pismenny & B. Brogaard (Eds.), The Moral Psychology of Love, pp. 1-10. Rowman and Littlefield.
• 2022. "Boredom and Its Values": Commentary on Propelled: How Boredom, Frustration, and Anticipation Lead Us to the Good Life by Andreas Elpidorou, Journal of Philosophy of Emotion 3(2): 27-34. https://doi.org/10.33497/2022.winter.4.
• 2021. "The Amorality of Romantic Love." In R. Fedock, M. Kühler, and R. Rosenhagen (Eds.), Love, Justice, and Autonomy: Philosophical Perspectives, pp. 23-42. Routledge.
• 2018. "The erotic as a value." (in French) with Ronald de Sousa. In J. Deonna, & E. Tieffenbach (Eds.), A Small Treaty of Values (Petit Traité des Valeurs), pp. 132-139. Paris: Editions d'Ithaque.
• 2017. "Is love an emotion?" with Jesse Prinz. In C. Grau & A. Smuts (Eds) The Oxford Handbook Of Philosophy Of Love. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Conference Presentations

• "Emotion Regulation and Emotional Injustice"
  • at the International Society for Research on Emotion, the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. July 2022.
  • at the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Vancouver, Canada. April 2022.
  • at the Florida Philosophical Association, Florida International University, Miami, FL. February 2022.
• "Jealous Much? How Relationship Frameworks Inform the Fittingness of Romantic Jealousy" accepted for presentation at the 8th Consortium of European Research on Emotion (CERE), Universidad de Granada. Granada, Spain. June 2020 – held in June 2022 due to Covid-19 Pandemic.
• Reason and Passion: Romantic Love and the Limits of Morality" accepted for presentation at the 8th Consortium of European Research on Emotion (CERE), Universidad de Granada. Granada, Spain. June 2020 – held in June 2022 due to Covid-19 Pandemic.
• "Love, Jealousy, and Rationality" at the Florida Philosophical Association Meeting, University of Florida. Gainesville, FL. November 2019.
• "The Rationality of Jealousy" in a Symposium on "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Jealousy" at the International Society for Research on Emotion, University of Amsterdam. Amsterdam, the Netherlands. July 2019.
• "When is Jealousy Appropriate?". Intermountain Conference. University of Utah. Salt Lake City, UT. November 2018.
• "Staring down the green-eyed monster: romantic jealousy and ideology" at a Colloquium "Meta-Ethics and Moral Psychology", Canadian Philosophical Association. Université du Quebec à Montréal. Montreal, Canada. June 2018.
• "Expressions of Jealousy in Infants and Adults" at "Emotions and Expression" Workshop, "Expression, Communication, and the Origins of Meaning" (ECOM) Research Group at the University of Connecticut. Storrs, CT. April 2018.
• "Romantic Love: Universality, Innateness, and Adaptation" for Cognitio, Young Researchers Conference in Cognitive Science. Université du Québec á Montréal. Montreal, Canada. June 2017.
• "Why Love is Not a Moral Emotion" for the Society of Philosophy of Sex and Love at the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, CA. April 2016.
• "The Syndrome of Romantic Love" for colloquium series at the Philosophy department of Montclair State University. Montclair, NJ. February 2016.
• "The Arationality of Romantic Love". Symposium on Love. International Society for Research on Emotion, University of Geneva. Geneva, Switzerland. July 2015.
• "Love and Irreplaceability". New York Society for Women in Philosophy. New York, NY. November 2013.

Invited Presentations

• "Justice in Conversation" panelist as part of Justice in Conversation series, for the Race and Crime Center for Justice, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. September 2022.
• "Social Contexts and Feeling Rules" as part of the pre-conference "Affect, Places and Spaces" at the International Society for Research on Emotion, the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. July 2022.
• "Emotional Injustice" for Thumos Seminar, University of Geneva. Geneva, Switzerlalnd. May 2021.
• "Boredom and its Values": commentary on Propelled: How Boredom, Frustration, and Anticipation Lead Us to the Good Life by Andreas Elpidorou, in Author Meets Critics, the Society for Philosophy of Emotion, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, New York, NY. January 2021.
• "Romantic Love: Jealousy vs. Compersion" for the Undergraduate Philosophy Society, University of Florida. Gainesville, FL. November 2020.
• "Re-imagining Public Safety, so that Black Lives Matter" in the Philosophical Forum on Racial Justice at the "Food and Talk" annual event, for the Department of Philosophy, University of Florida. Gainesville, FL. October 2020.
• "The (Ir)rationality of Implicit Biases" for the Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of Tampa. Tampa, FL. November 2019.
• "Is Love Gendered?" Oberlin College. Oberlin, OH. March 2019.
• "Moral Emotions and Romantic Love" for the Department of Philosophy, University of Florida. Gainesville, FL. March 2019.
• "Implicit Biases and Rationality" for the department of Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies, Utah State University. Logan, UT. November 2018.
• "Tribalism in American Politics" as part of the "Politically (ir)rational Animals" panel discussion, Utah State University. Logan, UT. November 2018.
• "Polyamory: A Philosophical Analysis". Invited. Montclair State University. Montclair, NJ. April 2018.
• "The Comedy and Tragedy of Love". Invited. Montclair State University. Montclair, NJ. February 2018.
• "Philosophy of Love". Invited. Mercy College. New York, NY. April 2016.
• "Polyamory". Invited guest lecture. University of Toronto. Toronto, Canada. March 2015.
• "Kant's Sex Problem and the Role of Consent in Legitimizing Sexual Relations". Invited. City University of New York, Hunter College. New York. Dec 2010.

Non-Academic Publications & Talks

• "What Can Polyamory Tell Us about Jealousy?" as part of the Valentine's Day Special. Daily Nous. February 2018.
• Hung-Over, -Up, Dilemma Series. The Night of Philosophy and Ideas. Brooklyn, NY. January 2018.
• "Fine-tuning passion: When is love not an emotion?". HowTheLightGetsIn Festival. The Institute of Art and Ideas. June 2017.
• APA Member Interview (pilot). APA Blog with Skye Cleary. January 2016.