https://www.berislavmarusic.org/home daily 1.0 2025-08-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede03eea66fd4769936960e/d36a5e51-b9df-41ac-bd7d-b2efb41e1231/DSC_0565_2.jpg Home - I am Professor of Moral Philosophy and Epistemology at the University of Edinburgh. Before coming to Edinburgh, I taught at Brandeis University for 13 years. My philosophical interests range widely. I have written about agency, the emotions, trust, disagreement, self-knowledge, and existentialism. In recent years, I have been teaching topics in the history of late modern philosophy and its relevance for contemporary thought. I received my Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 2007 and my A.B. from Harvard University in 2001. I also spent several years as a visitor at the University of Leipzig and, more recently, at the Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Berlin. I recently wrote a piece on grief for the digital magazine Psyche. It’s a short presentation of my views on grief that I develop in my book On the Temporality of Emotions: An Essay on Grief, Anger, and Love (OUP, 2022). The book is reviewed in Mind and in Ethics, and I talk about it on the New Books Network and Recall This Book. The article “Disagreement and Alienation,” co-authored with my dear friend Stephen J. White, has been selected for the 2023 Philosopher’s Annual. Steve’s Responsibility and the Demands of Morality: Collected Papers is now published by Oxford University Press. https://www.berislavmarusic.org/bio daily 0.75 2025-08-15 https://www.berislavmarusic.org/projects daily 0.75 2024-05-20 https://www.berislavmarusic.org/evidence-and-agency daily 0.75 2021-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede03eea66fd4769936960e/1591715563995-RIG8AS0EY464AX1BJNYU/41LLffB4PgL._SX317_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg Evidence and Agency https://www.berislavmarusic.org/new-page daily 0.75 2020-07-02 https://www.berislavmarusic.org/publications daily 0.75 2026-02-25 https://www.berislavmarusic.org/the-temporality-of-emotions daily 0.75 2022-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ede03eea66fd4769936960e/343739e4-ce55-43d9-8c6f-cccfb071c91e/COVER+marus%CC%8Cic%CC%81_visuals-1.jpg The Temporality of Emotions Many emotions attenuate more rapidly than the significance of the considerations that gives rise to them as we accommodate ourselves to what happens. Grief often diminishes quickly, even though the dead continue to matter to us; anger often evaporates, even though the injustice to which it responds remains undiminished. Nonetheless, such accommodation seems somehow all right: It would be a mistake to be persistently grieving or to be relentlessly angry. But how could it be all right, if the reasons for grief and anger remain significant? Matters are different with love. Unlike grief and anger, whose diminution is puzzling, what seems puzzling in the case of love is its continuation. In its self-consciousness, love is endless: In loving someone, we foresee no end to our love. Yet we know that love can end: Hearts are broken, lovers betrayed, and people grow apart. Does the self-consciousness of love involve a mistake? Or can we reasonably think of our love as lasting? On the Temporality of Emotions argues that whereas grief and anger reasonably diminish, love can rationally be conceived as endless. The book draws on contemporary theories of the emotions, especially grief and love, as well as recent accounts of reasons. It puts forward an account of emotional self-consciousness as, at once, embodied and rational. Nonetheless, it maintains that accommodation reveals an irreconcilable moment in our emotional life, a moment that philosophical reflection ought not seek to resolve, lest our emotions are conceived as too neat and philosophy as too comforting. https://www.berislavmarusic.org/analytic-existentialism daily 0.75 2024-10-03 https://www.berislavmarusic.org/interpersonal-epistemology daily 0.75 2024-10-28 https://www.berislavmarusic.org/teaching daily 0.75 2024-05-20 https://www.berislavmarusic.org/public-philosophy daily 0.75 2025-02-18 https://www.berislavmarusic.org/skepticism daily 0.75 2021-03-24