April 20, 2007

Remembering, Emotionally, a Philosopher of Emotion

By CARLIN ROMANO

Philosophers "don't like to talk about" grief, wrote Robert C. Solomon, the longtime Quincy Lee professor of business and philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, in his last book, True to Our Feelings: What Our Emotions Are Really Telling Us (Oxford University Press, 2007). That's because philosophers aren't grief counselors or therapists, he explained. The "bereaved," Solomon counseled, "should look elsewhere than to philosophy for solace."

I disagree. Because Bob Solomon, my