The Moral Psychology of Envy

Sara Protasi is assistant professor of philosophy at University of Puget Sound. Her research interests are primarily in moral psychology, ethics, and philosophical psychology

Introduction: Striving to Be Better, Sulking in a Corner, Stealing the Spotlight, Spoiling Someone's Joy: The Many Faces of Envy by Sara Protasi 1. A Sociocultural Perspective on Envy: On Covetous Desire, the Evil Eye, and the Social Regulation of Equality by Patricia Rodriguez Mosquera 2. How Envy and Being Envied Shape Social Hierarchies by Jens Lange and Jan Crusius 3. On the Epistemic Effects of Envy in Academia by Felipe Romero 4. "I could have been you": Existential Envy and the Self by Ingrid Vendrell Ferran 5. Envy, Compassion and the Buddhist (No)Self by Christina Chuang 6. Let the Donkeys Be Donkeys: In Defense of Inspiring Envy by Maria Silvia Vaccarezza and Ariele Niccoli 7. Malicious Moral Envy by Vanessa Carbonell 8. "You're Just Jealous!": On Envious Blame by Neal Tognazzini 9. The Fact of Envy: Trends in the History of Modern Economics by Miriam Bankovsky 10. The Politics of Envy: Outlaw Emotions in Capitalist Societies by Alfred Archer, Alan Thomas and Bart Engelen 11. To Envy an Algorithm by Alison Duncan Kerr 12. The Envious Customer by Niels van de Ven Index About the contributors