Joel J. Kupperman

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Joel J. Kupperman

Philosophy

#4152

World Rank

#6558

Historical Rank

#1243

USA Rank

Logic

#9536

World Rank

#12104

Historical Rank

#1713

USA Rank

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According to Wikipedia, Joel Jay Kupperman was an American professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut and author of Six Myths about the Good Life, a popular philosophical volume centering on those values most worth engaging in human life. He was best known to the general public as a young math expert on the radio and television show Quiz Kids. He astounded audiences with his ability to do complex mathematics rapidly and seemingly "in his head." He also had strong general knowledge, and was often the winner of the weekly competitions featured on the show. The 1944 film Chip Off the Old Block, starring Donald O'Connor, Peggy Ryan and Ann Blyth, featured Kupperman as the "Quiz Kid", representative of the group.

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Joel J. Kupperman's Published Works

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Published Works

The Indispensability of Character (2001) (72)
Learning from Asian philosophy (1999) (47)
Virtue in Virtue Ethics (2009) (24)
Value-- and what follows (1998) (22)
Classic Asian philosophy : a guide to the essential texts (2007) (19)
A Handbook of Wisdom: Morality, Ethics, and Wisdom (2005) (19)
Character and Ethical Theory (1988) (17)
Tradition and Community in the Formation of Character and Self (2004) (16)
Six Myths about the Good Life: Thinking about What Has Value (2006) (16)
Do we desire only pleasure? (1978) (12)
Confucian Civility (2010) (12)
Confucius and the Problem of Naturalness (1968) (11)
Why Ethical Philosophy Needs to Be Comparative (2010) (11)
The Foundations of Morality (2020) (8)
Why Some Topics Are Controversial. (1985) (8)
The Epistemology of Non-Instrumental Value (2005) (7)
Classic Asian Philosophy (2001) (6)
Confucius and the Nature of Religious Ethics (1971) (6)
How Values Congeal into Facts (2000) (5)
An anti‐essentialist view of the emotions (1995) (5)
A Messy Derivation of the Categorical Imperative (2002) (4)
Not in So Many Words: Chuang Tzu's Strategies of Communication (1989) (4)
Ethics and Qualities of Life (2007) (4)
Steps to Theory (2007) (3)
Investigations of the Self (1984) (3)
Classical and Sour Forms of Virtue (2007) (3)
Theories of Human Nature (2010) (3)
IS REALISM REALLY BAD FOR YOU? A REALISTIC RESPONSE* (2008) (3)
Precision in History (1975) (3)
A New Look at the Logic of the ‘Is’-‘Ought’ Relation (2005) (3)
Persons and Valuable Worlds: A Global Philosophy (review) (2003) (2)
PART 4 107 Weakness and integrity 8 Moral growth and the unity of the virtues 109 (1999) (2)
Axiological Realism (1996) (2)
Wong's Relativism and Comparative Philosophy: A Review of "Moral Relativity"@@@Moral Relativity (1986) (2)
Autonomy and the Very Limited Role of Advocacy in the Classroom (1996) (2)
MORAL REALISM AND METAPHYSICAL ANTI‐REALISM (1987) (2)
XII—Character and Self-Knowledge (1985) (1)
Ethical Theory in the Last Quarter of the Twentieth Century (1986) (1)
ART AND AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE (1975) (1)
Reasons in Support of Evaluations of Works of Art (1966) (1)
Nuance and Ethical Choice (1969) (1)
The Nature of Ethical Theory (2020) (1)
THE SUPRA‐MORAL IN CHINESE ETHICS (1974) (1)
The Importance of Character (2007) (1)
Moral Vision and Tradition: Essays in Chinese Ethics (review) (2011) (0)
Dimensions of equality Dennis McKerlie 263 imagining interest Stephen G. Engelmann 289 the self-other asymmetry and act-utilitarianism (2001) (0)
Utilitarianism and Value (2020) (0)
The Place of Character in Ethics (1995) (0)
The Bases of Ethical Theory (2007) (0)
Character and Self (1995) (0)
Losing Place: The Risks of Cosmopolitanism (2017) (0)
Morality as Law (2020) (0)
Review: John Kekes: The Enlargement of Life: Moral Imagination at Work (2008) (0)
Learning from Asian philosophy: Chinese versus Western ethics (1999) (0)
The Role of Self-Interest and Personal Relations (2020) (0)
The Logic of Consequentialism (2007) (0)
Justice and the Virtues (1995) (0)
Confucian Ethics A Comparative Study of Self , Autonomy , and Community (2004) (0)
A Modulated Case for the Primacy of Value (2007) (0)
Relations between the Sexes: Timely vs. Timeless Principles (1988) (0)
HALF-TRUTHS: HALF-TRUTHS (2012) (0)
Ethical Theory and Choice (1995) (0)
What is Character (1995) (0)
Morality as Interpersonal Neutral (2020) (0)
The Need for a Moral Order (2007) (0)
Challenge and Response: Justification in Ethics.Ethical Knowledge (1974) (0)
Felt and unfelt emotions: A rejoinder to Dalgleish (1997) (0)
Existential Choices and Dislocations (2007) (0)
CHISHOLM'S VIEW OF PERSON AND OBJECT (1979) (0)
The Gap between What Would Be for the Best and What We Should Do (2020) (0)
Some Difficulties of Consequentialism (2007) (0)
First Pattern of Argument (2020) (0)
Moral Cultivation and Confucian Character : Engaging (2015) (0)
Character and Responsibility (1995) (0)
The Evolution of Ethical Theories (2007) (0)
Metaphysics as Prolegomenon to Ethics (2000) (0)
Confucian Role Ethics: A Vocabulary by Roger Ames (review) (2014) (0)
Peter A. French., The Scope of Morality (1982) (0)
The Relevance of Construal and Valencing to Good Choice (2007) (0)
Third Pattern of Argument (2020) (0)
Fundamentals of Logic : A College Course Guide (1966) (0)
Second Pattern of Argument (2020) (0)
Difficult Cases and Moral Progress (2020) (0)
Moral Knowledge, by Alan H. Goldman (1991) (0)
Notes on Contributors (1996) (0)
Morality as a System of Strong Demands (2020) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2001) (0)
Reply to David Wong (1986) (0)
Personal Morality and Its Social Implications (2007) (0)

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University of Connecticut