We present counterexamples to the widespread assumption that Moorean sentences cannot be rationally asserted. We then explain why Moorean assertions of the sort we discuss do not incur the irrationality charge, appealing to the dual-process theory of the mind and a contrast between the conditions for ascribing beliefs to oneself and the conditions for making assertions about independently existing states of affairs. We conclude by contrasting beliefs of the sort we discuss with the structurally similar but rationally impermissible beliefs of certain psychiatric patients.

Envy has often been seen as a vice and the envied as its victims.

in Suffering Art Gladly, edited by Pierre Destree and Jerrold Levinson (forthcoming) "I almost didn't make it through Amour, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film on Sunday. It wasn't that I wasn't prepared: I knew what the movie was about and, having seen several other of Michael Haneke's movies and read about his work, was familiar with his sadistic tendencies as a filmmaker. 'Depressing' was the word used by everyone I spoke to about the film, but depressing has never been a descriptor that puts me off; it's rare that a movie, even an aggressively tragic one, depresses me. More often, I find myself simply

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