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10By What Authority? Conflicts of Interest in Professional EthicsJournal of Ethics in Mental Health 3 (2): 1-3. 2008.Paradoxically, the profession whose primary mandate is to instruct and comment on matters of ethics spends inordinately little time reflecting on its own ethical practices. Consider the fact that while professional ethicists of all stripes crusade to expose and denounce conflicts of interests in all other branches of the health care system, they typically fail to pay much attention to their own potential ‘ethical’ conflicts of interest. Admittedly, there have been some efforts to address the pro…Read more
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211The Natural Kind Status of EmotionBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 53 (4): 511-37. 2002.It has been argued recently that some basic emotions should be considered natural kinds. This is different from the question whether as a class emotions form a natural kind; that is, whether emotion is a natural kind. The consensus on that issue appears to be negative. I argue that this pessimism is unwarranted and that there are in fact good reasons for entertaining the hypothesis that emotion is a natural kind. I interpret this to mean that there exists a distinct natural class of organisms wh…Read more
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47Describing our “humanness”: Can genetic science Alter what it means to be “human”?Science and Engineering Ethics 4 (4): 413-426. 1998.Over the past several decades, geneticists have succeeded in identifying the genetic mutations associated with disease. New strategies for treatment, including gene transfer and gene therapy, are under development. Although genetic science has been welcomed for its potential to predict and treat disease, interventions may become ethically objectionable if they threaten to alter characteristics that are distinctively human. Before we can determine whether or not a genetic technique carries this r…Read more
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Reinstating the Passions: Arguments from History of PsychopathologyIn Peter Goldie (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Emotion, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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47Moral Undertow and the Passions: Two Challenges for Contemporary Emotion RegulationEmotion Review 3 (1): 83-91. 2011.The history and philosophy of affective terms and concepts contains important challenges for contemporary scientific accounts of emotion regulation. First, there is the problem of moral undertow. This arises because stipulating the ends of emotion regulation requires normative assumptions that ultimately derive from values and morals. Some historical precedents are considered to help explain and address this problem. Second, there is the problem of organization. This arises because multiple emot…Read more
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27In defence of emotion: Critical notice of Paul E. Griffiths's what emotions really are: The problem of psychological categoriesCanadian Journal of Philosophy 31 (1): 133-154. 2001.
Louis C. Charland
(1958 - 2021)
London, Ontario, Canada
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy, Misc |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics and Epistemology |