• Phenomenology and hermeneutics in medicine
    In Miriam Solomon, Jeremy R. Simon & Harold Kincaid (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Medicine, Routledge. 2016.
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    Neurodiversity, epistemic injustice, and the good human life
    Journal of Social Philosophy 53 (4): 614-631. 2022.
    Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
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    What Philosophy is (edited book)
    with David Gamez
    Ccontinuum. 2004.
    This book addresses the question "What is Philosophy?" by gathering together responses from philosophers working in a variety of areas.
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    ‘Creatures of a Day’: Contingency, Mortality, and Human Limits
    Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 90 193-214. 2021.
    This paper offers a nexus of terms – mortality, limits, contingency and vulnerability – painting a picture of human life as marked by limitation and finitude. I suggest that limitations of possibility, capacity, and resource are deep features of human life, but not only restrict it. Limits are also the conditions of possibility for human life and as such have productive, normative, and creative powers that not only delimit life but also scaffold growth and transformation within it. The paper tak…Read more
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    Institutional Opacity, Epistemic Vulnerability, and Institutional Testimonial Justice
    International Journal of Philosophical Studies 29 (4): 473-496. 2021.
    ABSTRACT This paper offers an account of institutional testimonial justice and describes one way that it breaks down, which we call institutional opacity. An institution is opaque when it becomes resistant to epistemic evaluation and understanding by its agents and users. When one cannot understand the inner workings of an institution, it becomes difficult to know how to comport oneself testimonially. We offer an account of an institutional ethos to explain what it means for an institution to be…Read more
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    Pathology as a phenomenological tool
    Continental Philosophy Review 54 (2): 201-217. 2021.
    The phenomenological method has been fruitfully used to study the experience of illness in recent years. However, the role of illness is not merely that of a passive object for phenomenological scrutiny. I propose that illness, and pathology more generally, can be developed into a phenomenological method in their own right. I claim that studying cases of pathology, breakdown, and illness offer illumination not only of these experiences, but also of normal function and the tacit background that u…Read more
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    The Predicament of Patients
    Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 89 65-74. 2021.
    In this paper we propose that our understanding of pathocentric epistemic injustices can be enriched if they are theorised in terms of predicaments. These are the wider socially scaffolded structures of epistemic challenges, dangers, needs, and threats experienced by ill persons due to their particular emplacement within material, social, and epistemic structures. In previous work we have described certain aspects of these predicaments - pathocentric epistemic injustices, pathophobia, and so on.…Read more
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    Book Review: Feminist Philosophy (review)
    Feminist Theory 6 (2): 222-224. 2005.
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    Breathing life into a phenomenology of illness, part II
    Forum for European Philosophy Blog. 2017.
    Havi Carel on understanding illness through its lived experience.
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    Breathing life into a phenomenology of illness, part I
    Forum for European Philosophy Blog. 2016.
    Havi Carel on understanding illness through its lived experience.
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    Pandemic Transformative Experience
    The Philosophers' Magazine 90 24-31. 2020.
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    Pandemic Transformative Experience
    The Philosophers’ Magazine 90 (24-31). 2020.
    We argue that pandemic and lockdown can be usefully interpreted as transformative experiences, albeit of a sort with interestingly different features to those discussed by L.A. Paul.
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    Suffering and Transformative Experience
    In Michael S. Brady, David Bain & Jennifer Corns (eds.), Philosophy of Suffering: Metaphysics, Value, and Normativity, Routledge. pp. 165-179. 2019.
    In this chapter we suggest that many experiences of suffering can be further illuminated as forms of transformative experience, using the term coined by L.A. Paul. Such suffering experiences arise from the vulnerability, dependence, and affliction intrinsic to the human condition. Such features can create a variety of positively, negatively, and ambivalently valanced forms of epistemically and personally transformative experiences, as we detail here. We argue that the productive element of suffe…Read more
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    Filosofia Contemporanea em Açao (edited book)
    with David Gamez
    Artmed. 2008.
    O que queremos dizer atualmente quando falamos sobre filosofia? Como a filosofia se relaciona com a ciência, com a política e a literatura? Que métodos o filósofo moderno utiliza, e como a filosofia progride? A filosofia é diferente de um lugar para outro? O que a filosofia pode fazer por nós? E o que não pode fazer? Este livro diz o que a filosofia é e também nos mostra a filosofia contemporânea em ação.
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    Illness, phenomenology, and philosophical method
    Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 34 (4): 345-357. 2013.
    In this article, I propose that illness is philosophically revealing and can be used to explore human experience. I suggest that illness is a limit case of embodied experience. By pushing embodied experience to its limit, illness sheds light on normal experience, revealing its ordinary and thus overlooked structure. Illness produces a distancing effect, which allows us to observe normal human behavior and cognition via their pathological counterpart. I suggest that these characteristics warrant …Read more
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    Expanding Transformative Experience
    European Journal of Philosophy 28 (1): 199-213. 2019.
    We develop a broader, more fine-grained taxonomy of forms of ‘transformative experience’ inspired by the work of L.A. Paul. Our vulnerability to such experiences arises, we argue, due to the vulnerability, dependence, and affliction intrinsic to the human condition. We use this trio to distinguish a variety of positively, negatively, and ambivalently valenced forms of epistemically and/or personally transformative experiences. Moreover, we argue that many transformative experiences can arise gra…Read more
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    Healthcare Practice, Epistemic Injustice, and Naturalism
    Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 84 1-23. 2018.
    Ill persons suffer from a variety of epistemically-inflected harms and wrongs. Many of these are interpretable as specific forms of what we dub pathocentric epistemic injustices, these being ones that target and track ill persons. We sketch the general forms of pathocentric testimonial and hermeneutical injustice, each of which are pervasive within the experiences of ill persons during their encounters in healthcare contexts and the social world. What’s epistemically unjust might not be only age…Read more
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    Pathocentric epistemic injustice and conceptions of health
    In Benjamin R. Sherman & Stacey Goguen (eds.), Overcoming Epistemic Injustice: Social and Psychological Perspectives, Rowman & Littlefield International. pp. 153-168. 2019.
    In this paper, we argue that certain theoretical conceptions of health, particularly those described as ‘biomedical’ or ‘naturalistic’, are viciously epistemically unjust. Drawing on some recent work in vice epistemology, we identity three ways that abstract objects (such as theoretical conceptions, doctrines, or stances) can be legitimately described as epistemically vicious. If this is right, then robust reform of individuals, social systems, and institutions would not be enough to secure epi…Read more
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    We propose that certain forms of chronic illness can be transformative experiences, in the sense described by L.A. Paul.
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    The Ubiquity of Moods
    Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 16 (3): 267-271. 2009.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:The Ubiquity of MoodsMatthew R. Broome (bio) and Havi Carel (bio)Keywordsphenomenology, Heidegger, moods, affects, meaning, self, philosophyPhilosophy is often caricatured as one of the most disconnected and anemic academic enterprises. Yet in philosophers’ own accounts of what drew them to the problems they have sought to address they answer, typically, in two broad, passionate, ways: wonder or anxiety. As such, philosophy, and phil…Read more
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    The Routledge Companion to Film and Philosophy
    British Journal of Aesthetics 50 (1): 112-114. 2010.
    (No abstract is available for this citation)
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    What is illness? Is it a physiological dysfunction, a social label, or a way of experiencing the world? How do the physical, social and emotional worlds of a person change when they become ill? And can there be well-being within illness? In this remarkable and thought-provoking book, Havi Carel explores these questions by weaving together the personal story of her own serious illness with insights and reflections drawn from her work as a philosopher. Carel shows how the concepts and language use…Read more
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    Bedside conversations
    Philosophers' Magazine 60 (-1). 2013.
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    Epistemic Injustice and Illness
    Journal of Applied Philosophy 34 (2): 172-190. 2016.
    This article analyses the phenomenon of epistemic injustice within contemporary healthcare. We begin by detailing the persistent complaints patients make about their testimonial frustration and hermeneutical marginalization, and the negative impact this has on their care. We offer an epistemic analysis of this problem using Miranda Fricker's account of epistemic injustice. We detail two types of epistemic injustice, testimonial and hermeneutical, and identify the negative stereotypes and structu…Read more
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    Film as philosophy
    with Greg Tuck
    The Philosophers' Magazine 50 (50): 30-31. 2010.
    More people desperately require an organ than become donors themselves. When discussing organ donation, people mainly consider the question whether they want to donate, whereas empirically they are more likely to be on the receiving end. So it is rational for each of us to join the organ donor register and to agree to donate our relative’s organs, if we are ever in that situation
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    New takes in film-philosophy (edited book)
    with Greg Tuck
    Palgrave-Macmillan. 2011.
    New Takes in Film-Philosophy offers a space for the advancement of the film-philosophy debate by some of its major figures. Fifteen leading academics from Philosophy and Film Studies develop new approaches to film-philosophy, broaden theoretical analyses of the topic and map out problems and possibilities for its future. The collection examines theoretical issues about the relationship between film and philosophy; looks at the relationships film-philosophy has to other media such as photography …Read more
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    The Order of Evils: Toward an Ontology of Morals (edited book)
    with Rela Mazali
    Zone Books. 2005.
    What remains of moral judgment when truth itself is mistrusted, when the validity of every belief system depends on its context, when power and knowledge are inextricably entangled? Is a viable moral theory still possible in the wake of the postmodern criticism of modern philosophy? The Order of Evils responds directly to these questions and dilemmas with one simple and brilliant change of focus. Rather than concentrating on the age-old themes of justice and freedom, Adi Ophir offers a moral the…Read more