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9Philosophy and Happiness (edited book)Palgrave MacMillan. 2009.Philosophy and Happiness addresses the need to situate any meaningful discourse about happiness in a wider context of human interests, capacities and circumstances. How is happiness manifested and expressed? Can there be any happiness if no worthy life projects are pursued? How is happiness affected by relationships, illness, or cultural variants? Can it be reduced to preference satisfaction? Is it a temporary feeling or a persistent way of being? Is reflection conducive to happiness? Is mortali…Read more
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29The right not to know: the case of psychiatric disordersJournal of Medical Ethics 37 (11): 673-676. 2011.This paper will consider the right not to know in the context of psychiatric disorders. It will outline the arguments for and against acquiring knowledge about the results of genetic testing for conditions such as breast cancer and Huntington’s disease, and examine whether similar considerations apply to disclosing to clients the results of genetic testing for psychiatric disorders such as depression and Alzheimer’s disease. The right not to know will also be examined in the context of the diagn…Read more
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130In Defence of Modest Doxasticism about DelusionsNeuroethics 5 (1): 39-53. 2012.Here I reply to the main points raised by the commentators on the arguments put forward in my Delusions and Other Irrational Beliefs (OUP, 2009). My response is aimed at defending a modest doxastic account of clinical delusions, and is articulated in three sections. First, I consider the view that delusions are inbetween perceptual and doxastic states, defended by Jacob Hohwy and Vivek Rajan, and the view that delusions are failed attempts at believing or not-quitebeliefs, proposed by Eric Schwi…Read more
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9Are Alien Thoughts Beliefs?Teorema: International Journal of Philosophy 34 (1): 134-148. 2015.Thought insertion is a common delusion in schizophrenia. People affected by it report that there are thoughts in their heads that have been inserted by a third party. These thoughts are self-generated but subjec-tively experienced as alien (hereafter, we shall call them alien thoughts for convenience). In chapter 5 of Transparent Minds, Jordi Fernández convincingly argues that the phenomenon of thought insertion can be accounted for as a pathology of self-knowledge. In particular, he argues that…Read more
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9Deception in psychology : Moral costs and benefits of unsought self-knowledgeAccountability in Research 13 259-275. 2006.Is it ethical to deceive the individuals who participate in psychological experiments for methodological reasons? We argue against an absolute ban on the use of deception in psychological research. The potential benefits of many psychological experiments involving deception consist in allowing individuals and society to gain morally significant self-knowledge that they could not otherwise gain. Research participants gain individual self-knowledge which can help them improve their autonomous deci…Read more
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2What's wrong with 'mental' disorders?Psychological Medicine. 2010.Commentary on the editorial by D Stein et al.'s "What is a Mental/Psychiatric Disorder? From DSM-IV to DSM-V".
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26A role for ownership and authorship in the analysis of thought insertionPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 8 (2): 205-224. 2008.Philosophers are interested in the phenomenon of thought insertion because it challenges the common assumption that one can ascribe to oneself the thoughts that one can access first-personally. In the standard philosophical analysis of thought insertion, the subject owns the ‘inserted’ thought but lacks a sense of agency towards it. In this paper we want to provide an alternative analysis of the condition, according to which subjects typically lack both ownership and authorship of the ‘inserted’…Read more
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26Rationality and sanity: The role of rationality judgments in understanding psychiatric disordersIn K. W. M. Fulford (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry, Oxford University Press. pp. 480. 2012.Chapter discussing the relationship between rationality and sanity.
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