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331Moral Responsibility and Mental Illness: A Case StudyCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 19 (2): 179-187. 2010.Various authors have argued that progress in the neurocognitive and neuropsychiatric sciences might threaten the commonsense understanding of how the mind generates behavior, and, as a consequence, it might also threaten the commonsense ways of attributing moral responsibility, if not the very notion of moral responsibility. In the case of actions that result in undesirable outcomes, the commonsense conception—which is reflected in sophisticated ways in the legal conception—tells us that there a…Read more
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37Agency, Life Extension, and the Meaning of LifeThe Monist 93 (1): 38-56. 2010.According to the agency objection to life extension, being constrained as an agent adds to the meaningfulness of human life. Life extension removes constraints, and thus it deprives life of meaning. In the paper, I concede that constrained agency contributes to the mean- ingfulness of human life, but reject the agency objection to life extension in its current form. Even in an extended life, decision-making remains constrained, and many obstacles to the fulfilment of an agent’s goals are preserv…Read more
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145Précis of Delusions and Other Irrational BeliefsNeuroethics 5 (1): 1-4. 2012.Here I summarise the main arguments in Delusions and Other Irrational Beliefs [1]. The book addresses the question whether there is a rationality constraint on belief ascription and defends a doxastic account of clinical delusions.
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55If you did not care, you would not notice: recognition and estrangement in psychopathologyPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 14 (1): 39-42. 2007.Paper discussing the Capgras delusions
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884The Causal Role Argument against Doxasticism about DelusionsAvant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies (3): 30-50. 2014.
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