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45Psychiatric taxonomy: at the crossroads of science and ethicsJournal of Medical Ethics 40 (8): 513-514. 2014.The scientific investigation of mental disorders is an invigorating area of inquiry for philosophers of mind and science who are interested in exploring the nature of typical and atypical cognition as well as the overarching scientific project of ‘carving nature at its joints’. It is also important for philosophers of medicine and bioethicists who are concerned with concepts of disease and with the development of effective and ethical treatments of mental disorders and the just distribution of m…Read more
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10Review of "Forms of Intersubjectivity in Infant Research and Adult Treatment" (review)Metapsychology Online Reviews 10 (41). 2006.
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151Are Mental Disorders Natural Kinds?: A Plea for a New Approach to Intervention in PsychiatryPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 23 (2): 147-163. 2016.Mental disorder is an urgent and growing public health problem.1 Scientific investigation of this problem has the pragmatic goals of identifying the causes of mental disorders and developing strategies to effectively treat them. Philosophers of psychiatry have participated in the inquiry into the empirical examination of mental disorders, predominantly by debating whether psychopathology is a legitimate target of scientific inquiry and, if so, how mental disorders should be explained, predicted,…Read more
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530How Does the Self Adjudicate Narratives?Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 20 (1): 25-28. 2013.Philosophers and psychologists have advanced a plethora of explanations of the self in relation to narratives, positing varying degrees of connection between them. For some, narratives created by a subject about herself shape her self-constitution (Flanagan 1991; Fivush 1994). For others, they help the subject to participate in social cognition (Hutto 2008). Some represent narratives as merely one basis of personal identity and consider them cognitive tools used by the subject to construct self-…Read more
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22Review of "No Child Left Different" (review)Journal of Developmental Processes 2 (2): 123-126. 2007.
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35A Perfect Storm: Health, Disorder, Culture, and the SelfPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 21 (2): 165-168. 2014.
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State University of New York (SUNY)Upstate Medical University, Center for Bioethics and HumanitiesAssociate Professor
Syracuse, NY, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind |
Applied Ethics |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
General Philosophy of Science |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |