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1Mind and mineIn George Graham & G. Lynn Stephens (eds.), Philosophical Psychopathology, Mit Press. 1994.
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74When Self-Consciousness Breaks: Alien Voices and Inserted ThoughtsMIT Press. 2000.An examination of verbal hallucinations and thought insertion as examples of "alienated self-consciousness."
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25Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and PsychiatryOxford University Press. 2006.Psychiatry is unique in medicine in being on the border between science and the humanities. Science provides insight into the 'causes' of a problem, enabling us to formulate an 'explanation', while the humanities provide insight into its 'meanings' and helps with our 'understanding'. The new interdisciplinary field of 'philosophy of psychiatry' has developed to explore the range of issues relevant to this border country. The Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry is a unique textbook which…Read more
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28More on the Goodness of SkinnerBehavior and Philosophy 11 (1): 45. 1983.Discusses B. F. Skinner's proposal in Beyond Freedom and Dignity that reinforcing stimuli are important in the production and modification of value talk. The argument that the view that values are reinforcing leads to moral nihilism is discussed. It is concluded that moral standards can be objective without being universally deployable, and that Skinnerian morality is objective. It shows that certain actions are morally appropriate, others morally wrong. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, a…Read more
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12Commentary on Kant, Thought Insertion, and Mental UnityPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 1 (2): 115-116. 1994.
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47Guilty consciousnessBehavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (2): 255-256. 1995.Should we distinguish between access and phenomenal consciousness? Block says yes and that various pathologies of consciousness support and clarify the distinction. The commentary charge that the distinction is neither supported nor clarified by the clinical data. It recommends an alternative reading of the data and urges Block to clarify the distinction.
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33Dissociation, self-attribution, and redescriptionBehavioral and Brain Sciences 17 (4): 719-719. 1994.
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49Recent work in philosophical psychopathologyAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 39 (2): 109-134. 2002.Philosophical psychopathology lies at the intersection of philosophy and psychiatry. The name is new. The field is not. This paper surveys work in the field since about 1980. Special attention is given to work on two topics: mental illness semantics and the metaphysics of disorders of self-consciousness
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73Are qualia a pain in the neck for functionalists?American Philosophical Quarterly 22 (1): 73-80. 1985.
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