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A companion to cognitive scienceIn Dennis M. Patterson (ed.), A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory, Blackwell. 1996.
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30Philosophical PsychopathologyMIT Press. 1994.A benchmark volume for an emerging field where mental disorders serve as the springboard for philosophical insights.
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2Extreme self-denialIn M. Marraffa, M. Caro & F. Ferretti (eds.), Cartographies of the Mind: Philosophy and Psychology in Intersection, Springer. 2007.
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62Sensations and grain processesIn Gregory R. Mulhauser (ed.), Evolving Consciousness, John Benjamins. 1998.
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26Metaphysics and the Mind-Body Problem. By Michael E. Levin (review)Modern Schoolman 59 (4): 301-302. 1982.
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21Explanation and Power: The Control of Human Behavior. By Morse Peckham (review)Modern Schoolman 57 (2): 168-171. 1980.
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46In and Out of MePhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 11 (4): 323-326. 2004.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:In and Out of MeGeorge Graham (bio)An important role in many recent philosophical analyses of personal well-being and psychological health has been played by a principle I call the "the principle of responsible innerness." This principle states that a person is psychologically healthy and well only if she or he acts in critical situations on preferences and desires that are responsibly in her or him rather than being merely in her or…Read more
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45Qualia Realism, Its Phenomenal Contents and DiscontentsIn Edmond Wright (ed.), The Case for Qualia, Mit Press. pp. 89--107. 2008.
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1On what is good: A study of BF Skinner's operant behaviorist viewBehaviorism 5 (2): 97-112. 1977.
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14Identifying the Mind: Selected Papers of U.T. Place (edited book)Oup Usa. 2004.This is the one and only book by the pioneer of the identity theory of mind. The collection focuses on Place's philosophy of mind and his contributions to neighbouring issues in metaphysics and epistemology. It includes an autobiographical essay as well as a recent paper on the function and neural location of consciousness.
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3Internal-world skepticism and mental self-presentationIn Uriah Kriegel & Kenneth Williford (eds.), Self-Representational Approaches to Consciousness, Mit Press. pp. 41-61. 2006.
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51Doing Something Intentionally and Moral ResponsibilityCanadian Journal of Philosophy 11 (4). 1981.The basic idea motivating this paper is that something can be done intentionally even when it is not done with the intention of doing it. An implication of this idea is that the distinction between doing what one intends and doing something as a foreseen avoidable consequence of doing what one intends cannot be used to exonerate agents for misdeeds.My immediate purpose here is to illustrate these points and show how they pertain to the morally relevant difference between active and passive eutha…Read more
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73The origins of folk psychologyInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 30 (December): 357-79. 1987.Folk psychology is the psychology deployed by ordinary folk and by scientists in ordinary life. At its most basic level, it consists of deploying the concept of mind to explain and predict behavior. This article (i) considers how folk psychology may have begun, by considering an imaginary race of primitive folk deploying the rudimentary nucleus of the psychology, or a rudimentary concept of mind, and (ii) examines one argument for the evolutionary emergence and adaptivity of folk psychology. The…Read more
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97Are the Deluded Believers? Are Philosophers Among the Deluded?Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 17 (4): 337-339. 2010.Are delusions best understood as a species of belief? Can I be deluded that p without believing that p? Because delusion is a clinical symptom, there are conflicting data at every turn. Perhaps it is best to think of delusions as beliefs not because they necessarily are beliefs, but because doing so helps patients. If one thinks that “denying that delusions are beliefs” means denying deluded patients “a voice in their own treatment” and that this would cut them off from alternative and healthier…Read more
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57Neural transplants are grey mattersBehavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (1): 46-47. 1995.The lesion and transplantation data cited by Sinden et al., when considered in tandem, seem to harbor an internal inconsistency, raising questions of false localization of function. The extrapolation of such data to cognitive impairment and potential treatment strategies in Alzheimer's disease is problematic. Patients with focal basal forebrain lesions (e.g., anterior communicating artery aneurysm rupture) might be a more appropriate target population.
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2Phenomenology, Intentionality, and the Unity of the MindIn Brian P. McLaughlin, Ansgar Beckermann & Sven Walter (eds.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy of mind, Oxford University Press. pp. 512--537. 2007.
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6The delusional stanceIn M. Chung, K. William M. Fulford & George Graham (eds.), The Philosophical Understanding of Schizophrenia, Oxford University Press. 2005.
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187Melancholic epistemologySynthese 82 (3): 399-422. 1990.Too little attention has been paid by philosophers to the cognitive and epistemic dimensions of emotional disturbances such as depression, grief, and anxiety and to the possibility of justification or warrant for such conditions. The chief aim of the present paper is to help to remedy that deficiency with respect to depression. Taxonomy of depression reveals two distinct forms: depression (1) with intentionality and (2) without intentionality. Depression with intentionality can be justified or…Read more
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143The phenomenology of first-person agencyIn Sven Walter & Heinz-Dieter Heckmann (eds.), Physicalism and Mental Causation: The Metaphysics of Mind and Action, Imprint Academic. pp. 323. 2003.
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26Words, Worlds, and AddictionsPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 22 (1): 45-47. 2015.With Latin as its semantic pedigree, ‘addiction’ derives from addictio, to give over, to surrender. If I am addicted to something, then I am given over to it. I surrender to it.Many good things in life are well worth giving oneself over to. I surrender myself to love for my family, a passion for philosophy, the awesome beauties of Mother Nature, the intricacies of sonnets by Shakespeare, and the warmth of reminiscing about shared histories with old friends.Of course, we persons have to be carefu…Read more
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97Self-Consciousness, Psychopathology, and Realism about the SelfAnthropology and Philosophy 3 (2). 1999.
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54A Companion to Cognitive Science (edited book)Blackwell. 1998.Part I: The Life of Cognitive Science:. William Bechtel, Adele Abrahamsen, and George Graham. Part II: Areas of Study in Cognitive Science:. 1. Analogy: Dedre Gentner. 2. Animal Cognition: Herbert L. Roitblat. 3. Attention: A.H.C. Van Der Heijden. 4. Brain Mapping: Jennifer Mundale. 5. Cognitive Anthropology: Charles W. Nuckolls. 6. Cognitive and Linguistic Development: Adele Abrahamsen. 7. Conceptual Change: Nancy J. Nersessian. 8. Conceptual Organization: Douglas Medin and Sandra R. Waxman. 9.…Read more
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26Review of Craig DeLancey, Passionate Engines: What Emotions Reveal About Mind and Artificial Intelligence (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (5). 2002.
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