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50Addiction and Responsibility (edited book)MIT Press. 2011.Addictive behavior threatens not just the addict's happiness and health but also the welfare and well-being of others. It represents a loss of self-control and a variety of other cognitive impairments and behavioral deficits. An addict may say, "I couldn't help myself." But questions arise: are we responsible for our addictions? And what responsibilities do others have to help us? This volume offers a range of perspectives on addiction and responsibility and how the two are bound together. Disti…Read more
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49Philosophy Then and Now: An Introductory Text with Readings (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 1998.Philosophy Then and Now provides an innovative and engaging blend of introductory text with classic and contemporary readings. Each of the eight parts begins with an introductory section on the major ideas associated with a seminal figure from the history of philosophy. This is followed by key selections from the essential writings of that philosopher, as well as influential selections from contemporary figures. Key figures covered include: Socrates, Aquinas, Locke, Descartes, Mill, Nietzsche, M…Read more
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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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45Recent 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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44Qualia Realism, Its Phenomenal Contents and DiscontentsIn Edmond Wright (ed.), The Case for Qualia, Mit Press. pp. 89--107. 2008.
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44Guilty 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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36Ultimate differencesBehavioral and Brain Sciences 18 (4): 698-699. 1995.Gray unwisely melds together two distinguishable contributions of consciousness: one to epistemology, the other to evolution. He also renders consciousness needlessly invisible behaviorally.
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33Reconcevoir le délirePhilosophiques 33 (1): 183-195. 2006.Les délires sont des composantes cruciales de nombreux troubles psychiques, surtout la schizophrénie. Que sont les délires? Selon l’opinion courante, il s’agit d’un type de croyance, plus précisément, une croyance pathologique. Malheureusement, l’opinion courante ne correspond pas rigoureusement, dans tous les cas, à la pratique clinique, où l’expression « délire » est souvent appliquée à des états qui ne sont pas des croyances. Nous examinons les raisons pour lesquelles des états qui ne sont pa…Read more
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32Dissociation, self-attribution, and redescriptionBehavioral and Brain Sciences 17 (4): 719-719. 1994.
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30Phenomenal Intentionality and Content DeterminacyIn Richard Schantz (ed.), Prospects for Meaning, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 321-344. 2012.
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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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30More 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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27Connectionism in Pavlovian harnessIn Terence E. Horgan & John L. Tienson (eds.), Connectionism and the Philosophy of Mind, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 143--166. 1991.
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26Dismantling the Memory Machine: A Philosophical Investigation of Machine Theories of Memory. By Howard A. Bursen (review)Modern Schoolman 57 (3): 269-270. 1980.
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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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26Metaphysics and the Mind-Body Problem. By Michael E. Levin (review)Modern Schoolman 59 (4): 301-302. 1982.
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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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25Personal Identity. By Sydney Shoemaker and Richard Swinburne (review)Modern Schoolman 64 (4): 303-304. 1987.
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25Philosophical psychopathology and self-consciousnessIn Max Velmans & Susan Schneider (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness, Blackwell. pp. 194--208. 2007.
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24Oxford 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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21Explanation and Power: The Control of Human Behavior. By Morse Peckham (review)Modern Schoolman 57 (2): 168-171. 1980.
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