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11Commentary on Kant, Thought Insertion, and Mental UnityPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 1 (2): 115-116. 1994.
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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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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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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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94Are 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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2Phenomenology, Intentionality, and the Unity of the MindIn Brian McLaughlin, Ansgar Beckermann & Sven Walter (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mind, Oxford University Press. pp. 512--537. 2009.
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110Self-consciousness, mental agency, and the clinical psychopathology of thought insertionPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 1 (1): 1-10. 1994.
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56Neural 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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30Phenomenal Intentionality and Content DeterminacyIn Richard Schantz (ed.), Prospects for Meaning, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 321-344. 2012.
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179Melancholic 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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44Qualia Realism, Its Phenomenal Contents and DiscontentsIn Edmond Wright (ed.), The Case for Qualia, Mit Press. pp. 89--107. 2008.
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52A 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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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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4Jean-Pierre Dupuy, The Mechanization of the Mind: On the Origins of Cognitive Science Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 22 (2): 112-114. 2002.
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70The 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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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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149Philosophy of Mind: An IntroductionWiley-Blackwell. 1993._Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction_ is a lively and accessible introduction to one of philosophy's most active and important areas of research
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6The delusional stanceIn Man Cheung Chung, K. W. M. Fulford & George Graham (eds.), Reconceiving Schizophrenia, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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2Book reviews (review)Philosophical Psychology 6 (4): 469-483. 1993.Philosophy of Mind: Classical Problems and Contemporary Issues Brian Beakley & Peter Ludlow, 1992 Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press xvi + 433pp, notes, index, US$19.95, $39.95Principles of Mental Imagery Ronald A. Finke MIT Press/A Bradford Book 179pp. $19.95The Realistic Spirit: Wittgenstein, Philosophy, and the Mind Cora Diamond, 1991 Cambridge, Mass, and London, MIT Press 396pp with index. $32.50Rethinking Religion: Connecting Cognition and Culture E. Thomas Lawson & Robert N. Mccauley 1990 Cambrid…Read more
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143The phenomenology of first-person agencyIn Sven Walter & Heinz-Dieter Heckmann (eds.), Physicalism and Mental Causation, Imprint Academic. pp. 323. 2003.
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