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Somogy Varga

Aarhus University
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    Existential choices: to what degree is who we are a matter of choice?
    Continental Philosophy Review 44 (1): 65-79. 2011.
    On the one hand, it is commonly agreed that we make choices in which we are guided by a core of personal commitments, wishes, feelings, etc. that we take to express who we are. On the other, it is commonly agreed that some of these ‘existential’ choices constitute who we are. When confronting these two matters, the question of agency inevitably arises: Whether and in what sense can we choose ourselves? The paper will argue for a new perspective on existential choice
    Existentialism, Misc
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    Introduction Emotional Experience in Depression
    with Matthew Ratcliffe
    Journal of Consciousness Studies 20 (7-8): 7-8. 2013.
    Philosophy of Cognitive ScienceEmotionsPhilosophy of PsychologyEmotions, Misc
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    The Elephant in the Room
    Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 20 (2): 165-167. 2013.
    This Article is a response to thoughtful commentaries by Jennifer Radden (2013) and Louis A. Sass and Elizabeth Pienkos (2013) on my paper, which investigates the continuity between melancholia and depression. In the following, I address the challenges presented by the commentators and attempt to clarify and deepen my position. In my paper, I have explored the history of melancholia and depression with special emphasis on the question of their possible continuity—with the knowledge that any such…Read more
    DepressionMental IllnessPhilosophy of Psychiatry and Psychopathology, Misc