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147Levels of attunement. A comment on Matthew ratcliffe´s the feelings of beingPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 8 (4): 607-611. 2009.In Feelings of Being, one of the most recent publications in the IPPP series, Matthew Ratcliffe provides a detailed phenomenological investigation of a distinct category of existential feelings in everyday life and psychiatric illness. Ratcliffe´s book is divided into three parts, each dealing with issues of remarkable complexity and scope.
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17Fiat Justitia, Ruat Caelum. Habermasian Reflections on Moral ConstraintsEthics, Policy and Environment 17 (2): 153-156. 2014.In recent years, several factors have brought urgency to the pursuit of adequate measures for dealing with the consequences of climate change. On the one hand, it has become more widely recognized...
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101Defining mental disorder. Exploring the 'natural function' approachPhilosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 6 1-. 2011.Due to several socio-political factors, to many psychiatrists only a strictly objective definition of mental disorder, free of value components, seems really acceptable. In this paper, I will explore a variant of such an objectivist approach to defining metal disorder, natural function objectivism. Proponents of this approach make recourse to the notion of natural function in order to reach a value-free definition of mental disorder. The exploration of Christopher Boorse's 'biostatistical' accou…Read more
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47Sub Specie Aeternitatis. An Actualisation of Wittgenstein on Ethics and AestheticsNordic Journal of Aesthetics 20 (38): 35-50. 2009.Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 This article will present an interpretation of Wittgenstein ’ s understanding of the relationship between ethics and aesthetics. In extension, it will inform recent discussions regarding a special kind of nonsensicality , which forms a central part of ethical and aesthetical expressions. Instead of identity between ethics and aesthetics, we should understand the relationship in terms of interdependence . Both attitudes provide a view sub s…Read more
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136The epistemological value of depression memoirsi a meta-analysisIn K. W. M. Fulford, Martin Davies, Richard Gipps, George Graham, John Sadler, Giovanni Stanghellini & Tim Thornton (eds.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy and psychiatry, Oxford University Press. pp. 99. 2013.
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46Primary Goods, Contingency, and the Moral Challenge of Genetic EnhancementJournal of Value Inquiry 45 (3): 279-291. 2011.
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