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36Multiple selvesIn Shaun Gallagher (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Self, Oxford University Press. pp. 547--570. 2011.This article examines Dissociative Identity Disorder and the ways multiple selves have been depicted or implicated in some recent philosophical discussions. It considers recent approaches to the concept of self and suggests that none of them rule out the possibility of multiple selves. It contends that the 1998 work of Carol Rovane is perhaps the most appropriate for explaining these types of multiplicity. It discusses the desirability of self-unity understood as a norm of mental health and eval…Read more
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2. From the Editors From the Editors (pp. 1-10)International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 4 (1). 2011.
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6Vorhersagefehler und Gehirnverletzungen. Zwei-Faktoren-Theorien über WahnvorstellungenDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 60 (6): 903-918. 2012.This paper explores the two-factor theoretical model currently widely used to provide an explanatory analysis of the delusions that regularly accompany neurological disease or damage. The model hypothesizes a combination of an experiential factor – a strange or untoward experience – and a cognitive factor, such as an impairment of reasoning. The two-factor model has been devised formonothematicdelusions that are usually manifested in a single, implausible idea. These have to be distinguished fro…Read more
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535Recognition rights, mental health consumers and reconstructive cultural semanticsPhilosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 7 1-8. 2012.IntroductionThose in mental health-related consumer movements have made clear their demands for humane treatment and basic civil rights, an end to stigma and discrimination, and a chance to participate in their own recovery. But theorizing about the politics of recognition, 'recognition rights' and epistemic justice, suggests that they also have a stake in the broad cultural meanings associated with conceptions of mental health and illness.ResultsFirst person accounts of psychiatric diagnosis an…Read more
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70The Self and Its Moods in Depression and ManiaJournal of Consciousness Studies 20 (7-8): 7-8. 2013.This discussion is about the moods characteristic of depressive and manic states. Moods are distinguished from the emotions they often accompany, and the relationship between these less and more cognitive, and seemingly less and more intentional, states is provided preliminary clarification. Epistemic deficiencies identified here, when combined with differences of quality and quantity in the moods and motivations that beset the depression and mania sufferer, seem likely to hinder self-knowledge …Read more
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41Delusions ReduxMind and Language 28 (1): 125-139. 2013.My response to the preceding essays begins with some preliminaries about my terminology, approach, and conception of rationality as a regulative ideal. I then comment on the Murphy's discussion about normal religious belief and religious delusions, and on causal assumptions challenged by Langdon's folies à deux. Responding to Gerrans's imagination-based account of delusion and Hohwy's discussion of illusions, I next try to envision what both doxastic and imagination-based approaches might have o…Read more
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13Shared Descriptions: What Can Be Concluded?Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 20 (2): 157-159. 2013.
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59Belief as Delusional and Delusion as BeliefPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 21 (1): 43-46. 2014.Richard Mullen and Grant Gillett (2014) decry the oversimplifications that accompany ‘doxastic’ analyses of delusion analogizing them to belief states; particularly, they object to the recent elevation to the status of paradigmatic the ordinary beliefs often understood, in Bayesian terms, as probabilistic estimates of empirical facts. Such an approach ignores the significance of the delusion for the individual, they emphasize, neglecting the delusional person’s conceptions of self and identity i…Read more
University of Oxford
DPhil, 1976
Areas of Specialization
Mental Illness |
Philosophy of Psychiatry and Psychopathology, Misc |
Psychopathology |
Philosophy of Psychiatry |