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18Diagnostic Dilemmas in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Philosophical Perspectives (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2014.Within child and adolescent psychiatry, there are a number of potential dilemmas pertaining to diagnosis, treatment, the protection of the child, as well as the child's own developing intelligence and moral judgement. Diagnostic Dilemmas in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is the first in the IPPP series to explore this highly complex topic
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17Are Models Irrelevant and Incoherent?Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 21 (3): 199-201. 2014.
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5Dominic Murphy, Psychiatry in the Scientific Image Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 28 (6): 420-423. 2008.
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68Resisting the Temptations of Addiction RhetoricAmerican Journal of Bioethics 2 (2): 51-52. 2002.
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21Conceptualiser les troubles mentaux chez les enfants et les adolescentsPhilosophiques 33 (1): 65-79. 2006.J’explore de façon critique la supposition du DSM[1] et de théoriciens tels que Wakefield et Gert selon laquelle les troubles mentaux doivent être attribués à un individu plutôt qu’à un groupe de personnes. Cette supposition est particulièrement problématique en pédopsychiatrie où le système familial est très souvent au centre de l’attention clinique. Il y a bien sûr des éléments de preuve substantiels indiquant que certains troubles mentaux des individus sont causés par leurs relations avec les…Read more
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74Degrees of PersonhoodJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 22 (2): 173-197. 1997.In this paper I argue that a Naturalist conception of personhood, such as the one defended by Derek Parfit, implies that there are degrees of personhood, i.e., that it makes sense to say one individual has a greater degree of personhood than another. I describe both criteria of general personhood, which distinguish between persons and non-persons, and criteria of particular personhood, which distinguish between one person and another. I examine some of the consequences for ethics, including the …Read more
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Development: Disorders of Childhood and YouthIn Jennifer Radden (ed.), The Philosophy of Psychiatry: A Companion, Oxford University Press. 2004.
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73Medicating Children: The Case of RitalinBioethics 11 (3-4): 228-240. 1997.In response to recent concerns about the overmedication of children, this paper considers ethical and conceptual issues that arise in the issue of when children who are diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder should be given stimulants such as the psychotropic drug Ritalin as part of their treatment. There is considerable resistance and worry about the possibility of overmedication. This is linked to the worry that the diagnosis of ADHD is overused, and the paper considers some r…Read more
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43Bridging the gap between philosophers of mind and brain researchers: The example of addictionMens Sana Monographs 9 (1): 193. 2011.Philosophers and psychologists have long tried to understand people's irrational behaviour through concepts such as weakness of will, compulsion and addiction. The scientific basis of the project has been greatly enhanced by advances in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. However, some philosophers have also been critical of the more general conclusions drawn by the scientists. This is especially true when scientific researchers start making claims that go to philosophical issues, such as fre…Read more
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38When self-consciousness breaks: Alien voices and inserted thoughtsPhilosophical Review 110 (4): 623-626. 2001.Stephens and Grahamset themselves an apparently modest task, to understand why people who experience alien voices and inserted thoughts do not believe that they themselves are the source of these experiences. However, it soon becomes clear that there are many connected issues here. In eight short chapters, they address the phenomenology and ontology of consciousness, the phenomenology of alien voices, inserted thoughts, obsessive-compulsive thoughts and feelings, and other cases of unusual exper…Read more
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Daniel M. Wegner, The Illusion of Conscious Will Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 23 (4): 299-301. 2003.
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14Christine M. Korsgaard, The Constitution of Agency: Essays on Practical Reason and Moral Psychology Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 30 (2): 109-110. 2010.
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