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30Philosophical empathyContinental Philosophy Review 54 (2): 219-235. 2021.Is there a sense in which we can be said to empathize with a philosophical position and, if so, what does empathy consist of here? Drawing on themes in the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, I sketch an account of the relationship between philosophical language and philosophical thought, according to which the task of understanding, evaluating, and building upon an explicit philosophical position can involve engaging with the experiential world of its author. If accepted, this account has broader im…Read more
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29Introduction: Understanding Grief: Feeling, Intentionality, Regulation, and InterpretationJournal of Consciousness Studies 29 (9-10): 7-12. 2022.
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29From folk psychology to commonsenseIn Daniel D. Hutto & Matthew Ratcliffe (eds.), Folk Psychology Re-Assessed, Kluwer/springer Press. pp. 223--243. 2007.
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28La Question du Problème du Problème de la ConscienceSynthesis Philosophica 22 (2): 483-494. 2007.L’article affirme que le « problème de la conscience », dans sa formulation la plus répandue, est fondé sur une interprétation erronée de la structure de l’expérience. Le contraste entre « ma perspective subjective » et « le monde partagé dans lequel j’adopte cette perspective » fait partie de mon expérience. Néanmoins, les descriptions de l’expérience sur lesquelles est fondé le problème de la conscience n’ont tendance qu’à l’accentuer, négligeant étrangement le fait que l’expérience implique l…Read more
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27The Underlying Unity of Hope and TrustThe Monist 106 (1): 1-11. 2023.This paper addresses the relationships between hope and trust. I suggest that different kinds of hope and trust relate to one another in different ways, which I conceive of in dynamic terms. I propose that the movement of hope and trust has a unifying context: the changing structure of a human life and its dependence on other people. I further argue that the most fundamental forms of hope and trust are inextricable. Together, they comprise a diffuse way of anticipating things in general, which c…Read more
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27Evolution and belief: the missing questionStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 33 (1): 133-150. 2002.In this paper, I address the question of what an evolutionary account of intentional states should look like. I suggest that many accounts rest on the assumption that, so far as intentionality is concerned, differences between animal species should be understood solely in terms of comparative sophistication. I argue that this assumption is misguided. Such accounts ignore an important biological distinction between functional and anatomical characterisations and seek to explain comparative differ…Read more
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25Thought Insertion ClarifiedJournal of Consciousness Studies 22 (11-12): 246-269. 2015.'Thought insertion' in schizophrenia involves somehow experiencing one's own thoughts as someone else's. Some philosophers try to make sense of this by distinguishing between ownership and agency: one still experiences oneself as the owner of an inserted thought but attributes it to another agency. In this paper, we propose that thought insertion involves experiencing thought contents as alien, rather than episodes of thinking. To make our case, we compare thought insertion to certain experience…Read more
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23Reconstructing the cognitive world by Michael Wheeler cambridge mass.: MIT press, 2005. Pp. XI + 340. £22.95Philosophy 82 (1): 190-195. 2007.
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22Trauma, Language, and TrustIn Anna Bortolan & Elisa Magrì (eds.), Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and the Social World: The Continued Relevance of Phenomenology. Essays in Honour of Dermot Moran, Degruyter. pp. 323-342. 2022.
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21Phenomenological reflections on grief during the COVID-19 pandemicPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 22 (5): 1067-1086. 2023.This paper addresses how and why social restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic have affected people’s experiences of grief. To do so, I adopt a broadly phenomenological approach, one that emphasizes how our experiences, thoughts, and activities are shaped by relations with other people. Drawing on first-person accounts of grief during the pandemic, I identify two principal (and overlapping) themes: (a) deprivation and disruption of interpersonal processes that play important roles in …Read more
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21The Phenomenology of Existential FeelingIn Jörg Fingerhut & Sabine Marienberg (eds.), Feelings of Being Alive, De Gruyter. pp. 23-54. 2012.
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21Das Problem mit dem Problem des BewusstseinsSynthesis Philosophica 22 (2): 483-494. 2007.In dem Artikel wird die These vertreten, dass sich das – um es in populärster Weise zu formulieren – „Problem des Bewusstseins” auf einer falschen Interpretation der Erfahrungsstruktur gründet. Der Kontrast zwischen meiner subjektiven Perspektive und der gemeinsamen Welt, in der ich meine Perspektive einnehme , ist Bestandteil meiner Erfahrung. Beschreibungen von Erfahrungen, die den Grundstein für die Bewusstseinsausbildung legen, neigen jedoch dazu, lediglich Ersteres zu betonen, wobei sie mer…Read more
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21Lonely Places and Lonely PeopleTopoi 42 (5): 1123-1132. 2023.Feeling lonely, being a lonely person, and living through lonely times can all be construed in terms of the emotional experiences of individuals. However, we also speak of lonely places. Sometimes, a place strikes us as lonely even when we do not feel lonely ourselves. On other occasions, finding a place lonely also involves feeling lonely, isolated, and lost. In this paper, I reflect on the phenomenological structure of loneliness by addressing what it is to experience a place as lonely. I sugg…Read more
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18Rethinking commonsense psychology: a critique of folk psychology, theory of mind and simulationPalgrave-Macmillan. 2007.This book proposes a series of interconnected arguments against the view that interpersonal understanding involves the use of a 'folk' or 'commonsense' psychology. Ratcliffe suggests that folk psychology, construed as the attribution of internal mental states in order to predict and explain behaviour, is a theoretically motivated and misleading abstraction from social life. He draws on phenomenology, neuroscience and developmental psychology to offer an alternative account that emphasizes patter…Read more
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17Illness, Injury, and the Phenomenology of Loss: A DialogueJournal of Consciousness Studies 29 (9-10): 150-174. 2022.This paper explores similarities and differences between grief over the death of a person and other experiences of loss that are sometimes termed 'grief', focusing on the impact of serious illness and bodily injury. It takes the form of a dialogue between a physician/ neurophysiologist and a philosopher. Adopting a broad conception of grief, we suggest that experiences of lost or unrealized possibilities are central to all forms of grief. However, these unfold in different ways over prolonged pe…Read more
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16Emotional sinking inInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.In reflecting on events of considerable significance, it is commonplace to remark that ‘it hasn’t sunk in yet’ or ‘it’s still sinking in’. Such talk is sometimes associated with things seeming unreal, surreal, unfathomable, or somehow impossible. In this paper, I develop an account of what these experiences consist of. First of all, I suggest that they involve explicitly acknowledging the reality of one’s situation, while at the same time experiencing it as inconsistent with the organization of …Read more
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10Phenomenology, Neuroscience, and IntersubjectivityIn Hubert L. Dreyfus & Mark A. Wrathall (eds.), A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism, Blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: Phenomenology and Naturalism Mirror Neurons and Intersubjectivity Perceiving Others Wriggling out of Naturalism.
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10El sentimiento de serIdeas Y Valores 67 (167): 289-316. 2018.RESUMEN Una vez que el foco de la reflexión pasa de las teorías ideales a la aplicación de la justicia social, centrada en las instituciones de las sociedades democráticas, se requiere prestar especial atención a los estilos de vida. Estos tienen una alta incidencia en cómo la justicia es realizada y afectan tanto a la desigualdad económica como a la disponibilidad de los recursos naturales. En nuestras sociedades es posible establecer restricciones a los estilos de vida, especialmente en aquell…Read more
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8Reconstructing the Cognitive World by Michael Wheeler Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press, 2005. pp. xi + 340. £22.95 (review)Philosophy 82 (1): 190-195. 2007.
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7Emotions of the pandemic: phenomenological perspectivesPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 22 (5): 1023-1030. 2023.This article provides an introduction to the special issue “Emotions of the Pandemic: Phenomenological Perspectives”. We begin by outlining how phenomenological research can illuminate various forms of emotional experience associated with the exceptional circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, we propose that a consideration of pandemic experience, in all its complexity and diversity, has the potential to yield wider-ranging phenomenological insights. We go on to discuss the thirtee…Read more
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4Understanding existential changes in psychiatric illness: the indispensability of phenomenologyIn Matthew Broome & Lisa Bortolotti (eds.), Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience: Philosophical Perspectives, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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3A Bad Case Of The Flu?: The Comparative Phenomenology of Depression and Somatic IllnessJournal of Consciousness Studies 20 (7-8): 198-218. 2013.This paper argues that the DSM diagnostic category 'major depression' is so permissive that it fails to distinguish the phenomenology of depression from a general 'feeling of being ill' that is associated with a range of somatic illnesses. We start by emphasizing that altered bodily experience is a conspicuous and commonplace symptom of depression. We add that the experience of somatic illness is not exclusively bodily; it can involve more pervasive experiential changes that are not dissimilar t…Read more
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2On feeling unable to continue as oneselfEuropean Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.This paper sets out a phenomenological account of what it is to feel unable to continue as oneself. I distinguish the feeling that a particular identity has become unsustainable from a sense that the world has ceased to offer the kinds of possibilities required to sustain any such identity. In feeling unable to continue as oneself, possibilities may remain for carrying on in practically meaningful ways but not as who one is or was. I reflect on the kinds of self and feeling involved in such expe…Read more
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1The phenomenology of mood and the meaning of lifeIn Peter Goldie (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Emotion, Oxford University Press. pp. 349--371. 2010.
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Beyond ’Salience’ and ’Affordance’: Understanding Anomalous Experiences of Significant PossibilitiesIn Sophie Archer (ed.), Salience: A Philosophical Inquiry, Routledge. 2022.
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Evaluating existential despairIn Sabine Roeser & Cain Samuel Todd (eds.), Emotion and Value, Oxford University Press Uk. 2014.
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Emotion Regulation in a Disordered World: Understanding Borderline Personality DisorderIn Christian Tewes & Giovanni Stanghellini (eds.), Time and Body: Phenomenological and Psychopathological Approaches, Cambridge University Press. pp. 177-200. 2020.
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Catatonia, intercorporeality, and the question of phenomenological specificityIn Christian Tewes & Giovanni Stanghellini (eds.), Time and Body: Phenomenological and Psychopathological Approaches, Cambridge University Press. 2020.
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Delusional atmosphere and delusional beliefIn S. Gallagher & D. Schmicking (eds.), Handbook of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science, Springer. 2009.
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