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95Consciousness and Mental LifeCambridge University Press. 2007.In recent decades, issues that reside at the center of philosophical and psychological inquiry have been absorbed into a scientific framework variously identified as "brain science," "cognitive science," and "cognitive neuroscience." Scholars have heralded this development as revolutionary, but a revolution implies an existing method has been overturned in favor of something new. What long-held theories have been abandoned or significantly modified in light of cognitive neuroscience? _Consciousn…Read more
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31Consciousness, Attention, and Conscious Attention by Haroutioun Haladjian and Carlos Montemayer (review)Review of Metaphysics 69 (1): 134-135. 2015.
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11Review of The cultural psychology of the self (review)Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 20 (2): 225-230. 2000.Reviews the book, The cultural psychology of the self by Ciaran Benson . This is a book rich in insight, deep in significance and, inevitably, marked by assumptions and interpretations subject to gentle disagreement. It is precisely because of its manifest assets that points of disagreement need to be highlighted. In this review I will address criticism only to the first half of the book, the criticism being more by way of an introduction to the issue than the suggestion of a settled position on…Read more
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26Review of Philosophy and ordinary language: The bent and genius of our tongue (review)Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 20 (1): 76-79. 2000.Reviews the book, Philosophy and ordinary language: The bent and genius of our tongue by Oswald Hanfling . This book is in the Routledge Series in 20th Century Philosophy and it is a distinguished contribution to that series. It is in its own way an exemplary exercise in philosophical acumen and clarity. In thirteen chapters the reader is paced carefully through what are often the tares and snares of contemporary analytical philosophy, but for the express purpose of defending "ordinary language"…Read more
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17Commentary on" Autobiography, Narrative, and the Freudian Concept of Life History"Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 4 (3): 205-207. 1997.
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47The insanity defense as a history of mental disorderIn K. W. M. Fulford (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry, Oxford University Press. pp. 18. 2013.Throughout its history, the insanity defense specifically and the more general concept of mental defect or incompetence have been grounded in the assumption that those people fit for the rule of law are able to give and to comprehend reasons for their actions. This chapter traces the evolution of perspectives on the nature of mental illness and the manner in which cultural and extra-scientific influences have shaped perspectives. These perspectives are most saliently expressed in statutory provi…Read more
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45. punishment and forgivenessIn Praise and Blame: Moral Realism and Its Applications: Moral Realism and Its Applications, Princeton Univ. Press. pp. 179-204. 2002.
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17Reply To CommentariesJournal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 23 (1): 50-61. 2003.Commentators' criticisms are considered in relation to the aims of the book as well as in relation to the commentators' own understanding of major issues. Neither reliance on social construcitonist alternatives nor on 'de gustibus' arguments reaches the principal arguments of Praise and Blame. 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
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19Stories as Tales and as Histories: A Response to the CommentaryPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 7 (3): 229-230. 2000.
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Lloyd Weinreb's Problems with Natural LawIn Robert George (ed.), Natural Law, Liberalism, and Morality: Contemporary Essays, Oxford University Press. 2001.
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60Wild Beasts and Idle Humours: The Insanity Defense from Antiquity to the PresentHarvard Univ. Press. 1996."An American psychologist, Daniel N. Robinson, traces the development of the insanity plea...[He offers] an assured historical survey." Roy Porter, The Times [UK] "Wild Beasts and Idle Humours is truly unique. It synthesizes material that I do not believe has ever been considered in this context, and links up the historical past with contemporaneous values and politics. Robinson effortlessly weaves religious history, literary history, medical history, and political history, and d…Read more
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37Praise and Blame: Moral Realism and Its Applications: Moral Realism and Its ApplicationsPrinceton Univ. Press. 2002."This book is a significant contribution to the analytic study of ethics, to the history of ethics, and to the growing field of philosophical psychology.
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40Summary of Praise and BlameJournal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 23 (1): 2-7. 2003.A summary of the major arguments of PRAISE AND BLAME, both critical and constructive, is offered. The overarching objectives of the book are set forth, making clear the radical form of moral realism defended. Additional material is presented to justify the attention paid to historical vs. contemporary alternatives to moral realism, the latter found to be at once indebted to the former but often less developed. 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
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1Schiavo, privacy, and the interests of lawIn Kenneth W. Goodman (ed.), The case of Terri Schiavo: ethics, politics, and death in the 21st century, Oxford University Press. 2010.
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17Madness, badness, and fitness: law and psychiatry (again)Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 7 (3): 209-222. 2000.
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17Editor’s choicesJournal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 21 (1): 80-86. 2001.Reviews the books, Emotion and peace of mind: From stoic agitation to Christian temptation by Richard Sorabji and Other minds by Anita Avramides . The two works considered here are deeply serious and composed by scholars who have executed their projects with undeviating integrity. In Emotion and Peace of Mind, based on his Gifford Lectures, Richard Sorabji moves the reader through a veritable course of study on a subject as notoriously protean as it is central to the lived life. The twenty-six c…Read more
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38Wild Beasts and Idle Humours: Legal Insanity and the Finding of FaultRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 37 159-. 1994.So fearfully and wonderfully are we made, so infinitely subtle is the spiritual part of our being, so difficult is it to trace with accuracy the effect of diseased intellect upon human action, that I may appeal to all who hear me, whether there are any causes more difficult, or which, indeed, so often confound the learning of the judges themselves, as when insanity, or the the effects and consequences of insanity, become the subjects of legal consideration and judgment.
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Punishment, Forgiveness and the Proxy ProblemNotre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy 18 (2): 373-386. 2004.
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32Antigone's Defense: A Critical Study of Natural Law Theory: Contemporary EssaysReview of Metaphysics 45 (2): 363-392. 1991.By the sixth century of the modern era, and after centuries of refinement and skillful application by Roman jurists, the core principles appear in Justinian's Institutes, where it is simply taken for granted, without benefit of analysis or argument, that.
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15Toward a Science of Human Nature (edited book)Columbia University Press. 1982.Available for the first time in English, this is the definitive account of the practice of sexual slavery the Japanese military perpetrated during World War II by the researcher principally responsible for exposing the Japanese government's responsibility for these atrocities. The large scale imprisonment and rape of thousands of women, who were euphemistically called "comfort women" by the Japanese military, first seized public attention in 1991 when three Korean women filed suit in a Toyko Dis…Read more
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53. moral luck, morality, and the fatesIn Praise and Blame: Moral Realism and Its Applications: Moral Realism and Its Applications, Princeton Univ. Press. pp. 108-145. 2002.