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6Why let people die?Journal of Medical Ethics 12 (2): 83-86. 1986.This paper concerns those patients whose brain is irreversibly damaged to the point where they will never recover significant mental life. I examine the reasons which justify the decision to withhold or discontinue active medical intervention in these patients. They involve the identity, quality of life and agency of those beings whom we value as persons
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6Bioethics in the Clinic: Hippocratic ReflectionsJHU Press. 2004.Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title What is so special about human life? What is the relationship between flesh and blood and the human soul? Is there a kind of life that is worse than death? Can a person die and yet the human organism remain in some real sense alive? Can souls become sick? What justifies cutting into a living human body? These and other questions, writes neurosurgeon and philosopher Grant Gillett, pervade hospital wards, clinical offices, and operating …Read more
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6Representation, Meaning, and ThoughtOxford University Press. 1992.Examines the relationship between thought and language by considering the views of Kant and Wittgenstein alongside many strands of contemporary debate in the area of mental content.
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5The Mind and its DiscontentsOxford University Press. 2009.The first edition of The Mind and its Discontents was a powerful analysis of how, as a society, we view mental illness, looking beyond just biological models of mental pathologies. In the ten years since, there has been growing interest in the philosophy of psychiatry, and a new edition of this text is more timely and important than ever.
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410 Women and children firstIn K. W. M. Fulford, Grant Gillett & Janet Martin Soskice (eds.), Medicine and Moral Reasoning, Cambridge University Press. pp. 3--131. 1994.
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4Review of Rachel Cooper, Psychiatry and Philosophy of Science (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (6). 2008.
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3Locked in syndrome, PVS and ethics at the end of lifeJournal of Ethics in Mental Health 2 (2): 1-4. 2007.I had my accident on the rugby field on July 29, 2000 about 2.00 p.m. during a simple line - out, even before the ball was thrown in. I t just felt like another simple case of concussion , I staggered to the sideline, the coach asked me “what ’s wrong”? He said I told him I just felt sick and to put me back on the field in 10 minutes. Then I collapsed, eventually blacked out and then was rushed to hospital unconscious in an ambulance with them struggling drastically to keep me alive. Af ter thre…Read more
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2When the Music’s Over” then “Dancing with a Partner Will Help You Find the BeatCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 30 (4): 631-636. 2021.Responses to brain injury sit in the intersection between neuroscience and an ethic of care, and require sensitive and dynamic indicators of how an individual with brain injury can learn how to live in the context of a changing environment and multiple timescales. Therapeutic relationships and rhythms underpinning such a dynamic approach are currently obscured by existing models of brain function. Something older is required and we put forward narrative types articulating outcomes of brain injur…Read more
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1The Layering of the Psyche: Philosophy, Psychiatry, and DifferenceJournal of Mind and Behavior 30 (4): 205-228. 2009.Freud, working from a background in clinical neurology and against a backdrop of burgeoning theory development in biology and neurophysiology, thought that the layers of the mind mirrored the layers of the brain although he was well aware of the conceptual problems involved in trying to identify the two. His associationist view, based on a neurobiological and evolutionary approach to the mind tends to underestimate the role of consciousness in a holistic conception of the psyche. The role of lan…Read more
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Freud and the neurological unconsciousIn Man Chung (ed.), Psychoanalytic Knowledge, . pp. 76--95. 2003.
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Consent as Empowerment: The Roles of Postmodern and Narrative EthicsIn K. W. M. Fulford, Donna Dickenson & Thomas H. Murray (eds.), Healthcare Ethics and Human Values: An Introductory Text with Readings and Case Studies, Blackwell. 2002.
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Actions, Causes, and Mental AscriptionsIn Howard Robinson (ed.), Objections to Physicalism, Clarendon Press. 1996.
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Professional relationships : covenant, virtue, and clinical lifeIn Alastair V. Campbell, Voo Teck Chuan, Richard Huxtable & N. S. Peart (eds.), Healthcare ethics, law and professionalism: essays on the works of Alastair V. Campbell, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2019.
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Severe traumatic brain injuryIn Ethics in neurosurgical practice, Cambridge University Press. 2020.
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University of OtagoDepartment of Philosophy
Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind |
Continental Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Continental Philosophy |