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9051Depression as a Disorder of ConsciousnessBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science. forthcoming.First-person reports of Major Depressive Disorder reveal that when an individual becomes depressed a profound change or ‘shift’ to one’s conscious experience occurs. The depressed person reports that something fundamental to their experience has been disturbed or shifted; a change associated with the common but elusive claim that when depressed one finds oneself in a ‘different world’ detached from reality and other people. Existing attempts to utilise these phenomenological observations in a ps…Read more
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200Aphantasia, imagination and dreamingPhilosophical Studies 178 (6): 2111-2132. 2020.Aphantasia is a recently discovered disorder characterised by the total incapacity to generate visual forms of mental imagery. This paper proposes that aphantasia raises important theoretical concerns for the ongoing debate in the philosophy and science of consciousness over the nature of dreams. Recent studies of aphantasia and its neurobehavioral correlates reveal that the majority of aphantasics, whilst unable to produce visual imagery while awake, nevertheless retain the capacity to experien…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind |
General Philosophy of Science |
Philosophy of Psychiatry |
Metaphilosophy |