-
Mental disorder, free will, and personal autonomyIn Şerife Tekin & Robyn Bluhm (eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Psychiatry, Bloomsbury. 2019.
-
The Limits of IrrationalityDissertation, Princeton University. 1996.This dissertation is a philosophical investigation of irrationality. The aim is to provide a conceptual basis for understanding various forms of irrationality, such as psychosis, neurosis, self-deception, repression, and weak-willed behavior. There are six main chapters, focusing on different phenomena, and touching on several fields of inquiry, including moral psychology, value theory, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of science and psychoanalytic theory. The first two cha…Read more
-
19When Self-Consciousness Breaks: Alien Voices and Inserted ThoughtsPhilosophical Review 110 (4): 623. 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
-
37The neuron doctrine in psychiatryBehavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (5): 846-847. 1999.Gold & Stoljar's target article is important because it shows the limitations of neurobiological theories of the mind more powerfully than previous philosophical criticisms, especially those that focus on the subjective nature of experience and those that use considerations from philosophy of language to argue for the holism of the mental. They use less controversial assumptions and clearer arguments, the conclusions of which are applicable to the whole of neuroscience. Their conclusions can be …Read more
-
Philosophical Practice (review)Journal of Mind and Behavior 23 (3): 321-324. 2002.Lou Marinoff's Philosophical Practice outlines the rise of the new profession of philosophical practice and argues that philosophy should aim to be more applicable to issues people face in their everyday lives. Marinoff is the President of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association, and author of Plato Not Prozac, and he has arguably managed to draw more attention to philosophical counseling than any other person in America
-
27Derek Bolton, What is Mental Disorder? An Essay in Philosophy, Science, and Values Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 29 (5): 318-320. 2009.
-
32John Martin Fischer , Deep Control: Essays on Free Will and Value . Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 33 (6): 458-460. 2013.
-
7A Forlorn Hope: Psychoanalysis In Search Of Scientific Respectability: Review of The Evolution of the Emotion Processing Mind by Robert Langs (review)PSYCHE: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research On Consciousness 4. 1998.
-
1Telling the truth about mental illness: the role of narrativeIn Nancy Nyquist Potter (ed.), Trauma, Truth and Reconciliation: Healing Damaged Relationships, Oxford University Press. 2006.
-
1Divided Minds and Successive Selves: Ethical Issues in Disorders of Identity and Personality (review)Journal of Mind and Behavior 19 (1): 91-102. 1998.Exactly when Philosophy of Psychiatry started as a subfield of Philosophy is hard to say. There are several different estimates of how old psychiatry itself is, from one hundred to three hundred years, and of course there has been discussion and treatment of mental illness for at least a couple of thousand years. A host of issues which could count as belonging to the field have been discussed just within the last hundred years. For instance, a large literature on the philosophy of psychoanalysis…Read more
-
26Review of Allan V. Horwitz, Creating Mental Illness (review)American Journal of Bioethics 4 (2): 70-72. 2004.
-
26Methodology in Ascribing Moral ResponsibilityPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 21 (1): 17-20. 2014.There is much to admire in Michelle Ciurria’s provocative approach to ascribing moral responsibility. Her work is detailed and spells out explicitly her methodological assumptions. In this commentary, my main focus is on the methodological assumptions she makes. Ciurria’s arguments often depend on our reactions to actual cases and thought experiments. She takes it for granted that we need a theory that matches certain of our intuitions. This is not an unreasonable way to proceed. We definitely n…Read more
-
Cressida J. Heyes, Self-Transformations: Foucault, Ethics, and Normalized Bodies Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 28 (4): 267-269. 2008.
-
20Addiction requires philosophical explanation, not mere redescriptionBehavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (4): 592-593. 1996.Heyman's model explains the irrationality of addictive behavior, but it does not satisfactorily answer the question of whether this behavior is voluntary because it does not address the issue of the choice of preference functions. Furthermore, although Heyman disconfirms the disease model of addiction, this does not resolve the issue of whether addiction should be classified as a mental illness.
-
19Expanding The Repertoire of Bioethics: What Next?American Journal of Bioethics 5 (3): 63-65. 2005.No abstract
-
18Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, ed., Moral Psychology (vol. 3). The Neuroscience of Morality: Emotion, Brain Disorders, and Development. Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 30 (4): 301-304. 2010.
-
6Disorders of Childhood and YouthIn Jennifer Radden (ed.), The Philosophy of Psychiatry: A Companion, Oxford University Press. pp. 147. 2004.
-
68The Place of Moral Responsibility and Mental IllnessAmerican Journal of Bioethics 9 (9): 32-33. 2009.
-
40Problems With Non-Naturalistic Accounts of Non-VoluntarinessPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 22 (1): 17-19. 2015.The debate in philosophy of science in the twentieth century over the theory-laden-ness of observation showed both that there are many ways in which scientific observation depends on theory, and also highlighted some ways in which it is blind to theoretical assumptions. Debates in the philosophy of medicine have shown how concepts and theories of illness are value-laden, especially in psychiatry. Kious in his helpful and stimulating target article argues that the mainstream approach to autonomy …Read more
New York, NY, United States of America