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Mental disorder, free will, and personal autonomyIn Şerife Tekin & Robyn Bluhm (eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Psychiatry, Bloomsbury. 2019.
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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
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1TM Scanlon, Moral Dimensions: Permissibility, Meaning, BlamePhilosophy in Review 29 (4): 281. 2009.
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20Rae Langton , Sexual Solipsism: Philosophical Essays on Pornography and Objectification (review)Philosophy in Review 31 (4): 287-289. 2011.
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36Direct, fully intentional self-deception is also realBehavioral and Brain Sciences 20 (1): 123-124. 1997.An important way to become self-deceived, omitted by Mele, is by intentionally ignoring and avoiding the contemplation of evidence one has for an upsetting conclusion, knowing full well that one is giving priority to one's present peace of mind over the search for truth. Such intentional self-deception may be especially hard to observe scientifically.
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16Claudia Card , Confronting Evils: Terrorism, Torture, Genocide . Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 32 (4): 247-248. 2012.
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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
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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
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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
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27Derek Bolton, What is Mental Disorder? An Essay in Philosophy, Science, and Values Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 29 (5): 318-320. 2009.
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32John Martin Fischer , Deep Control: Essays on Free Will and Value . Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 33 (6): 458-460. 2013.
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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.
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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.
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26Review of Allan V. Horwitz, Creating Mental Illness (review)American Journal of Bioethics 4 (2): 70-72. 2004.
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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
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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
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