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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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38When self-consciousness breaks: Alien voices and inserted thoughtsPhilosophical Review 110 (4): 623-626. 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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Daniel M. Wegner, The Illusion of Conscious Will Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 23 (4): 299-301. 2003.
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14Christine M. Korsgaard, The Constitution of Agency: Essays on Practical Reason and Moral Psychology Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 30 (2): 109-110. 2010.
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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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35Direct, 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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16When 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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