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10The sophist's Puzzling Epistêmê_ in the _SophistClassical Quarterly 73 (1): 53-65. 2023.Against prevailing interpretations, this article contends that Plato's Sophist and Statesman accord the sophist a kind of ‘knowing-how’ (epistêmê). In Soph. 233c10‒d2, the Visitor and Theaetetus agree that the sophist has not truth but a δοξαστικὴ ἐπιστήμη. This phrase cannot mean ‘a seeming knowledge’, for –ικός adjectives formed from verbs express the ability to perform the action denoted by the verb—here, δοξάζω. Although not a first-order, subject-area knowledge, sophistry is a second-order …Read more
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160Agency in Mental Illness and Cognitive DisabilityIn Manuel Vargas & John Doris (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology, Oxford University Press. pp. 893-910. 2022.This chapter begins by sketching an account of morally responsible agency and the general conditions under which it may fail. We discuss how far individuals with psychiatric diagnoses may be exempt from morally responsible agency in the way that infants are, with examples drawn from a sample of diagnoses intended to make dierent issues salient. We further discuss a recent proposal that clinicians may hold patients responsible without blaming them for their acts. We also consider cognitively impa…Read more
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8Neural Correlates of Theory of Mind Are Preserved in Young Women With Anorexia NervosaFrontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.People with anorexia nervosa commonly exhibit social difficulties, which may be related to problems with understanding the perspectives of others, commonly known as Theory of Mind processing. However, there is a dearth of literature investigating the neural basis of these differences in ToM and at what age they emerge. This study aimed to test for differences in the neural correlates of ToM processes in young women with AN, and young women weight-restored from AN, as compared to healthy control …Read more
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12Corrigendum: Neural Correlates of Theory of Mind Are Preserved in Young Women With Anorexia NervosaFrontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.
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44What Is Psychiatry About?Philosophy Psychiatry and Psychology 30 (1): 41-43. 2023.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:What Is Psychiatry About?Dominic Murphy, PhD (bio)There are no such things as minds, but there are animate objects who behave differently from other types of natural entity. They move around under their own power, and some of their activity seems to be very different from that of other natural objects. Furthermore, some of our predictions about these objects are disproved in interesting ways; if we make a false prediction we do not r…Read more
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4Health and DiseaseIn Sahorta Sarkar & Anya Plutynski (eds.), Companion to the Philosophy of Biology, Blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains section titled: Introduction Objectivism and Constructivism Problems for Constructivism Objectivism Troubles with Objectivism References.
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17Moral injury and the need to carry out ethically responsible researchResearch Ethics 17 (2): 135-142. 2020.The need for research to advance scientific understanding must be balanced with ensuring the rights and wellbeing of participants are safeguarded, with some research topics posing more ethical quandaries for researchers than others. Moral injury is one such topic. Exposure to potentially morally injurious experiences can lead to significant distress, including post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and selfinjury. In this article, we discuss how the rapid expansion of research in the field …Read more
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4Περιτροπή, or Reversal, Arguments From Antiphon and SocratesIn Claudia Marsico (ed.), Socrates and the Socratic Philosophies: Selected Papers from Socratica IV, Academia Verlag. pp. 35-50. 2022.
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31Scientific Integrity Principles and Best Practices: Recommendations from a Scientific Integrity ConsortiumScience and Engineering Ethics 25 (2): 327-355. 2019.A Scientific Integrity Consortium developed a set of recommended principles and best practices that can be used broadly across scientific disciplines as a mechanism for consensus on scientific integrity standards and to better equip scientists to operate in a rapidly changing research environment. The two principles that represent the umbrella under which scientific processes should operate are as follows: Foster a culture of integrity in the scientific process. Evidence-based policy interests m…Read more
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33De Haan on Sense-Making and PsychopathologyPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 27 (1): 29-30. 2020.De Haan has provided a novel and distinctly enactivist solution to the problem of integrating the physiological, experiential, social and existential. We admire her articulation of her fourth "existential" dimension. Not only does it represent a real attempt to bridge, as she says, enactivism's explanatory gap, it is also a potentially useful construct for conceptualizing the way that self-reflexivity seems to go astray in much psychopathology. We think that pinpointing this phenomenon is someth…Read more
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And pseudo-andocidesIn Christopher Moore (ed.), Brill's Companion to the Reception of Socrates, Brill. 2019.
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The Medical Model and the Philosophy of ScienceIn K. W. M. Fulford, Martin Davies, Richard Gipps, George Graham, John Sadler, Giovanni Stanghellini & Tim Thornton (eds.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy and psychiatry, Oxford University Press. 2013.This chapter sketches an account of psychiatric explanation with roots in contemporary philosophy of science and suggests that it is a natural fit with what it will call the strong interpretation of the medical model in psychiatry. The chapter starts by distinguishing between strong and minimal ways to understand the medical model before it moves on to talk about explanation. The basic idea of the chapter is that the logic of the medical model, together with recent developments in the sciences o…Read more
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35Explanation in Psychiatry (review)Philosophy Compass 5 (7): 602-610. 2010.Philosophy of psychiatry has boomed in the last few years. We are now seeing a growing literature on the nature of psychiatric explanation, including work that makes contact with longstanding disputes in the philosophy of science as well as more specific work on mental disorders. This paper looks at some recent work on both representing and explaining mental illness. An emerging picture sees explanation of mental disorder as first constructing causal‐statistical networks that represent disease p…Read more
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Introduction (review)In Dominic Murphy & Michael A. Bishop (eds.), Stich and His Critics, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.
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59Dopamine and DiscoveryPhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 18 (1): 69-71. 2011.Kendler and Schaffner have written an exemplary case study of the rise of the dopamine hypothesis and, if not its fall, at least its stagnation and transmutation. They bring out well both the state of the science and the opportunities offered by the theory to consider some famous philosophical theories of scientific progress. So well, in fact, have they done this, that I do not have a lot to say about it. I will just mention one or two points that I found interesting, and then say a little about…Read more
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60Conceptual Foundations of Biological PsychiatryIn Fred Gifford (ed.), Philosophy of Medicine, Elsevier. pp. 16--425. 2011.
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163The Concept of Mental Illness--Where the Debate has Reached and Where it Needs to GoJournal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 25 (1): 116-132. 2005.The paper develops a framework for discussing concepts of health and disease along two dimensions. The first is the role of values in our disease concepts, and the second is the relationship between science and folk psychology. This framework is then applied to the concept of mental disorder. I argue that existing treatments of the concept yield too much authority to common sense, which produces a tension within the program of finding a scientific basis for our ascriptions of mental disorder. Th…Read more
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Aristotle on Why Plants Cannot PerceiveIn David Sedley (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy Xxix: Winter 2005, Oxford University Press. 2005.
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36Can Psychiatry Refurnish the Mind?Philosophical Explorations 20 (2): 160-174. 2017.In this paper, I will argue that the NIMH’s new Research Domain of Criteria is a useful test of the philosophical hypothesis of eliminative materialism and demonstrates the superiority of a moderate eliminativism over integrationism, which is a rival philosophical framework for the cognitive sciences. I begin by going over the motivation for RDOC, which rests on the problems with the existing Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders framework in psychiatry. Then, I introduce the mai…Read more
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61Can psychiatry refurnish the mind?Philosophical Explorations 20 (2): 160-174. 2017.In this paper, I will argue that the NIMH’s new Research Domain of Criteria is a useful test of the philosophical hypothesis of eliminative materialism and demonstrates the superiority of a moderate eliminativism over integrationism, which is a rival philosophical framework for the cognitive sciences. I begin by going over the motivation for RDOC, which rests on the problems with the existing Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders framework in psychiatry. Then, I introduce the mai…Read more
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8Challenging Postmodernism: Philosophy and the Politics of Truth (review)Symposium 8 (3): 703-705. 2004.
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3The Debate of Spiritualists, Structuralists, and Literalists and De anima 423b30-424a10Ancient Philosophy 26 (2): 305-332. 2006.
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