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11Book Review: Åsa Jansson, From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry (review)History of Psychiatry 35 (2). 2024.
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25Reluctant Republic: A Positive Right for Older People to Refuse AI-Based TechnologySocieties 13 (12). 2023.Societies in the global North face a future of accelerated ageing. In this context, advanced technology, especially that involving artificial intelligence (AI), is often presented as a natural counterweight to stagnation and decay. While it is a reasonable expectation that AI will play important roles in such societies, the manner in which it affects the lives of older people needs to be discussed. Here I argue that older people should be able to exercise, if they so choose, a right to refuse AI…Read more
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4This equivocal dust: a review of Material Cultures of Psychiatry , edited by M Ankele and B Majerus (review)History of Psychiatry 33 490-494. 2022.In painting portraits, artists used to subtly place objects which reflected the biography or ambitions of the subject, but it is only more recently that objects which were part of the everyday life of institutionalized individuals became themselves part of the narratives offered by historians and other scholars of psychiatry. Excavating these remains – and finding ways to listen to them – is part of telling a fuller story of the people who lived for many years in mental institutions, and indirec…Read more
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280'So Don't You Lock up Something / That You Wanted to See Fly'. What Story for Asylum Psychiatry? (review)Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations 23 71-79. 2021.In a rather long piece which an exhibition catalog has called „catholic propaganda”(Busch & Maisak, 2013, p. 342), Guido Görres reflected on madness and art, using Kaulbach’s iconic 1835 drawing of asylum inmates (Das Narrenhaus) as pretext. Görres wrote of “this hospital of the human spirit (…), this charnel ground of the living, who like specters roam, wearing on their foreheads the faded and almost illegible traces of their former names.”1(1836, p. 9). Overdramatic prose, but unlikely to stri…Read more
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195Review of 'A Natural History of Human Thinking' by Michael Tomasello (review)Metapsychology. 2015.
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145Review of 'Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament' by Thomas Nagel (review)Metapsychology. 2011.
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189Review of 'Making Minds and Madness: From Hysteria to Depression' by Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen (review)Metapsychology. 2011.
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12For we are legion. Remarks on Searle’s Making the Social World (review)Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations 13 67-81. 2011.This volume adds a largely redundant stratum to Searle’s effort to develop a systematic social ontology, a theory of the nature, kind or status of social entities. This has been one of Searle’s main concerns in the last two decades, and, while this thread of his work stands on the views about language and mind he developed since the 1960s, we can safely trace its origins to a paper published in 1990, “Collective Intentions and Actions” (Searle, 1990/2002). Beyond this early reference, the book i…Read more
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3This is a book about a kind of bitterness, one which shares a number of philosophical reflexes with the drive that made the old biologists search for the inexplicable spark of life, to paraphrase Collingwood, “at vanishing-point” (1992, 227). Much as the riddle of life haunted the philosophically inclined biologist, the mystery of mind became the make-or-break bet of the psychologist. To a certain extent, this was a bet that human minds were indeed mysterious, and that therefore adequate explana…Read more
George Tudorie
National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest
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National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, BucharestLecturer
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Psychology |
Philosophy of Psychiatry and Psychopathology |
Philosophy of Action |
Philosophy of Mind |