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2682What Emotions Really Are (In the Theory of Constructed Emotion)Philosophy of Science 85 (4): 640-59. 2018.Recently, Lisa Feldman Barrett and colleagues have introduced the Theory of Constructed Emotions (TCE), in which emotions are constituted by a process of categorizing the self as being in an emotional state. The view, however, has several counterintuitive implications: for instance, a person can have multiple distinct emotions at once. Further, the TCE concludes that emotions are constitutively social phenomena. In this article, I explicate the TCE*, which, while substantially similar to the TCE…Read more
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18Is Addiction a Heterogeneous Condition? Reflections on Pickard's “The Purpose in Chronic Addiction”American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 3 (2): 52-54. 2012.
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63Addiction is Not a Natural KindFrontiers in Psychiatry 4 123. 2013.I argue that addiction is not an appropriate category to support generalizations for the purposes of scientific prediction. That is, addiction is not a natural kind. I discuss the Homeostatic Property Cluster (HPC) theory of kinds, according to which members of a kind share a cluster of properties generated by a common mechanism or set of mechanisms. Leading accounts of addiction in literature fail to offer a mechanism that explains addiction across substances. I discuss popular variants of the …Read more
University of California, Riverside
PhD, 2022
Antwerp, Antwerp Province, Belgium
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