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83The Scientific Study of Consciousness Cannot and Should Not Be Morally NeutralPerspectives on Psychological Science 18 (3): 535-543. 2023.A target question for the scientific study of consciousness is how dimensions of consciousness, such as the ability to feel pain and pleasure or reflect on one’s own experience, vary in different states and animal species. Considering the tight link between consciousness and moral status, answers to these questions have implications for law and ethics. Here we point out that given this link, the scientific community studying consciousness may face implicit pressure to carry out certain research …Read more
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87Postphenomenological Investigations: Essays on Human–Technology RelationsLexington Books. 2015.This book provides an introduction to postphenomenology, an emerging school of thought in the philosophy of technology and science and technology studies, which addresses the relationships users develop with the devices they use
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23Should We Trust Patient-Reported Outcomes?American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 12 (2-3): 156-159. 2021.
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27Attitudes towards Personhood in the Locked-in Syndrome: from Third- to First- Person Perspective and to Interpersonal SignificanceNeuroethics 13 (2): 193-201. 2018.Personhood is ascribed on others, such that someone who is recognized to be a person is bestowed with certain civil rights and the right to decision making. A rising question is how severely brain-injured patients who regain consciousness can also regain their personhood. The case of patients with locked-in syndrome is illustrative in this matter. Upon restoration of consciousness, patients with LIS find themselves in a state of profound demolition of their bodily functions. From the third-perso…Read more
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53Personhood is ascribed on others, such that someone who is recognized to be a person is bestowed with certain civil rights and the right to decision making. A rising question is how severely brain-injured patients who regain consciousness can also regain their personhood. The case of patients with locked-in syndrome is illustrative in this matter. Upon restoration of consciousness, patients with LIS find themselves in a state of profound demolition of their bodily functions. From the third-perso…Read more
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36From armchair to wheelchair: How patients with a locked-in syndrome integrate bodily changes in experienced identityConsciousness and Cognition 21 (1): 431-437. 2012.Different sort of people are interested in personal identity. Philosophers frequently ask what it takes to remain oneself. Caregivers imagine their patients’ experience. But both philosophers and caregivers think from the armchair: they can only make assumptions about what it would be like to wake up with massive bodily changes. Patients with a locked-in syndrome suffer a full body paralysis without cognitive impairment. They can tell us what it is like. Forty-four chronic LIS patients and 20 ag…Read more
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915From armchair to wheelchair: how patients with a locked-in syndrome integrate bodily changes in experienced identityConsciouness and Cognition 21 (1): 431-437. 2012.Different sort of people are interested in personal identity. Philosophers frequently ask what it takes to remain oneself. Caregivers imagine their patients’ experience. But both philosophers and caregivers think from the armchair: they can only make assumptions about what it would be like to wake up with massive bodily changes. Patients with a locked-in syndrome (LIS) suffer a full body paralysis without cognitive impairment. They can tell us what it is like. Forty-four chronic LIS patients and…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Continental Philosophy |