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1At first glance, the first informed consent case to be decided by the High Court of Australia appears to be little more than a clear and simple description of the substantive law accepted in most American jurisdictions—although that is no small accomplishment in and of itself. In Rogers v. Whitaker, the highest court in Aus (review)Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2 371-379. 1993.
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15Two Paradigms of Picture PerceptionIn Dieter Heyer & Rainer Mausfeld (eds.), Perception and the Physical World: Psychological and Philosophical Issues in Perception, Wiley. pp. 255--270. 2002.
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Seeing Distance from a Berkeleian PerspectiveIn Robert Muehlmann (ed.), Berkeley's Metaphysics: Structural, Interpretive, and Critical Essays, Pennsylvania State University Press. 1995.
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Genetic knowledge: some legal and ethical questionsIn David C. Thomasma & Thomasine Kimbrough Kushner (eds.), Birth to death: science and bioethics, Cambridge University Press. pp. 21--34. 1996.
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6Imagery: There is more to it than meets the eyePhilosophy of Science Association 1980. 1980.This paper looks at the role of imagery in cognition from the standpoint of treating images as forms of symbolization. It begins by making some basic distinctions about different kinds of symbolic functioning. It then proceeds to examine issues concerning: the variety of types of symbol systems used in cognition, the analog-digital distinction, image picture-percept relations, and propositionality
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8Visual VersionsBradford. 2006.These essays by Robert Schwartz on topics in the theory of vision are written from a pragmatic perspective. The issues and arguments will interest both philosophers and psychologists, covering new ground and bridging gaps between these disciplines. Schwartz begins historically, with discussions of problems raised and solutions offered in Bishop Berkeley's writings on vision, presenting Berkeley's views on spatial perception and the qualitative aspects of sensory experience in the context of rece…Read more
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9Vision: Variations on Some Berkeleian ThemesBlackwell. 1993.This book examines longstanding problems in the theory of vision. Each section begins by looking at the issues as they were raised and discussed by Berkeley. This work is unique in its blend of philosophical and historical perspectives on contemporary problems of readership
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4Perception (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2003._Perception_ presents classic essays on the conceptual and theoretical problems in the study of vision. In a style that is accessible to the non-expert, the volume lays out core issues in the theory of vision and then sets up a dialogue on the topics among philosophers and psychologists, past and present. Offers an accessible introduction to perception through key readings. Presents a dialogue among philosophers and psychologists on the science of perception. Contains a comprehensive introductio…Read more
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15Free recall following a switch in encoding classJournal of Experimental Psychology 95 (2): 455. 1972.
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7Similarity judgments and free recall of unrelated wordsJournal of Experimental Psychology 101 (1): 10. 1973.
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8Recognition and recall as a function of instructional manipulations of organizationJournal of Experimental Psychology 102 (3): 517. 1974.
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7Malpractice Liability for the Failure to Adequately Educate Patients: The Australian Law of “Informed Consent” and Its Implications for American Ethics CommitteesCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2 (3): 371. 1993.At first glance, the first informed consent case to be decided by the High Court of Australia appears to be little more than a clear and simple description of the substantive law accepted in most American jurisdictions - although that is no small accomplishment in and of itself. In Rogers v. Whitaker, the highest court in Australia succinctly and persuasively rejected informed consent as a species of battery law, accepted it as a form, of ordinary professional negligence law, and adopted the “Am…Read more
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4Why a Teenager over Age 14 Should Be Able to Consent, Rather than Merely Assent, to Participation as a Human Subject of ResearchAmerican Journal of Bioethics 3 (4): 38-40. 2003.No abstract
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14Why Britain Can't Afford Informed ConsentHastings Center Report 15 (4): 19-25. 1985.In the case of Mrs. Amy Sidaway, the House of Lords has rejected the “American” legal doctrine of informed consent, which is based on patients' rights, in favor of a standard based on the obligations of the reasonable physician. The British National Health Service, with centralized planning, prospective funding, and limited resources, is unlikely to provide a safe harbor for a doctrine based on individual choice in health care.
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6Vision and Cognition in Picture Perception (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 62 (3): 707-719. 2001.In recent papers [1997, in press] I have explored how two seemingly conflicting paradigms inform the conception and study of picture perception. The dominant paradigm, one especially favored by vision theorists, claims that seeing a pictorial representation of an object is, with qualifications, like seeing the object itself. The picture, being a geometrically sanctioned projection of its object, resembles it, or otherwise serves as a mimetic surrogate, “re-presenting” what it depicts [Danto, 198…Read more
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19Vision and cognition in picture perceptionPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 62 (3): 707-719. 2001.In recent papers [1997, in press] I have explored how two seemingly conflicting paradigms inform the conception and study of picture perception. The dominant paradigm, one especially favored by vision theorists, claims that seeing a pictorial representation of an object is, with qualifications, like seeing the object itself. The picture, being a geometrically sanctioned projection of its object, resembles it, or otherwise serves as a mimetic surrogate, “re-presenting” what it depicts [Danto, 198…Read more
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11To Austin or not to Austin, that's the disjunctionPhilosophical Studies 120 (1-3): 255-263. 2004.
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14Regularities in motion: Apparent, real and internalizedBehavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (4): 757-762. 2001.
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74Perceptual VeridicalityPhilosophical Topics 44 (2): 381-403. 2016.The notion of veridicality has and continues to play a significant role in both the psychology and philosophy of perception. This paper raises questions about the very idea of perceptual veridicality. In particular, it examines the role the veridical/nonveridical distinction plays in our conception of visual illusions and visual constancies.
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9Evolutionary internalized regularitiesBehavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (4): 626-628. 2001.Roger Shepard's proposals and supporting experiments concerning evolutionary internalized regularities have been very influential in the study of vision and in other areas of psychology and cognitive science. This paper examines issues concerning the need, nature, explanatory role, and justification for postulating such internalized constraints. In particular, I seek further clarification from Shepard on how best to understand his claim that principles of kinematic geometry underlie phenomena of…Read more
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5Directed perceptionPhilosophical Psychology 9 (1): 81-91. 1996.Recently it has been argued that a model of directed perception provides an alternative to both indirect and direct accounts of the nature of vision. An examination of this proposal serves as a basis for challenging the meaningfulness and empirical import of the theoretical and ontological differences said to separate these models. Although focusing on James Cutting's work, the analysis is meant to speak more generally to the supposed significance of the distinctions among indirect, direct, and …Read more
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University of Abertay DundeeUndergraduate
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