•  27
    Book reviews (review)
    Mind 101 (401): 153-156. 1992.
  •  15
    Views
    Women’s Philosophy Review 10 9-11. 1993.
  • Deconstruction
    In Ted Honderich (ed.), The Oxford companion to philosophy, Oxford University Press. 1995.
  •  7
    La Transcedence de L'Ego
    with Jean Paul Sartre and Andrew Brown
    Psychology Press. 2004.
    First published in France in 1936 as a journal article, The Transcendence of the Egowas one of Jean-Paul Sartre's earliest philosophical publications. When it appeared, Sartre was still largely unknown, working as a school teacher in provincial France and struggling to find a publisher for his most famous fictional work, Nausea. The Transcendence of the Egois the outcome of Sartre's intense engagement with the philosophy of Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology. Here, as in many subsequen…Read more
  •  38
    Evaluating Interventions in Health: A Reconciliatory Approach
    with Jonathan Wolff, Sarah Edwards, Shepley Orr, and Geraint Rees
    Bioethics 26 (9): 455-463. 2012.
    Health‐related Quality of Life measures have recently been attacked from two directions, both of which criticize the preference‐based method of evaluating health states they typically incorporate. One attack, based on work by Daniel Kahneman and others, argues that ‘experience’ is a better basis for evaluation. The other, inspired by Amartya Sen, argues that ‘capability’ should be the guiding concept. In addition, opinion differs as to whether health evaluation measures are best derived from con…Read more
  •  72
    Evaluating interventions in health: A reconciliatory approach
    with Jonathan Wolff, Sarah Edwards, O. R. R. Shepley, and Geraint Rees
    Bioethics 26 (9): 455-463. 2011.
    Health-related Quality of Life measures have recently been attacked from two directions, both of which criticize the preference-based method of evaluating health states they typically incorporate. One attack, based on work by Daniel Kahneman and others, argues that ‘experience’ is a better basis for evaluation. The other, inspired by Amartya Sen, argues that ‘capability’ should be the guiding concept. In addition, opinion differs as to whether health evaluation measures are best derived from con…Read more
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    The London‐based Oily Cart theatre company aims to produce shows that are suitable forallyoung people. This paper closely examines one of their productions,Splish Splash, which was developed for children with profound and multiple learning difficulties. The paper's central purpose is to understand the value of this type of theatrical experience for these children. It argues that Winnicott's conception of play, and his account of the conditions that enable the capacity for play to unfold, provide…Read more
  •  20
    Maternal warmth is associated with network segregation across late childhood: A longitudinal neuroimaging study
    with Richard Beare, Katherine A. Johnson, Katherine Bray, Elena Pozzi, Nicholas B. Allen, Marc L. Seal, and Sarah Whittle
    Frontiers in Psychology 13 917189. 2022.
    The negative impact of adverse experiences in childhood on neurodevelopment is well documented. Less attention however has been given to the impact of variations in “normative” parenting behaviors. The influence of these parenting behaviors is likely to be marked during periods of rapid brain reorganization, such as late childhood. The aim of the current study was to investigate associations between normative parenting behaviors and the development of structural brain networks across late childh…Read more
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    Responses to Matthew Eshleman and Adrian van den Hoven
    Sartre Studies International 26 (1): 29-37. 2020.
    I am so grateful to Matthew Eshleman and Adrian van den Hoven for their generous, insightful comments. Translating can be a lonely activity, especially when the text is as lengthy as BN. At the end of hours of involvement with Sartre’s French – perched, as it were, on the edge of his mind – I often felt in need of other, auxiliary minds to re-centre me, to save me from toppling over completely into Sartre’s consciousness and drowning. In these moments, I usually turned to dictionaries and other …Read more
  •  208
    Sartre and Bergson: A disagreement about nothingness
    International Journal of Philosophical Studies 15 (1). 2007.
    Henri Bergson's philosophy, which Sartre studied as a student, had a profound but largely neglected influence on his thinking. In this paper I focus on the new light that recognition of this influence throws on Sartre's central argument about the relationship between negation and nothingness in his Being and Nothingness. Sartre's argument is in part a response to Bergson's dismissive, eliminativist account of nothingness in Creative Evolution (1907): the objections to the concept of nothingness …Read more
  •  65
    Sartre and the Doctors
    International Journal of Philosophical Studies 18 (4): 517-538. 2010.
    This paper considers how the experience of illness fits within Sartre’s account of embodiment in Being and Nothingness. Sartre makes some remarks about illness, but does not develop a full account. I show that the anti‐naturalistic ontological framework in which Sartre’s discussion of the body is placed, which opposes my ‘being‐for‐Others’ to my ‘being‐for‐myself’, imposes a revisionary account of illness, and how Sartre’s model of interpersonal relations affects his view of doctors, and their r…Read more
  • Sartre
    Routledge. 2010.
  •  8
    Kristjan Kristjansson, Justifying Emotions: Pride and Jealousy
    European Journal of Philosophy 13 (1). 2005.
  •  96
    Psychoanalysis and feminism: Anorexia, the social world, and the internal world
    Philosophy Psychiatry and Psychology 8 (1): 1-12. 2001.
    This paper discusses the different explanatory approaches taken by feminists and (Kleinian) psychoanalysts to women's psychological illness. In particular, anorexia nervosa (a condition that has attracted much feminist attention) is used as an example. Examination of some Kleinian accounts of work with anorexic patients reveals the great disparity between the terms and focus of psychoanalytical explanation and those invoked in feminist discussions. Can the two perspectives be combined? It is arg…Read more
  •  53
    I know what you're thinking: brain imaging and mental privacy (edited book)
    with Geraint Rees and Sarah J. L. Edwards
    Oxford University Press. 2012.
    'I know what you're thinking' is a fascinating exploration into the neuroscientific evidence on 'mind reading'.
  •  48
    Inconsistency in Sartre's analysis of emotion
    Analysis 74 (4): 612-615. 2014.
    In this article, I reply to the charge, made in Analysis by Anthony Hatzimoysis, that my criticism of Sartre's Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions is unwarranted. I argued that Sartre offers two lines of reasoning about emotional experience that are in clear conflict with each other. Hatzimoysis counters that we can and should read Sartre's text in a way that avoids attributing inconsistency to Sartre. In response, I argue that Hatzimoysis' suggestion about how one might read the text does not i…Read more
  • Introduction
    In Sarah Richmond, Geraint Rees & Sarah J. L. Edwards (eds.), I know what you're thinking: brain imaging and mental privacy, Oxford University Press. 2012.
  •  31
    Book reviews (review)
    Mind 105 (418): 153-156. 1996.
  •  12
    Editorial
    with John H. Gillespie
    Sartre Studies International 24 (1). 2018.
    One could be forgiven for asserting that Jean-Paul Sartre’s existentialism has become fashionable again, a worldview fitting for our time. How else can we interpret last year’s publication of Surfing with Sartre by Adam James, with existential freedom compared to the controlled manipulation of the surfing board?
  •  21
    Brain imaging and the transparency scenario
    In Sarah Richmond, Geraint Rees & Sarah J. L. Edwards (eds.), I know what you're thinking: brain imaging and mental privacy, Oxford University Press. pp. 185. 2012.
  •  101
    Being in others: Empathy from a psychoanalytical perspective
    European Journal of Philosophy 12 (2). 2004.
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