Tarık Gandur

Adnan Menderes University
  • Depression as a Disorder of Consciousness
    British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. forthcoming.
    First-person reports of Major Depressive Disorder reveal that when an individual becomes depressed a profound change or ‘shift’ to one’s conscious experience occurs. The depressed person reports that something fundamental to their experience has been disturbed or shifted; a change associated with the common but elusive claim that when depressed one finds oneself in a ‘different world’ detached from reality and other people. Existing attempts to utilise these phenomenological observations in a ps…Read more