A5001490620- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Historical Philosophy and Science
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Evolution and Science Education
- Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- History of Science and Medicine
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Neurology and Historical Studies
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
- Free Will and Agency
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Philosophy and History of Science
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Ethics in medical practice
- Genomics and Rare Diseases
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
Bard College
2019-2024
Central Michigan University
2022
Virginia Commonwealth University
2022
Columbia University
2015-2019
Georgia State University
2019
The University of Melbourne
2019
Emory University
2019
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
2018
University of Pittsburgh
2011-2014
University of Chicago
2007
Psychiatry’s failure to validate its diagnostic constructs is often attributed the prioritizing of reliability over validity in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Mental Disorders ( DSM ). I argue that a more powerful way which has retarded biomedical progress by encouraging unwarranted optimism about discrimination : assumption our tests group patients together ways allow for relevant facts mental disorder be discovered. Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) framework, new paradigm classifying...
There is a rich tradition in bioethics of gathering empirical data to inform, supplement, or test the implications normative ethical analysis. To this end, bioethicists have drawn on diverse methods, including qualitative interviews, focus groups, ethnographic studies, and opinion surveys advance understanding key issues bioethics. In so doing, they developed strong ties with neighboring disciplines such as anthropology, history, law, sociology. Collectively, these lines research flourished...
John Locke is famous for popularizing the method of philosophical thought experiment in discussions personal identity; cases introduced second edition An Essay Concerning Understanding (1694) are still employed by contemporary philosophers. Here I argue that Locke’s nonetheless importantly different from later efforts ways can help us better appreciate his larger projects. Rather than pumping reader’s intuitions support preferred account, experiments serve to illustrate common errors...
This paper makes a case for the centrality of passion curiosity to Hobbes’s account human nature. Hobbes describes as one only few capacities differentiating beings from animals, and I argue that it is in fact fundamental cause humanity’s uniqueness, generating other important difference-makers such language, science politics. qualify Philip Pettit’s (2008) claim believes language be essence difference, contending Pettit grants too central place psychology. Language is, Hobbes, technology...
Until recently, medicine has had little to offer most of the millions patients suffering from rare and ultrarare genetic conditions. But development in 2019 Milasen, first intervention developed for administered a single patient an disorder, offered hope families. In addition, Milasen raised series conceptual ethical questions about how individualised interventions should be developed, assessed safety efficacy financially supported. The answers these depend large part on whether therapies...
People tend to rate prosocial or positive behavior as more strongly influenced by the actor's genes than antisocial negative behavior. The current study tested whether people would show a similar asymmetry when rating role of in their own behavior, and if so, what variables might mediate this difference. Participants were prompted think about an example from past year that was either antisocial. Those condition rated genetics causing significantly greater did those condition. A mediation...
The biopsychosocial model, which was deeply influential on psychiatry following its introduction by George L. Engel in 1977, has recently made a comeback. Derek Bolton and Grant Gillett have argued that Engel’s original formulation offered promising general framework for thinking about health disease, but this promise requires new empirical philosophical tools order to be realized. In particular, offer an analysis of the ontological relations between biological, social, psychological levels...
Genetic influences on human behavior are increasingly well understood, but laypeople may endorse genetic attributions selectively; e.g., they appear to make stronger for prosocial than antisocial behavior. We explored whether this could be accounted by the relationship of perceptions naturalness. Participants read about positively or negatively valenced traits behaviors and rated naturalness causation. Positively phenotypes were significantly more natural genetically influenced phenotypes,...