Papers
Addiction and the meaning of disease in N Heather, M Field, AC Moss, S Satel, eds. Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction: 320-228 (2022)
Is addiction a brain disease? A plea for agnosticism and heterogeneity Psychopharmacology 239(4), 993-1007, 2022
Responsibility and explanations of rape, in I Solanke, ed. On Crime, Society and Responsibility in the work of Nicola Lacey (2021)
Why standing to blame may be lost but authority to hold accountable retained: criminal law as a regulative public institution (with Nicola Lacey) The Monist 104: 265-280 (2021)
What we're not talking about when we talk about addiction Hastings Center Report 50(4): 37-46 (2020)
Addiction and the self, Noûs, 55(4), 737-761, 2021
"Chasing the first high": memory sampling in drug choice (with Aaron Bornstein) Neuropsychopharmacology 45, 907-815, 2020
Stop telling me what to feel! A clinical theory of emotions and what's wrong with the moralization of feelings Philosophical Topics 47(2): 1-25 (2019)
A dual-process approach to criminal law: victims and the clinical model of responsibility without blame (with Nicola Lacey) The Journal of Political Philosophy 27(2): 229-251 (2019)
The puzzle of addiction in H Pickard and S Ahmed, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Science of Addiction (2018)
Responsibility without blame for addiction Neuroethics 10(1): 169-180 (2017)
Addiction in M Griffith, N Levy, and K Timpe, eds. The Routledge Companion to Free Will: 454-467 (2017)
How do you know you have a drug problem? The role of knowledge of negative consequences in explaining drug choice in humans and rats (with S.H. Ahmed), in N Heather and G Segal, eds. Addiction and Choice: Rethinking the Relationship (2016)
Denial in addiction Mind & Language 31(3): 277-299 (2016)
Psychopathology and the ability to do otherwise Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 90(1): 135-163 (2015)
Choice, deliberation, violence: mental capacity and criminal responsibility in personality disorder The International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 40: 15-24 (2015)
To blame or to forgive? Reconciling punishment and forgiveness in criminal justice (with Nicola Lacey) The Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 35(4): 665-696 (2015)
The chimera of proportionality: institutionalising limits on punishment in contemporary social and political systems (with Nicola Lacey) Modern Law Review 78: 216-240 (2015) [Or available here through EuropePMC]
Self-harm as violence: when victim and perpetrator are one in H Marway and H Widdows, eds. Women and Violence: The Agency of Victims and Perpetrators: 71-90 (2015)
Stories of recovery: the role of narrative and hope in overcoming PTSD and PD, in KWM Fulford et al., eds. Oxford Handbook of Psychiatric Ethics, Vol. 2: 1315-1327 (2015) [material reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press and available here]
Responsibility without blame: therapy, philosophy, law Prison Service Journal 213: 10-16 (2014) [Or available here through EuropePMC]
Irrational blame Analysis 73(4): 613-626 (2014)
Addiction in context: philosophical lessons from a personality disorder clinic (with Steve Pearce), in N Levy, ed. Addiction and Self-control: 165-194 (2013)
Substance abuse as a risk factor for violence in mental illness: some implications for forensic psychiatric practice and ethics (with Seena Fazel) Current Opinion in Psychiatry 26: 349-354 (2013)
Responsibility without blame: philosophical reflections on clinical practice in KWM Fulford et al., eds. Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry: 1134-1152 (2013) [material reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press and available here]
What is addiction? (with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong), in KWM Fulford et al., eds.Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry: 851-864 (2013) [material reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press and available here]
From the consulting room to the court room: taking the clinical model of responsibility without blame into the legal realm (with Nicola Lacey), Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 33: 1-29 (2013)
How therapeutic communities work: specific factors related to positive outcome (with Steve Pearce) International Journal of Social Psychiatry 59: 636-645 (2013)
The purpose in chronic addiction American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 3: 30-39 (2012)
Responsibility without blame: empathy and the effective treatment of personality disorder Philosophy, Psychiatry, Psychology 18: 209-224 (2011)
What is personality disorder? Philosophy, Psychiatry, Psychology 18: 181-184 (2011)
Finding the will to recover: philosophical perspectives on agency and the sick role (with Steve Pearce) Journal of Medical Ethics 36: 831-833 (2010)
Schizophrenia and the epistemology of self-knowledge in L Borolotti and L Mucatesi, eds. European Journal of Analytic Philosophy : Special Issue in Classification and Explanation in Psychiatry 6: 55-74 (2010)
The moral content of psychiatric treatment (with Steve Pearce) British Journal of Psychiatry 195: 281-282 (2009)
Mental illness is indeed a myth, in L Bortolotti and M Broome, eds. Psychiatry as Cognitive Science: Philosophical Perspectives: 83-101 (2009)
Knowledge of action without observation Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 105: 205-230 (2004)
Emotions and the problem of other minds in A Hatzymoysis, ed. Philosophy and the Emotions: 87-103 (2003)
Commentaries
Responsibility in healthcare: what's the point? Journal of Medical Ethics 45: 650-651 (2019)
Balancing costs and benefits: a clinical perspective does not support a harm minimisation approach for self-injury outside of community settings (with Steve Pearce) Journal of Medical Ethics 43: 324-326 (2017)
Sympathy, identity, and the psychology of psychopathy and moral atrocities [pre-publication version], in C Miller and W Sinnott-Armstrong, eds. Moral Psychology vol. 5: Virtue and Character (2017)
Scrupulosity and the shady morality of psychiatry [pre-publication version], in D Moseley and G Gala, eds. Philosophy and Psychiatry: Problems, Intersections, and New Perspectives: 180-188 (2016)
The instrumental rationality of addiction Behavioral and Brain Sciences 34: 320-321 (2011)
Reviews
Review of The Virtuous Psychiatrist: Character Ethics in Psychiatric Practice by J Radden and J Sadler, Mind 123(490): 631-635 (2014)
Review of Addiction and Responsibility eds. J Poland and G Graham, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2011)
Review of The Mind and its Discontents by G Gillett, The Journal of Applied Philosophy 27: 320-322 (2010)
Written for a General Audience
Rethinking justice: the clinical model of responsibility without blame for The Howard League for Penal Reform ECAN Bulletin [online 2018]
Why do we need a diagnosis to see mental disorders as real? for Philosophy for Our Times at the Institute of Art and Ideas [online 2018]
Responsibility without blame: thinking about unwise choices in mental health for The Philosopher's Zone [online 2015]
Addiction - The Outsider Aeon [online 2013]
What Aristotle can teach us about personality disorder for The National Personality Disorder Website and Emergence [online 2011]
Handbook & Special Issues
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Science of Addiction (2018; with Serge Ahmed)
Alternative Models of Addiction, Frontiers in Psychiatry (2013-2015; with Serge Ahmed and Bennett Foddy)
Personality Disorders, Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology: 18 (2011)
Addiction and the meaning of disease in N Heather, M Field, AC Moss, S Satel, eds. Evaluating the Brain Disease Model of Addiction: 320-228 (2022)
Is addiction a brain disease? A plea for agnosticism and heterogeneity Psychopharmacology 239(4), 993-1007, 2022
Responsibility and explanations of rape, in I Solanke, ed. On Crime, Society and Responsibility in the work of Nicola Lacey (2021)
Why standing to blame may be lost but authority to hold accountable retained: criminal law as a regulative public institution (with Nicola Lacey) The Monist 104: 265-280 (2021)
What we're not talking about when we talk about addiction Hastings Center Report 50(4): 37-46 (2020)
Addiction and the self, Noûs, 55(4), 737-761, 2021
"Chasing the first high": memory sampling in drug choice (with Aaron Bornstein) Neuropsychopharmacology 45, 907-815, 2020
Stop telling me what to feel! A clinical theory of emotions and what's wrong with the moralization of feelings Philosophical Topics 47(2): 1-25 (2019)
A dual-process approach to criminal law: victims and the clinical model of responsibility without blame (with Nicola Lacey) The Journal of Political Philosophy 27(2): 229-251 (2019)
The puzzle of addiction in H Pickard and S Ahmed, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Science of Addiction (2018)
Responsibility without blame for addiction Neuroethics 10(1): 169-180 (2017)
Addiction in M Griffith, N Levy, and K Timpe, eds. The Routledge Companion to Free Will: 454-467 (2017)
How do you know you have a drug problem? The role of knowledge of negative consequences in explaining drug choice in humans and rats (with S.H. Ahmed), in N Heather and G Segal, eds. Addiction and Choice: Rethinking the Relationship (2016)
Denial in addiction Mind & Language 31(3): 277-299 (2016)
Psychopathology and the ability to do otherwise Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 90(1): 135-163 (2015)
Choice, deliberation, violence: mental capacity and criminal responsibility in personality disorder The International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 40: 15-24 (2015)
To blame or to forgive? Reconciling punishment and forgiveness in criminal justice (with Nicola Lacey) The Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 35(4): 665-696 (2015)
The chimera of proportionality: institutionalising limits on punishment in contemporary social and political systems (with Nicola Lacey) Modern Law Review 78: 216-240 (2015) [Or available here through EuropePMC]
Self-harm as violence: when victim and perpetrator are one in H Marway and H Widdows, eds. Women and Violence: The Agency of Victims and Perpetrators: 71-90 (2015)
Stories of recovery: the role of narrative and hope in overcoming PTSD and PD, in KWM Fulford et al., eds. Oxford Handbook of Psychiatric Ethics, Vol. 2: 1315-1327 (2015) [material reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press and available here]
Responsibility without blame: therapy, philosophy, law Prison Service Journal 213: 10-16 (2014) [Or available here through EuropePMC]
Irrational blame Analysis 73(4): 613-626 (2014)
Addiction in context: philosophical lessons from a personality disorder clinic (with Steve Pearce), in N Levy, ed. Addiction and Self-control: 165-194 (2013)
Substance abuse as a risk factor for violence in mental illness: some implications for forensic psychiatric practice and ethics (with Seena Fazel) Current Opinion in Psychiatry 26: 349-354 (2013)
Responsibility without blame: philosophical reflections on clinical practice in KWM Fulford et al., eds. Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry: 1134-1152 (2013) [material reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press and available here]
What is addiction? (with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong), in KWM Fulford et al., eds.Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry: 851-864 (2013) [material reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press and available here]
From the consulting room to the court room: taking the clinical model of responsibility without blame into the legal realm (with Nicola Lacey), Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 33: 1-29 (2013)
How therapeutic communities work: specific factors related to positive outcome (with Steve Pearce) International Journal of Social Psychiatry 59: 636-645 (2013)
The purpose in chronic addiction American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 3: 30-39 (2012)
Responsibility without blame: empathy and the effective treatment of personality disorder Philosophy, Psychiatry, Psychology 18: 209-224 (2011)
What is personality disorder? Philosophy, Psychiatry, Psychology 18: 181-184 (2011)
Finding the will to recover: philosophical perspectives on agency and the sick role (with Steve Pearce) Journal of Medical Ethics 36: 831-833 (2010)
Schizophrenia and the epistemology of self-knowledge in L Borolotti and L Mucatesi, eds. European Journal of Analytic Philosophy : Special Issue in Classification and Explanation in Psychiatry 6: 55-74 (2010)
The moral content of psychiatric treatment (with Steve Pearce) British Journal of Psychiatry 195: 281-282 (2009)
Mental illness is indeed a myth, in L Bortolotti and M Broome, eds. Psychiatry as Cognitive Science: Philosophical Perspectives: 83-101 (2009)
Knowledge of action without observation Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 105: 205-230 (2004)
Emotions and the problem of other minds in A Hatzymoysis, ed. Philosophy and the Emotions: 87-103 (2003)
Commentaries
Responsibility in healthcare: what's the point? Journal of Medical Ethics 45: 650-651 (2019)
Balancing costs and benefits: a clinical perspective does not support a harm minimisation approach for self-injury outside of community settings (with Steve Pearce) Journal of Medical Ethics 43: 324-326 (2017)
Sympathy, identity, and the psychology of psychopathy and moral atrocities [pre-publication version], in C Miller and W Sinnott-Armstrong, eds. Moral Psychology vol. 5: Virtue and Character (2017)
Scrupulosity and the shady morality of psychiatry [pre-publication version], in D Moseley and G Gala, eds. Philosophy and Psychiatry: Problems, Intersections, and New Perspectives: 180-188 (2016)
The instrumental rationality of addiction Behavioral and Brain Sciences 34: 320-321 (2011)
Reviews
Review of The Virtuous Psychiatrist: Character Ethics in Psychiatric Practice by J Radden and J Sadler, Mind 123(490): 631-635 (2014)
Review of Addiction and Responsibility eds. J Poland and G Graham, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2011)
Review of The Mind and its Discontents by G Gillett, The Journal of Applied Philosophy 27: 320-322 (2010)
Written for a General Audience
Rethinking justice: the clinical model of responsibility without blame for The Howard League for Penal Reform ECAN Bulletin [online 2018]
Why do we need a diagnosis to see mental disorders as real? for Philosophy for Our Times at the Institute of Art and Ideas [online 2018]
Responsibility without blame: thinking about unwise choices in mental health for The Philosopher's Zone [online 2015]
Addiction - The Outsider Aeon [online 2013]
What Aristotle can teach us about personality disorder for The National Personality Disorder Website and Emergence [online 2011]
Handbook & Special Issues
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Science of Addiction (2018; with Serge Ahmed)
Alternative Models of Addiction, Frontiers in Psychiatry (2013-2015; with Serge Ahmed and Bennett Foddy)
Personality Disorders, Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology: 18 (2011)