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Reconfiguring Milgram’s subjects as persons acting on principle.

02 Friday Sep 2011

Posted by Marnina Norys in Ethics, Marnina Norys, Psychology

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A recent article linked to below came out in the Guardian that caught my eye today. In it the writer …

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The banishment of ‘syrupy’ sentiment from serious discourse

29 Monday Aug 2011

Posted by Marnina Norys in Marnina Norys, Relationships

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Given the fundamental importance of relatedness for our health, our wellbeing and as a factor that makes life worth living, …

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Taoism, moral flow and centipedes

29 Monday Aug 2011

Posted by Marnina Norys in Ethics, Marnina Norys, Philosophy, Taoism

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There’s a passage in the book of Tao that reads: “Failing Tao, man resorts to virtue Failing Virtue, man resorts …

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Marnina Norys

Has a PhD in Social and Political Thought at York University. Her dissertation is about the impact of technological rationality on professional caregiving, with an eye to psychiatric care specifically. The content here is varied, ranging from philosophy to pedagogical strategies, with entries on relationships and relatedness along the way.

Above the title you will find links to Norys’ public talks and below are links to download some of her papers and a sample course outline.

1. PhD Thesis "Mere Sources of Error": Workers, Patients and the Reductive Logic of Rationalized Healthcare

  • 1. Abstract
  • 2. Introduction
  • 3. Complete thesis

Blogroll

  • Complete Dissertation
  • Introduction

Book reviews

  • A Hole in the Head
  • Happy Pills in America From Miltown to Prozac
  • Open Love, Sex and Life in an Open Marriage
  • Relative Stranger Piecing Together a Life Plagued by Madness

Course Outline

  • Sample course outline

Papers (Hover over titles for paper description)

  • Adolf Meyer and American Psychiatry
  • Beautiful Women Without Pity: An critical analysis of histrionic personality disorder
  • Deriving oughts from is's in psychiatry
  • Kathleen Wilkes on Thought Experiments in Philosophy
  • Nozick's take on the JTB conception of knowledge
  • Phronesis and Taoism
  • Psychopathy: Madness or Badness?
  • Welfare vs. Autonomy: The Scott Starson Case

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