Jeanette Kennett
Biographic Data
| ID | 1628934 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeanette Kennett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeanette |
| FAMILY NAME | Kennett |
| SIGNATURE | KENNETT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0879-3215 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Capacity, attributability, and responsibility in mental disorder
In this commentary on Anneli Jefferson’s Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders? I endorse her capacitarian approach to responsibility but suggest that the effects of at least some mental/brain disorders on the agent’s psychology show that we cannot neatly separate the epistemic condition from the control condition when assessing agential capacity. I then discuss the labeling issue in the context of rival attributionist accounts of responsibility w…
Truthfulness and Sense-Making
According to a Kantian conception truthfulness is characterised as a requirement of respect for the agency of another. In lying we manipulate the other’s rational capacities to achieve ends we know or fear they may not share. This is paradigmatically a failure of respect. In this paper we argue that the importance of truthfulness also lies in significant part in the ways in which it supports our agential need to make sense of the world, other peo…
Respecting Agency in Dementia Care
Memory loss and other cognitive decline threaten people's capacities to make sense of the world and their position within it. In Alzheimer's Disease (AD), such losses occur when the desire to make sense of the experienced world remains. When this desire cannot be satisfied, confusion, agitation, or anger may result. In these situations, a resolution aiming at the truth is not guaranteed to work, and may even exacerbate a difficult situation, sinc…
Truthfulness in dementia care
Truthfulness in dementia careWe value truth-telling, especially given its connection to the norms of honesty and accuracy.Lies and deception we regard as offensive, a boundary crossed only when a countervailing principle of sufficient seriousness can provide a legitimizing warrant
Homicide and dementia
Increasing numbers of criminal cases where accused may have dementia. • Need for expert witnesses with experience in diagnosing dementia in criminal courts. • Current sentencing guidelines do not accommodate progressive cognitive impairment. • Individuals with dementia are unfit for punishment but may be detained under punitive conditions. • Need for more appropriate placements for offenders with dementia
Mental Disorder, Moral Agency, and the Self
A person suffering a mental illness or disorder may differ dramatically from his or her previous well self. Family and close friends who knew the person before the onset of illness tend to regard the illness as obscuring their loved one's true self and see the goal of treatment as the restoration of that self. ‘He is not really like this,’ they will say with increasing desperation. Treatment teams and others, who have no acquaintance with the per…
True and Proper Selves
I suggest that we can agree with Velleman that love is a mode of appreciation of the value of the beloved and agree with Velleman about what we should want for those persons that we love'that is, agree on the value of their good'while disagreeing with his account of the value that they have, their essence as a person to which love is a response.While Velleman provides a powerful and accurate account of the phenomenology of love, his conception of…
Agency and Responsibility
1. Introduction: Moral Psychology and Common Sense 2. Classical Theories of Reasons and Motivations 3. Humean Accounts of Reason and Motivation: Davidson and Decision Theory 4. Wanting and Valuing 5. A Taxonomy of Agent-Control 6. Moral Failures and Moral Responsibility: Recklessness, Weakness, Compulsion 7. Moral Failure and Moral Responsibility: The Problem of Evildoers Bibliography, Index
Autism, Empathy and Moral Agency
Journal Article Autism, Empathy and Moral Agency Get access Jeanette Kennett Jeanette Kennett Monash [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 52, Issue 208, July 2002, Pages 340–357, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9213.00272 Published: 07 January 2003
Friendship and Moral Danger
Close friendships, Gandhi says, are dangerous, because "friends react on \none another" and through loyalty to a friend one can be led into wrongdoing. \nThis is unquestionably true .... The essence of being human is that \none does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins \nfor the sake ofloyalty ... and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's…
Friendship and the Self
Friendship and Moral Danger
Close friendships, Gandhi says, are dangerous, because "friends react on \none another" and through loyalty to a friend one can be led into wrongdoing. \nThis is unquestionably true .... The essence of being human is that \none does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins \nfor the sake ofloyalty ... and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's…
Autism, Empathy and Moral Agency
Journal Article Autism, Empathy and Moral Agency Get access Jeanette Kennett Jeanette Kennett Monash [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 52, Issue 208, July 2002, Pages 340–357, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9213.00272 Published: 07 January 2003
Agency and Responsibility
1. Introduction: Moral Psychology and Common Sense 2. Classical Theories of Reasons and Motivations 3. Humean Accounts of Reason and Motivation: Davidson and Decision Theory 4. Wanting and Valuing 5. A Taxonomy of Agent-Control 6. Moral Failures and Moral Responsibility: Recklessness, Weakness, Compulsion 7. Moral Failure and Moral Responsibility: The Problem of Evildoers Bibliography, Index
True and Proper Selves
I suggest that we can agree with Velleman that love is a mode of appreciation of the value of the beloved and agree with Velleman about what we should want for those persons that we love'that is, agree on the value of their good'while disagreeing with his account of the value that they have, their essence as a person to which love is a response.While Velleman provides a powerful and accurate account of the phenomenology of love, his conception of…
Friendship and the Self
Friendship and Moral Danger
Close friendships, Gandhi says, are dangerous, because "friends react on \none another" and through loyalty to a friend one can be led into wrongdoing. \nThis is unquestionably true .... The essence of being human is that \none does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins \nfor the sake ofloyalty ... and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's…
Autism, Empathy and Moral Agency
Journal Article Autism, Empathy and Moral Agency Get access Jeanette Kennett Jeanette Kennett Monash [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 52, Issue 208, July 2002, Pages 340–357, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9213.00272 Published: 07 January 2003
Agency and Responsibility
1. Introduction: Moral Psychology and Common Sense 2. Classical Theories of Reasons and Motivations 3. Humean Accounts of Reason and Motivation: Davidson and Decision Theory 4. Wanting and Valuing 5. A Taxonomy of Agent-Control 6. Moral Failures and Moral Responsibility: Recklessness, Weakness, Compulsion 7. Moral Failure and Moral Responsibility: The Problem of Evildoers Bibliography, Index
True and Proper Selves
I suggest that we can agree with Velleman that love is a mode of appreciation of the value of the beloved and agree with Velleman about what we should want for those persons that we love'that is, agree on the value of their good'while disagreeing with his account of the value that they have, their essence as a person to which love is a response.While Velleman provides a powerful and accurate account of the phenomenology of love, his conception of…
Mental Disorder, Moral Agency, and the Self
A person suffering a mental illness or disorder may differ dramatically from his or her previous well self. Family and close friends who knew the person before the onset of illness tend to regard the illness as obscuring their loved one's true self and see the goal of treatment as the restoration of that self. ‘He is not really like this,’ they will say with increasing desperation. Treatment teams and others, who have no acquaintance with the per…
Homicide and dementia
Increasing numbers of criminal cases where accused may have dementia. • Need for expert witnesses with experience in diagnosing dementia in criminal courts. • Current sentencing guidelines do not accommodate progressive cognitive impairment. • Individuals with dementia are unfit for punishment but may be detained under punitive conditions. • Need for more appropriate placements for offenders with dementia
Truthfulness in dementia care
Truthfulness in dementia careWe value truth-telling, especially given its connection to the norms of honesty and accuracy.Lies and deception we regard as offensive, a boundary crossed only when a countervailing principle of sufficient seriousness can provide a legitimizing warrant
Respecting Agency in Dementia Care
Memory loss and other cognitive decline threaten people's capacities to make sense of the world and their position within it. In Alzheimer's Disease (AD), such losses occur when the desire to make sense of the experienced world remains. When this desire cannot be satisfied, confusion, agitation, or anger may result. In these situations, a resolution aiming at the truth is not guaranteed to work, and may even exacerbate a difficult situation, sinc…
Capacity, attributability, and responsibility in mental disorder
In this commentary on Anneli Jefferson’s Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders? I endorse her capacitarian approach to responsibility but suggest that the effects of at least some mental/brain disorders on the agent’s psychology show that we cannot neatly separate the epistemic condition from the control condition when assessing agential capacity. I then discuss the labeling issue in the context of rival attributionist accounts of responsibility w…
Truthfulness and Sense-Making
According to a Kantian conception truthfulness is characterised as a requirement of respect for the agency of another. In lying we manipulate the other’s rational capacities to achieve ends we know or fear they may not share. This is paradigmatically a failure of respect. In this paper we argue that the importance of truthfulness also lies in significant part in the ways in which it supports our agential need to make sense of the world, other peo…
Psychology (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Ethics in medical practice (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Agency (philosophy) (3 works) · Moral agency (3 works) · Patient Dignity and Privacy (3 works)