Cynthia Macdonald
Biographic Data
| ID | 3866201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cynthia Macdonald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cynthia |
| FAMILY NAME | Macdonald |
| SIGNATURE | MACDONALD C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
In my ‘Mind’s Eye’
Nurses' Experiences of Grieving When There Is a Perinatal Death
Many nurses grieve when patients die; however, nurses' grief is not often acknowledged or discussed. Also, little attention is given to preparing nurses for this experience in schools of nursing and in orientations to health care organizations. The purpose of this research was to explore obstetrical and neonatal nurses' experiences of grieving when caring for families who experience loss after perinatal death. A visual arts-informed research meth…
McDowell and His Critics (Philosophers and Their Critics)
Knowing Our Own Minds
Self‐knowledge is the focus of considerable attention from philosophers, and a topic of special relevance to a broad range of issues in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language. This volume provides an important overview of recent work on the subject by bringing together original essays by a number of philosophers. Many of the papers have become standard reference items in this literature. Knowledge of one's own thoughts and s…
Subjects of Experience
Shoemaker on Self-Knowledge and Inner Sense
What is introspective knowledge of one's own intentional states like?This paper aims to make plausible the view that certain cases of self-knowledge, namely the cogito-type ones, are enough like perception to count as cases of quasi-observation.To this end it considers the highly influential arguments developed by Sydney Shoemaker in his recent Royce Lectures.These present the most formidable challenge to the view that certain cases of self-knowl…
Externalism and first-person authority
Sensations
Mind-body identity theories
Mental Causes and Explanation of Action
Cynthia, Graham Macdonald; Mental Causes and Explanation of Action, The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 143, 1 April 1986, Pages 145–158, https
Mental Causes and Explanation of Action
Cynthia, Graham Macdonald; Mental Causes and Explanation of Action, The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 143, 1 April 1986, Pages 145–158, https
Nurses' Experiences of Grieving When There Is a Perinatal Death
Many nurses grieve when patients die; however, nurses' grief is not often acknowledged or discussed. Also, little attention is given to preparing nurses for this experience in schools of nursing and in orientations to health care organizations. The purpose of this research was to explore obstetrical and neonatal nurses' experiences of grieving when caring for families who experience loss after perinatal death. A visual arts-informed research meth…
Shoemaker on Self-Knowledge and Inner Sense
What is introspective knowledge of one's own intentional states like?This paper aims to make plausible the view that certain cases of self-knowledge, namely the cogito-type ones, are enough like perception to count as cases of quasi-observation.To this end it considers the highly influential arguments developed by Sydney Shoemaker in his recent Royce Lectures.These present the most formidable challenge to the view that certain cases of self-knowl…
Mental Causes and Explanation of Action
Cynthia, Graham Macdonald; Mental Causes and Explanation of Action, The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 143, 1 April 1986, Pages 145–158, https
Mind-body identity theories
Sensations
Externalism and first-person authority
Shoemaker on Self-Knowledge and Inner Sense
What is introspective knowledge of one's own intentional states like?This paper aims to make plausible the view that certain cases of self-knowledge, namely the cogito-type ones, are enough like perception to count as cases of quasi-observation.To this end it considers the highly influential arguments developed by Sydney Shoemaker in his recent Royce Lectures.These present the most formidable challenge to the view that certain cases of self-knowl…
Knowing Our Own Minds
Self‐knowledge is the focus of considerable attention from philosophers, and a topic of special relevance to a broad range of issues in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language. This volume provides an important overview of recent work on the subject by bringing together original essays by a number of philosophers. Many of the papers have become standard reference items in this literature. Knowledge of one's own thoughts and s…
Subjects of Experience
McDowell and His Critics (Philosophers and Their Critics)
Nurses' Experiences of Grieving When There Is a Perinatal Death
Many nurses grieve when patients die; however, nurses' grief is not often acknowledged or discussed. Also, little attention is given to preparing nurses for this experience in schools of nursing and in orientations to health care organizations. The purpose of this research was to explore obstetrical and neonatal nurses' experiences of grieving when caring for families who experience loss after perinatal death. A visual arts-informed research meth…
In my ‘Mind’s Eye’
Philosophy (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (3 works) · Metaphysics (3 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (3 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (3 works) · Philosophy of mind (3 works) · Self-knowledge (3 works)