Jennifer Hawkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3935919 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Hawkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Hawkins |
| SIGNATURE | HAWKINS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1216-5198 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘I don’t know what we should have done differently’
Background In British Columbia, Canada, a public health emergency of unregulated drug deaths presents a fraught backdrop for concerned significant others (CSOs).Method Community-based Participatory Action Research design. We conducted 22 semi-structured qualitative interviews with CSOs about their perceptions and experiences during the toxic drug crisis. We examined how ‘tough love’ constructs informed their relationships with and responses to th…
Dear Prudence
The Overdose Crisis and Using Alone
Background: A significant rise in the rate of overdose deaths in British Columbia (BC), driven by fentanyl contamination of the illicit drug supply, led to the declaration of a public health emergency in 2016. Those at greatest risk of death are people who use alone. This community-based participatory action research study based in the Fraser East region of BC study aimed to overview underlying factors that contribute to unwitnessed overdoses in …
Subjectivists Should Say
What is the best way to account for the badness of pain and what sort of theory of welfare is best suited to accommodate this view? I argue that unpleasant sensory experiences are prudentially bad in the absence of contrary attitudes, but good when the object of positive attitudes. Pain is bad unless it is liked, enjoyed, valued etc. Interestingly, this view is incompatible with either pure objectivist or pure subjectivist understandings of welfa…
Further Reflections
Mackenzie Graham has made an important contribution to the literature on decisionmaking for patients with disorders of consciousness. He argues, and I agree, that decisions for unresponsive patients who are known to retain some degree of covert awareness ought to focus on current interests, since such patients likely retain the kinds of mental capacities that in ordinary life command our current respect and attention. If he is right, then it is n…
Engagement to Enhance Community
Engagement is a foundational practice for the Extension systems of land-grant universities and is demonstrated through its’ work in partnership with individuals, organizations and communities. This article will share how an Extension-led effort, focused on an aspect of community development, integrated several components of engagement starting with the initial conversation through the evaluation process. Practitioner reflections on two examples t…
The small-town Midwest
The small-town Midwest: Resilience and hope in the twenty-first century." Community Development, 49(5), pp. 607–608
The subjective intuition
Well-Being, Autonomy, and the Horizon Problem
Desire satisfaction theorists and attitudinal-happiness theorists of well-being are committed to correcting the psychological attitudes upon which their theories are built. However, it is not often recognized that some of the attitudes in need of correction are evaluative attitudes. Moreover, it is hard to know how to correct for poor evaluative attitudes in ways that respect the traditional commitment to the authority of the individual subject's…
Desiring the Bad Under the Guise of the Good
Desire is commonly spoken of as a state in which the desired object seems good, which apparently ascribes an evaluative element to desire. I offer a new defence of this old idea. As traditionally conceived, this view faces serious objections related to its way of characterizing desire's evaluative content. I develop an alternative conception of evaluative mental content which is plausible in its own right, allows the evaluative desire theorist to…
Justice and Placebo Controls
Clarifying Confusions about Coercion
Desiring the Bad Under the Guise of the Good
Desire is commonly spoken of as a state in which the desired object seems good, which apparently ascribes an evaluative element to desire. I offer a new defence of this old idea. As traditionally conceived, this view faces serious objections related to its way of characterizing desire's evaluative content. I develop an alternative conception of evaluative mental content which is plausible in its own right, allows the evaluative desire theorist to…
The subjective intuition
Clarifying Confusions about Coercion
Justice and Placebo Controls
Well-Being, Autonomy, and the Horizon Problem
Desire satisfaction theorists and attitudinal-happiness theorists of well-being are committed to correcting the psychological attitudes upon which their theories are built. However, it is not often recognized that some of the attitudes in need of correction are evaluative attitudes. Moreover, it is hard to know how to correct for poor evaluative attitudes in ways that respect the traditional commitment to the authority of the individual subject's…
Desiring the Bad Under the Guise of the Good
Desire is commonly spoken of as a state in which the desired object seems good, which apparently ascribes an evaluative element to desire. I offer a new defence of this old idea. As traditionally conceived, this view faces serious objections related to its way of characterizing desire's evaluative content. I develop an alternative conception of evaluative mental content which is plausible in its own right, allows the evaluative desire theorist to…
The subjective intuition
The small-town Midwest
The small-town Midwest: Resilience and hope in the twenty-first century." Community Development, 49(5), pp. 607–608
Engagement to Enhance Community
Engagement is a foundational practice for the Extension systems of land-grant universities and is demonstrated through its’ work in partnership with individuals, organizations and communities. This article will share how an Extension-led effort, focused on an aspect of community development, integrated several components of engagement starting with the initial conversation through the evaluation process. Practitioner reflections on two examples t…
Further Reflections
Mackenzie Graham has made an important contribution to the literature on decisionmaking for patients with disorders of consciousness. He argues, and I agree, that decisions for unresponsive patients who are known to retain some degree of covert awareness ought to focus on current interests, since such patients likely retain the kinds of mental capacities that in ordinary life command our current respect and attention. If he is right, then it is n…
The Overdose Crisis and Using Alone
Background: A significant rise in the rate of overdose deaths in British Columbia (BC), driven by fentanyl contamination of the illicit drug supply, led to the declaration of a public health emergency in 2016. Those at greatest risk of death are people who use alone. This community-based participatory action research study based in the Fraser East region of BC study aimed to overview underlying factors that contribute to unwitnessed overdoses in …
Subjectivists Should Say
What is the best way to account for the badness of pain and what sort of theory of welfare is best suited to accommodate this view? I argue that unpleasant sensory experiences are prudentially bad in the absence of contrary attitudes, but good when the object of positive attitudes. Pain is bad unless it is liked, enjoyed, valued etc. Interestingly, this view is incompatible with either pure objectivist or pure subjectivist understandings of welfa…
Dear Prudence
‘I don’t know what we should have done differently’
Background In British Columbia, Canada, a public health emergency of unregulated drug deaths presents a fraught backdrop for concerned significant others (CSOs).Method Community-based Participatory Action Research design. We conducted 22 semi-structured qualitative interviews with CSOs about their perceptions and experiences during the toxic drug crisis. We examined how ‘tough love’ constructs informed their relationships with and responses to th…
Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Economics (3 works)