Jesse S Summers
Biographic Data
| ID | 5639342 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jesse S Summers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jesse S |
| FAMILY NAME | Summers |
| SIGNATURE | SUMMERS J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6328-2151 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Mental Disorders as Failures of Attention
The DSM–5 characterizes mental disorders as significant disturbances in cognition, emotion, or behavior. But what might unite the disturbances on this list? We hypothesize that mental disorders can all be meaningfully characterized as failures of attention. We understand these as failures to distribute attention in the way one has most reason to, and we include both failures of tendency and of ability. We discuss six examples of mental disorders …
Explaining Irrational Actions
We sometimes want to understand irrational action, or actions a person undertakes given that their acting that way conflicts with their beliefs, their (other) desires, or their (other) goals. What is puzzling about all explanations of such irrational actions is this: if we explain the action by offering the agent’s reasons for the action, the action no longer seems irrational, but only (at most) a bad decision. If we explain the action mechanis…
Scrupulous Judgments
Patients with Scrupulosity, a form of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder with moral or religious obsessions and/or compulsions, appear to make moral judgments that are stricter or more stringent than others’ moral judgments. However, this chapter explains why those with Scrupulosity are making systematically distorted moral judgments. First, it describes Scrupulosity as a distinctive form of OCD that characteristically exhibits three features: perfect…
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Scrupulous Judgments
Patients with Scrupulosity, a form of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder with moral or religious obsessions and/or compulsions, appear to make moral judgments that are stricter or more stringent than others’ moral judgments. However, this chapter explains why those with Scrupulosity are making systematically distorted moral judgments. First, it describes Scrupulosity as a distinctive form of OCD that characteristically exhibits three features: perfect…
Explaining Irrational Actions
We sometimes want to understand irrational action, or actions a person undertakes given that their acting that way conflicts with their beliefs, their (other) desires, or their (other) goals. What is puzzling about all explanations of such irrational actions is this: if we explain the action by offering the agent’s reasons for the action, the action no longer seems irrational, but only (at most) a bad decision. If we explain the action mechanis…
Mental Disorders as Failures of Attention
The DSM–5 characterizes mental disorders as significant disturbances in cognition, emotion, or behavior. But what might unite the disturbances on this list? We hypothesize that mental disorders can all be meaningfully characterized as failures of attention. We understand these as failures to distribute attention in the way one has most reason to, and we include both failures of tendency and of ability. We discuss six examples of mental disorders …
Psychology (3 works) · Action (physics) (1 work) · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (1 work) · Classical Antiquity Studies (1 work) · Cognition (1 work) · Cognitive psychology (1 work) · Economics (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Focus (optics) (1 work) · Free Will and Agency (1 work)