Anastasia Philippa Scrutton
Biographic Data
| ID | 5908491 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anastasia Philippa Scrutton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anastasia Philippa |
| FAMILY NAME | Scrutton |
| SIGNATURE | SCRUTTON A P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8335-7464 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Women-focused Special Issue
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What Might It Mean to Live Well With Depression?
It is well recognized that people live well with a number of illnesses. It is also well recognized that some people who have had depression in the past regard it as having given rise to positive present characteristics and experiences. However, because of its nature, depression poses a particularly difficult case for the idea of living well during the experience of depression itself. This article looks at characteristics and experiences that coul…
Why not believe in an evil God? Pragmatic encroachment and some implications for philosophy of religion
Pointing to broad symmetries between the idea that God is omniscient, omnipotent, and all-good, and the idea that God is omniscient, omnipotent, but all-evil, the evil-God challenge raises the question of why theists should prefer one over the other. I respond to this challenge by drawing on a recent theory in epistemology, pragmatic encroachment, which asserts that practical considerations can alter the epistemic status of beliefs. I then explor…
Is Depression a Sin or a Disease? A Critique of Moralizing and Medicalizing Models of Mental Illness
Moralising accounts of depression include the idea that depression is a sin or the result of sin, and/or that it is the result of demonic possession which has occurred because of moral or spiritual failure. Increasingly some Christian communities, understandably concerned about the debilitating effects these views have on people with depression, have adopted secular folk psychiatry’s ‘medicalising’ campaign, emphasising that depression is an illn…
Schizophrenia or Possession? A Reply to Kemal Irmak and Nuray Karanci
Suffering as Potentially Transformative
Divine Passibility
While the impassibility debate has traditionally been construed in terms of whether God suffers, recent philosophy of religion has interpreted it in terms of whether God has emotions more generally. This article surveys the philosophical literature on divine im/passibility over the last 25 years, outlining major arguments for and against the idea that God has emotions. It argues that questions about the nature and value of emotions are at the hea…
Living like common people
This paper explores the perennial objection to passibilism (conceived as susceptibility to or capacity for emotion) that an omnipotent being could not experience emotions because emotions are essentially passive and outside the subject's control. Examining this claim through the lens of some recent philosophy of emotion, I highlight some of the ways in which emotions can be chosen and cultivated, suggesting that emotions are not incompatible with…
Living like common people
This paper explores the perennial objection to passibilism (conceived as susceptibility to or capacity for emotion) that an omnipotent being could not experience emotions because emotions are essentially passive and outside the subject's control. Examining this claim through the lens of some recent philosophy of emotion, I highlight some of the ways in which emotions can be chosen and cultivated, suggesting that emotions are not incompatible with…
Suffering as Potentially Transformative
Divine Passibility
While the impassibility debate has traditionally been construed in terms of whether God suffers, recent philosophy of religion has interpreted it in terms of whether God has emotions more generally. This article surveys the philosophical literature on divine im/passibility over the last 25 years, outlining major arguments for and against the idea that God has emotions. It argues that questions about the nature and value of emotions are at the hea…
Is Depression a Sin or a Disease? A Critique of Moralizing and Medicalizing Models of Mental Illness
Moralising accounts of depression include the idea that depression is a sin or the result of sin, and/or that it is the result of demonic possession which has occurred because of moral or spiritual failure. Increasingly some Christian communities, understandably concerned about the debilitating effects these views have on people with depression, have adopted secular folk psychiatry’s ‘medicalising’ campaign, emphasising that depression is an illn…
Schizophrenia or Possession? A Reply to Kemal Irmak and Nuray Karanci
What Might It Mean to Live Well With Depression?
It is well recognized that people live well with a number of illnesses. It is also well recognized that some people who have had depression in the past regard it as having given rise to positive present characteristics and experiences. However, because of its nature, depression poses a particularly difficult case for the idea of living well during the experience of depression itself. This article looks at characteristics and experiences that coul…
Why not believe in an evil God? Pragmatic encroachment and some implications for philosophy of religion
Pointing to broad symmetries between the idea that God is omniscient, omnipotent, and all-good, and the idea that God is omniscient, omnipotent, but all-evil, the evil-God challenge raises the question of why theists should prefer one over the other. I respond to this challenge by drawing on a recent theory in epistemology, pragmatic encroachment, which asserts that practical considerations can alter the epistemic status of beliefs. I then explor…
Women-focused Special Issue
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Philosophy (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (4 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Depression (economics) (2 works) · Emotions and Moral Behavior (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Political science (2 works)