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Dr Jeanette Kennett

Jeanette Kennett

Email: Jeanette.Kennett@arts.monash.edu.au

Research Interests

Moral psychology: moral theory: friendship, morality and the self: mental disorder, moral agency and the self: philosophy and psychiatry

Grants/Awards

  • 2000 Australian Research Council Small Grant, Mental Illness and Moral Selves
  • 2000 Research Fellowship at the Commonwealth Special Research Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Melbourne University 2000
  • 2001 Australian Research Council Large Grant (with Dean Cocking),"Friendship, Morality and the Self "
  • 2001-2 Monash Arts Faculty Research Initiatives Grant (with Ian Gold),"The Psychology and Ethics of Delusion: Neuropsychiatric Theory and its Consequences for Agency and Responsibility in Delusional Individuals"

Publications

Books

Agency and Responsibility: A Common-Sense Moral Psychology, Oxford: Clarendon Press 2001.

Articles in professional journals

  • "Delusion, Dissociation and Identity" with Steve Matthews. Forthcoming Philosophical Explorations 2003
  • "Identity, Control and Responsibility: The Case of Dissociative Identity Disorder" with Steve Matthews. Forthcoming Philosophical Psychology 2002
  • "Autism, Empathy and Moral Agency" 2002 The Philosophical Quarterly 52: 340-357
  • "Friendship and Moral Danger" with Dean Cocking 2000 Journal of Philosophy XCVII: 278-296
  • "Friendship and the Self" with Dean Cocking 1998 Ethics 108: 502-527
  • "Synchronic self-control is always non-actional" with Michael Smith, 1997 Analysis 57: 123-131
  • "Frog and Toad Lose Control", with Michael Smith, 1996 Analysis 56: 63-72
  • "Mixed Motives" Australasian Journal of Philosophy 1993 71: 256-69
  • "Decision Theory and Weakness of Will" Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 1991 72: 113-30.

Articles in Collections

  • "Friendship and Role Morality" with Dean Cocking, forthcoming in C.L Ten, Sor hoon Tan and Kim-chong Chong (eds) Making Sense of Community and Self: Questioning Chinese and Western Ethics Chicago: Open Court
  • "Philosophy and Commonsense: The Case of Weakness of Will", with Michael Smith. in Michaelis Michael and John O'Leary Hawthorne (eds) Philosophy in Mind: The Place of Philosophy in the Study of Mind 1994 (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers) 141-157 *

Reviews

  • Review of Natural Agency: an essay on the causal theory of action. By John Bishop, Cambridge University Press, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 1991
  • Review of Practical Reflection By J.David Velleman, Princeton University Press Australasian Journal of Philosophy 1990
  • Review of Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments. By R. Jay Wallace, Harvard University Press, Australasian Journal of Philosophy June 1997

Philosophy and Bioethics

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