Dr 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