Contributory injustice in psychiatry

AJM Tate - Journal of Medical Ethics, 2019 - jme.bmj.com
I explain the notion of contributory injustice, a kind of epistemic injustice, and argue that it
occurs within psychiatric services, affecting (at least) those who hear voices. I argue that …

[HTML][HTML] A predictive processing theory of motivation

AJ Miller Tate - Synthese, 2021 - Springer
In this paper I propose minimal criteria for a successful theory of the mechanisms of
motivation (ie how motivational mental states perform their characteristic function), and …

Rethinking the ethics of pandemic rationing: egalitarianism and avoiding wrongs

AJM Tate - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2022 - cambridge.org
This paper argues that we ought to rethink the harm-reduction prioritization strategy that has
shaped early responses to acute resource scarcity (particularly of intensive care unit beds) …

Presuming incapacity in anorexia nervosa is indefensible: a reply to Ip

AJ Miller Tate - Bioethics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Eric C. Ip has recently argued that seriously anorexic service users ought to be assumed to
be legally incapacitous to refuse life‐saving artificial nutrition unless they can demonstrate …

Narrative Coherence and Mental Capacity in Anorexia Nervosa

AJ Miller Tate - AJOB neuroscience, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Cases of severe and enduring Anorexia Nervosa (SEAN) rightly raise a great deal of
concern around assessing capacity to refuse treatment (including artificial feeding) …

Perception, Action, and Depression

AJ Miller Tate - 2020 - philsci-archive.pitt.edu
Agential pathology (sometimes referred to as impaired agency or motivational pathology) is
a phenomenon whereby people suffering from depressive illnesses struggle to initiate and …

Unweighted lotteries and compounding injustice: reply to Schmidt et al

AJM Tate - Journal of Medical Ethics, 2022 - jme.bmj.com
I argue that Schmidt et al, while correctly diagnosing the serious racial inequity in current
ventilator rationing procedures, misidentify a corresponding racial inequity issue in …

On Grounds, Anchors, and Diseases: A Reply to Glackin

AJ Miller Tate, T Davies - The Philosophical Quarterly, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Shane Glackin's 2019 Philosophical Quarterly article aims to (a) offer a framework
for understanding the philosophical debate about the nature of disease and (b) utilise this …