Dr. Şerife Tekin

Associate Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics

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Article, WIRED Magazine: “Mental Health in the US is Suffering—Will It Go Back to Normal?”
"Someone who thinks, ‘Well, I’m really depressed, I can’t get out of bed, this is completely biological, I have no
Article: “What if we pull the plug too early?”
“This should serve as a learning lesson for us, just like a lot of points in the history of medicine,”
Article, MIT Technology Review: “Machines can spot mental health issues—if you hand over your personal data”
"Serife Tekin, who studies the philosophy of psychiatry at the University of Texas at San Antonio, says psychiatrists have a
Article: ​“Researcher warns about dangers of AI chatbots for treating mental illness”
“My biggest concern is that there is not enough research on how effective these technologies are.” ​“Researcher warns about dangers
Blog article: Health Disparities in COVID-19 Triage Protocols
Tekin, Ş.  2020. Health Disparities in COVID-19 Triage Protocols. Impact Ethics Blog: Making a Difference in Bioethics. https://impactethics.ca/2020/04/08/health-disparities-in-covid-19-triage-protocols/
Tele-Psychiatry Ethics and the COVID-19 Pandemic | Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry Blog Article
The COVID-19 Pandemic presents unique challenges for patients with mental disorders, their care givers, mental healthcare professionals, and bioethicists. Professor John
The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Psychiatry | Imperfect Cognitions Blog
An introduction to the Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Psychiatry. Imperfect Cognitions: The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Psychiatry
Sweeping vs. Creeping Reductionism in Addiction Research | Imperfect Cognitions Blog
"She draws on the scientific literature on mental illness, philosophical literature on the self, and the ethics literature on what
There is Such Thing as The Self and It is Empirically Tractable | Aeon Magazine
"Contrary to recent opinion, there is such a thing as the self, and it is empirically amenable to scientific investigation..."
Extraordinary Science and Psychiatry | Imperfect Cognitions Blog
"Thank you for giving us the opportunity to provide some information about our book, Extraordinary Science and Psychiatry: Responses to the
The Missing Self in Scientific Psychiatry | Philosopher Blog Article
I am taking this opportunity to talk about the main arguments in my article “The Missing Self in Scientific Psychiatry,”
Are Mental Disorders Natural Kinds?  Imperfect Cognitions: Blog on delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, unrealistically optimistic predictions, and implicit biases
Tekin, Ş.  2016. Are Mental Disorders Natural Kinds?  Imperfect Cognitions: Blog on delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, unrealistically optimistic predictions,

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