Mental Health Philosophy

Exploring the being of knowing.

Further Reading

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Hello.

In this page I am going to list books, papers and other media that I reference throughout my blog.

I am beginning this July 4, 2026. It will likely have repeat entries because I am simply entering them as I use them in my posts.

AlsoI will begin listing the references under the headings of the specific posts.

General bibliographic List

Aristotle. (2009). Nicomachean ethics (W. D. Ross, Trans., L. Brown, Ed.). Oxford University Press. (Original work published ca. 350 BCE)

Bogost, I. (2012). Alien phenomenology, or what it’s like to be a thing. University of Minnesota Press.

Crawford, M. B. (2009). Shop class as soulcraft: An inquiry into the value of work. Penguin Books.

Descartes, R. (1998). Discourse on method and meditations on first philosophy (D. A. Cress, Trans.). Hackett Publishing. (Original works published 1637 & 1641)

Feyerabend, P. (2010). Against method (4th ed.). Verso. (Original work published 1975)

Foucault, M. (1970). The order of things: An archaeology of the human sciences. Vintage Books. (Original work published 1966)

Harman, G. (2002). Tool-being: Heidegger and the metaphysics of objects. Open Court.

Heidegger, M. (1962). Being and time (J. Macquarrie & E. Robinson, Trans.). Harper & Row. (Original work published 1927)

Heidegger, M. (1977). The age of the world picture. In The question concerning technology and other essays (W. Lovitt, Trans., pp. 115-154). Harper & Row.

Heidegger, M. (1977). The question concerning technology. In The question concerning technology and other essays (W. Lovitt, Trans., pp. 3-35). Harper & Row.

Husserl, E. (1970). The crisis of European sciences and transcendental phenomenology: An introduction to phenomenological philosophy (D. Carr, Trans.). Northwestern University Press. (Original work published 1936)

Husserl, E. (1983). Ideas pertaining to a pure phenomenology and to a phenomenological philosophy: First book (F. Kersten, Trans.). Martinus Nijhoff. (Original work published 1913)

Kant, I. (1998). Critique of pure reason (P. Guyer & A. W. Wood, Trans.). Cambridge University Press. (Original work published 1781/1787)

Kuhn, T. S. (2012). The structure of scientific revolutions (4th ed.). University of Chicago Press. (Original work published 1962)

Meillassoux, Q. (2008). After finitude: An essay on the necessity of contingency (R. Brassier, Trans.). Continuum. (Original work published 2006)

Mooney, T. (2026). The crises of the sciences and skills and objects themselves. Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 20(54), 11-24. https://doi.org/10.22034/jpiut.2026.21213

Simondon, G. (2017). On the mode of existence of technical objects (C. Malaspina & J. Rogove, Trans.). Univocal Publishing. (Original work published 1958)

Žižek, S. (2009). First as tragedy, then as farce. Verso.

Badiou, A. (2005). Being and event (O. Feltham,
Trans.). Continuum.

Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the universe halfway:
Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Duke
University Press.

Deleuze, G., & Guattari, F. (1983). Anti-Oedipus:
Capitalism and schizophrenia (R. Hurley, M. Seem, & H. R. Lane, Trans.).
Penguin Books.

Derrida, J. (1997). Of grammatology (G. C. Spivak,
Trans.). Johns Hopkins University Press. (Original work published 1967)

Foucault, M. (1977). Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison (A.
Sheridan, Trans.). Pantheon Books. (Original work published 1975)

Haraway, D. J. (2016). Staying with the trouble: Making kin in the
Chthulucene. Duke University Press. Harman, G. (2018). Object-oriented
ontology: A new theory of everything. Pelican.

Hayes, S. C., Strosahl,
K. D., & Wilson, K. G. (1999). Acceptance and commitment therapy: An
experiential approach to behavior change. Guilford Press.

Heidegger, M.
(2010). Being and time (J. Stambaugh, Trans.; Rev. ed.). State
University of New York Press. (Original work published 1927)

Hume, D.
(2000). An enquiry concerning human understanding (T. L. Beauchamp,
Ed.). Oxford University Press. (Original work published 1748)

Husserl,
E. (2014). Ideas: General introduction to pure phenomenology (W. R. B.
Gibson, Trans.). Routledge. (Original work published 1913)

Kair, L.
(2025). The argument of mental health philosophy. ResearchGate.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/390335488_The_Argument_of_Mental_Health_Philosophy

Kant, I. (1998). Critique of pure reason (P. Guyer & A. W. Wood,
Trans.). Cambridge University Press. (Original work published 1781)

Kierkegaard, S. (1980). The concept of anxiety (R. Thomte, Trans.; A.
Hannay, Ed.). Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1844)

Laruelle, F. (2011). Future Christ: A lesson in heresy. Continuum.
Lyotard, J.-F. (1988). The differend: Phrases in dispute (G. Van Den
Abbeele, Trans.). University of Minnesota Press.

(Original work
published 1983) Philosophy For Our Times. (2026, January 27). Freedom
and fate [Audio podcast episode]. In Philosophy For Our Times. IAI.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/philosophy-for-our-times/id1151965239?i=1000746838295

Sartre, J.-P. (2003). Being and nothingness (H. E. Barnes, Trans.).
Routledge. (Original work published 1943)

Sawyer, D. (2014). Lyotard,
literature and the trauma of the differend. Palgrave Macmillan.

Zantvoort, B. (2015). On inertia: Resistance to change in individuals,
institutions and the development of knowledge. Cosmos and History: The
Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 11(1), 342–360.

What makes a problem a problem Bibliography

References

Bishop, S. R., Lau, M., Shapiro, S., Carlson, L., Anderson, N. D., Carmody, J., Segal, Z. V., Abbey, S., Speca, M., Velting, D., & Devins, G. (2004). Mindfulness: A proposed operational definition. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 11(3), 230–241. https://doi.org/10.1093/clipsy.bph077

Charcot, J.-M. (1887–1889). Leçons du mardi à la Salpêtrière: Policliniques, 1887–1888, 1888–1889 (E. Blin, J.-B. Charcot, & H. Colin, Notes). Aux Bureaux du Progrès Médical.

Descartes, R. (1996). Meditations on first philosophy (J. Cottingham, Trans.). Cambridge University Press. (Original work published 1641)

Freud, S. (1953). The interpretation of dreams (J. Strachey, Ed. & Trans.). Hogarth Press. (Original work published 1900)

Husserl, E. (1982). Ideas pertaining to a pure phenomenology and to a phenomenological philosophy: First book (F. Kersten, Trans.). Martinus Nijhoff. (Original work published 1913)

Jung, C. G. (1968). Aion: Researches into the phenomenology of the self (R. F. C. Hull, Trans.; 2nd ed.). Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1951)

Kabat-Zinn, J. (2003). Mindfulness-based interventions in context: Past, present, and future. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 10(2), 144–156. https://doi.org/10.1093/clipsy.bpg016

Kant, I. (1998). Critique of pure reason (P. Guyer & A. W. Wood, Eds. & Trans.). Cambridge University Press. (Original work published 1781/1787)

Leibniz, G. W. (1981). New essays on human understanding (P. Remnant & J. Bennett, Eds. & Trans.). Cambridge University Press. (Original work completed 1704)

Lyotard, J.-F. (1988). The differend: Phrases in dispute (G. Van Den Abbeele, Trans.). University of Minnesota Press. (Original work published 1983)

Schopenhauer, A. (1969). The world as will and representation (E. F. J. Payne, Trans.; Vols. 1–2). Dover Publications. (Original work published 1818/1844)

Szasz, T. S. (1956). Malingering: “Diagnosis” or social condemnation? Analysis of the meaning of “diagnosis” in the light of some interrelations of social structure, value judgment, and the physician’s role. AMA Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry, 76(4), 432–443. https://doi.org/10.1001/archneurpsyc.1956.02330280090009

Szasz, T. S. (1961). The myth of mental illness: Foundations of a theory of personal conduct. Hoeber-Harper.

Žižek, S., & Schelling, F. W. J. (1997). The abyss of freedom/Ages of the world (J. Norman, Trans.). University of Michigan Press. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11193