Dr Demian Whiting Senior Lecturer +44 (0)1482 466650 | D.Whiting@hull.ac.uk Faculty and Department Faculty of Health Sciences Hull York Medical School Related groups Wolfson Palliative Care Research Group Biography Outputs Research/PhD Summary Demian Whiting is based in Philosophy and Hull York Medical School. He obtained a PhD in Philosophy in 2002, at Sheffield University, before being appointed Lecturer in Health Care Ethics at Liverpool University in 2003. He moved to Hull in April 2011. Demian's main research focuses on the philosophy of mind. He is particularly interested in the nature of emotion (he argues that emotions are non-representational/non intentional feeling states) and how emotion might connect to motivation, moral thought, and the self (he believes emotion is centrally involved in all of these things), and is currently working on a book that explores these themes. He is interested also in phenomenal consciousness, including whether there is an appearance/reality distinction in the case of conscious mental states and the way they feel to us (he argues there is no such distinction), and the question of whether phenomenal consciousness is the real mark of the mental (he believes there are powerful reasons to think it is the mark of the mental). Recent outputs View more outputs Journal Article On the appearance and reality of mind Whiting, D. (2016). On the appearance and reality of mind. Journal of Mind and Behavior, 37(1), 47-70 Qualitative analysis of how patients decide that they want risk-reducing mastectomy, and the implications for surgeons in responding to emotionally-motivated patient requests Brown, S. L., Whiting, D., Fielden, H. G., Saini, P., Beesley, H., Holcombe, C., …Salmon, P. (2017). Qualitative analysis of how patients decide that they want risk-reducing mastectomy, and the implications for surgeons in responding to emotionally-motivated patient requests. PloS one, 12(5), e0178392. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178392 The ethics of distress: Toward a framework for determining the ethical acceptability of distressing health promotion advertising Whiting, D., & Brown, S. L. (2014). The ethics of distress: Toward a framework for determining the ethical acceptability of distressing health promotion advertising. International Journal of Psychology, 49(2), 89-97. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12002 Evaluating medico-legal decisional competency criteria Whiting, D. (2015). Evaluating medico-legal decisional competency criteria. Health care analysis, 23(2), 181-196. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-013-0258-z Emotion as the categorical basis for moral thought Whiting, D. (2018). Emotion as the categorical basis for moral thought. Philosophical psychology, 31(4), 533-553. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2018.1456653 Postgraduate supervision Dr Whiting welcomes applications in - philosophy of emotion - moral psychology - phenomenal consciousness - medical ethics Similar profiles Professor Fliss Murtagh Wolfson Palliative Care Research Group Miriam Johnson Wolfson Palliative Care Research Group Dr Ann Hutchinson Wolfson Palliative Care Research Group Mark Pearson Wolfson Palliative Care Research Group