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, where he is a senior lecturer and academic lead for medical ethics and professionalism. 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. Recent outputs View more outputs Book Emotions as Original Existences: A Theory of Emotion, Motivation and the Self Whiting, D. (2020). Emotions as Original Existences: A Theory of Emotion, Motivation and the Self. Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54682-3 Journal Article Traumatic Brain Injury with Personality Change: a Challenge to Mental Capacity Law in England and Wales Whiting, D. (2020). Traumatic Brain Injury with Personality Change: a Challenge to Mental Capacity Law in England and Wales. Psychological Injury and Law, 13(1), 11-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12207-019-09366-6 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 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 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 Research interests Demian's research interests include philosophy of emotion, phenomenal consciousness, moral psychology, and various issues in medical ethics, including decision-making capacity. Demian's main research focuses on issues arising in philosophy of mind. He is particularly interested in the nature of emotion (he defends the much-disputed view that emotions are non-representational/non intentional feeling states) and how emotion might connect to motivation, moral thought, and the self, and has recently published 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 not), and the question of whether phenomenal consciousness is the real mark of the mental (he thinks it is). Postgraduate supervision Dr Whiting welcomes applications in - philosophy of emotion - moral psychology - phenomenal consciousness - medical ethics Similar profiles Dr Flavia Swan Wolfson Palliative Care Research Group Fliss Murtagh Wolfson Palliative Care Research Group Miriam Johnson Wolfson Palliative Care Research Group