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David Alan Jopling

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Professor

Office: Ross Building, S435
Phone: (416)736-2100 Ext: 77588
Email: jopling@yorku.ca


The Laetoli footsteps, 3.7 million years old. Olduvai, Tanzania. The footprints of three early humans, members of the species Australopithecus afarensis.

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Research Interests

Philosophy , Human evolution, origins of human cognition, conceptual issues in evolutionary anthropology, paleo-medicine, evolutionary origins of medicine; the placebo effect; the philosophy of Spinoza; the philosophy of Levinas.
Books

Publication
Year

Talking Cures and Placebo Effects. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)

2008

Self-Knowledge and the Self (New York: Routledge, 2000).

2000

The Conceptual Self in Context: Culture, Experience, Self-Understanding, edited by U. Neisser and D.A. Jopling (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997)

1997

Book Chapters

Publication
Year

“The Placebo Effect in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy.” Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Psychiatry. Edited by K.W.M. Fulford and R. Gipps. New York: Oxford University Press. 2013. pp.714-734.

2012

“Five Kinds of Self-Ignorance.” In Ecological Approaches to Cognition: Essays in Honor of Ulric Neisser, edited by E. Winograd, R. Fivush and W. Hirst (New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1999) pp. 313-334.

1999

“A ‘Self of Selves’?” In The Conceptual Self in Context: Culture, Experience, Self-Understanding, edited by U. Neisser and D.A. Jopling (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997) pp.249-267.

1997

“Cognitive Science, Other Minds, and the Philosophy of Dialogue.” In The Perceived Self, edited by U. Neisser (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994) pp.290-309.

1994

“Sartre’s Moral Psychology.” In The Cambridge Companion to Sartre, edited by C. Howells (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992) pp.103-139.

1992

Journal Articles

Publication
Year

“’Tis much ado to know myself…:’ Insight in the Talking Cures.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Perspectives on the Self: Conversations on Identity and Consciousness. Vol.1234 (2011).

2011

“Placebo Insight.” Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol. 57, No. 1 (2001) pp.19-36.

2001

"First do no harm: Over-philosophizing and pseudo-philosophizing in philosophical counselling." Inquiry: Critical Thinking across the Disciplines. Vol. 17. 1998, pp.100-112

1998

“Sub-phenomenology.” Human Studies, Vol.19 (1996) pp.153-173.

1996

“‘Take away the life-lie’: Positive Illusions and Creative Self-Deception.” Philosophical Psychology, Vol.9, No.4 (1996) pp.525-544.

1996

"Anti-psychiatry in Sartre's L'Idiot de la famille." Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, Vol. 19, pp.161-188

1988

“Kant and Sartre on Self-Knowledge.” Man and World, Vol.19 (1986) pp.73-93.

1986


Current Courses

Term Course Number Section Title Type
Winter 2024 AP/PHIL2420 3.0 M Human Nature ONLN
Winter 2024 AP/PHIL4075 3.0 M Life, Death, Absurdity, and Meaning ONLN
Winter 2024 AP/PHIL3280 3.0 M Philosophy of Biology ONLN


Upcoming Courses

Term Course Number Section Title Type
Summer 2024 AP/PHIL4075 3.0 A Life, Death, Absurdity, and Meaning ONLN


The Laetoli footsteps, 3.7 million years old. Olduvai, Tanzania. The footprints of three early humans, members of the species Australopithecus afarensis.

Research Interests

Philosophy , Human evolution, origins of human cognition, conceptual issues in evolutionary anthropology, paleo-medicine, evolutionary origins of medicine; the placebo effect; the philosophy of Spinoza; the philosophy of Levinas.

All Publications


Book Chapters

Publication
Year

“The Placebo Effect in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy.” Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Psychiatry. Edited by K.W.M. Fulford and R. Gipps. New York: Oxford University Press. 2013. pp.714-734.

2012

“Five Kinds of Self-Ignorance.” In Ecological Approaches to Cognition: Essays in Honor of Ulric Neisser, edited by E. Winograd, R. Fivush and W. Hirst (New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1999) pp. 313-334.

1999

“A ‘Self of Selves’?” In The Conceptual Self in Context: Culture, Experience, Self-Understanding, edited by U. Neisser and D.A. Jopling (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997) pp.249-267.

1997

“Cognitive Science, Other Minds, and the Philosophy of Dialogue.” In The Perceived Self, edited by U. Neisser (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994) pp.290-309.

1994

“Sartre’s Moral Psychology.” In The Cambridge Companion to Sartre, edited by C. Howells (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992) pp.103-139.

1992

Books

Publication
Year

Talking Cures and Placebo Effects. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)

2008

Self-Knowledge and the Self (New York: Routledge, 2000).

2000

The Conceptual Self in Context: Culture, Experience, Self-Understanding, edited by U. Neisser and D.A. Jopling (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997)

1997

Journal Articles

Publication
Year

“’Tis much ado to know myself…:’ Insight in the Talking Cures.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Perspectives on the Self: Conversations on Identity and Consciousness. Vol.1234 (2011).

2011

“Placebo Insight.” Journal of Clinical Psychology, Vol. 57, No. 1 (2001) pp.19-36.

2001

"First do no harm: Over-philosophizing and pseudo-philosophizing in philosophical counselling." Inquiry: Critical Thinking across the Disciplines. Vol. 17. 1998, pp.100-112

1998

“Sub-phenomenology.” Human Studies, Vol.19 (1996) pp.153-173.

1996

“‘Take away the life-lie’: Positive Illusions and Creative Self-Deception.” Philosophical Psychology, Vol.9, No.4 (1996) pp.525-544.

1996

"Anti-psychiatry in Sartre's L'Idiot de la famille." Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, Vol. 19, pp.161-188

1988

“Kant and Sartre on Self-Knowledge.” Man and World, Vol.19 (1986) pp.73-93.

1986


Current Courses

Term Course Number Section Title Type
Winter 2024 AP/PHIL2420 3.0 M Human Nature ONLN
Winter 2024 AP/PHIL4075 3.0 M Life, Death, Absurdity, and Meaning ONLN
Winter 2024 AP/PHIL3280 3.0 M Philosophy of Biology ONLN


Upcoming Courses

Term Course Number Section Title Type
Summer 2024 AP/PHIL4075 3.0 A Life, Death, Absurdity, and Meaning ONLN