Serife Tekin, Dalhousie University, Canada

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1 Dalhousie University, Novel Tech Ethics, 1234 Le Marchant Street Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3P7 SERIFE TEKIN CURRICULUM VITAE Phone: (902) Website: AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy of Psychiatry; Philosophy of Cognitive Sciences AREAS OF COMPETENCE Applied Ethics (esp. Bioethics and Neuroethics); History of Early Modern Philosophy; Philosophy of Economics EDUCATION Ph.D. Philosophy, York University, Toronto (July 2010). Dissertation Title: Mad Narratives: Exploring Self-Constitutions Through the Diagnostic Looking Glass Committee: David Jopling, Kristin Andrews, Ian Hacking, Duff Waring, John Sadler (External) M.A. Philosophy, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon (2004). Thesis Title: Nietzsche and Wittgenstein: An Anti-Metaphysical Approach to Existential Meaning Committee: Phil Dwyer, Eric Dayton, Leslie Howe, Patrick Renihan (External) B.Sc. Economics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey (2002). B.A. Minor in Philosophy, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey (2001). AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS Post-doctoral Research Fellowship Grant funded by CIHR (Canadian Institute for Health Research), Novel Tech Ethics, Dalhousie University (2010-Present) ($42000) PhD Completion Award, York University (2010) ($2000) Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Graduate Student Travel Award (2010) ($150) Conference Travel Awards, York University ( ) ($3000) Peer Mentor Internship Awards, York University ( ) ($5000) International Scholarship, York University ( ) ($9000) PhD Entrance Scholarship, York University (2004) ($4000) Turkish Prime Ministry Scholarship, Turkey ( ) ($4000) Rotary Club Academic Merit Scholarship, Turkey ( ) ($4000) PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS JOURNAL ARTICLES Tekin, S. Self-concept through the diagnostic looking glass: narratives and mental disorder. Philosophical Psychology. (Forthcoming, 2011) Tekin, S. Looping effect of human kinds after 13 Years: An Analysis of Ian Hacking ( 13 yıl sonra İnsani Türlerin Döngüsel Etkileri : Ian Hacking üzerine bir inceleme). Felsefe Tartismalari: A Turkish Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 42, 2009, pp REVIEW Tekin, S. Book Review, No Child Left Different (Olfman, S., ed.) Journal of Developmental Processes, Volume 2, Issue 2, pp (Fall 2007). PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSLATION Tekin, S. Translation from English to Turkish. Looping Effects of Human Kinds (Ian Hacking). Felsefe Tartismalari: A Turkish Journal of Philosophy. Vol. 42, 2009, pp

2 NON-PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS BOOK REVIEWS Review of I m Crazy (Bourret, A.) Metapsychology Online Reviews Volume 13, Issue 53 (Dec 29, 2009). Review of Dimensional Models of Personality Disorders: Refining the Research Agenda for DSM-V (Thomas A. Widiger, Erik Simonsen, Paul Sirovatka & Darrel A. Regier, eds.) Metapsychology Online Reviews Volume 13, Issue 17 (Apr 21, 2009). Review of Breaking the Silence (Stephen P. Hinshaw, ed.) Metapsychology Online Reviews Volume 13, Issue 15 (April 7, 2009). Review of Body-Subjects and Disordered Minds (Matthews, E.) Metaphsychology Online Reviews Volume 11, Issue 11 (March 11, 2008). Review of Self Knowledge and Resentment (Bilgrami, A.) Metapsychology Online Reviews Volume 10, Issue 41 (March 6, 2007). Review of Forms of Intersubjectivity in Infant Research and Adult Treatment (B. Beebe, S. Knoblauch, J. Rustin, & D. Sorter, eds.) Metapsychology Online Reviews Volume 11, Issue 10 (October 10, 2006). PRESENTATIONS PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Evidence in Psychiatry: A case for patient memoirs Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry, New Orleans, USA, May Mental Disorder: Narratives and the Self (Winner of the Graduate Student Travel Award) Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Atlanta, April What Can Joint Attention to the Past Tell Us About the Narrative Self? Joint Attention: Developments in Philosophy of Mind, Developmental and Comparative Psychology, and Cognitive Science. Bentley College, Boston, USA, October Responding to Psychiatric Diagnosis: The Phenomenology of Being Mad, Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy, Guelph, Canada, October Understanding Mental Illness: Moving Beyond Natural Kinds, The Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS), Ottawa, Canada, May How Should We Understand Mental Illness? Mental Disorder Workshop, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK, March Is the Diagnosis of Mental Illness an Obstacle to Human Freedom? Psychiatry and Freedom, 11th International Conference for Psychiatry and Mental Health, Dallas, USA, October Phenomenological Account of Meaning in Psychiatry: A Consideration of Eric Matthews s Body-subjects and Disordered Minds, Psychiatry and Freedom, 11th International Conference for Psychiatry and Mental Health, Dallas, USA, October Can Babies Read Minds? Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Philadelphia, USA, June 2008 (poster presentation). Western Canadian Philosophy Association, Saskatoon, Canada, October Is Mental Illness a Human Kind? Canadian Philosophy Association, Toronto, Canada, May

3 PEER-REVIEWED POSTER PRESENTATIONS Identity Through the Diagnostic Glass, Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Bloomington, USA, June 2009, poster presentation. Understanding of What: Theory of Mind, University of Toronto-UTism conference, Toronto, Canada, March 2006 (poster presentation). OTHER PRESENTATIONS Explanation in Psychiatry: Moving Beyond Cartesianism, (with Nadia Halim) Graduate Colloquium, York University, Toronto, Canada, September Why is Ian Hacking Right about Human Kinds? International Graduate Summer School Seminars, Helsingborg, Sweden, June Everything You Wanted to Know About Psychiatric Disabilities But Were Afraid to Ask, Panel with Lucy Costa, Geoffrey Reaume, and Enid Weiner. Organized by The Psychiatric Disability Program and Centre for the Support of Teaching at York University, Toronto Canada, March Why is Philosophy Good for Mental Health? UNESCO s World Philosophy Day: Philosophy for a Better World: Examining Foundations, Extending Frontiers, York University, Toronto, Canada, November Sartre and Ryle: An Experimental Study on the Concept of Other, Philosophy Department Colloquium, Saskatoon Canada, March Commentary on Wittgenstein Reads Plato by Bela Szabados and Heidi Northwood, Western Canadian Philosophy Association, Lethbridge, Canada, October How Paradoxical Are the Paradoxes of Time Travel? Philosophy Department Colloquium, Saskatoon, Canada, March GRADUATE COURSE WORK (AUDITED*) Epistemology* (Code) Natural Kinds* (Khalidi) Bioethics* (Waring) Self (Jopling) Theoretical Philosophy (Jackman) Folk Psychology (Andrews) Philosophy of Psychology (Jopling) Spinoza (Jopling) Embodiment (Thompson) Autism and Theory of Mind (Hacking) Sartre (Dwyer) Kierkegaard (Howe) Kant (Dayton) Social and Political Philosophy (Crossley) Analytic Philosophy (Pfeifer) Political Economics (Ozveren) SUMMER INSTITUTES Collegium on Social Cognition and Social Narrative. San Marino, Italy (July 2008) Theme: Consciousness in a Natural and Cultural Context (Seminars with Prof. Daniel Hutto, Prof. Shaun Gallagher, Prof. Dan Zahavi, Prof. David Herman) Third International Graduate Summer School and Forum Lund University, Helsingborg, Sweden (June 2006) Theme: The Sciences and Humanities in a Changing World. (Seminars with Prof. Rom Harré, Prof. Jeremy Shearmour) 3

4 TEACHING EXPERIENCE INSTRUCTOR, YORK UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY Phil 2160, Mind, Brain and Self (2008) Phil 2240, Introduction to Philosophy of Psychology (2007) TEACHING ASSISTANT Social and Political Philosophy (Maloney, 2010) Introduction to Applied Ethics (King, 2009) Experience, Self, and the Mind (Empiricism) (Jopling, 2007, 2008) Human Nature (King, 2007) Social and Political Philosophy (Kompridis, 2007) Introduction to Philosophy (Maclachlan, 2007) Social Introduction to Philosophy (Veltman, 2006) Meaning of Life (Hattigandi, 2005) Meaning of Life (Jackman, 2004) Introduction to Political Philosophy (Crossley, 2003) Introduction to Ethics (O Hagan, 2002) Economic History and Civilization 1-2 (Yildirim, 2001) GUEST LECTURER Peter Singer on Animal Rights, Modes of Reasoning (Huss, 2007) Peter Singer on Famine Affluence and Morality, Modes of Reasoning (Huss, 2007) Kant s Ethics, Introduction to Philosophy (Veltman, 2006) Schopenhauer and the Meaning of Life, Meaning of Life (Hattiangadi, 2005) Gilbert Ryle s Theory of Mind, Introduction to Philosophy (Crossley, 2004) Enlightenment, 18th Century Europe, Economic History and Civilization (Yildirim, 2002) RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Research Assistant for Idil Boran, on The Ethical Basis of a Market for Carbon (2007) Research Assistant for Ian Hacking, on Autism ( ) Research Assistant for Zehra Kasnakoglu, on Agricultural Production in Rural Areas of Ankara (2002) PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Philosophical Association Canadian Philosophical Association Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry International Network of Philosophy and Psychiatry Behavioral and Brain Sciences Associate Society for Philosophy and Psychology Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Referee, Philosophical Psychology (2010) Referee, Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy at Canadian Philosophical Association, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton (2010) Referee, Canadian Philosophical Association, Annual Conference, Concordia University, Montreal (2010) Referee, Philosophy Graduate Students Association, Annual Conference, York University, Toronto (2010) Teaching Development Graduate Assistant, Philosophy, York University, Toronto (2008) 4

5 OTHER SERVICE Member, Admissions Committee, Philosophy, York University, Toronto ( ) Member, Organizing Committee for the Interdisciplinary Conference on Spinoza, York University, Toronto ( ) Mentor, Counseling and Development Centre, Mentorship Program, York University, Toronto (2005- Present) REFERENCES Prof. David Jopling, Philosophy, York University, Toronto, Canada Prof. Kristin Andrews, Philosophy, York University, Toronto, Canada Prof. Ian Hacking, Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada Prof. John Sadler, Psychiatry & Clinical Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, USA Prof. George Graham, Philosophy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA Prof. Duff Waring, Philosophy, York University, Toronto, Canada Prof. Henry Jackman, Philosophy, York University, Toronto, Canada DISSERTATION SUMMARY In my dissertation, by using narrative approaches to the self, I explore how the diagnosis of mental disorder shapes personal identities and influences flourishing. My particular focus is the diagnosis made based on the criteria provided by the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). I develop two connected claims pertaining to the self and mental disorder and use the memoirs written by the subjects with a DSM diagnosis as illustrations to bolster these claims. First, expanding on the narrative approaches to the self, I explain how narratives about a subject shape her self-constitution. I elucidate how this process is generated by drawing on research in developmental psychology, cognitive science, and social psychology. Second, using this account as a springboard, I argue that the DSM diagnosis of mental disorder serves as a source of narrative, entering into the patients autobiographical and social narratives. This plays an important role in the diagnosed subjects self-understanding, self-constitution and flourishing. How mental disorders are classified is not only a theoretical question about accurately taxonomizing the experiences related to mental distress but also an ethical question about which ways of talking about mental disorders will allow subjects to respond effectively to their psychological distress, to flourish and to live autonomous and fulfilling lives. Finally, I suggest that the DSM-based narratives wield a double-edged sword when it comes to the subject s flourishing: On the one hand, there are problems with some DSM-based narratives that stem from the DSM diagnostic schema and the culture of DSM diagnoses. These problems render these DSM-based narratives unbeneficial for flourishing as they constrain the range of adoptive social, cognitive and emotional responses the subjects can give to their mental disorders. On the other hand, there are grounds to believe that some DSM-based narratives help subjects to flourish. For instance, they provide certainty to subjects about their condition and help them reach out to others with similar experiences. Understanding how the DSM-based narratives can both benefit and harm will help us address problems with psychiatric diagnoses and the dissemination of knowledge about mental disorders in popular culture. 5