Lysaker Publications and Research
Dr. Lysaker's central interest remains the good life writ large and various phenomena that enable and/or frustrate its emergence, including character and metacognition, artworks, serious mental illness, and friendship.
Because ethical life courses through a wide field of usages and images, his work engages historical texts as well as contemporary philosophers alongside and in dialogue with poets, songwriters, musicians, and painters.
Dr. Lysaker's personal website
Recent publications listed here (2020-2026).
BOOKS
Hope, Trust, and Forgiveness: Essays in Finitude (University of Chicago Press, October 2023)
Juried Articles and Chapters
Under Review
“Become Who You Aren’t: Perfectionism, Pragmatism, and the Task of Ourselves.” Poetic Pragmatism: Singular Voices and Shared Practices. Eduardo Mendieta and John Stuhr, Eds.
Published
Self, Narrative, Madness.” Palgrave Encyclopaedia of the Health Humanities. Eds. Paul Crawford & Paul Kadetz. London: Palgrave Macmillan. (in production– with Paul Lysaker)
“Ethical dilemmas of antipsychotic discontinuation.” JAMA Psychiatry. (with Helene Speyer and David Roe*#, August 6, 2025)
“When shared decision-making breaks down; solving moral dilemmas in antipsychotic deprescribing,” Harvard Review of Psychiatry. Vol. 33, No. 3. May/June 2025. (with Helene Speyer, Ju Zhang, and David Roe*#)
“Friendship as Moral Education,” Journal of Speculative Philosophy. Vol. 39. No. 2. April 2025. 158-174.
Facing Fear in the Psychotherapy for Psychosis” (with Jeremy M Ridenour, Jay A Hamm, Bethany L Leonhardt, & Benjamin Buck). Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy. February 2025.
“It Takes All Kinds: On Friendship,” The Philosopher. Autumn 2024, 84-89
“Learning how to learn together: integrating lived experience in mental health care.” Psychiatric Services. September 23, 2024 (with Helene Speyer and David Roe*)
“Listening in: Cavel, Krenek, Cage, Reich at the limits of Musical Meaning.” Music with Stanley Cavell in Mind. Ed. David Larocca. London: Bloomsbury. 2024. (with Kevin Karnes)
A Ferment of Existence: friendship, ethics, and the better life.” The Georgia Review. Summer 2024.
“Promoting reflection on the process of psychiatric rehabilitation: Unique contributions from literature and the humanities for practitioners.” Community Mental Health Journal. 5 March 2024 (with Paul Lysaker and David Roe)
“Personal narratives and the pursuit of purpose, possibility and recovery in psychosis: A review.” Review of Neurotherapeutics. May 2023. (with Courtney Wiesepape, Sarah Queller, and Paul H. Lysaker)*
“Like a Bird on a Wire: freedom to be free.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy. Vol 36. No. 4. November 2022. 476-490.
“Psychosis and the challenges to narrative identity and the good life: Advances from research on the integrated model of metacognition.” Journal of Research in Personality. Volume 100. October 2022 (with Paul H. Lysaker, Tine Holm, Marina Kukla, Courtney Wiesepape, Laura Faith, Aubrie Musselman)
“Social dysfunction in psychosis is more than a matter of misperception: Advances from the study of metacognition.” Frontiers in Psychology. 14 October 2021. (with Paul H. Lysaker, Ilanit Hasson-Ohayon, Courtney Wiesepape, Kelsey Huling, Aubrie Musselman)
“Metacognition, social cognition, and mentalizing in psychosis: Are these distinct constructs when it comes to subjective experience or are we just splitting hairs?” BMC Psychiatry. 21, Article number: 329. July 2nd, 2021 (with Paul Lysaker, Cheli S, Dimaggio G, Buck B, Bonfils K, Huling K, and Wiesepape C)
“Disturbances in dialogue and metacognition: A renewed way to understand and respond to alterations in self-experience in psychosis.” Theory & Psychology. Vol. 31(3). 2021. 335–354 – (with Paul Lysaker)
“Being True, Sounding False.” European Journal of American Studies. 15-1. 2020. 49.
NON-JURIED SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
“Emerson.” Grundriss: Outline of the History of Philosophy. Series editors: Gerald Hartung, Laurent Cesalli. Volume editors: Kipton Jensen & Jennifer Keefe. Schwabe Verlag (10K words, forthcoming)
“Beyond Philosophy and Literature.” (A reply to a review essay addressing Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought.) Philosophy & Literature. Vol. 48, No. 2 October 2024. 480-483
“Company I’ve Kept.” Gatherings. Volume 13. 2023 (published February 2024) 249-252, 259-261. (Short essay in a set of five with a response to the other four)
“Matter and Manners: Continuing After Emerson.” A reply to Megan Craig’s reply to After Emerson. Philosophy Today. 64:2 519-527 (Summer 2020)
RECENT PRESENTATIONS
“Attention and Accountability: Life in the Present Imperfect,” University of Oregon, October 2025
“Iris Murdoch’s Moral Pilgrim: An Essay in Perfectionism,” A Celebration of Iris Murdoch University of Warwick, September 2025 (Keynote lecture)
“Adventures in Low-Fi: Murdoch’s Moral Surveys,” A Celebration of Iris Murdoch, University of Warwick, September 2025
“MERIT: Philosophical Questions and Replies II,” Institute for Integrative Psychotherapies, Brisbane, Australia. June 3/June 4,
“MERIT: Philosophical Questions and Replies,” Institute for Integrative Psychotherapies, Brisbane, Australia. April 30/May 1, 2025
“Friendship in the Folds of Ethical Life,” College of the Holy Cross. April 11, 2025
“Attention and Accountability,” Making Us New: A Symposium on Art and Ethics. Boston University. April 10, 2025
“Becoming What You Are Not: Perfectionism in Iris Murdoch,” University of West Virginia, February 6, 2025
“Missed Opportunities in Early American Philosophy,” APA Eastern Division, January 2025
“In all Honesty,” American Philosophies Forum, University of Texas, Austin, April 2025