INDEX OF DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSES

abduction
manipulative
musement and
two types of
abolitionists
abortion
“Acceptance”
actions
agent-regret for
categorical imperative and
consequentialism and
justification of
love and
meaningful life and
reason tied to
results of
right reasons behind
superior person’s higher law and
unintended/unforeseen consequences of
utilitarianism and
virtuous
act utilitarians
Addison’s disease
“Adventure of the Empty House, The” (Doyle)
aesthetics
afterlife
evidence for
Sartre’s notion of hell and
agency. See autonomy
agent-regret
AIP (acute intermittent porphyria)
ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease)
altruism
Ames, Roger T.
Analects of Confucius
anger
anomalies
antagonism
antecedent luck
anxiety
existential
Apology (Plato)
Aquinas, St. Thomas
arête (excellence)
argumentation
aristocratic morality
Aristophanes
Aristotle
on friendship
on happiness
on moral virtues
on reason
arrogance
artists
asceticism
assumptions
challenge to
problematic
Austin, John
authentic relationships
authority
autism
autonomy
beneficence vs.
best possible consequences and
paternalism vs.
“Autopsy”

“Babies and Bathwater”
bad decisions
bad faith (Sartre term)
“beginner’s mind”
Being and Nothingness (Sartre)
belief in God
Bell, Dr. Joseph
beneficence (benevolence)
definition of
House’s deficit in
as moral virtue
Bentham, Jeremy
best possible consequences
Big Love (Mormon doctor)
bioethics
paternalism vs.
principles of
Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music (Nietzsche)
blame
agent-regret and
consequentialism and
Control Principle and
bodily integrity, life vs.
brainstorming
Brown, John
Buddhism. See Zen

Caesar, Julius
Cameron, Dr. Allison
character and moral courage of
diagnosis and
ethic of care of
Foreman’s friendship with
House’s abrasiveness and
House’s relationship with
love affair with Chase of
love for House of
as moral center
patient’s autonomy and
personal flaws of
self-consciousness and
Vogler’s policies and
Wilson’s prescription-writing privileges and
careerism
care feminism. See also ethic of care
categorical imperative
causality
Cebes (Plato’s student)
chance
chaos
character
eccentricity and
intersecting traits of
traits of intellectual virtue
traits of moral virtue
Chase, Dr. Robert
Cameron’s love affair with
character and moral courage of
diagnosis and
House’s abrasiveness and
moral luck and
paternalism and
personal flaws of
relationship with House of
self-consciousness and
Tritter and
Chateaubriand, François René Auguste
Chicago Hope (TV series)
Chinese philosophy
Chuang Tzu (Daoist text)
CIPA patient
civil disobedience
clinic patients
“Clueless”
cochicine
coin flip
Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur. See Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
conflict
necessity of
in social relations
confrontation
Confucius
conjecture
consciousness, reflective
consent forms. See informed consent
consequences
best possible
desirable
unintended/unforeseen
utilitarian judgment of
consequentialism
consolation
“Control”
control, sense of
Control Principle
Cook Ting
courage
definition of
intellectual
moral
Coward, Donald (Dax)
Cuddy, Dr. Lisa attempts to manage House by
House’s abrasiveness and
House’s diagnostic methods and
House’s drug addiction and
House’s eccentricity and
House’s leg pain and
self-consciousness and
virtues and
Vogler’s policies and
curiosity
“Cursed”
Cynics

“Daddy’s Boy”
“Damned If You Do”
Dao, meaning of
Dao De Jing
Daoism
Dax’s Case (documentary)
death
afterlife belief and
agent-regret and
autonomy and
best possible outcome and
with dignity
DNR order and
ethic of care and
House and Holmes parallels and
mistakes and
pain vs.
paternalistic decisions and
“Deception”
deductive logic
denial
dependency
depression
Descartes, René
Deshimaru, Taisen
desirable consequences
desire
detection. See also puzzle solving
detective stories
deductive logic and
“Detox”
diagnosis
activity of
Dao of
deductive logic and
differential
House as final authority on (see also under House, Gregory)
hypotheses and
informed consent and
intellectual virtues and
moral luck and
moral virtues vs.
as multifaceted
novel and funny
paternalistic deception and
principle of sufficient reason and
Socratic method and
utilitarian reasoning and
See also puzzle solving
Dickenson, Donna
different assumptions
differential diagnosis
Diogenes of Sinope
disagreement
“Distractions”
“DNR”
DNR (“Do Not Resuscitate”) order
doctor-patient relationship
agent-regret and
beneficence and
character traits and
ethical priorities and
ethic of care and
“the good” in
human dependency and
informed consent and
intellectual challenges and
justice and
nonmaleficence and
paternalism and
sufficient reason principle and
theoretical authority and
See also diagnosis
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Eastern philosophy. See also Daoism; Zen
eccentricity
moral progress and
virtue of
Eco, Umberto
ego
Einstein, Albert
electroshock therapy
elegant hypothesis
emotions
love and
empathy
end justifying means
entertainers
environmental movement
ER (TV series)
erotic love
error, abduction and. See also mistakes
eternity. See afterlife
ethical theory
bioethical principles and
categorical imperative and
conflicting ideals and
Daoism and
definition of
Diogenes and
feminism and
House’s approach to
medical paternalism and
reason and
utilitarianism and
See also moral headings; virtue
ethic of care
philosophical criticism of
ethic of justice
eudaimonia (well-being)
“Euphoria, Parts 1 and 2”
euthanasia
Euthyphro (Plato)
“everybody lies” belief
evidence gathering
evil wants
examined life
excellence, friendship and
existentialism
bad faith and
notion of hell and
experience
expertise
explanation
elegance of
implausibility of
reason supporting
simplicity of
See also hypotheses

“Failure to Communicate”
fairness. See justice
faith. See also bad faith
“Family”
feelings
feminist ethics
“Fetal Position”
“Final Problem, The” (Doyle)
“Finding Judas”
first, do no harm principle. See nonmaleficence
first-order desire
flight
“Fools for Love”
Foreman, Dr. Eric
agent-regret and
Cameron’s friendship with
character and moral courage of
confrontation failure of
diagnostic skill vs. personal goodness and
ethical choice and
on guesswork
House’s abrasiveness and
House’s diagnosis of brain illness of
on House’s lack of humility
House’s relationship with
informed consent and
intellectual virtue of
moral luck and
on Occam’s principle
patients’ autonomy and
personal flaws of
self-consciousness and
Tritter and
virtuous acts and
“Forever”
Forms, Platonic
Frankfurt, Harry
freedom
free riders
friendship
gone wrong
sexual tension and

Gandhi, Mahatma
gender
care vs. justice and
moral problems and
power differentials and
See also feminist ethics
general relativity, theory of
genetic screening
genius
Gilligan, Carol
God
existence of
indeterminism and
nihilism vs.
God’s plan
God’s will
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
good, definition of. See also ethical theory
good deeds
good life, definition of
good person
attributes of
friendship and
Unity of Virtues Thesis and
vs. good doctor
good result
Gray’s Anatomy (medical text)
Greek tragedy
Gregson, Tobias
Grey’s Anatomy (TV series)
guesswork logic of. See abduction
guilt

“Half-Wit”
hallucination
haplos
happiness
agency and
as Aristotelian goal
as utilitarian goal
harm
agent-regret and
blame and
greater good from
medical risk of
patient’s wishes and
Hart, H. L. A.
Hawking, Stephen
healing, method of
“Heavy”
Heidegger, Martin
hell, Sartre’s notion of
higher law
Hippocratic oath
“Histories”
Holmes, Sherlock
drug use by
methodology of
musement state of
honesty
House’s lack of
See also lies; truth
“Honeymoon”
House (TV series)
double standard in each episode of
loyal fan base of
moral luck illustrated in
negativity of interpersonal relations as theme of
paternalism as theme of
singularity of
virtuous actions portrayed in
See also specific characters and episodes
House, Gregory
abductive reasoning and
abrasive personality of
agent-regret and
anger of
antisocial behavior of
appeal of
arrogance of
attitude toward patients of
bad faith and
as broken person
categorical imperative and
character of
clue gathering by
costs to hospital by
cruelness of
Daoism and
decision-making process of
destabilizing approach of
diagnostic skill of
drug addiction of
eccentricity of
ego of
end results as focus of
ethical standards and
“everybody lies” as basic belief of
as free though flawed
friendship and
as good doctor vs. good person
hallucinations of
informed consent notion of
intellectual virtue of
irony and
leg pain of
love and
manipulation and
as maverick
meaningful life and
misanthropy of
as “miserable”
moral judgment and
moral luck and
moral virtues and
musement state of
Nietzschean Übermensch parallel with
objectification of others by
obnoxious behavior of
obsessiveness of
open-mindedness of
organ-recipient decisions and
as paternalistic
personal likes of
personal style of
personal trauma of
principles and priorities of
psychological problems of
puzzle-solving focus of
reasoning methodology of
reason’s importance to
rejection of religion by
risks taken by
Sherlock Holmes parallel with
shooting of
simple lifestyle of
social isolation of
Socrates compared with
Socratic method and
stubbornness of
sufficient reason principle and
as teacher
theoretical authority of
Tritter and
truth’s importance to
utilitarianism and
Vogler’s policies and
vulnerability of
Zen rhetoric and
“House-Camera”
“House Training”
“House vs. God”
“Human Error”
humanitarians
humans
capacity for reason of
moral agency of
objectification of
overman’s role and
as “rational animal”
Sartre’s vs. Heidegger’s view of
See also good person; interpersonal relations
humiliation
humility
hypocrisy
hypothalamic dysregulation
hypotheses
convincing defense of
elegance of
necessity of conflict and
novelty of
open-mindedness to
origin and
simplicity of
Socratic method and
See also abduction

ideas, free marketplace of
identity formation
idiopathic conditions
ignorance
imagination
immortality. See afterlife
implausibility
In a Different Voice (Gilligan)
indeterminism
inductive reasoning
infinite universe
informed consent
paternalism vs.
by proxy
rashness vs.
“Informed Consent”
“Insensitive”
intellectual challenges
intellectual courage
intellectual virtues
intersection of
Unity of Virtues Thesis and
See also moral virtues
intentional state
intentions, blame and
interpersonal relationships
authentic
consolation and
diagnostic skills vs.
ethic of care and
existential anxiety and
friendship and
identity formation and
love and
needs filled by
recognition of rights of others in
as sadomasochistic
in Sartre’s hell
Sartre’s theory of others and
threats from
intubation. See DNR (“Do Not Resuscitate”) order
irony
irrationality
love and
irritating people

Jagger, Mick
“Jerk, The”
Jesus
Judaism
justice
beneficence vs.
ethic of care vs. ethic of
as moral virtue
resource allocation and
See also truth

Kabbalah
Kant, Immanuel
Kaufmann, Walter
Kepler’s laws
ketamine
“Kids”
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
knowledge
love and
“masculine” vs. “feminine”
of reality
Socratic method and
koan (Zen riddle)
Korsakoff’s syndrome
Kyong Ho

Lao Tzu
Laurie, Hugh
Lederman, Leon
legal authority
legal philosophy
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
“Let Sleeping Dogs Lie”
Lewis. S.
lies
to authority
of “everybody”
between friends
hypocrisy and
told by House
life
definition of good life
examined vs. unexamined
lack of balance in
making sense of
of reason
saving of
as “troubled longing”
valuation of
See also death; meaning of life
“Lines in the Sand”
logic
abductive
deductive
inductive
valuation of truth and
See also reasoning
“look, the” (Sartre)
Lou Gehrig’s disease. See ALS
love
creativity of
erotic
projections in
qualities of
state of vs. relationship of
vulnerability in
“Love Hurts”
luck. See moral luck

Magnani, Lorenzo
“Mama, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys” (song)
manipulation
manipulative abduction
Mark (Stacy’s Husband)
“Maternity”
Max
McNeil, Dr. Jack (ER character)
“Meaning”
meaningful life
truth and
meaningless life
meaning of life
Daoism and
as examined life
God’s role in
as leading to afterlife
as leading to happiness
as meaningless
objective view of
properties of meaningful
search for truth and
subjective view of
Zen approach to
means to end. See end justifying means
measurement, principle of
medical ethics. See bioethics
medical soap operas
medicine
anomalies and
good doctor vs. good person and
Hippocratic oath and
Sherlock Holmes stories and
teaching of
See also bioethics; doctor-patient relationship
Melinda
Meno (Plato)
mental states
Michael
Mill, John Stuart
on eccentricity
misanthropy
“Mistake, The”
mistakes
blame and
Holmes vs. House on
See also agent-regret
“Mob Rules”
moral courage
moral goodness. See good person; moral virtues
morality
agent-regret and
aristocratic
erotic love and
ethic of care vs. ethic of justice and
of superior individual
universalized standard for
utilitarian standard for
See also ethical theory
moral luck
antecedent
definition of
problem of purity and
responsibility and
resultant
shrugging it off and
moral progress
moral purity
moral reasoning
moral virtues
diagnostic skills vs.
good person and
intersection of
Unity of Virtues Thesis and
See also intellectual virtues
Moriarty, Professor James (Holmes’s nemesis)
motivation, virtuous
MRI
Mr. Spock
Mulder, Fox
murder
musement
mysticism
mythology

Nagel, Thomas
Napoleon
natural world
near-death experience
“Need to Know”
negligence
Nietzsche, Friedrich
nihilism
“97 Seconds”
No Exit (Sartre)
nondualism
nonmaleficence
beneficence vs.
nonviolent protest
“No Reason”
novelty
Nozick, Robert

object, intentional
objectification
objective identity
objectivity
obsessiveness
Occam’s Razor
statement of
“Occam’s Razor”
Oedipus
“One Day, One Room”
interpersonal relationships and
meaningful life and
parallels with Sartre’s No Exit of
On Liberty (Mill)
open-mindedness
oracle of Delphi
“ordinary mind”
organ transplant lists
benevolence vs. justice and
originality
others, Sartre theory of. See also interpersonal relationships
overcoded abduction
overman. See Übermensch

pain
parental authority
paternalism
definition of
ethical presumption against
fallacy of
House series justification of
“Paternity”
patient care. See bioethics; doctor-patient relationship; ethic of care
patients’ lies
patients’ needs
patients’ rights. See informed consent; paternalism
Peirce, Charles S.
pellagra
perjury
personal autonomy. See autonomy
personal identity
personality formation
Phaedo (Plato)
philosophy
categorical imperative and
consequentialism and
Eastern. See Daoism; Zen
eccentrics and
examined life and
existentialism and
intentional state and
meaning of life and
moral luck and
pragmatism and
reality concepts and
reason’s importance in
Socratic mission and
utilitarianism and
value of
See also ethical theory; logic; specific philosophers
Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks (Nietzsche)
physics
“Pilot”
planetary motion
Plato.4
courage and
meaningful life and
reality and
Socratic dialogues and
virtues and
pleasure
“Poison”
practical authority
pragmatism
praise
presuppositions
primacy, sense of
primum non nocere principle
Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital
House’s and Wilson’s status at
House’s costs to
House’s value to
organ distribution system at
Vogler’s policies and
principalism
principle of sufficient reason (PSR)
challenge to
privacy rights
probability
problematic assumptions
progress. See moral progress
Prometheus
“proper amounts”
proxy consent
public interest
purity. See moral purity
puzzle solving
detection and
irony and

quantum physics
“Que Sera Sera”
questions
ethics and
Socratic

randomness
rashness
rational deduction
rationality
principle of sufficient reason and
simple life and
Rawls, John
Raz, Joseph
reality
different assumptions about
philosophical concepts of
reason
Dao on limits of
Eastern philosophy’s skepticism about
House as exemplar of life of
limitations of
living life of
measurement and
principle of sufficient
qualities of
religious belief as antithetical to
resource distribution and
Socratic method and
Western philosophical emphasis on
reasoning
deductive
gender and
inductive
moral
unsupported assumptions and
utilitarian
See also logic
reasoning backwards. See abduction
reasons, right
“Red-Headed League, The” (Doyle)
reflective consciousness
regret, definition of. See also agent-regret
religion
afterlife and
House’s distaste for
reason and
See also God
remorse
“Resignation”
resource allocation
responsibility
resultant luck
right reasons
“Right Stuff, The”
risks
benefits weighted against
nonmaleficence and
responsibility and
Ritalin
“Role Model”
Rolling Stones
Romanticism
Rosemont, Henry
Ross, Dr. Doug (ER character)
rule utilitarians
Russell, Bertrand

sadomasochism
“Safe”
sages, Daoist
Sartre, Jean-Paul
saving lives
science
aesthetics and
scientific methods
Scotland Yard
second-order desire
self-analysis
self-awareness
self-consciousness
self-denial
self-development
self-doubt
self-interest
selfishness
senselessness
service, authority and
“Sex Kills”
sexual attraction
Shakespeare, William
Sign of Four, The (Conan Doyle)
Silk, M. S.
Simmel, Georg
simple life
simplicity (as criterion)
“Sign of Three, The” (Doyle)
skepticism
“Skin Deep”
“Sleeping Dogs Lie”
social relations. See interpersonal relationships
Socrates
confrontation and
eccentricity of
examined life and
philosophic mission of
trial of
Socratic method
confrontation and
demonstration of
goal of
paradox of
as reason-based
“Socratic Method, The”
Sophists
soul
“Spin”
spontaneity
“Sports Medicine”
Stacy
House’s love for
Stamford (Watson’s friend)
standard of care
stereotyping
Stern, J. P.
Steve McQueen (House pet rat)
Stoics
stubbornness
Study in Scarlet, A (Doyle)
stylistic pluralism
subatomic indeterminism
subjectivity
sufficient reason. See principle of sufficient reason
suicide
superman (superior person). See Übermensch
surrogacy, ethics of
sustainable development
Suzuki, Shunryu
Symposium (Plato)

“TB or Not TB”
teaching. See also Socratic method
television medical dramas
temperance
Teresa, Mother
theoretical authority
Thoreau, Henry David
Thus Spake Zarathustra (Nietzsche)
“Three Stories”
as endorsement of paternalism
proxy consent and
Socratic method and
“Top Secret”
treatment refusal
trial of Socrates
Tritter, Lt. Michael
challenge to House by
House’s lies to
practical authority of
trivial wants
true premises
trust
truth
abduction error and
discovering vs. telling
evidence gathering and
examined life and
House’s obsession with
for its own sake
meaningful life and
path to
reason and
Socratic pursuit of
theoretical authority and
Zen and
See also lies

Übermensch (superior person)
role of
undercoded abductions
understanding
unexamined life. See examined life
unexplained events
unintended/unforeseen consequences
Unity of Virtues Thesis validity of
utilitarianism
act vs. rule
underlying beliefs of
utility, friendship based on

vaccinations
Valley of Fear, The (Doyle)
value, love-created
van Inwagen, Peter
Viagra
Vicodin
virtue
definition of
eccentricity as
friendship based on
Unity of Virtues Thesis
See also intellectual virtues; moral virtues
Vogler, Edward
volitional state
vulnerability

Walden (Thoreau)
Walker, Margaret
Watson, Dr. John
Wegener’s disease
well-being
Western philosophy. See philosophy
“Whac-a-Mole”
Wiggen, Hank
Williams, Bernard
Wilson, Dr. James
agent-regret and
belief in afterlife and
courage of
diagnosis and
doctor-patient relationship and
friendship with House of
on House’s diagnostic skill
House’s drug addiction and
informed consent and
personal flaws of
prescription writing and
reasoning and
self-consciousness and
talents of
virtue of
Vogler’s policies and
women. See feminist ethics; gender
“Words and Deeds”
workplace authority

Xanthippe
X-Files (TV series)

Zen