"I will teach you differences"

Seeing the current RSC production , I realised that I’d forgotten, if I ever knew, that the motto that Wittgenstein considered quoting at th...

Painting as photography

I’ve just been to the exhibition ‘ The painting of modern life ’ at the Hayward: paintings based on photography and it put me in mind of a r...

Someone must have traduced Jospeh K

Returning to Wittgenstein’s remark that ‘If a lion could talk, we could not understand him’ I’ve just been given the following delightful a...

Psychiatric virtue ethics

I’ve spent the day reviewing a manuscript for a book on psychiatric ethics written by Jennifer Radden (editor of The Philosophy of Psychiat...

New book on philosophy of psychiatry

I'm delighted to report that Rachel Cooper , a philosopher of psychiatry who, like me, graduated from the Cambridge HPS department , but...

Rationality and Compulsion #2

In the end, I was a little disappointed with Lennart Nordenfelt’s book Rationality and Compulsion (mentioned before ). The second half ‘Irr...