Minimalism

Last night I found myself listening to a cd by Stars of the Lid ( And Their Refinement of the Decline ), a gloriously minimal and abstract p...

How Doctors Think

Yesterday I somehow found the time to read Kathryn Montgomery’s recent book How Doctors Think (OUP 2006). The central idea is that medicine...

To Marian Lawrenson

Dear Marian I realise that it might have been more helpful if I’d provided you with a bit of context for the Forum Philosophicum paper . Gi...

Journal acceptances and rejections #2

I’ve just been sent the most recent issue of Forum Philosophicum , a Polish journal which is ‘focused on the philosophical problems that she...

Analytic phenomenology

I attended a workshop on Thursday organised by Rachel Cooper on the philosophy of psychiatry. Though the papers were supposed to be works i...

Films, cover versions and singular value judgements

I’ve recently seen the film The Kite Runner . Though my companions had, I have not read the book, and thus didn’t share their (familiar) qua...

Community and normativity

In recent months, I’ve been increasingly drawn into recreational running, including off road running. (I’m now equipped, thanks to my brothe...