The reality of British Summer Time

Yesterday evening, to mark the start of British Summer Time, Lois and I cycled down to the very top of Morecombe Bay: the estuary of the Ri...

Semantic normativity, finally

On a wet Thursday in Preston, just before the Easter break and with a campus empty of students, Gloria, Natalie and I met in the Equator to...

Housekeeping

Further to the last round up , I've heard yesterday that Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy will publish my co-authored paper ‘ Unders...

Where analytic philosophy doesn’t reach

This weekend Lois and I decamped 12 miles west to stay in a cottage in a small village in the Park which we’ve visited many times before. Pr...

Room of one's own

One of the pressures I feel as a humanities academic (though see previous discussion ) concerns the preliminary reading or scholarship neces...

Psychiatric taxonomy

I’ve been writing a commentary on a recent article on psychiatric taxonomy in the American Journal of Psychiatry (Zachar, P. and Kendler,...

Semantic normativity #2

Having recently looked at Martin Kusch’s (2006) A Sceptical Guide to Meaning and Rules: Defending Kripke’s Wittgenstein , I’ve been reading...

I am the third revelation!

On Saturday evening I went to see There Will Be Blood with my partner Lois and another friend. Given our different reactions to the film ove...