It may just be too embarrassing to have this obviously unscripted talk on my blog for long. But, briefly and in case anyone is interested, t...
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It may just be too embarrassing to have this obviously unscripted talk on my blog for long. But, briefly and in case anyone is interested, t...
I have here summarised a brief but, for me, helpful email exchange I have had today with Harry Collins starting with a query he had about th...
Richard Gipps has been trying to persuade me, over the last couple of years, to have a less monolithic attitude to meaning. The moral I’ve t...
Some time on a train gave me a chance finally to finish Richard Sennett’s The Craftsman . I had hoped for a sociologically informed but stil...
I’ve mentioned before that it would be interesting to have a descriptive phenomenology of banal illnesses (to augment the more serious phen...
I’m very grateful to have been sent a draft paper (a manifesto of SEESHOP3, indeed) by Harry Collins which modifies his (and Rob Evans’) pre...
Apparently the book that Matthew Broome and Lisa Bortolotti edited was one of two books of the year for Mary Warnock in the Observer . (I h...
Having not enabled comments on this site, there is no neat way to report corrections. But Paul Witcombe has emailed me to point out the erro...
I've just been sent the Royal College of Psychiatrists Philosophy Special Interest Group newsletter . It seems that beer is being offer...
Although going to conferences in one’s own subject should be good for one’s morale, I seem too often to slip into a kind of ennui. It is not...
I went to the Anish Kapoor exhibition at the Royal Academy in London on Saturday. At Tate Britain (for what turned out to be a disappointi...
I’ve been invited by Joana Ferreira, a psychiatry resident in Coimbra, Portugal and lecturer in psychopathology to psychology students at at...
I've been asked to contribute to an initiative to develop training in the area of the social aetiology of mental illness for a Canadian ...
I am at the INPP conference in Lisbon enjoying, if not the sun I had expected, at least a packed schedule of plenary and parallel sessions f...
I’ve been trying write the organisational cv for part of my school at UCLan: ISCRI (the International School for Communities, Rights and Inc...
As I may have mentioned, ISCRI, my School within UCLan, is hosting the INPP (International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry) conference...
On the way to the excellent production of the Caretaker at Liverpool’s Everyman theatre on Saturday I called in to see the Jean Tinguely ex...
Introduction Mind and World is a work of therapeutic philosophy. It rejects systematic and theoretical answers to the questions it raises ab...