Psychiatric taxonomy #2

A while back I mentioned writing a commentary on Peter Zachar and Kenneth Kendler’s (latter pictured) suggested conceptual framework to as...

Peter Lucas on dignity and self-knowledge

At today’s philosophy research seminar, Peter Lucas (pictured) summarised one theme of a substantial piece of work he’s been doing on dignit...

More on know-how

I’ve spent some of my commuting time to Preston and back catching up on some of the growing literature on the analysis of know-how stemming ...

Minimal subject-hood

I saw Slumdog Millionaire on Saturday night in Lancaster , (which suddenly seemed quite far away as the rail network was reduced to 50mph f...

Life and Action

Whilst there’s no extended area of high ground in England (unlike Scotland), crossing the country in the north requires crossing the Pennine...

Demian Whiting on pathological values

Interestingly, reading Demian Whiting’s paper I see that I got the emphasis wrong rather more than the structure. Sometimes in philosophy, ...

Compulsory treatment, illness and capacity

There were a number of interesting papers at Rachel Cooper’s one day workshop on philosophy of psychiatry yesterday but a couple were intere...

Housekeeping

Well that’s that. Keeping up with family tradition we held an Epiphany party (a couple of days early) to mark the end of the holiday period ...