INPP Lisbon 2009

I see that the 2009 INPP (International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry) conference in Lisbon now has a website. Here is a link to it...

Emotions and feelings @ University of Durham

Knowing nothing about the philosophy of emotions, I went to Matthew Ratcliffe’s University of Durham workshop to sit at the back and listen....

University of Sunderland Philosophy Today group

I have been emailed by a group of students at the University of Sunderland who have been reading my introduction to McDowell. Questions for ...

More on the everyday uncanny

What would it be like to see life as God’s work of art? How would that be? What is it to feel things to be uncanny or unreal? This looks to...

Travis on Reason’s Reach

Some months having gone by since I first read it, I’ve been trying to get a feel for the significance of Travis’ ‘Reason’s Reach’. Equipped ...

The everyday uncanny

I’ve been invited to Matthew Ratcliffe’s University of Durham workshop on psychopathology and the emotions next week and have just now been...

Philosophy and film

One of the ongoing plans to bring ISCRI, our methodologically diverse school, together is an ongoing methods seminar on conceptual issues in...

Seeing the earth turn

I took a train down to Warwick today for a one-day AHRC funded conference tomorrow on philosophy of psychiatry organised by Havi Carel and R...

A bit more on Moyal-Sharrock on On Certainty

I’ve wondered hither and thither through Danièle Moyal-Sharrock ’s book on the train for the last two days and I’ve found it helpful. A thi...

Moyal-Sharrock on On Certainty

I’ve begun to look at Danièle Moyal-Sharrock’s Understanding Wittgenstein’s On Certainty (Moyal-Sharrock, D (2007) Understanding Wittgenste...