Review of Having the World in View and The Engaged Intellect

Having the World in View, John McDowell (Harvard University Press), £29.95/$39.95 (hb) The Engaged Intellect, John McDowell (Harvard Univers...

Psychiatric diagnosis

I’ve just been sent this handsome book (to which I contributed the bulk of a chapter: the final expression of the thoughts I seem to have ...

Philosophy as a kind of window

I was asked a few weeks ago by the omnipresent Nina Power to write a short review of the two new McDowell collections for the Philosophers M...

Anaesthetic expertise

I’ve spent a couple of days at home largely ‘off com’ writing the first draft of a paper for the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice ...

Beer and Davidson

Further to my previous entry, some stray italics round a reference to beer and Donald Davidson in a reply here reminds me of the only time ...

Davidson, McDowell and Rorty and conceptual dualism

My old colleague Floris van der Berg published a book on Davidson and Spinoza a couple of years ago. By far the least interesting aspect of...

Having a turn

At Uclan, we aim to interview all our prospective undergraduate philosophy students. One of the areas we often ask about has to do with the ...

Philosophy of Science for Psychiatry for the Person

I've been asked to draft a short piece for the WPA on philosophy of science for a book on their Program on Psychiatry for the Person. He...