Capacity, mental mechanisms and unwise decisions

I've been asked to contribute a commentary to a paper on the Mental Capacity Act to be assembled by ISCRI colleagues. Aware of the sophi...

An empirical test of the end of history?

Just before I went away, a number of my ISCRI colleagues met Mark Johnson (pictured) and Daniel Hutt to discuss potential joint research bi...

Holiday holism

There is something inevitably depressing about returning to work after a holiday, no matter how much one enjoys one’s job. Despite the conso...

Capacity, wellbeing and mental health

Today’s Institute for Philosophy, Diversity and Mental Health colloquium took the theme of individual and community capacity and wellbeing. ...

Colour grammar

Tate Liverpool has an exhibition devoted to the rise of colour in recent and contemporary abstract art. Such exhibitions can do two things:...

Wellbeing

I’ve just read Mark Vernon’s short book Wellbeing in the Acumen Art of Living series: the same series as Havi Carel’s book Illness . It’s a...