Collins' studies of expertise and experience, revisited

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...

Mary Warnock liked Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience

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...

Endogenous constraint on thinking not Thought

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...

RCPsych Philosophy SIG newsletter

I've just been sent the Royal College of Psychiatrists Philosophy Special Interest Group newsletter . It seems that beer is being offer...

Conference ennui

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...

Anish Kapoor at the Royal Academy

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...