Clinical Judgement and the Medical Humanities

It may just be too embarrassing to have this obviously unscripted talk on my blog for long. But, briefly and in case anyone is interested, t...

A short email dialogue with Harry Collins

I have here summarised a brief but, for me, helpful email exchange I have had today with Harry Collins starting with a query he had about th...

Transitive and intransitive meaning

Richard Gipps has been trying to persuade me, over the last couple of years, to have a less monolithic attitude to meaning. The moral I’ve t...

Richard Sennett’s The Craftsman

Some time on a train gave me a chance finally to finish Richard Sennett’s The Craftsman . I had hoped for a sociologically informed but stil...

Everyday illness phenomenology #2

I’ve mentioned before that it would be interesting to have a descriptive phenomenology of banal illnesses (to augment the more serious phen...