Lipton on Inference to the Best Explanation

I have been having a quick look at (the late) Peter Lipton’s book Inference to the Best Explanation as preparation for revising a philosoph...

Further thoughts on the likeness argument

There’s been quite a bit of discussion of Neil Pickering’s critique of what he calls the ‘Likeness Argument’ amongst students planning essa...

So long ISCRI

Well that is just about it for the International School for Communities Rights and Inclusion, ISCRI. Last week I went to its wake: a pleasan...

Deriving a local urban social theory from Nietzsche

Yesterday, I listened to a talk by Grant Yocom of Oakland University called ‘The 'Last Man' in Detroit: Timely Revisions and New Ta...

Priest on the principle of non-contradiction

An interesting short summary of his thinking on this is here . (This post is simply so I can find the link again!)

International Journal of Person-Centered Medicine

I learn (from an invitation to join its editorial board) that there is to be a new journal on person centred medicine edited by Professor An...

A treasury of Travis?

I see that Charles Travis has a personal website with ten or so draft papers for download. Perfect for a lengthy train journey, I find.

Delusional atmosphere, the everyday uncanny and the limits of secondary sense

Another work in progress. For a comment on Sass’ response to this criticism of him, see this update . Delusional atmosphere, the everyday un...

On the very idea of a recovery model for mental health

My co-authored (with Peter Lucas) paper 'On the very idea of a recovery model for mental health' is now available in online preview ...

Clinical judgement, tacit knowledge and recognition in psychiatric diagnosis

Very much a work in progress, obviously, but this is my working up a chapter for Bill Fulford's OUP Handbook of the Philosophy of Psychi...

Tacit knowledge in Polanyi's Personal Knowledge

(This entry will be superceded by my chapter on tacit knowledge and diagnosis.) The idea that science has an essential and ineliminable tac...

One song to the tune of another

By contrast with my previous Brewery Arts visit , the Bad Shepherds are not really in the business of singing cover versions of the songs t...

Against Sass on delusional atmosphere

Whilst the bulk of Paradoxes of Delusion concerns the idea the relation between schizophrenia and solipsim, a later chapter provides a dist...