Searle's odd comments about intentionality

No time for the moment to think more about this (essays to mark, abstracts to read, the initial plans for the content of the Oxford Handbook...

Rough thoughts for a paper on explaining delusions

In accord with my original aim for the blog (of making my own efforts at writing transparent to my masters students), here are some very pre...

Kendler and Parnas (eds) Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry

I’ve been invited to contribute a paper on psychiatric explanation for an issue on ‘classification and explanation in psychiatry: philosophi...

Teaching philosophy of science

I am teaching a philosophy of science module for the first time in a while (by contrast with a philosophy of science for psychiatry module)...

The end of time?

There’s something miserable about the final day of the Christmas holidays. This year, because New Year’s Day fell on a Friday, there is a cl...