Time management, J-style planning and finding meaning in life

At an end of term away day we were treated to a session on time management by Carolyn Blunt from Real Results. Although I have deep constitu...

Draft abstract for INPP 2012

Non-rational understanding? Can psychiatry draw on Wittgenstein’s discussion of other cultures? Since Jaspers’ time, an important issue for ...

Social science according to the Journal of Mental Health Training Education and Practice?

I return to the rather dismal reader ’ s  report  I had from the  Journal of Mental Health Training Education and Practice  last week to mak...

Evaluativism versus objectivism

A draft paper hopefully to be translated into Italian for a special issue of Rivista Sperimentale di Freniatria on neuroscience. Evaluativi...

Housekeeping

Yesterday I submitted my co-authored (with Neil Gascoigne) book on tacit knowledge, a year late, to the very forgiving Steven Gerrard of Acu...

Julian Dodd on performing musical works authentically

Last week Julian Dodd, professor of philosophy at the University of Manchester, gave an excellent talk at UCLan called ‘Performing musical w...

Anne Rogers on ‘Social Networks and the Patient Work of Chronic Illness Management’

I went to a talk today by Professor Anne Rogers, Head of the Health Sciences Research Group, University of Manchester called ‘Social Network...

Collins on the antonym of 'tacit'

In an informal introduction to tacit knowledge that starts with Polanyi’s slogan – that we know more than we can tell – Harry Collins says: ...

The RSC, love and the space of reasons

In Stratford last weekend, I caught the RSC’s productions of Marat / Sade (in a less than full RST) and then A Midsummer Night’s Dream in a ...

Tacit knowledge in science: Nancy, France 12-13 December 2011

PROGRAMME Monday 12 December 2011 08h30 - 09h00 Registration 09h00 - 09h15 Welcome and Introduction. Léna Soler 09h15 - 10h15 Harry Coll...

Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry meeting

Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry Call for Abstracts The Biopsychosocial and Other Models for Psychiatry: Philoso...

Tacit knowledge of theories of meaning

The conception of tacit knowledge I defend is that of context-dependent, conceptually-structured, practical knowledge. It stands opposed to ...