A very quick argument against a 'theory of meaning'?

Has Sootica bipolarity? The second key distinguishing characteristic [or a resolute reading of Wittgenstein] is a rejection of the idea that...

Two initiatives on person centred medicine

I have heard, this week, of two (or two and half) initiatives on person centred medicine, both connected to the assiduous Juan Mezzich. Firs...

SEESHOP 5

I hear from Harry Collins that there are plans for SEESHOP 5 to be held in the middle of June in Cardiff. I suspect details will emerge here...

Opposing intuitions about knowledge-how and ability

There are some confusions that I should probably not write up for a website, even as modestly read as this one. But perhaps the knowledge th...

Yet further thoughts on the likeness argument

Neil Pickering suggests that the debate about the status of mental illness as a whole and particular illnesses has been dominated by the li...

A further thought on Luntley on expertise

So looking a little further at the Michael Luntley paper, he goes on to argue that there is a difficulty with the idea of an activity based ...

CBC How To Think About Science

The CBC radio series How to Think About Science podcasts, which seem to move and to vanish, are back at the moment, here . They include broa...

A quick thought on Luntley on expertise

On the train home from work last night there was just time to skim read Michael Luntley’s paper ‘Understanding expertise’ from a couple of y...

Is secondary sense under rational obligation?

Just before Christmas, Neil Pickering expressed an interest in my thoughts about the use of secondary sense in philosophical reflection abou...

Sad news about Sean Spence

Sad news: Professor Sean Spence died on Christmas Day after a long illness. An email from his department at Sheffield comments: “Psychiatry ...