Social scientists against the Truth!

However, in an alternative postmodern worldview, the concept of an objective reality against which knowledge can be validated is discarded a...

More than just good films

I am, I suppose, pleased that The King’s Speech did well in the Oscars last night. It is not, for example, Titanic . It seemed, when I saw ...

Narrative researchers' views of narratives

I have an interest in narrative understanding via the question: is it a form of understanding fundamentally distinct from criteriological di...

Adding philosophy to mental health research

I read today one of the many papers by my new line manager in the School of Health: the gifted and hard working Joy Duxbury, School lead on ...

The value of what's local #2 and NIMBY-ism

My parents kindly bought Lois and me a painting of Scout Scar by Ian Fryers to mark an anniversary. I’d seen a photograph (above) of the pa...

International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry INPP 2012 New Zealand

I know that it feels a long way off but the 2012 15th INPP International Conference will be held at the University of Otago, Dunedin, South ...

A first attempt on Wittgenstein

I was asked by a student yesterday what to suggest he read given the first inklings of an interest in Wittgenstein. What to suggest by way o...

Theo Stickley on the arts, health and evidence

I popped along to the admirably brisk School of Health research seminar today to hear Theo Stickley talking enthusiastically about the ther...

Work in progress on: Knowing how and knowing that

Chapter 2. Knowing how and knowing that Introduction In the previous chapter, we... This chapter looks to the recent debate about whether Ry...