Peter Gilbert (ed) 'Spirituality and Mental Health'

I see that Peter Gilbert, Emeritus Professor of Social Work and Spirituality at Staffordshire University and an excellent dinner companion, ...

The Phenomenology of depression

I spent an interesting three days at a workshop, organised by Matthew Ratcliffe and Achim Stephan, on the Phenomenology (capital P!) of depr...

The Drama of Medicine: All the Ward’s a Stage

Humanities Students: Are you studying english, philosophy, history, or any other humanities subject? Have you ever had a topic covering th...

Is knowledge like putting?

In ‘Perception as a Capacity for Knowledge’, McDowell responds to Burge’s account of the warrant that perceptual states provide for perceptu...

Short extract from McDowell Perception as a Capacity for Knowledge

I’ve been reading John McDowell ’s recent paper ‘Perception as a Capacity for Knowledge’ which is largely a critique of Burge’s view of how ...

I'll teach you differences #2

Lois and I went to see Derek Jacobi’s King Lear in Glasgow over the weekend. By contrast with qualms with the RSC production three years a...