Wittgenstein's 1940s conversations on Freud

Gloria and I met up with Michael, who is doing our philosophy and mental health course, last week in our local pub, to think about a possibl...

On misunderstanding Miro's iconography

A work trip to London this week gave me a chance to catch the Miro exhibition at Tate Modern. (In addition: the Schiller play at the Donmar ...

Recent developments for naturalising the mind

( This is now out in Current Opinion in Psychiatry .) The philosophy of mind and psychiatry seem to be complementary disciplines investigat...

The gap between actors and characters

Stuck in a gap between trains home, Gloria and I popped into the Forum and fell to discussing being in the audience of live events. She des...

Changes to Collins and Evans' Periodic Table of Expertise

Harry Collins writes: For the better part of a year we, at Cardiff, have been mulling over the Periodic Table with a view to creating a ...

Report from SEESHOP 5

I’ve spent a delightful couple of days in Cardiff as a guest of Harry Collins and Rob Evans’ SEESHOP 5 . In case it is of broader interest, ...

Zeno's Coffeehouse

Here is a link to Zeno's Coffeehouse. The site says: Zeno of Elea, a pre-Socratic philosopher, was born about 490 B.C. His style of arg...

Cultural narrative and ideology

Running through my email this morning before starting the day I realise I have so much work that has to be done quite quickly that it is har...

"It is impossible to generalise knowledge from one individual subjective case"

Having met Stephen Tilley at the Mad Activism workshop at UCLan, he sent me his edited book: Tilley, S. (2005) Psychiatric and Mental Healt...

Philosophy for Nursing at UCLan

I have been drawing up a programme of philosophy for nursing here at UCLan. It may not be picked up by my managers but in case it is of inte...