Multi-disciplinary teams, VBP, psychiatry and getting things right

Gloria and I had dinner in Preston with Prof John Cox, our out-going external examiner and ex-President of the Royal College of Psychiatry. ...

Notes after a SAMI discussion of an idiographic addition to diagnosis

There’s a widespread intuition expressed in frustration by a reviewer of one of my papers (because it was critical of idiographic understand...

Reading Michael Williams' diagnosis of scepticism

Scepticism needs an argument. It doesn’t just win because the sceptic wears a stylish black T-shirt. The key argument for external-world-sce...

15th International Philosophy and Psychiatry (INPP) Conference 2012 New Zealand

I see that there is a website for next year's 15th International Philosophy and Psychiatry Conference between 5-7 July 2012 University ...

Trying to teach 'Criteria, defeasibility and knowledge'

(This is my attempt to summarise a class discussion of McDowell's 'Criteria, defeasibility and knowledge' though I have to say t...