Philosophical issues in crime and mental illness: AAPP conference May 18 & 19, 2013

ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PHILOSOPHY & PSYCHIATRY CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 25th Anniversary Annual Meeting May 18 & 19, 2013 San ...

Fashionable Diseases

Fashionable Diseases: Medicine, Literature and Culture, ca. 1660-1832 , a new Leverhulme-funded project at Northumbria and Newcastle Univers...

The Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH) Autumn 2012 Seminar Series

The Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH) The CSHHH is a collaborative research group involving historians and stud...

Joy Duxbury's inaugural professorial lecture

Inaugural Professorial Lecture: ‘In defence of the indefensible: the use of Physical Restraint in Health Care Settings’ by Joy Duxbury, Prof...

On reading Larrivee's 'Transforming teaching practice'

At the suggestion of one of my university colleagues – William Fisher – with both expertise in the nature of university teaching and a broad...

Some thoughts on Fodor's LOT for HEA SD2

Although fairly long in the tooth in higher education, I have not evaded the need to gain some sort of teaching accreditation (viz: standard...

Housekeeping

As an aide memoire for me, really, I’m writing the following at the moment (in no particular order). A paper on Collins and tacit knowledge ...

Tacit knowledge and its antonyms

Abstract Tacit & Explicit Knowledge characterises tacit knowledge through the antonym ‘explicit’. But this is linked to what is explica...