Values Based Practice, Social Policy and the Service User identity update

Here is an second version of the paper that David Morris and I are writing. Values Based Practice, Social Policy and the Service User identi...

Norman Malcolm's "lady-philosopher" and Sliding Doors

In the Brewery Arts Centre last night with friends, I had a vague pretext to tell the story of Wittgenstein’s worry and then relief when Nor...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy, Durham University, UK

Applications are invited for the position of Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Durham University. The post is as...

PhD studentships in health at UCLan

School of Health Project Title – Improving Access to Health and Healthcare Reference Number: RB-12-HEA1 Click here for further details Proje...

Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry Section VII draft introduction

Section VII Explanation and understanding For much of its history, the pairing of explanation and understanding has been taken to express an...

PhD Bursary on Scientific Self-Knowledge and Moral Agency

Project Title : Scientific Self-Knowledge and Moral Agency University of Central Lancashire - School of Education & Social Sciences Refe...

Wittgenstein naturalism and the supernatural

Two emails landed yesterday discussing Wittgenstein’s philosophical method. One, from Ben Smith, reported that after giving a paper on Wittg...

PhD Studentship on the contribution made by service users to the learning opportunities for nursing students

PhD Studentship University of Central Lancashire - School of Health Reference Number: RS/12/05 Applications are invited for this PhD studen...

Lastly, from INPP 2012

Picking up some other themes from the conference, in no particular order. Louis Charland announced that he was a lonely fan of the role of p...

At the INPP 2012, Dunedin

The INPP conference began, properly, today with what the programme described as a Maori 'welcome ceremony/ritual of encounter'. The ...

Theology and mental health workshop prior to INPP 2012

I spent the second day before the INPP conference at an associated workshop on theology and mental health organised by the Centre for Theolo...