Book chapters and other publications
(2023) ‘Ontological and epistemological bases of person centred medicine’ in Mezzich, J. et al (2023) Person Centred Medicine Springer
(2022) ‘Tacit knowledge’ for Thompson, R. (ed.) Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Implicit Cognition Routledge
(2021) ‘Naturalism and dysfunction’ for Forest, D. and Faucher, L. (eds) Defining Mental Disorders: Jerome Wakefield and his Critics, Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press
Feyaerts, J. and Thornton, T. (2020) ‘Operationalism and its discontents’ Lancet-Psychiatry
(2020) ‘Psychiatry’s inchoate wish for a paradigm shift and the bio-psych-social model of mental illness’ in Davies, W., Roache, R., Savulescu, J. (eds.) Psychiatry Reborn: Biopsychosocial psychiatry in modern medicine, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(2019) ‘Values and the Singular Aims of Idiographic Inquiry’ in De Luca Picione, R., Nedergaard, J., Freda, M.F. and Salvatore, S. (eds.) Idiographic Approach to Health, Charlotte, NC Information Age Publishing.
(2018) ‘Philosophical understandings of mental health’ for Wright, K. and McKeown, M. (eds) Essentials of Mental Health Nursing, London: Sage 218-31
(2018) Lanzer, P. and Thornton, T. ‘Ethics’ in Lanzer, P. (ed) Catheter-Based Cardiovascular Interventions (2nd edition), Berlin: Springer-Verlag 57-65
(2018) Thornton, T. and Lanzer, P. ‘Knowledge’ in Lanzer, P. (ed) Catheter-Based Cardiovascular Interventions (2nd edition), Berlin: Springer-Verlag 3-14
(2017) ‘Generating nursing knowledge’ for Chambers, M. (ed) Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing: the craft of caring, Abingdon: CRC Press
(2017) ‘The harmony of thought and reality: Wittgenstein and Davidson versus McDowell’ in Verheggen, C. (ed) Wittgenstein and Davidson on Thought, Language, and Action, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
(2017) ‘Philosophical minimalism and idealism in Peter Zachar’s ‘A Metaphysics of Psychopathology’’ Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry Bulletin 24: 6-10
(2017) ‘Recovery, paternalism and narrative understanding in mental healthcare’ in Freda, M.F. and De Luca Picione, R. (eds) Healthcare and Culture: Subjectivity in medical contexts, Information Age Publishing: Charlotte, N.C.
(2017) ‘Cross-cultural psychiatry and validity in DSM-5’ in White, R., Read, U., Jain, S. and Orr, D. (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Mental Health: Sociocultural Perspectives, London: Palgrave
(2017) Fulford KWM (Bill) & Thornton, T. ‘Delusions: a project in understanding’ in Schramme, T. & Edwards, S. (eds) Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine, London: Springer DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-8706-2_23-1
(2016) ‘Emergence, Meaning and Rationality Emergence, Meaning and Rationality’ Insights E-Journal, 8. https://www.dur.ac.uk/ias/insights/volume8/article8/
(2016) ‘Psychiatric diagnosis, tacit knowledge and criteria’ in Keil, G., Kutschenko, L., Hauswald, R. (eds) Vagueness in Psychiatry, Oxford: Oxford University Press
(2015) ‘John McDowell’ in Pritchard, D. (ed) Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy, New York: Oxford University Press DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780195396577-0286
(2015) ‘Scientific reductionism’ in Cautin, R. and Lilienfeld, S. (eds) The Encyclopedia of Clinical Psychology, London: Wiley Blackwell
(2015) Thornton, T. and Lanzer, P ‘Knowledge: an introduction’. In Lanzer P (Ed.) PanVascular Medicine, 2nd ed., London: Springer, 4707-4717
(2014) ‘Who are we?’ Splijtstof 42: 23-33
(2014) ‘Values Based Practice and authoritarianism’ for Loughlin, M. (ed) Debates in Values-based Practice: arguments for and against, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 50-61
(2013) ‘Clinical judgement and tacit knowledge’ for Fulford, KWM (Bill) et al (ed) Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry, Oxford: Oxford University Press
(2013) ‘L'esprit et le monde, une anthropologie transcendentale?’ (translated by Le Goff, A.) in Le Goff, A. and Al-Saleh, C. (eds.) Autour de L'esprit et le Monde de John McDowell, Paris: Librairie Philosophique Vrin: 101-115
(2012) ‘Knowledge and its transmission’ in Lanzer, P. (ed) Catheter-Based Cardiovascular Interventions, Berlin: Springer-Verlag: 49-58
(2012) ‘Is recovery a model?’ in Rudnick, A. (ed) The Recovery of People with Mental Illness Oxford University Press: 236-51
(2012) ‘Why taxonomise anti-psychiatry?’ Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry Bulletin 18
(2010) ‘On wishing for a paradigm shift’ Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry Bulletin 17: 17-19
(2009) ‘Constitutive evaluativist externalism (Commentary on Zachar, P. and Kendler, K. (2007) ‘Psychiatric Disorders: A Conceptual Taxonomy’)’ Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry Bulletin 15: 9-12
(2009) ‘On the interface problem in philosophy and psychiatry’ in Bortolotti, L. and Broome, M. (eds) Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience, Oxford: Oxford University Press (pp121-136)
(2009) Thornton, T., Fulford, K.W.M. (Bill) and Christodoulou, G. ‘Philosophical Perspectives on Health, Illness and Clinical Judgement in Psychiatry and Medicine’ in Ihsan M. Salloum, I.M and Mezzich, J.E. (eds) Psychiatric Diagnosis: Patterns and Prospects, Hoboken: Wiley (pp15-27)
(2009) Fulford, K.W.M. (Bill) and Thornton, T. ‘The role of meanings and values in the history and philosophy of the science of psychiatry’ in Basant Puri, B. and Treasaden, I. Psychiatry – an evidence-based text for the MRCPsych, London: Hodder Arnold, Health Sciences
(2007) ‘Editorial: Towards real persons: Clinical judgement and philosophy of psychiatry’ South African Journal of Psychiatry 13: 73-75
(2007) ‘The unexamined life is not worth living: philosophy as a natural component of self-conscious psychiatric practice’ Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry Bulletin 14: 10-13.
(2006) ‘John McDowell’s Mind and World’ in Shand, J. (ed) Central Works in Philosophy Vol 5 Chesham: Acumen: 291-315.
(2005) ‘Discursive psychology, social constructionism and dementia’ in J. Hughes, S. Louw and S. Sabat (eds) Dementia: Mind, Meaning and the Person Oxford: Oxford University Press: 123-141
(2005) ‘John McDowell’ in Brown, S. (ed) Dictionary of Twentieth Century British Philosophers Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum
(2005) Fulford, K.W.M. (Bill), Broome, M., Stanghellini, G. and Thornton, T. ‘Progress in five parts: an update on developments in the philosophy of psychiatry’ in Christodoulou, G. N. (ed) Advances in Psychiatry Vol II Geneva: The World Psychiatric Association: 243-9.
(2004) ‘Reductionism/Anti-reductionism’ in J. Radden (ed) The philosophy of psychiatry, Oxford: Oxford University Press: 191-204
(1996) ‘Intention, rule following and the strategic role of Wright’s order of determination test’ in C Martinez Vidal & L Villegas Forero (eds) Verdad logica representacion y mundo Universidade de Santiago de Compostela