Selected conference presentations

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‘Meaning, understanding and explanation’ pre-conference course, ‘The Recovery Model. True? Good?’ poster presentation and ‘Integrating perspectives: An open discussion of the problems of communication and of understanding between clinicians and service users ’ special workshop 14th International Conference for Philosophy and Psychiatry, Gothenberg, Sweden September 2011
Why tacit? Why knowledge? The dilemma facing an account of tacit knowledge’ SEESHOP 5 Cardiff June 2011
‘The Recovery Model. True? Good?’ Workshop on the Philosophy of Psychiatry, Lancaster May 2011
‘The normativity of psychiatric diagnosis’ (invited speaker) Les sciences de l'homme à l'âge du neurone, Paris October 2010
Non-rational understanding? Feelings and the Beltane Fire Festival’ (invited speaker) Emotions and Feelings in Psychiatric Illness, Durham September 2010
‘The everyday uncanny and the Sassian project’ (invited speaker) Psychological and self-alienation, Dortmund July 2010
‘Capacity, mental mechanisms and unwise decisions’ and ‘Empathy as the heart of psychiatry?’ and a Philosophical Cafe 13th International Conference for Philosophy and PsychiatryManchester June 2010
‘Naturalism and dysfunction’ (invited speaker) Philosophie, Histoire et Sociologie de la Médecine Mentale (PHS2M), Paris June 2010
‘Normativity, irreducibility and the philosophy of psychiatry’ (invited main speaker) Workshop on Tim Thornton’s Essential Philosophy of Psychiatry, UV Amsterdam April 2010

‘The everyday uncanny and the Sassian project’ (invited plenary speaker), ‘Recovery subjectivity and values’ and ‘Diverse logics?’ Understanding Mental Disorders: 12th International Conference for Philosophy and Psychiatry, Lisbon October 2009

‘The everyday uncanny and the Sassian project’ (invited speaker) Philosophy of Psychiatry, St Cross College, University of Oxford May 2009

‘The everyday uncanny and the Sassian project’ (invited speaker) AHRC Workshop: Emotions and Feelings in Psychiatric Illness, Durham March 2009

‘Constitutive evaluativist externalism’ (invited speaker) AHRC Mental Disorder Workshop, Warwick March 2009

‘Constitutive evaluativist externalism’ Philosophy of Psychiatry Workshop, Lancaster January 2009
‘Clinical judgement as skilled coping’ Psychiatry and Freedom: INPP 11th Annual Meeting for Philosophy and Mental Health Dallas September 2008

‘McDowellian moral phenomenology?’ (invited speaker) Moral Phenomenology Durham June 2008

‘On the interface problem in philosophy and psychiatry’ (invited speaker) Explanation, reduction, and models of psychopathology Bristol June 2008

‘On the interface problem in philosophy and psychiatry’ (invited plenary speaker) The Limits of Personhood Jyväskylä Finland June 2008

‘Idiographic and Narrative approaches to diagnosis: The Myth of Idiographic Judgement’ (invited speaker) Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Nervenheilkunde Berlin November 2007

Mind and World as transcendental anthropology?’ (invited speaker) McDowell, l’esprit et le monde, McDowell, Mind and World Amiens October 2007

‘On the interface problem in philosophy and psychiatry’ (plenary speaker) International Conference on Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology Sun City August 2007

‘On capturing subjectivity in a narrative’ Association of European Psychiatry Madrid March 2007

‘Tacit knowledge and psychiatric judgement’ (invited speaker) Royal Society for Philosophy Conference on tacit knowledge in medicine Lancaster October 2006

‘Clinical judgement of facts and values’ World Psychiatric Association Istanbul July 2006

‘Why the idea of framework propositions do not help account for delusions’ and ‘Why seeing the brain might not be seeing the mind’ Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology Leiden June 2006

‘Facts, values and meanings’ (invited speaker)  Zürcher Symposium für Klinische Psychiatrie Zurich March 2006

‘Psychiatry and free will’ and ‘Philosophy and neuroscientific psychiatry’ Association of European Psychiatry Nice March 2006

‘Why seeing the brain might not be seeing the mind’ and ‘The logical geography of mind and illness’ World Psychiatric Association Cairo September 2005

‘McDowell and Wittgenstein on intentionality in the face of transcendental anxiety’ McDowell between Wittgenstein and Hegel Warwick May 2005

‘Thoughts facts and senses in McDowell’s Mind and World’ (invited speaker) Space of Reasons Cape Town July 2004

‘Theorising about meaning in dementia: the ‘no theory’ theory’ Dementia: Mind, Meaning and the Person Newcastle July 2002

‘Thought insertion, a symptom too far for cognitivism?’ The neuropsychiatry of body in space Sheffield June 2001

‘Non-reductive naturalism and the analysis of biological function statements’ Madness, Science and Society Florence August 2000

‘Thoughts, facts and senses’ (invited speaker) at the Philosophy of John McDowell Anglia Polytechnic University January 1999.

‘Thought and language’ at the McDonell Pew Psychosis Research Seminar Series Oxford March 1999

‘McDowell and Wittgenstein on mind, world and falsehood’ at Society for European Philosophy Lancaster September 1998

‘Wittgenstein and Kant on the connection between aesthetic and empirical judgment’ at Kant and neo-Kantianism Keele April 1997

‘Wittgenstein and Kant on the connection between aesthetic and empirical judgment’ at Canadian Society for Aesthetics Conference at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario 1996.

‘Intention, rule following and the strategic role of Wright’s order of determination’ at Verdad logica representacion y mundo Universidade de Santiago de Compostela 1996

‘Wittgenstein and Kant on the connection between aesthetic and empirical judgment’ at Crossing the divide: new perspectives on Continental and Analytic philosophy Anglia University in conjunction with the History and Philosophy of Science Department, Cambridge University 1995