Conference presentations list
‘On not believing what one says: my own experience of self-avowal in anxiety’ Philosophy of Psychiatry and Lived Experience, University of Umea April 2022
‘Subjectivism vs paternalism, the Scylla and Charybdis of mental healthcare’ Kings College, London March 2022
‘Bootstrapping Conceptual Normativity?’ Royal Holloway November 2021
‘Implicit bias: the ‘dark side’ of hinge epistemology?’ RCPsych September 2021
‘Disinterested scholarship vs expertise by experience: two contrasting approaches to philosophy and psychiatry?’ Mental illness and philosophy online workshop April 2021
‘Dementia, narrative and the loss of identity’, Invited speaker, Dementia and the Brain, Brain and Mind - from Concrete to Abstract Series St Hilda's College, University of Oxford, 9 May 2019
‘Narrative understanding, normativity and the limits of understandability’, Invited speaker, Narrative Understanding and Narrative Identity workshop Philosophy Institute, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 3 May 2019
‘Reductionism, the Euthyphro dilemma and the analysis of mental illness’, Invited main speaker, Uniting Two Perspectives on Mental Illness: Philosophy and Linguistics University of Essex, 13-14 September 2018
‘Psychiatry’s inchoate wish for a paradigm shift’ University of Dusseldorf 27 June 2018
‘Why psychiatry needs philosophy (and vice versa)’ Royal College of Psychiatry, Belfast 22 February 2017
‘On the singular aims of idiographic judgement’ Health as an Idiographic Process, Naples 27-29 October 2016
‘The manifest metaphysics of Essential Philosophy of Psychiatry’, University of Lancaster 3 June 2016
‘Subjectivity in Objective VBP’, The Collaborating Centre for Values-based Practice in Health and Social Care, St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford 4 May 2016
‘On the collision of neurobiological materialism and the experience of being human’ Loebel Lectures Workshop, University of Oxford, 5 November 2015
‘The harmony of thought and reality in Wittgenstein and McDowell's philosophy’ Utrecht 29 October 2015
‘Recovery, paternalism and narrative understanding in mental healthcare’ Advanced Seminar and Inaugural Values-Based Theory Network Meeting. The Collaborating Centre for Values-based Practice in Health and Social Care, St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford 12 October 2015
‘Tacit knowledge and the via negativa: resisting Harry Collins’ account’ (invited speaker) Mind and Society 2.0: workshop on philosophy and ethnomethodology, MMU, Manchester 30 March 2015
‘The co-production of what?’ (invited speaker) Therapeutic Conflicts: Co-Producing Meaning in Mental Health Conference I Keble College, Oxford 16th March 2015
‘Pathology or Difference? On the ground rules for defining mental illness’ Authenticity to Action Conference, UCLan, Prestion 11th March 2015
‘Tacit knowledge, phronesis and particularism’ (invited speaker) Particularism and Personalised Medicine Manchester Metropolitan University 7-8 January 2015
‘Pathology or Difference? On the ground rules for defining mental illness ‘ IAS Fellow's Public Lecture, University College Durham 25th November 2014
‘Solving simultaneously for understanding and utter strangeness’: the philosophical project of understanding delusions (invited closing presentation) Psychology Department Graduate Research Day, University of Durham 19th November 2014
‘On the therapeutic status of McDowell's representationalism’ (invited speaker) Philosophy Department Research Seminar, University of Durham 13th November 2014
‘Anti-reductionist normativism: a price worth paying?’ (invited speaker) Causal explanation in psychiatry: beyond scientism and scepticism University of Amsterdam August 2014
‘Naturalism and dysfunction’ (invited speaker) Functions in the mind and brain mechanisms University of Dusseldorf May 2014
‘Is non-doxasticism a theory of delusions?’ (invited departmental presentation) University of Osnabruck May 2014
‘At the limits of shared intelligibility: delusions and non-doxasticism’ (invited plenary speaker) Philosophers’ Rally 2014: Selves and persons University of Nijmegan April 2014
‘Non-rational understanding’ (invited speaker) The contemporary relevance of the Erklären / Verstehen distinction in psychiatry, biology and neuroscience, University of Utrecht February 2014.
‘Is non-doxasticism a 'theory' of delusions?’ Schizophrenia & the nature of delusions: to believe or not to believe?, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, December 2013
‘Is non-doxasticism a “theory” of delusions?’ (invited speaker) Schizophrenia & the nature of delusions: to believe or not to believe?, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, December 2013
‘Capacity, mental mechanisms and unwise decisions’ (invited speaker) Philosophy at 40: Celebrating 40 years of Philosophy at Anglia Ruskin University, Anglia Ruskin University, November 2013
‘On capturing individuality in a narrative’ (invited main speaker) AIP Associazone Italiana di Psicologia XV Congresso Nazionale della Sezione di Psicologia Clinica e Dinamica, Napoli 27-28 September 2013
‘Phenomenology and grammar: description or explanation?’ (invited speaker) The future of phenomenology, University of Durham, July 2013
‘Making change happen in philosophy’ (invited speaker) Making change happen, St Catherine’s College, Oxford July 2013
‘The philosophy of mental illness’ (invited speaker) Consilience Panel on mental illness, London School of Economics, London June 2013
‘Values Based Practice and authoritarianism’ (invited speaker) MMU November 2012
‘Bootstrapping normativity’ (invited speaker) Psychological Concepts Brussels September 2012
‘Transcultural psychiatry position paper: Transcultural psychiatry 101’ (invited speaker) Glasgow August 2012
‘If clinical judgementinvolves tacit knowledge, what should we mean by ‘tacit’; Naturalism,dysfunction and the euthyphro dilemma; Non-rational understanding’, invited plenary speaker INPP 2012 conference, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
‘Clinical judgement and the medical humanities’ MHRNS Glasgow May 2012
‘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 Psychiatry, Manchester 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