Details of conference talks and research seminars.
Forthcoming talks"Imperfect beliefs", Harvard University Workshop on Belief, Boston, 15 September 2012. "Philosophy and Psychiatry", Narrative, self-understanding and the regulation of emotion in psychiatric disorder, London Institute of Philosophy, 13 October 2012. Recent talks"In defence of the doxastic account of delusions", Brains with Minds Workshop on Dimensions of Delusions, Berlin, May 2012. "Is it bad to construct false narratives about ourselves?", Undergraduate Philosophy Society, University of Birmingham, November 2010.
"Delusions and the Philosophy and Psychology of Belief". Series of five lectures at the University of Tokyo Centre for Philosophy, October 2010.
"Narratives and delusions", Mental Health Awareness Week, Nottingham Cafe Sci Group, October 2010. Recording of the lecture available here.
 "Is the choice not to know compatible with the exercise of personal autonomy?" Festival della Salute, Lido di Camaiore, September 2010.
"Moods and mood disorders" (with Iain Law). Emotions and Feelings in Psychiatric Illness Workshop, supported by an AHRC Network Grant and by the Durham Institute of Advanced Study, University of Durham, September 2010. "Explaining double-bookkeeping in delusions" (with MR Broome). Joint Session of Aristotelian Society and Mind Association, Dublin, July 2010.
"Constructing and governing the self: the case of delusions" at the Development, the Self and Early Psychosis Symposium, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Edinburgh, June 2010.
(with Constantine Sandis and Alessandro Blasimme) "With power comes vulnerability", 'Humans and Other Animals: Challenging the Boundaries of Humanity' conference, London, June 2010.
"Double bookkeeping in delusions: explaining the gap between saying and doing", Philosophy Society Meeting, Gothenburg, May 2010.
"Affective Dimensions of the Phenomenon of Double Bookkeeping in Delusions" (with MR Broome), Workshop on Emotions and Feelings in Psychiatric Illness, supported by an AHRC Network Grant and by the Durham Institute of Advanced Study, University of Durham, March 2010.
"Do delusions undermine self-governance?", Mind Network, Oxford, March 2010.
"Double bookkeeping in delusions: explaining the gap between saying and doing", King's College London Philosophy Society, January 2010, and at the Oxford Brookes Philosophy Seminar, March 2010.
"Rationality and Self-Knowledge in Delusions and Confabulations: Implications for Autonomy", Workshop on Autonomy and Mental Health, University of Cambridge, January 2010, and at the Royal Institute of Philosophy Seminar at the Philosophy Department, University of Belfast, April 2010.
"Faultless ignorance", Philosophy Seminar, University of Sheffield, October 2009.
"Epistemic Definitions of Mental Disorders: Benefits and Pitfalls", Workshop on Mental Disorder in Warwick, organised by Multidisciplinary Research Network on The Concepts of Health, Illness and Disease and funded by the AHRC, March 2009; and at the European Philosophy of Science Association, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 2009.
Paper in the symposium entitled "The Application of Memory Biases and Distortions to Experimental Psychopathology", Society of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Kyoto, Japan, July 2009.
"Delusions and Procedural Rationality", Joint Session 2009, UEA, Norwich in July; and Winter Workshop in Psychoses, Barcelona, Spain, November 2009.
(with R Cox and A Barnier) "Methodological Benefits of Using Hypnosis to Study Clinical Delusions", British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference 2009, UEA, Norwich.
 "In Defence of the Continuity Thesis: Delusions as Irrational Beliefs", Royal College of Psychiatrists Annual Meeting, Liverpool, June 2009. |