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Tim Thornton
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Articles in refereed journals
Book chapters and other publications
Presentations (a small mainly recent selection)
Conference presentations list
Philosophy and Mental Health
UCLan Masters programme
How the course works
The learning experience
Entry requirements
Pre-course exercise
Recovery in mental health
Resources
Courses
Single lectures and teaching presentations
Conceptual Issues in Nursing
Balancing facts and values: the future of nursing care?
Can coercion be justified?
Case study: Is mental illness a myth?
Competing models of illness and healthcare
Could there be a recovery model for nursing?
Deep issues need a different kind of thinking
Is illness a biological fact?
Is illness value-laden?
Technological intervention versus ethics of care?
Values, autonomy and capacity
Whose values?
Epistemology
Assessment
Brandom and the social articulation of reasons
Reflections on Brandom and the social articulation of reasons
Coady and testimony
Coda
Cohen and contextualism
Reflections on Cohen and contextualism
Craig and the purpose of knowledge
Davidson and the omniscient interpreter
Davidson and Tarski
Davidson's philosophy of language of the field linguist
Reflections on Davidson and the omniscient interpreter
Descartes and scepticism about the external world
Reflections on Descartes and scepticism about the external world
Gettier and the failure of justified true belief
Reflections on Gettier and the failure of justified true belief
Goldman and reliabilism
Reflections on Goldman and reliabilism
Induction
Reflections on induction
Knowing how
Knowledge as a social status
Reflections on knowledge as a social status
McDowell and reason externalism
Reflections on McDowell and reason externalism
McDowell and scepticism about other minds
A standard view of criteria
Reflections on McDowell and scepticism about other minds
Nozick and world tracking
Reflections on Nozick and world tracking
Putnam and the brain in a vat
Reflections on Putnam and the brain in a vat
Reliabilism
Sellars and the Myth of the Given
Extract from Brandom's EPM study guide
Reflections on Sellars and the Myth of the Given
Testimony
Williams and epistemological realism
Reflections on Williams and epistemological realism
Wittgenstein and certainty
Reflections on Wittgenstein and certainty
Covid fruit-spine hypothesis
Meaning, understanding and explanation
Is meaning part of the natural world?
A key question about explanation
Jaspers on understanding and explanation
The modern Methodenstreit?
The multi-level model of explanation and psychiatry
Philosophy for Nursing
What use is philosophy for nursing?
Recovery CPD
Reflecting on Nursing Practice
Balancing facts, values and meanings: the future of nursing care?
Can we say everything we know? Clinical judgement and tacit knowledge
Causal reasoning and contrastive explanations
The limits of ethical principles
International Code of Medical Ethics
Understanding and the limits of rationality
Understanding individuals and idiographic judgement
Understanding versus explanation
Understanding, empathy and narrative
Values Based Practice: in practice
Values Based Practice: the theory
What's the evidence for the EBM evidence hierarchy?
Shallow subjectivism vs paternalist objectivism?
Tacit Knowledge
Approaching tacit knowledge management
Collins
Dreyfus
McDowell
Polanyi
Ryle
Stanley and Williamson
Wittgenstein
The Philosophy of Science
Assessment
Causal explanation
Remarks on causal explanation
Is functional explanation causal event-explanation?
Constructive empiricism
Remarks on constructive empiricism
Explanation by covering law
Remarks on explanation by covering law
Inference to the Best Explanation
Remarks on Inference to the Best Explanation
Inference to the most probable cause
Remarks on Inference to the most probable cause
Introduction
Kuhnian scientific revolutions
Remarks on Kuhnian scientific revolutions
Meaning incommensurability
Simple falsificationism
Remarks on simple falsificationism
Sophisticated methodological falsificationism
Remarks on sophisticated methodological falsificationism
The theory dependence of observation
Remarks on the theory dependence of observation
Duhem The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory
Sentence parsing, Pooh and Piglet
The philosophy of the social aetiology of mental illness
Aetiology and the problem of understanding individual causes
Reflections on aetiology and the problem of understanding individual causes
Constitutive evaluativist externalism and Values-Based Practice
Reflections on Constitutive evaluativist externalism and Values-Based Practice
Fitting meanings into aetiological structures
Idiographic versus nomothetic understanding
Reflections on idiographic versus nomothetic understanding
Reasons vs causes
Reflections on reasons vs causes
Recovery
On Hopper, K. (2007) 'Rethinking social recovery in schizophrenia'
On Sen, A. (1993) ‘Capability and wellbeing’
Reflections on getting started
Social factors, meaning and social constructionism
Reflections on social factors, meaning and social constructionism
Spiritual experience and mental healthcare
Reflections on spiritual experience and mental healthcare
The link between causation and laws of nature
Reflections on the link between causation and laws of nature
The Value of Knowledge
Assessment
Introduction
Knowledge can be personal – Polanyi
Reflections on Polanyi
Knowledge is collective #1 – Wittgenstein
Extracts from Wittgenstein On Certainty
Reflections on Wittgenstein
A good argument against scepticism?
Knowledge is collective #2 – Kusch
Knowledge is instrumentally valuable – Bacon
Reflections on Bacon
Knowledge is intrinsically valuable – Plato
Allegory of the cave
Reflections on Plato
The divided line
Knowledge is natural – Hume
Hume on causation
Hume's scepticism about induction
Knowledge is objective – Williams
Knowledge may corrupt – Rousseau
The value of philosophy
Reflections on Russell
Writing for publication
Writing for publication Session 1
Writing for publication Session 2
Writing for publication Post Session Exercises
Is there room for meaning in nature
Videos
Alan the Alien's Log guide
Meta-exegesis
Tim Thornton
Balancing facts and values: the future of nursing care?
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