Articles in refereed journals

(2020) ‘Bootstrapping conceptual normativity?’ Philosophical Investigations https://doi.org/10.1111/phin.12299

(2020) ‘The implications of the loss of self-respect for the recovery model in mental healthcare’ Human Affairs. Postdisciplinary Humanities & Social Sciences Quarterly 30: 316-27

(2020) ‘Narrative identity and dementia’ Hungarian Philosophical Review

(2015) ‘Against explanatory minimalism in psychiatry’ Frontiers of Psychiatry 6: 171. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00171

(2014) Ayob, G. and Thornton, T. ‘Psychopathy: apology making and moral judgement’ Theoretical medicine & Bioethics 35: 17-29

(2013) ‘Tacit knowledge and its antonyms’ Philosophia Scientiae 17: 3-16.

(2012) ‘Valutazionismo ooggettivismo: nell’analisi della malattia mentale abbiamo a che fare con unaquestione di fatti o di valori?’ Rivista Sperimentale di Freniatria 136: 115-126

(2012) ‘Delusional atmosphere, the everyday uncanny and the limits of secondary sense’ Emotion Review 4: 192-6

(2011) ‘Capacity, mental mechanisms and unwise decisions’ Philosophy Psychiatry and Psychology 18: 127-32

(2011) ‘Radical liberal values based practice’ Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 17: 988-91

(2011) ‘Recent developments for naturalising the mind’ Current Opinion in Psychiatry 24: 502-6

(2011) Thornton, T. and Schaffner, K. ‘Philosophy of science for psychiatry for the person’ International Journal of Person Centered Medicine 1: 128-30

(2010) ‘Psychiatric explanation and understanding’ European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 6: 95-111

(2010) ‘Clinical judgement, expertise and skilled coping’ Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 16: 284-291

(2010) ‘Narrative rather than idiographic approaches as counterpart to the nomothetic approach to assessment’ Psychopathology 43: 252-261

(2010) Thornton, T. and Lucas, P. ‘On the very idea of a recovery model for mental health’ Journal of Medical Ethics 37: 24-28

(2010) Kelly, B.D., Bracken, P., Cavendish, H., Crumlish, N., MacSuibhne, S., Szasz, T. and Thornton, T. ‘The Myth of Mental Illness fifty years after publication: What does it mean today?’Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine 27: 35-43

(2009) ‘Clinical judgement and individual patients: commentary on Downie and Macnaughton’ Advances in Psychiatric Treatment 15: 328–331

(2009) Thornton, T., Shah, A.K., and Thomas, P. ‘Understanding, testimony and interpretation in psychiatric diagnosis’ Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy 12: 49-55

(2008) ‘Does understanding individuals require idiographic judgement?’ European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience 258 Suppl 5:104–109

(2008) ‘EBM and evaluativism’ Philosophy Psychiatry and Psychology 15: 175-8

(2008) ‘Should comprehensive diagnosis include idiographic understanding?’ Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy 11: 293-302

(2008) ‘Values based practice and reflective judgement’ Philosophy Psychiatry and Psychology 15: 125-133

(2008) ‘Why the idea of framework propositions cannot contribute to an understanding of delusion’ Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 7: 159-175

(2007) ‘An aesthetic grounding for the role of concepts in experience in Kant, Wittgenstein and McDowell?’ Forum Philosophicum 12: 227-45

(2007) Banner, N.F. and Thornton, T. ‘The new philosophy of psychiatry: the past, the present and the future: A review of the Oxford University Press series International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry’ Philosophy Ethics and Humanities of Medicine 2:9

(2007) Fulford, K.W.M and Thornton, T. ‘Fanatical about ‘Harmful Dysfunction’ World Psychiatry 6: 161-162

(2006) ‘The Ambiguities of Mild Cognitive Impairment’ Philosophy Psychiatry and Psychology 13: 21-7

(2006) ‘Judgement and the role of the metaphysics of values in medical ethics’ Journal of Medical Ethics 32: 365-370

(2006) ‘Tacit knowledge as the unifying factor in EBM and clinical judgement’ Philosophy Ethics and Humanities of Medicine 1:2

(2005) Fulford, K.W.M, Broome, M., Stanghellini, G. and Thornton, T. ‘Looking With Both Eyes Open: Fact and Value in Psychiatric Diagnosis?’ World Psychiatry 4: 78-87

(2004) ‘Wittgenstein and the limits of empathic understanding in psychopathology’ International Review of Psychiatry 16: 216-224

(2003) ‘Psychopathology and two varieties of narrative account of the self’ Philosophy Psychiatry and Psychology 10: 361-367

(2002) Middlemost, M; Mullins, S; Brown, A; Catalan, M; Thornton, T ; Woodhead, J; Ahluwahlia, N; Boston, P; and Spence, S ‘Current problems with the concept of delusion’ Progress in Neurology and Psychiatry 6: 10-13

(2002) ‘Reliability and validity in psychiatric classification: values and neo-Humeanism’ Philosophy Psychiatry and Psychology 9: 229-235

(2002) ‘Thought insertion, cognitivism and inner space’ Cognitive neuropsychiatry 7: 237-249

(2000) ‘Mental Illness and Reductionism: Can Functions be Naturalized?’ Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology 7: 67-76

(1997) ‘Reasons and causes in philosophy and psychopathology’ Philosophy Psychiatry and Psychology 4

(1997) ‘Intention, rule following and the strategic role of Wright’s order of determination test’ Philosophical Investigations 20: 136-147