Subjectivism and paternalism: the Scylla and Charybdis of the recovery model of mental healthcare Manchester Medical Society, October 2024
On the consolation of philosophy of mental illness Royal Institute of Philosophy Public Lecture, Lancaster June 2023
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 (video)
Implicit bias: the ‘dark side’ of hinge epistemology? RCPsych September 2021 (video)
Disinterested scholarship vs expertise by experience: two contrasting approaches to philosophy and psychiatry? Mental illness and philosophy workshop online workshop April 2021
Bootstrapping conceptual normativity? UCLan September 2019
Cultural psychiatry and appendix-bound syndromes, Vienna July 2019
Understanding, idiographic, narrative? Vienna July 2019
Delusions: the philosophical project of understanding Vienna July 2019 plus
Recovery Vienna July 2019
Disorder Vienna July 2019
The folly of wishingfor a paradigm shift in psychiatry UCLan June 2019
Dementia and the loss of narrative identity Oxford 09 May 2019
Narrative understanding, normativity and the limits understandability Budapest 03 May 2019
Who are we? Utrecht, 27 November 2018.
Reductionism, the Euthyphro dilemma and the analysis of mental illness, Uniting Two Perspectives on Mental Illness: Philosophy and Linguistics University of Essex, 13-14 September 2018
Psychiatry’s inchoate wish for a paradigm shift Dusseldorf 27 June 2018
Why psychiatry needs philosophy (and vice versa) Lancaster 20 November 2017
Why psychiatry needs philosophy (and vice versa) 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, Lancaster 3 June 2016
Subjectivity in Objective VBP, 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
Why teach the philosophy of mental health? UCLan Learning and Teaching Conference, UCLan, 30 June 2015
‘Tacit knowledge and the via negative: resisting Harry Collins’ account’ Mind and Society 2.0: workshop on philosophy and ethnomethodology, MMU, Manchester 30 March 2015
‘Pathology or Difference? On the ground rules for defining mental illness’ Authenticity to Action Conference, UCLan, Prestion 11th March 2015
'Why do we need different research methods?' School of Health, UCLan 26 January 2015
'Tacit knowledge, phronesis and particularism' MMU January 7-8th 20115
'Solving simultaneously for understanding and utter strangeness': the philosophical project of understanding delusions Durham November 2014
On the therapeutic status of McDowell's representationalism Durham November 2014
Anti-reductionist normativism: a price worth paying? Causal explanation in psychiatry: beyond scientism and scepticism University of Amsterdam August 2014