I’m very grateful to have been sent a draft paper (a manifesto of SEESHOP3, indeed) by Harry Collins which modifies his (and Rob Evans’) previous views on the relation between contributory and interactional expertise. Having raced through it, I...

Apparently the book that Matthew Broome and Lisa Bortolotti edited was one of two books of the year for Mary Warnock in the Observer. (I have a chapter in it.) She writes: The book that has interested me most this year has the rebarbative title...

Having not enabled comments on this site, there is no neat way to report corrections. But Paul Witcombe has emailed me to point out the error of my post on Mind and World as transcendental anthropology. He says, surely correctly, I’ve been mulling...

I've just been sent the Royal College of Psychiatrists Philosophy Special Interest Group newsletter. It seems that beer is being offered for a review of my shilling shocker. I would have specified it was beer only for a favourable review!

Although going to conferences in one’s own subject should be good for one’s morale, I seem too often to slip into a kind of ennui. It is not as bad as experience of conferences in other areas although I suspect the worst case is an area only...