American Philosophical Association
on Nov 12, 2009 in philosophy After several years of ambivalance, I decided this year to not renew my dues to the APA. I'm not on the job market, I don't plan to go any APA meetings, and it provides no other useful services for me. As a department chair, I could do with plenty...

Neuroethics at ASBH
on Oct 9, 2009 in neuroethics Here's the program for Neuroethics at the ASBH meeting this year.Neuroethics Affinity Group Agenda for October 16:11:45 AM Welcome and Introductions11:50 AM Announcements NIH update - ChenBrain Matters - Krahn Penn Update - Pow...

“Madness and Literature” 1ST INTERNATIONAL HEALTH HUMANITIES CONFERENCE 2010
on Oct 3, 2009CFP: Madness & Literature1ST INTERNATIONAL HEALTH HUMANITIES CONFERENCE 2010“Madness and Literature”The Institute of Mental Health is hosting The 1st International Health Humanities Conference at The University of Nottingham, UK from Friday 6...

Kant on mental disorder
on Aug 28, 2009 in mental illness Kant Patrick FriersonKant on mental disorder. Part 1: An overviewHistory of Psychiatry 2009 20: 267-289Kant on mental disorder. Part 2: Philosophical implications of Kant’s accountHistory of Psychiatry 2009 20: 290-310http://hpy.sagepub.com/content/vol2...

Review of Scanlon's Moral Dimensions: Permissibility, Meaning, Blame
on Aug 19, 2009 in moral responsibility scanlon Forthcoming in Philosophy in Review. Vol. 29 no. 4. Pages 58-60.T. M. Scanlon Moral Dimensions: Permissibility, Meaning, Blame. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 2008. Pp. 227. US$29.95 (cloth ISBN-13: 978-0-674-03178-4).Following in the step...

Recent popular media
on Jul 30, 2009 in psychiatry DSM-V This week there was an excellent show on BBC Radio 4 in their Mind Changers series, hosted by Claudia Hammond on David Rosenhan's famous Pseudo-Patient Study reported in "Being Sane in Insane Places." It features interviews with his colleagues and d...

Ethics and Values in Contemporary Psychiatry
on Jun 15, 2009 in psychiatric ethics This one passed me by, but I just stumbled on it.Ethics and Values in Contemporary PsychiatryHarvard Review of Psychiatry, Volume 16 Issue 6 2008http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g906687978Interesting ToC: in particular, I noted:T...

APA NEWSLETTER ON PHILOSOPHY AND MEDICINE
on Jun 3, 2009 in philosophy of psychiatry classification 2 new articles in the APA NEWSLETTER ON PHILOSOPHY AND MEDICINE of particular interest:"Classifying Dysthymia," by Jennifer Radden"Nosologic Validity and the Intuitively Accessible View of Natural Kinds," by Claire PounceyVolume 08, Number 2 Spring 2...

Recent publications
on May 8, 2009 in journals philosophy of psychiatry An article and a journal issue:A role for ownership and authorship in the analysis of thought insertionLisa Bortolotti and Matthew BroomePhenomenology and the Cognitive SciencesVolume 8, Number 2 / June, 2009Abstract Philosophers are interested in...

New Art
on Apr 30, 2009 in fine art A relatively rare non-philosophy post.I wandered around some Chelsea galleries yesterday, as I regularly do, before going to Pat Kitcher's talk on Kant on theoretical and practical reasoning at CUNY (which didn't inspire me to go and read more Kant).