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Just saw that Michael Friedman died recently. When it comes to history of Kant to the end of the logical positivists, and philosophy inspired by those figures, I really don't know of anyone better.

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Another one for my planned 'applying #neurodiversity to animals' paper which I keep saying I will get around to one day

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Part three of my attempt to review every paper published on self-diagnosis in psychiatry. Another four papers reviewed: #psychiatry #selfdiagnosis #psychology #STS #HPS

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Well, for better or worse, the word phenomenology is turning up more in the stuff I write (epistemology of) #expertbyexperience (research) #selfdiagnosis

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Excellent article: "Rethinking psychiatric symptoms: the role of measurement heterogeneity in diagnostic validity." Shows that different ways of measuring a symptom can be picking up on quite different things, and considers when this is and is not problematic. #Philsci #Philpsy #Psychiatry

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If anyone is in #Lancaster and wants to learn about the philosophy of science, I am doing this public philosophy event on "Does science accurately describe reality?". 28th and 29th of May. All welcome, no prior knowledge of philosophy required. Details below: #publicphilosophy #philosophy #philsky

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Doing a deep read of Carnap has been on my to do list for... a rather long time. Anyway, there is a youtube channel dedicated towards understanding Carnap today. www.youtube.com/@reconstruct...

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There is a forthcoming book named Contemporary Philosophy of Autism. I have a chapter in it named 'Autism, the Double Empathy Problem and Feelings the Emotions of Another Person'. #Philsky #Philpsy #Autism #Empathy www.routledge.com/Contemporary...

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Very happy to finally have my own copy of this. I’ve already read many of these interviews, but happy to have them all in one place. @awaisaftab.bsky.social @viscidula.bsky.social @drrobertchapman.bsky.social @samfellowes.bsky.social

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"since his death a half-century ago, Cassirer's reputation has suffered a precipitous decline" (Gordon, Continental Divide, 2010). Yeah, well some of us are trying to fix that.

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These are the very last hours to register for a IAPIS talk by Nick Haslam. Please use: forms.gle/eeVNeWNSMQ96... @lisabortolotti.bsky.social @sameihuda.bsky.social @awaisaftab.bsky.social @matthewbroome.bsky.social @philosofacespin.bsky.social @samfellowes.bsky.social @drkhan-do.bsky.social

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My new book is now available, it is open access. I portray psychiatric diagnoses as being scientific despite not being natural kinds. I seek a middle ground between realism and constructivism by drawing upon various Kantian thinkers, especially Cassirer. #Philsci #Philpsy #Psychiatry #STS #Philsky

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"these modified creatures would be regarded as freaks by other elephants and rejected by other members of their herd". I suspect some of us will be able to relate to this #autism

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With all the cuts to temporary contracts I have zero philosophy teaching but I am lucky enough to have some teaching in the medical school, though it is just three one hour seminars. Having just done a seminar it reminds me of how much I enjoy teaching and how much it improves my mental health.

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Part 2 of my attempt to review every paper on self-diagnosis in psychiatry. I've also re-uploaded part 1 to fix the audio. #Psychology #Psychiatry #Self-diagnosis

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This looks rather interesting:

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My new book chapter, Philosophical Issues Raised by Autism: Sociality, Explanations, Heterogeneity, and Neurodiversity, in the Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine. #autism #neurodiversity #philmed #philpsy #philsci #sts

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Does anyone have a nearby copy of Fitzgerald's book Tracing autism : uncertainty, ambiguity and the affective labor of neuroscience? I would like to check which specific words are in italics on page 149. #autism #neuroscience #sts

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Spectrum 10K has been cancelled. I was in a minority of autistic people who actually thought that studying gene to social environment relationships could have been a useful tool for improving the lives of autistic people but the community had spoken. #autism 1/3 autisticltd.co.uk/2025/01/30/c...

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There is an online workshop called "Psychiatric Diagnosis – Empirical and Philosophical Perspectives" on the 21st of February. I will be presenting on "How self-diagnosis relates to categorical and dimensional approach to psychiatric diagnoses". #philpsy #philmed #philsci #selfdiagnosis

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I review 'The Brain Abstracted - Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience'. I outline its neo-Kantian account of model building in neuroscience and I draw implications for psychiatric diagnoses and neurodiversity #philsci #philpsy #neuroscience #psychiatry #neurodiversity

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Even if we give Musk a charitable reading that he is just being a troll it still passes my threshold. Had not posted on twitter/X since October, was not sure what to do with it, but now deactivated.

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I'm not sure what the modern social justice movement could have done to engage in (to my mind highly justified) activism without then other people having a Trump style reaction to it. Might be worth thinking how we might prevent such a reaction occurring in relation to #neurodiversity. #autism #adhd

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I have a belief which is pretty controversial in some strands of modern philosophy and psychology, namely that most people have low self-understanding, but it is my best explanation of how the oldest democracy in the world has elected someone who does not believe in climate change.* 1/3

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I usually only post about academic stuff but I do have other interests as well, such as my guinea pigs!

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With TikTok being banned it will be interesting to see if this influences self-diagnosis. Critics claim that much of self-diagnosis consists of adolescents self-diagnosing after watching TikTok, so there would presumably be an impact if this were true (I have no idea if it is true, I have never 1/2

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Why Walker is wrong to say notions of a normal brain is scientifically illegitimate: “No two brains... are really identical, but for the purpose of building theories and models that predict and explain responses, individuality must be blurred out and a uniformity of categorizations must be imposed”

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New podcast episode where I use philosophy of empathy to explore the double empathy problem, considering where it applies and how it relates to neurodiversity. This is a new recording of my presentation I gave at Tilburg last month #autism #philmed #doubleempathyproblem

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