This reading group discusses current topics in philosophy of psychology and psychiatry.
Meetings: Thursdays, 2–3pm in the Board Room
Organisers: Johanna Silva-Stüger, Robert Taylor and Scott Partington
Lent Term 2026
29 January
Turner, J. (2025). 'What's Low Mood All About? An Indicative-Imperative Account of Low Mood's Content'. Philosophy of Science.
5 February
Pickard, H. (2024). 'Craving for drugs'. Mind & Language.
12 February
Patel, S. (2023). 'Between scientific and empathetic understanding: The case of auditory verbal hallucination'. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
19 February
Kurth, C. (2025). 'Shames and Selves: On the Origins and Cognitive Foundations of a Moral Emotion'. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
26 February
Gough, J. (2023). 'On the Proper Epistemology of the Mental for Psychiatry: What's the Point of Understanding and Explaining?'. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
5 March
Schwarz, S. (2024). 'Problems and Prescriptions in Psychiatric Explanation'. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
12 March
Constant, A. (2024). 'Personomics: Precision psychiatry done right'. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
19 March
Marchionni, C. (2023). 'Challenging the Mechanistic View of Integration in Psychiatry'. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.