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Author Archives: Christian Perring
Recent reviews of interest at Metapsychology
Metapsychology.net has published some reviews relevant to philosophy and psychiatry.
Review – Risk and Reasoning in Clinical Diagnosis
by Cym Anthony Ryle
Oxford University Press, 2019
Review by Douglas W. Heinrichs M.D.
Review - The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis by Richard Gipps, Michael Lacewing (editors) Oxford University Press, 2019 Review by Sebastian Petzolt, DPhil http://metapsychology.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=8358&cn=394
Review – Delusions and Beliefs
A Philosophical Inquiry
by Kengo Miyazono
Routledge, 2018
Review by José Eduardo Porcher
New members on AAPP Executive Council
The AAPP Executive Council has 2 new members! We are happy to welcome them.
Awais Aftab, MD works at Northcoast Behavioral Healthcare. He was recently a winner of the Jaspers Award. He writes for Psychiatric Times and blogs at A Myth in Creation.
Phoebe Friesen, Ph.D. recently joined the Biomedical Ethics Unit at McGill University. She recently held a postdoc at the Ethox Centre, University of Oxford.
New Postdoc in Philosophy and Mental Disorder
The Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University is advertising a postdoc in Philosophy and Mental Disorder, starting Sept 1, 2020.
This is the first official philosophy and psychiatry postdoc in the USA, and shows the growth of the field.
Details are available here: https://philjobs.org/job/show/13562
AAPP Members can blog with AAPP
AAPP members! Do you want to promote your recent publication or forthcoming event? Do you want to start a conversation on philosophy and psychiatry? You can guest blog here!
The AAPP Executive Committee is working on a membership drive to bring more people into AAPP. This involves spelling out the benefits of membership.
One benefit is that AAPP members can post guest blog entries here on the AAPP blog. We have over 1500 followers on the blog, and blog entries reach many other people too.
If you want to guest blog please email Christian Perring at cperring@yahoo.com
AAPP 2020 Call For Abstracts: Deadline Oct 15, 2019
2020 AAPP Annual Conference: CALL FOR ABSTRACTSPhiladelphia PA: Saturday April 25 and Sunday April 26, 2020 Intuitions Meet Experiments: Methods in Philosophy of Psychiatry
Keynote Speakers:
Edouard Machery, PhD, Distinguished Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh
Miriam Solomon, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy at Temple University
Details at https://philosophyandpsychiatry.org/meetings-conferences/
Deadline is October 15, 2019
2019 Annual Meeting
2019: Open Topic
Date: May 18 – 19, 2019
Location:
Westin St. Francis San Francisco
335 Powell Street
San Francisco, CA
94102
Registration is unnecessary and attendance is free.
