Dave Ward
@philosodave.bsky.social
Philosopher at University of Edinburgh | Embodied Cognition; Merleau-Ponty | Running; Hills; Indolence
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Enacting a Jazz Beat: Temporality in Sonic Environment and Symbolic Communication
Abstract. What does it mean to enact a jazz beat as a creative performer? This article offers a critical reading of Iyer’s much-cited theory on rhythmic en
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Looks great! Maybe a bit advanced, but I love this paper and it would make a good optional extra for the groove week: academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics...
Dave Ward
@philosodave.bsky.social
· Sep 19
…So he’d have a (complicated) answer to your q: for economic and cultural reasons, it came to seem to lots of people like the only thing moral truths could be were weird entities that we somehow intuit.
Dave Ward
@philosodave.bsky.social
· Sep 19
Not explicitly focused on that q, but the first chapters of MacIntyre’s After Virtue have his diagnosis of why anglophone moral philosophy got the way it did in the 20th C…
Dave Ward
@philosodave.bsky.social
· Sep 11
Fred Keijzer, The Sphex story: How the cognitive sciences kept repeating an old and questionable anecdote - PhilPapers
The Sphex story is an anecdote about a female digger wasp that at first sight seems to act quite intelligently, but subsequently is shown to be a mere automaton that can ...
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See also this cool paper by Fred Keijzer about how Dennett/Hofstadter have unfairly trashed the intellectual reputation of digger wasps: philpapers.org/rec/KEITHT
Dave Ward
@philosodave.bsky.social
· Sep 4
Seconding the Favela recommendation! Perhaps Sanneke de Haan’s ‘enactive psychiatry’ for the sense-making stuff - great intro to bioenactivism, then argues that it’s a uniquely useful/integrative framework for psychiatry. Or the ’cognition/consciousness/life’ chapters from ‘The Blind Spot’
Dave Ward
@philosodave.bsky.social
· Mar 25
Congrats! So nice to see some happy news of something in the world unfolding in roughly the way it should!
Dave Ward
@philosodave.bsky.social
· Mar 7
The Social World Is Something We Collectively Create
Giulio Ongaro explores what this means for our approach to mental healthcare in a guest post and accompanying Q&A
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All the papers are jam-packed with provocative and interesting ideas, and published alongside some great commentaries. Check em out! This interview with @awaisaftab.bsky.social is an excellent primer /FIN
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-social...
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-social...
Dave Ward
@philosodave.bsky.social
· Mar 7
Giulio Ongaro, Outline for an Externalist Psychiatry (3): Social Etiology and the Tension Between Constraints and the Possibilities of Construction - PhilArchive
Any progress in shaping up an externalist psychiatry, so previous discussion suggested, must begin from questions about the ontology of social causation. So far, research and theory have adhered to a ...
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Pt 3 considers challenges for developing a useful biopsychosocial psychiatry in industrialised capitalist societies. How can we construct new, shared frameworks of meaning for understanding ourselves and our problems in such societies? And how much would this help? /4
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Dave Ward
@philosodave.bsky.social
· Mar 7
Giulio Ongaro, Outline for an Externalist Psychiatry (2): An Anthropological Detour - PhilArchive
Philosophical speculation about how psychiatric externalism might function in practice has yet to fully consider the multitude of externalist psychiatric systems that exist beyond the bounds of modern...
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Pt 2 draws on Ongaro's fieldwork to argue that the medical practices of the Akha provide a template for how this might look - a web of medicinal, ritual and shamanic practices all housed in a culturally shared system of meanings 3/
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Dave Ward
@philosodave.bsky.social
· Mar 7
Central idea: the big challenge for biopsychosocial psychiatry isn't providing an integrative model of how bio, psycho and social dimensions interact. Progress is good here. It's providing a way of understanding the social dimension that is meaningful and empowering for patients and clinicians 2/
Dave Ward
@philosodave.bsky.social
· Mar 7
Giulio Ongaro, Outline for an Externalist Psychiatry (1): Or, How to Fully Realize the Biopsychosocial Model - PhilArchive
The biopsychosocial (BPS) model in psychiatry has come under fire for being too vague to be of any practical use in the clinic. For many, its central flaw consists in lack ...
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Been reading @giulio-ongaro.bsky.social's triptych of papers on prospects for an externalist biopsychosocial psychiatry with my MSc class this week. They are *really* good. 1/
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philarchive.org/rec/ONGOFA-2
Dave Ward
@philosodave.bsky.social
· Jan 27
Flattered to be there, and in such excellent company!
Dave Ward
@philosodave.bsky.social
· Nov 28
A Drive to Survive now has a cover! Thanks to my friend Toby Logan saving the day with his design skills.
Unfortunately the release has been delayed another two months, but the pre-print can be downloaded here osf.io/preprints/ps... or I’m happy to email a PDF to anyone interested!
Unfortunately the release has been delayed another two months, but the pre-print can be downloaded here osf.io/preprints/ps... or I’m happy to email a PDF to anyone interested!
Tempted to read, write or think anything about the free energy principle? Read Kate’s book first! The world would be a better place if everyone followed this simple rule.
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Kate Nave
@kathrynnave.bsky.social
· Nov 27
A Drive to Survive now has a cover! Thanks to my friend Toby Logan saving the day with his design skills.
Unfortunately the release has been delayed another two months, but the pre-print can be downloaded here osf.io/preprints/ps... or I’m happy to email a PDF to anyone interested!
Unfortunately the release has been delayed another two months, but the pre-print can be downloaded here osf.io/preprints/ps... or I’m happy to email a PDF to anyone interested!
Dave Ward
@philosodave.bsky.social
· Nov 23
P.s. I made my dad read one of your papers 🤓. ‘Thanks, very interesting,’ he said.
Dave Ward
@philosodave.bsky.social
· Nov 23
Don’t know why I only saw this now, but massive congrats! 🥳 Hope you’re loving it!
Dave Ward
@philosodave.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Ecological psychology = studying the mind in a way that the Gibsons would like. Interested to know if you have a different take? /end
Dave Ward
@philosodave.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Cognitive ethology = studying cognitive capacities and structures that produce animal behaviour (without caring too much about embedding context, and certainly not about pleasing Gibson)/2
Dave Ward
@philosodave.bsky.social
· Nov 13
I'm not a behavioural ecologist, cognitive ethologist or ecological psychologist, but my vague sense is: behavioural ecology = studying at animal behaviour and its relation to the environment (without caring much about cognitive underpinnings or pleasing Gibson)/1
Dave Ward
@philosodave.bsky.social
· Nov 11
(Lionel Terray, Conquistadors of the Useless)
Dave Ward
@philosodave.bsky.social
· Nov 11
We rested a long time, gazing at the savage walls, hemmed with lace of snow. A mineral silence entered into us. In that enormous peace I felt that somehow, henceforward, nothing would truly count for me beyond this world of grandeur and purity where every corner held the promise of enchanted hours.
Dave Ward
@philosodave.bsky.social
· Nov 8
Philosopher Mazviita Chirimuuta wins a big book prize...
Chirimuuta Wins Transdisciplinary Philosophy Book Prize - Daily Nous
Mazviita Chirimuuta (Edinburgh) has been named the winner of the 2024 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy. She was awarded the £20,000 prize for her book, The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience (MIT Press). The prize, which is administered by the Royal Institute of Philosophy, aims to reward books
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This absolute Banger of a book is available Open Access via your favourite search engine. Anyone into brains, science, or brain science should read.
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Justin Weinberg
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· Nov 8
Chirimuuta Wins Transdisciplinary Philosophy Book Prize - Daily Nous
Mazviita Chirimuuta (Edinburgh) has been named the winner of the 2024 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy. She was awarded the £20,000 prize for her book, The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience (MIT Press). The prize, which is administered by the Royal Institute of Philosophy, aims to reward books
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Philosopher Mazviita Chirimuuta wins a big book prize...