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...

…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.

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…

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

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’

Congrats! So nice to see some happy news of something in the world unfolding in roughly the way it should!

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...

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

philarchive.org/rec/ONGOFA-3

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/

philarchive.org/rec/ONGOFA

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/

Flattered to be there, and in such excellent company!

P.s. I made my dad read one of your papers 🤓. ‘Thanks, very interesting,’ he said.

Don’t know why I only saw this now, but massive congrats! 🥳 Hope you’re loving it!

Ecological psychology = studying the mind in a way that the Gibsons would like. Interested to know if you have a different take? /end

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

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

(Lionel Terray, Conquistadors of the Useless)