First day training as a therapist tomorrow, and my book arguing against the use of the concept of mind and its influence on philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, cognitive science, and law out in the next couple of months (date TBD)! All change. Planning on keeping up a substance on therapy training

New article now open access! I argue that the Mental Capacity Act is poorly suited for its proposed role in regulating assisted dying, and that for this and other reasons it would benefit from a proper review

Not fit for purpose: the Mental Capacity Act cannot serve as a safeguard for assisted dying | BJPsych Bulletin | Cambridge Core

Not fit for purpose: the Mental Capacity Act cannot serve as a safeguard for assisted dying

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I wrote this book with Louise Daoust and forty of our friends.

OUP has the index! After Mind: Myths of Mind and Mechanism in Philosophy, Science, Medicine, and Law should be out in print in December, and available online in October!

Arguments that the universe is fine tuned for life and cognition neglect contemporary theories of life and cognition - and so, they fail! My grumpy piece about why fine tuning arguments need to care about what 'life' is, now open access in Nous onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Life, but Not as We Know It: Why Fine‐Tuning Arguments Fail

Definitions of “life” and theories of life are systematically neglected in arguments for and from fine-tuning. Despite claims to be neutral about the definition of “life,” fine-tuning arguments gener...

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Convincing you to buy my book, day 1/31: How to sneak onto a train? There are options. You can try when it's stopped, but there will be security. More reliable is to catch it "on the fly." You wait for the train somewhere you know it will being going slow -- a hill, a crossing. Then, you run.

I wrote belatedly about the BAFTAs, Ye, and how 'santizing' psychiatric conditions in the name of destigmatization adds to stigma open.substack.com/pub/joefgoug...

Destigmatization and Sanitization

John Davidson has Tourette’s syndrome.

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Travis LaCroix's new article arguing that ‘theory of mind’ research in autism qualifies as pseudoscientific www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... my commentary here, arguing that ‘pseudoscience’ might be a bit of a red herring www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Autism and the Pseudoscience of Mind

The theory-of-mind-deficit explanation of autism proposes that autistics lack a theory of mind, that autism comprises a theory-of-mind deficit (strong version); or, that autistics often have diffic...

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I started a substack, intending to use it to talk about my plan to train as a therapist. This week, however, I wrote about a close family friend's funeral, and last week I wrote about discovering that my Jewish ancestry has made me German... joefgough.substack.com

Joe's Substack | Joe Gough | Substack

My personal Substack. Click to read Joe's Substack, by Joe Gough, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.

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I started a substack, intending to use it to talk about my plan to train as a therapist. This week, however, I wrote about a close family friend's funeral, and last week I wrote about discovering that my Jewish ancestry has made me German... joefgough.substack.com

Joe's Substack | Joe Gough | Substack

My personal Substack. Click to read Joe's Substack, by Joe Gough, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.

joefgough.substack.com

Next, Joseph Gough addresses the relationship between phenomenal #consciousness and moral status in this open access article: doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

Phenomenal consciousness and moral status: taking the moral option

Intuitively, there is a close link between moral status and phenomenal consciousness. Taking the link seriously can serve as the basis of a proposal that appears to have a surprising number of theo...

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I have a new article! Doing a sort of mini-genealogy of the concept of mind in response to Toon's mental fictionalism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Mental fictionalism and the dangers of Cartesian apologia

Toon (2023) argues that “the mind is a useful fiction.” The mind, for Toon, is essentially an “inner world” or “inner grotto,” which is “private” and which “houses our mental states – our beliefs, ...

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I made a video for New Work in Philosophy on mind and self, from Descartes to the anti-Cartesians. Thanks @marcusarvan.bsky.social for the invite! youtu.be/tPXbnketu8I

Joseph Gough (Oxford), "The embodied, relational self: extending or rejecting the mind?"

YouTube video by New Work in Philosophy

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@josephfgough.bsky.social made a very cool, accessible video on the concept of the mind and why it’s less valuable today than it once was. A great teaching tool!! youtu.be/tPXbnketu8I

Joseph Gough (Oxford), "The embodied, relational self: extending or rejecting the mind?"

YouTube video by New Work in Philosophy

youtu.be

Giving bluesky a go! To tell the void that my latest article, '"Mind" and "Mental": Extended, Pluralistic, Eliminated' was just accepted in Synthese, arguing we should get rid of the concept of mind and category mental because they are confused, confusing, and harmful philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24024/