In a recent article, published in The American Journal of Bioethics by Robert Chapman and myself*, we argue that accurate representation of the entire autism spectrum requires putting the voices of non-verbal autistics center-stage. The article is titled ‘ Representing the Autism Spectrum,’ (hence the title of this post), and…

A brief report on our recent publication. — A few days ago, I have published a paper with a number of other bioethicists spread across a number of institutions (Oxford, Yale, Sydney, among others). In it, we reply to a recent article by Mal and Navin in which they made an exceedingly strong claim that we could not…

Interview by Lindsay Jordan and Richard Marshall Chris Letheby is a philosopher working on issues related to the therapeutic and transformative potential of classic psychedelic drugs. His doctoral research, conducted at the University of Adelaide, presented the first systematic analysis of psychedelic experience within the framework of 21st century philosophy…

Tim Lewens interviewed by Richard Marshall. ‘ So does this mean that we still have something to learn from Popper, Kuhn and the other big beasts of mid-century philosophy of science? Yes! Feyerabend is right, I think, to cast doubt on the existence of any recipe that will tell…

Hilde Lindemann interviewed by Richard Marshall. Hilde Lindemann is a philosopher who bites! She is a key figure in the philosophy of bioethics, feminist bioethics, the ethics of familes, feminist ethics and the social construction of identities. She writes essential dangerous books such as Holding and Letting Go, Damaged Identities…

William Lewis interviewed by Richard Marshall. ‘ Just being a Marxist in academic philosophy is incredibly difficult, even in France. Althusser, though, was fortunate enough to be his most philosophically active during the two decades where being a Marxist philosopher was not only an institutional possibility but during revolutionary years…

Stephen Mumford interviewed by Richard Marshall. Stephen Mumford is cool, calm and collected as he broods on the big issues in the metaphysics of science. He thinks Russell a pivotal figure in metaphysics and more significant in that area than Wittgenstein, thinks of Armstrong’s metaphysics as a beautiful whole, is…

Guy Longworth interviewed by Richard Marshall. ‘Ordinary language philosophers think in that way because they think that competent speakers know what it would be correct or incorrect to say when, and perhaps know why it would be correct or incorrect.’ ‘Experimental philosophers are more generous-perhaps, more democratic-about whose views…

Liam Murphy interviewed by Richard Marshall. ‘I would say that the most important issue raised by international law for the question of the grounds of law is that of whose beliefs and attitudes count for the fixing of the political/social grounds of law.’ ‘Positivism and nonpositivism differ on the role…