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Craig French

@craigfrench.bsky.social
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Philosopher at the University of Nottingham. Keenly interested in the philosophy of mental health and the philosophy of psychotherapy! Other interests include: Badgers, Elton John, UFOs. www.pomhnottingham.org www.craigfrench.xyz #philosophy #philsky

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Craig French @craigfrench.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I've written a short piece on the nature of psychotherapy (my current research focus) for the Leeds Centre for Theoretical Philosophy - check it out here! @universityofleeds.bsky.social @leedsprhs.bsky.social ahc.leeds.ac.uk/centre-theor...
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Psychotherapy: many things, not one.
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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
this is horrendous there's a tendency to dismiss the culture war as an unimportant sideshow but that fails to consider the real human costs rest in peace www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Jason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found dead
His family said it was "in shock to have lost this amazing father, partner, brother, uncle and son" after the academic was found dead in London on Friday.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
P.s. this is back on my mind cos my dad is now worried that there will be a general witch hunt against all black academics and I am having to reassure him I'm fine. You're worrying me ol' da' you wankers!
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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 29/05/2026
#HigherEducation #Academia
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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 26/05/2026
*now 2,2292… can we make it to 2,300 by the end of the week?
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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Finally! BOOK 2 OUT SOON -- THIS AUGUST (e-book will be Open Access/free): THE SENSES: PERCEPTION AND EXPERIENCE (Cambridge University Press, Elements in Philosophy of Mind, ed. by @keithfrankish.com ) www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
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The Senses | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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Hannah O’Regan @palaeohan.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I have my doubts, I suspect UEB wish to be seen to be ‘strong’, whatever that may look like. But I love my Department, colleagues, students, work and ultimately the university itself. I do not want to be on strike, but unfortunately it is necessary. 5/5
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Hannah O’Regan @palaeohan.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Now with the proposal to make 600+ staff redundant I genuinely cannot see how the uni can continue to function. Yet, we as academic staff are the enemy threatened with a 100% pay deduction for MAB. It’s a very sorry place to be, and I hope negotiations will resolve it quickly. 4/5
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Hannah O’Regan @palaeohan.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Now the creep has become a flood, and some staff have done little but programmes, timetabling and assessments admin since September last year. This takes effort away from teaching and research, but perhaps more importantly - this workload transfer has been invisible. 3/?
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Hannah O’Regan @palaeohan.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
… workload as well as doing the teaching, researching, impact and outreach that is meant to be the core of our roles. The admin creep has been happening for years, but we just get on with it to ensure the education of our students continue. 2/?
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Hannah O’Regan @palaeohan.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Very sad to be on #UCUstrike action today at #NottinghamUni. A university only functions through goodwill, and academic staff are not the enemies that UEB seem determined to think they are. Since Future Nottingham 1 gutted administrative staff, academic staff have increasingly picked up their 1/?
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Dr Sarah Hudspith @sarahhudspith.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
All solidarity to colleagues at Nottingham as they begin their marking and assessment boycott, fighting devastating course cuts and redundancies. ✊💪
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Umberto Albarella STOP THE GENOCIDE! @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The dismantling of British education is in full flow. Makes sense. An uneducated, unhealthy & indebted population is too weak to fight back. We must confront this abomination or accept that our future is bleak. @ucu.org.uk @sheffielducu.bsky.social @uonucu.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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University of Nottingham puts 2,700 staff at risk of redundancy
The University of Nottingham says it is facing
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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Action- the administration says they are making 100% salary reductions in response to our marking and assessment boycott and that all other work from participants during this time is "voluntary." Response- We strike for two months straight. westbridgfordwire.com/university-o...
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University of Nottingham staff announce two-month strike action | West Bridgford Wire
Staff at the University of Nottingham will strike for 61 days from Monday 1 June to Friday 31 July (2026) in addition to the day of strike action set for
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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Very much looking forward to this discussion with the outstanding Rumman Chowdhury! events.ceu.edu/2026-06-09/w...
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What is intelligence, really?
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Craig French @craigfrench.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Rant about AI gaslighting: I am attempting to learn Schubert's Impromptus D. 899, Op. 90: No. 3 in G-Flat. I have listened to loads of lovely recordings. I came across a recording by François Chaplin www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBYZ.... I noticed a mistake in bar 76 (5:11)... (1/n)
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Impromptus D. 899 No. 3 in G-Flat, Op. 90: andante
YouTube video by François Chaplin - Topic
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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Nottingham job cuts ‘pose systemic risks to research’, union warns. Research-intensive university told it risks “intellectual stagnation” as 2,700 staff put at risk of redundancy. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
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Nottingham job cuts ‘pose systemic risks to research’, union warns - Research Professional News
Research-intensive university told it risks “intellectual stagnation” as 2,700 staff put at risk of redundancy
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Happy Hour at Hippel's @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The collapse of universities will destroy the towns they're in, in the same way that deindustrialisation, pit closures, destroyed entire regions of the UK. In both cases the government project was to inflict poverty on those you believe to be socially illegitimate, who've had it good for too long.
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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
It must have been nice to work in higher education before it was permanently in crisis
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
We could (and should) be a country that does higher education and creative industries.
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Jimmy Lenman (吉明) @lenmanj.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
This is horrible. Nottingham is a lovely department (I visited there six months ago) with some terrific philosophers. bsky.app/profile/crai...
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Giulia Martina @giuliamartina.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
You will have seen these news. This is so sad as it's a great place to work and study at. Lucky to be sheltered from all this, but the atmosphere is grim here.
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This is quite something.
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Thousands of University of Nottingham staff told they are at risk of redundancy
Institution says it could run out of money by 2031 and wants to cut more than 600 academic and support posts
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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 12/05/2026
Coincidentally, the number of staff currently at risk of redundancy (2700) at the University of Nottingham is the same as the number of jobs at risk at British Steel. Yesterday, the govt said they aren't neutral on job losses & so pledged to save those steel jobs. Watch as they blithely ignore HE.
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
2,700 in limbo for months, with more than 600 expected to lose their jobs. Having been at risk of redundancy last year, I can’t imagine the impact of so many feeling so insecure and devalued. Cruel and destructive. Solidarity to all.
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Harrowing numbers. Solidarity with colleagues in Nottingham
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Craig French @craigfrench.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Difficult times at the University of Nottingham - the whole of the Department of Philosophy is formally at risk of redundancy, with plans to get rid of 7 people in the department. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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University of Nottingham puts 2,700 staff at risk of redundancy
The University of Nottingham says it is facing
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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Here’s @craigfrench.bsky.social’s Dad on a fiver – long overdue recognition, I expect.
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Guy Longworth @guylongworth.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
JOB: Philosophy at Warwick are advertising two one-year Teaching Fellowships. Come and work with us! warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...
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Teaching Fellow x2 (111540-0426) - University of Warwick
Title: Teaching Fellow x2 (111540-0426). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Fixed Term
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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
The Knowledge in Crisis Marathon Relay Team did the Vienna Marathon in 3 hours 30 minutes! Kati Farkas, Jonathan Kuntzen, Camilo Martinez and Matt Dougherty @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social
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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 19/04/2026
What are the harmful stereotypes associated with hearing voices? In this open-access chapter, members of the Voice Collective, Fiona Malpass, Kathleen Murphy-Hollies and I explore this issue using an Aesop-style fable link.springer.com/ch... #philsky #EpistemicInjustice
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Challenging Stereotypes About Young People Who Hear Voices
Recent work on clinical communication has highlighted the possibility that vulnerable young people may experience epistemic injustice and have their sense of agency undermined in encounters with mental healthcare providers. In particular, five dimensions...
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Lucy O'Brien @lucyobrien.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Horrah - this is out. Thanks @aristotsoc.bsky.social for asking me to write it. Duddington and Our Awareness of Others’ Minds academic.oup.com/aristotelian...
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Duddington and Our Awareness of Others’ Minds
Abstract. What enables me to know that others exist? Nathalie Duddington offers two distinctive, and underexplored, insights into the question. She focuses
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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 08/04/2026
I contributed an entry on mental disorders to this new encyclopedia with @matthewbroome.bsky.social #philsky #philosophy link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
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Mental Disorders
The debate on the criteria for mental disorder has powerfully intersected with discussions about the status of psychiatry as a science and its role as a legitimate medical field. In this entry, we rev...
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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 08/04/2026
I contributed an entry on delusion to this new encyclopaedia with @emas-b.bsky.social #philsky #philosophy link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
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Delusion
In this brief entry, we offer an overview of classic and contemporary debates surrounding clinical delusions in philosophy and psychology. Researchers disagree about the nature of delusional states an...
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Reading this remarkable book by @michelamassimi.bsky.social Only just realising what a big deal it is: novel and profoundly erudite accounts of perspective, phenomena, models... All 👌 Plus the style manages to balance gutsy and respectful to predecessors (something I often mess up). Go read it
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Perspectival Realism
Abstract. What does it mean to be a realist about science if one takes seriously the view that scientific knowledge is always perspectival, namely historic
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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Very happy to say that Neurodiversity: A Very Short Introduction, written by @suereviews.bsky.social and myself, is out now! It was a lot of fun trying to condense neurodiversity theory, research, practice, and politics into a single, brief book. Available in all the usual places!
Yellow and green book on a desk next to a houseplant.
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Mary Margaret McCabe @mmmccabe.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Last night’s brilliant award ceremony for @thebpa.bsky.social honoured Leonie Smith, @jonbebb.bsky.social and James Chamberlain, all for wonderful work with @philosophyinprison.bsky.social Congratulations all!!!!! #philosophymatters
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The Royal Institute of Philosophy @triphilosophy.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
📢 Our 2026 #Philosophy #grant programmes are now open! You can apply for #funding now, for your event, education programme or postgraduate study. Find out more: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/philosophy-f... #bursaries #studentships #postgraduate #philosophymatters
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Mark Eli Kalderon @markelikalderon.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Discovered by Amazon recommending my own books as something I might like to purchase, Cosmos and Perception now in paperback m.media-amazon.com/images/I/717...
Cover of Cosmos and Perception in Plato’s Timaeus, my attempt to say something about Timaeus’ account of perception
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Maryanne Chisholm 🌊 💙 @maryannechisholm.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
A view of the night sky from Mars. (Yes, really)
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Lucy O'Brien @lucyobrien.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Delighted to have this out - a response to Anil's wonderful book www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The Practical Self, and Practical Experience. Critical Notice of The Practical Self, by Anil Gomes. | Canadian Journal of Philosophy | Cambridge Core
The Practical Self, and Practical Experience. Critical Notice of The Practical Self, by Anil Gomes.
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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Latest papers: Craig French develops a new problem for naive realism: the problem of derealization in this open access article doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy
A person standing confused
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Craig French @craigfrench.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
youtu.be/FxhbAGwEYGQ?... So beautiful. And if you listen carefully a few minutes in you can hear the church bells ringing in the background.
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SCHUBERT - Impromptu n°3 (Horowitz)
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Yesterday my friend told me about her PHILOSOPHY students all using ai for their assignments and like come the fuck on man you’re in Uni doing the subject thats Thinking about Thinking and u refuse to Think
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Martin Kusch @martinkusch.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
My classical music favourites CCXXV. -- www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRBH... Bach: Partita for keyboard No. 2, played by Martha Argerich. (So excited that we'll finally see her live on February 16th here in Vienna!) #music #classicalmusic
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Bach: Partita for keyboard No. 2 | Martha Argerich, piano
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Our special issue with @martinkusch.bsky.social is finally complete and here’s at long last our introduction. I pitched the idea to him in 2019! Thank you for your patience and generosity, Martin. I am proud of this manifesto and hope colleagues will join us in rethinking this old debate #philsci
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"Why do we argue about the specialness of the social sciences?"
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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 20/12/2025
#Academia in the age of #GenAI…
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Anneli Jefferson @annelijefferson.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
As a little Christmas present, I am sharing my review Nick Shea's Concepts at the Interface www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... First 50 should be free/open access, if I understand it correctly. #phiksky
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How we do things with concepts – review of Nicholas Shea’s Concepts at the Interface
Published in Philosophical Psychology (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Craig French @craigfrench.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
NEW ARTICLE: "Experiences of Derealization: A Naive Realist Account" I explore how derealization - where one's perceived environment feels unreal - challenges naive realism. A mix of philosophy of mental health and philosophy of perception. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Open access.
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Experiences of derealization A naive realist account
A major symptom of “Derealization/Depersonalization Disorder” is derealization. People who experience derealization report a sense of unreality when it comes to their surroundings, yet they still p...
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