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Joe @josephfgough.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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

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Joe @josephfgough.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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

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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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Devin Curry @devinsanchezcurry.com · 07/09/2026

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

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Joe @josephfgough.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

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!

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Joe @josephfgough.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

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/...

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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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Robert Suits @robertsuits.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

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.

A black and white photograph of a person leaping on board a train; another person catches his hand.

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Joe @josephfgough.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

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...

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Destigmatization and Sanitization

John Davidson has Tourette’s syndrome.

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Joe @josephfgough.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

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....

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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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Joe @josephfgough.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

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

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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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Joe @josephfgough.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

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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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Joe @josephfgough.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

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

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

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Emily Webster, PhD, MSc @emilywebz.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

@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

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

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Joe @josephfgough.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

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/

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‘Mind’ and ‘mental’: extended, pluralistic, eliminated - PhilSci-Archive

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