University of Central Lancashire

Faculty Member, School of Health

Professor of Philosophy and Mental Health

About

Tim Thornton is Professor of Philosophy and Mental Health in the School of Health at the University of Central Lancashire.

As well as contemporary philosophy of thought and language, his research concerns conceptual issues at the heart of mental health care. He has written research papers on clinical judgement, idiographic and narrative understanding, the interpretation of psychopathology and reductionism and social constructionism in psychiatry. In his spare time he is writing his half of a co-authored book on tacit knowledge.

He is author of Essential Philosophy of Psychiatry (OUP 2007), Wittgenstein on Language and Thought (EUP 1998), John McDowell (Acumen 2004) and co-author of the Oxford Textbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry (OUP 2006).

He established a Philosophy and Mental Health distance learning teaching programme at the University of Central Lancashire.

He keeps a blog: inthespaceofreasons.

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