Publications
Book
“In Defence of Psychiatric Diagnoses”, 2025, Palgrave-MacMillan Open Access Link
Journal Articles
“The epistemology of psychiatric diagnoses in lived experience research”, forthcoming, Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology
“A history of childhood schizophrenia and consequences for autism”, 2024, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Open Access Journal Link
“Establishing the accuracy of self-diagnosis in psychiatry”, 2024, Philosophical Psychology Open Access Journal Link, PRE-PRINT PDF
“The importance of involving experts-by-experience with different psychiatric diagnoses when revising diagnostic criteria”, 2023, Synthese, Open Access Journal Link, PRE-PRINT PDF
“Self-diagnosis in psychiatry and the distribution of social resources”, 2023, Royal Institute of Philosophy Volume on Public Mental Health, Journal Link, PRE-PRINT PDF
“The value of categorical, polythetic psychiatric diagnoses”, 2022, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Journal Link, PRE-PRINT PDF
“How autism shows that symptoms, like psychiatric diagnoses, are ‘constructed’: methodological and epistemic consequences”, 2021, Synthese, Open Access Journal Link, PRE-PRINT PDF
“Scientific perspectivism and psychiatric diagnoses: respecting history and constraining relativism”, 2021, European Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Open Access Journal Link, PRE-PRINT PDF
“Symptom modelling can be influenced by psychiatric categories: Choices for RDoC”, 2017, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Journal Link
“A reappraisal of Kendell and Jablensky’s account of validity”, 2016, (in the annual philosophy issue of) Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, Journal Link
Chapters in Books
“Autism, the double empathy problem and feeling the emotions of another person”, forthcoming in Contemporary Philosophy of Autism, Link to Book
“Philosophical issues raised by autism: sociality, explanations, heterogeneity and neurodiversity”, in Handbook of the Philosophy of Medicine, 2025, Link to Chapter
“A Kantian approach to psychiatric diagnoses”, in Conversations in Critical Psychiatry, 2024, Link to Book
“Scientific Realism, Antirealism and Psychiatric Diagnoses” in the Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Psychiatry, 2019, Link to Book
Essay Reviews and Extended Book Reviews
“Neurodiversity, liberal capitalism and self-understanding”, Philosophy of Medicine, 2024, 5/1, Journal Link
“Putting the present in the history of autism”, Studies in the History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2017, 61, 54-58, Journal Link, PRE-PRINT PDF
Letters to the Editor
“The importance of getting Kanner’s account right in debates over first descriptions of autism”, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorder, 2020, 50, 4329-4330, Journal Link, PRE-PRINT PDF
“Did Kanner actually describe the first account of autism? The mystery of 1938″, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2015, 45/7, 2274-2276, Journal Link, PRE-PRINT PDF
Commentaries
“Scientific expertise, service users and democratising psychiatric research”, 2024, Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, Journal Link
“The intuitions of diagnosed individuals”, 2021, Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry Bulletin, Open Access Journal Link
“Additional challenges to fair representation in autistic advocacy”, American Journal of Bioethics, 2020, 20/4, 44-45, Journal Link
Essay Prizes
Joint winner of the 2016 Jaspers Award from the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry, Link
Book Reviews
“Intelligent Love: The Story of Clara Park, Her Autistic Daughter, and the Myth of the Refrigerator Mother”, 2021, Medical History, Open Access Journal Link
“Alternative Perspectives On Psychiatric Validation: DSM, ICD, RDoC, and Beyond”, issue of History of Psychiatry, 2015, 26/4, 499-501 Journal Link