Category Archives: Objects

Confessions of an object obsessive

Posted on May 10, 2017 by

A friend of mine runs Curiosity Creative, a centre for digital storytelling in the North East of England. She invited me to attend a workshop to create a story but the theme of the workshop was stories about the history … Continue reading →

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A plethora of perspectives

Posted on May 3, 2017 by

It’s been a while (10 months!) since I last posted on this blog. I’ve been studying, and writing a dissertation for, a MSc in Psychology. There were some fascinating potential tangents to explore along the way but it was too … Continue reading →

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Vexatious Objects

Posted on June 30, 2015 by

I was following a chain of references, in search of a possible dissertation topic, when I came upon the book “Creations of the Mind: Theories of Artifacts and their Representation” (2007), edited by Margolis and Laurence. I was really only … Continue reading →

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Language and action

Posted on June 1, 2015 by

I recently finished reading ‘Language & Action in Cognitive Neuroscience’ (Coello & Bartolo, 2013). It’s one of those edited books with every chapter from different authors, which allows debates and tensions within a field to emerge. It’s also a treasure … Continue reading →

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Inhering in words

Posted on January 22, 2015 by

I’ve been reading ‘The Organisation of Mind’ by Shallice and Cooper. It’s not the book I thought it would be but that is possibly a good thing. It’s not an easy read, at least not for me, and completing each … Continue reading →

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unexpectedly social objects

Posted on January 12, 2015 by

Back in October, there was an interesting edition of ‘Thinking Allowed’ wherein Laurie Taylor (2014) interviewed academic, Julia Twigg, about some research that she and her researcher, Christina Buse, did on the ways that women with dementia use their handbags … Continue reading →

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Touchable?

Posted on September 2, 2014 by

At the weekend, my family and I visited Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Once upon a time (when we had no kids and lived in Sheffield) this was a regular occurrence, nowadays distance makes the visits less frequent. Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and … Continue reading →

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