Dr Phil Hutchinson
Dr Phil Hutchinson
Senior Lecturer in Applied Philosophical Psychology
My profile
Biography
I am Senior Lecturer in Applied Philosophical Psychology
My current research interests:
- The Philosophy of the “Placebo” Effect;
- Shame and Stigma, with a particular focus on their role in sexual health; and
- Non-representational accounts of mind, cognition and our responsiveness to loci of significance in the lifeworld, as found in 4E cognition and Ecological Psychology, but with specific focus on Wittgensteinian and Ethnomethodological Approaches.
Academic and professional qualifications
BA (London)
MA (ECON) (Manchester University)
Ph.D. (Manchester University)
External examiner roles
I have examined Ph.D. theses on Wittgenstein and on Philosophy of Emotion at
Abo Akademi University, Finland,
Edge Hill University, UK, and
The University of East Anglia, UK
Expert reviewer
Journals For Which I Have Reviewed Manuscripts
Capitalism Nature Socialism
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
Ethnographic Studies
European Journal of Political Theory
Hume Studies
Inquiry
International Journal of Green Economics
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
Nordic Wittgenstein Review
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
Philosophical Investigations
Philosophical Quarterly
Philosophical Psychology
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
I have also reviewed research applications for The Finnish Research Council
Prizes and awards
BHIVA Research Award October 2014
MMU KE Award September 2014
Personal website address
Impact
My BHIVA-funded research project on Shame, Stigma and HIV meets the Research Excellence Framework criteria for impact. It is explicitly designed to change professional, clinical practice, based on my own existing published research on shame, and is funded by a professional body (BHIVA).
Projects
2015. British HIV Association (BHIVA). “Shame and Stigma as Barriers to Good HIV Treatment, Control and Data Collection: The Clinician’s Perspective”. This project is designed to engender the clinician’s deeper understanding of the anatomy of shame, based on my philosophical work.
Teaching
Why do I teach?
When you think deeply enough about any subject, when you really interrogate and unpack the underlying assumptions and commitments of any academic discipline or subject area, then you are doing philosophy.
The objective is to not let this philosophising be unwitting, accidental or spontaneous. My teaching is focussed on helping students to be aware of the underlying philosophical assumptions and commitments which are there in their own reasoning and in the topics they are studying.
This is why I teach:
I teach to bring to consciousness the underlying philosophical assumptions that can feature in our intellectual inquiries.
I teach to provide students with tools so that they might identify assumptions that underpin all psychological methods and sub-disciplines, from Neuro-Cognitive to Social Psychology, so that they might interrogate and engage critically with those assumptions.
I teach to help students express themselves cleary and to help them see clearly the ways in which they meet their world in and through the language they speak.
I teach to learn, because to to be a lecturer is to continue to be a student of your subject.
Subject areas
Philosophical Psychology
Supervision
I have been the Director of Studies for 4 successful PhD’s and been on the supervisory team of a number of others.
I was the only DoS in the entire history of MMU’s Cheshire faculty to have two students pass without corrections.
PhD’s Awarded
Mark Fowler (Awarded Jan. 2015) Title of Thesis: “Mental Models and Meaning: A Study in the Validity of the Model Theory’s Use of Peircean Iconism.” Passed without amendments.
Scott Biagi (Awarded Feb. 2018) Title of Thesis: “Ethnomethodology, Brandom’s Pragmatism and Ordinary Language Philosophy: A ReÔ¨Çection on the Status of Formal-Analytic Work.” Passed without amendments.
Marie Chollier (Awarded Jan 2019) “HIV, Shame and Stigma”
David Hirst (Awarded Jan 2019) “Epistemological and Moral Reasoning in Medical Ethics”
Research outputs
I am the author of Shame and Philosophy (Palgrave 2008) and numerous articles on emotions and shame. More recently I began working with sexual health clinicians on shame, stigma and sexual health, with particular focus on HIV stigma and shame.
This project has been awarded funding by the British HIV Association, among others, and a series of papers co-authored with Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan (an HIV consultant, based in London) are beginning to appear, which are based on the project.
I have also recently begun work on what is usually referred to as the placebo response, though I endorse Daniel Moerman’s proposal to rename it the meaning response (since this captures more accurately what it is). I am currently working on two papers on the meaning response, one co-authored with Moerman, and a funding application will follow this year (2017). These papers will appear in a special edition of the journal Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (Johns Hopins University Press) on Placebo and the Meaning Response, co-edited by Charlotte Blease (UCD - Ireland), Marco Annoni (CNR - Italy) and Phil Hutchinson (MMU)
I am currently finishing a book MS for Agenda Press. This will appear in June 2017 and is titled The Policy Test: Five Parameters for Assessing Policy. This book is based on the series of articles I authored in The Philosophers’ Magazine 2015-2016: The Five Parameters.
I have other ongoing research projects on Wittgenstein, on Policy, and Decision making procedures in healthcare.
I am a regular contributor to The Philosopher’s Magazine, with articles on GM food, on Placebo and on Film appearing there, in addition to the Five Parameters series. I have also published on Wittgenstein, on film, on the philosophy of social science and on political philosophy.
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Books (authored/edited/special issues)
Hutchinson, P. (2017) The Policy Test: Five Parameters for Evaluating Public Policy. Agenda Publishing (UK) / Columbia University Press (USA).
Hutchinson, P., Read, R., Sharrock, W. (2016) There is No Such Thing as a Social Science: In Defence of Peter Winch.
Hutchinson, P., Read, R., Sharrock, W. (2008) There is no such thing as a social science: In defence of Peter Winch.
Hutchinson, P., Read, R., Sharrock, W. (2008) There Is No Such Thing As a Social Science. Routledge.
Hutchinson, P. (2008) Shame and Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan.
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Chapters in books
Hutchinson, P. 'Climate Change and the Liberal Programme: Meeting the Political Demands of Adaptation and Mitigation.' THE SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS: PRECAUTIONARY AND PROACTIONARY PERSPECTIVES. Rowman & Littlefield,
Hutchinson, P., Read, R. 'Reframing health care: philosophy for medicine and human flourishing.' In Loughlin, M. (ed.) Debates in Values-Based Practice. Cambridge University Press, pp. 69-84.
Hutchinson, P. (2019) 'The Missing 'E': radical embodied cognitive science, ecological psychology, and the place of ethics in our responsiveness to the Lifeworld.' In Backström, J., Nykänen, H., Toivakainen, N., Wallgren, T. (ed.) Moral Foundations of Philosophy of Mind. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 103-127.
Hutchinson, P., Read, R. (2017) 'Grammar.' In Matar, A. (ed.) Understanding Wittgenstein, Understanding Modernism. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, pp. 224-232.
Hutchinson, P. (2016) 'Shame, Placebo and World-Taking Cognitivism.' In George, S., Jung, P. (ed.) Cultural Ontology of the Self in Pain. Springer, pp. 165-179.
Hutchinson, P. (2015) 'Shame, placebo and world-taking cognitivism.' Cultural Ontology of the Self in Pain. pp. 165-179.
Hutchinson, P., Read, R. (2014) 'Reframing Health Care: Philosophy for Medicine and Human Flourishing.' In Loughlin, M. (ed.) Debates in Values-Based Practice: Arguments For and Against. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 69-84.
Read, R., Hutchinson, P. (2014) 'Therapy.' Wittgenstein: Key Concepts. pp. 149-159.
Hutchinson, P., Read, R. (2014) 'Reframing health care: Philosophy for medicine and human flourishing.' Debates in Values-Based Practice: Arguments for and Against. pp. 69-84.
Hutchinson, P. (2014) 'Thinking and understanding.' Wittgenstein: Key Concepts. pp. 92-108.
Hutchinson, P., Read, R. (2013) 'Practisingpragmatist–Wittgensteinianism.' In Malachowski, A. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Pragmatism. Cambridge University Press, pp. 159-188.
Hutchinson, P., Read, R. (2013) 'Practicing Pragmatist-Wittgensteinianism.' In Malachowski, A. (ed.) Cambridge Companion to Pragmatism. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press,
Hutchinson, P. (2013) 'Relativism and the Social Sciences: From the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis to Peter Winch.' In Kaldis, B. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences. SAGE Publications, Inc.,
Hutchinson, P., Read, R. (2010) 'Therapy.' Wittgenstein: Key Concepts. Durham: Acumen, pp. 149-160.
Hutchinson, P. (2010) '(Wittgenstein on) Thinking and Understanding.' In Jolley, K.D. (ed.) Wittgenstein: Key Concepts. Acumen Pub Limited, pp. 92-108.
Hutchinson, A.P.A. (2010) 'Thinking and understanding.' Wittgenstein: key concepts. Acumen,
Hutchinson, P., Loughlin, M. (2009) 'Why Teach Philosophy?.' In Kenkmann, A. (ed.) Teaching Philosophy. London: Continuum, pp. 38-55.
Hutchinson, P. (2008) 'Emotion-philosophy-science.' Emotions and Understanding: Wittgensteinian Perspectives. pp. 60-80.
Hutchinson, A.P.A. (2008) 'Emotion-Philosophy-Science.' Emotions and Understanding: Wittgensteinian Perspectives. Palgrave,
Hutchinson, A.P.A., Read, R. (2005) '"Memento": a philosophical investigation.' Film as philosophy: essays in cinema after Wittgenstein and Cavell. Palgrave,
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Internet publications
Hutchinson, A. Hidden Summits: Brute Affect, Phenomenal Affect and Members' Accounts of Emotional Phenomena.
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Journal articles
Diskin, K., Hutchinson, P. (2024) 'Critical praxeological analysis: respecifying critical research.' Qualitative Research in Psychology,
Hardman, D., Hutchinson, P. (2023) 'Rules, practices and principles: putting bioethical principles in their place.' Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 29(7) pp. 1095-1099.
Hardman, D., Hutchinson, P. (2023) 'Whose models? Which representations? A response to Wagner.' Journal of Medical Ethics, 49(12) pp. 850-851.
Hutchinson, P., Zielinska, A.C., Hardman, D. (2022) 'Editorial Introduction: Praxeological Gestalts – Philosophy, Cognitive Science and Sociology Meet Gestalt Psychology.' Philosophia Scientae, 26(3) pp. 5-19.
Hutchinson, P. (2022) 'Wittgensteinian Ethnomethodology (1): Gurwitsch, Garfinkel, and Wittgenstein and the Meaning of Praxeological Gestalts.' Philosophia Scientae, (26-3) pp. 61-93.
Loughlin, M., Dolezal, L., Hutchinson, P., Subramani, S., Milani, R., Lafarge, C. (2022) 'Philosophy and the clinic: stigma, respect and shame.' Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 28(5) pp. 705-710.
Hardman, D., Hutchinson, P. (2022) 'Investigative Ordinary Language Philosophy.' Philosophical Investigations, 45(4) pp. 453-470.
Hutchinson, P. (2022) 'Stigma respecified: investigating HIV stigma as an interactional phenomenon.' Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 28(5) pp. 861-866.
Hardman, D., Hutchinson, P. (2022) 'Bioethics to the rescue! A response to Emmerich.' Journal of Medical Ethics, 48(11) pp. 887-887.
Hardman, D., Hutchinson, P. (2021) 'Where the ethical action is.' Journal of Medical Ethics, 49(1) pp. 45-48.
Hardman, D., Hutchinson, P., Ongaro, G. (2020) 'Questioning the Consensus on Placebo and Nocebo Effects..' Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 90(3) pp. 211-212.
Hutchinson, P. (2020) 'The 'Placebo' Paradox and the Emotion Paradox: Challenges to Psychological Explanation.' Theory and Psychology, 30(5) pp. 617-637.
Hardman, D., Hutchinson, P. (2020) 'Cultivating the dispositions to connect: an exploration of therapeutic empathy..' Medical humanities, 46(4)
Hutchinson, P. (2019) 'Systems of Sociological Refraction.' Ethnographic Studies, 16pp. 225-249.
Charlotte, B., Annoni, M., Hutchinson, A. (2018) 'Editors' Introduction to Special Section on Meaning Response and the Placebo Effect.' Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 61(3)
Hutchinson, A., Moerman, D.E. (2018) 'The Meaning Response, 'Placebo' and Methods.' Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 61(3)
Hutchinson, P., Dhairyawan, R. (2017) 'Shame & HIV: Strategies for addressing the negative impact shame has on public health and diagnosis and treatment of HIV.' Bioethics, 32(1) pp. 68-76.
Hutchinson, A.P.A., Dhairyawan, R. (2017) 'Shame and HIV.' Bioethics,
Hutchinson, P., Dhairyawan, R. (2017) 'Shame, Stigma, HIV: Philosophical Reflections.' Medical Humanities, 43(4) pp. 225-230.
Hutchinson, P. (2016) 'The Five Parameters: Drugs.' TPM - The Philosophers' Magazine, (75) pp. 20-25.
HUTCHINSON, P., AZAMBUJA, T., MARTINI, T.D.W., SATTLER, J. (2016) 'Encarando a atrocidade: a vergonha e sua ausência (Portuguese translation of Facing Atrocity - Translators: Azambuja, Martini & Sattler).' Revista de Filosofia Aurora, 28(44) pp. 689-716.
Hutchinson, P. (2016) 'The Five Parameters: Political Campaigning and the Public Sphere.' TPM - The Philosophers' Magazine, (74) pp. 13-18.
Hutchinson, P. (2016) 'Placebo.' TPM - The Philosophers' Magazine, (72) pp. 55-56.
Hutchinson, P., Read, R. (2016) 'The Five Parameters: The Policy of Sex.' TPM - The Philosophers' Magazine, (72) pp. 10-16.
Hutchinson, P., Read, R. (2015) 'Five Parameters: Child Voters.' TPM - The Philosophers' Magazine, (71) pp. 10-16.
Hutchinson, P. (2015) 'Life is a Journey.' TPM - The Philosophers' Magazine, 71pp. 80-88.
Hutchinson, P., Read, R. (2015) 'Five Parameters: Healthcare Policy.' TPM - The Philosophers' Magazine, (70) pp. 10-17.
Hutchinson, P., Read, R. (2015) 'The Five Parameters: Going Nuclear.' TPM - The Philosophers' Magazine, (69) pp. 23-29.
Hutchinson, P., Read, R. (2015) 'The Five Parameters.' TPM - The Philosophers' Magazine, (68) pp. 19-26.
Hutchinson, P., Read, R. (2015) 'The Five Paramaters.' TPM-THE PHILOSOPHERS MAGAZINE, (70) pp. 10-17.
Hutchinson, P., Read, R. (2015) 'The Five Parameters.' TPM-THE PHILOSOPHERS MAGAZINE, (71) pp. 10-16.
Hutchinson, P., Read, R. (2014) 'What’s wrong with GM food?.' TPM - The Philosophers' Magazine, (65) pp. 39-45.
Hutchinson, P. (2012) 'Two Worlds of Action: Social Science, Social Theory and Systems of Sociological Refraction (in Russian) Два мира действия: социальная наука, социальная теория и системы социологической рефракции.' Russian Sociological Review, 11(2) pp. 75-99.
Hutchinson, A.P.A. (2012) 'Facing atrocity: shame and its absence.' Passions in Context: The Journal of the History and Philosophy of Emotions, II(1) pp. 93-117.
Hutchinson, P., Read, R. (2011) 'De-mystifying tacit knowing and clues: a comment on Henry et al..' JOURNAL OF EVALUATION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE, 17(5) pp. 944-947.
Hutchinson, P. (2011) 'The Philosopher’s Task: Values Based Practice and Bringing to Consciousness Underlying Philosophical Commitments.' The Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 17(5) pp. 999-1001.
Wilde, C. (2010) 'There is No Such Thing as Social Science: In Defence of Peter Winch – By Phil Hutchinson, Rupert Read and Wes Sharrock.' Philosophical Investigations, 33(2) pp. 191-199.
Hutchinson, A.P.A., Read, R., Sharrock, W. (2010) 'There is no such thing as a social science: in defence of Peter Winch.'
Hutchinson, P., Read, R. (2008) 'The undiscovered Wittgenstein: The twentieth century's most misunderstood philosopher.' MIND, 117(467) pp. 681-685.
Hutchinson, P., Read, R. (2008) 'Toward a Perspicuous Presentation of “Perspicuous Presentation”1.' Philosophical Investigations, 31(2) pp. 141-160.
Hutchinson, P. (2007) 'What's the point of elucidation? (Hans-Johann Glock, Wittgenstein).' METAPHILOSOPHY, 38(5) pp. 691-713.
Hutchinson, P. (2006) 'Unsinnig: A reply to Hutto.' INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES, 14(4) pp. 569-577.
Hutchinson, A.P.A., Read, R. (2006) 'An "elucidatory" interpretation of Wittgenstein's "Tractatus": a critique of Daniel D Hutto's and Marie McGinn's reading of "Tractatus" 6.54.' International journal of philosophical studies, 14(1) pp. 1-29.
Hutchinson, A.P.A., Read, R. (2004) 'Whose Wittgenstein.' Philosophy, 80(3) pp. 432-455.
Hutchinson, P. (2004) 'Steiner's possession: As it were.' European Journal of Political Theory, 3(3) pp. 245-265.
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Other
Blease, C., Annoni, M. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine: Special Edition on Dan Moerman's Meaning Response.
Press and media
Media appearances or involvement
I have appeared on BBC Radio Manchester and BBC Radio Stoke. I have been consulted by BBC Radio 5Live for a programme on HIV, stigma and shame.