Tim O Thornton

From Economics to Political Economy: The problems, promises and solutions of pluralist economics (New Political Economy)

The discipline of economics has been increasingly criticized for its inability to illuminate the workings of the real world and to provide reliable policy guidance for the major economic and social challenges of our time. A central problem in contemporary economics, and a problem from which many of...

Death of an Unsigned Band

Ahilarious fly-on-the-wall trip around the outskirts of the music industry, with a valuable lesson: unsigned bands never become signed bands—they have to die firstYou're an unsigned band. You're a fuckin' deeply unsigned band. You look like an unsigned band. You sound like an unsigned band. You thin...

Esssential Philosophy of Psychiatry (International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry)

Essential Philosophy of Psychiatry is a concise introduction to the growing field of philosophy of psychiatry. Divided into three main aspects of psychiatric clinical judgement, values, meanings and facts, it examines the key debates about mental health care, and the philosophical ideas and tools ne...

Wittgenstein on Thought and Language: Wittgenstein on Language and Thought: The Philosophy of Content

This book defends and outlines the key issues surrounding the philosophy of content as demonstrated in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. The text shows how Wittgenstein's critical arguments concerning mind and meaning are destructive of much recent work in the philosophy of thought and la...

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry (Oxford Handbooks)

Philosophy has much to offer psychiatry, not least regarding ethical issues, but also issues regarding the mind, identity, values, and volition. This has become only more important as we have witnessed the growth and power of the pharmaceutical industry, accompanied by developments in the neuroscien...

The Alternative Hero

What do you do if you’re a failed music fanzine writer in your early thirties with a dead-end job, and the best moment of your life occurred when you went to your first Thieving Magpies gig as a teenager and suddenly you belonged in a way you never had before, and the worst moment of your life occur...

John McDowell (Philosophy Now)

This overview and critical assessment of the work of the influential contemporary philosopher, John McDowell, aims to provide students with an intellectual primer for reading McDowell. The text also offers a critical framework that should help shape the ongoing debates surrounding McDowell's work, a...

Back To Basics

This book is part storytelling narrative, part honest teaching, and part untempered, spontaneous conversation between three friends on the basics of living in the kingdom of God. In May of 2009 Doug Roberts, Ben Pasley , and Tim F. Thornton took an old beat up RV into the mountains near Woodland Par...

Oxford Textbook of Philosophy of Psychiatry

A Boatowner's Guide to Using PCs on Board

The Offshore Yacht

Small Offshore Yacht

Wittgenstein on Language and Thought: The Philosophy of Content

The Prophecy

The Prophecy

War: Identities in Conflict 1300-2000