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PSYCHE Talk

Phil Hutchinson, Senior Lecturer in Applied Philosophical Psychology in the School of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Education at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, will be interviewed by Bo Allesøe Christensen.

Phil Hutchinson is known for his work at the intersection of Wittgensteinian philosophy, ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, and membership categorisation analysis. His research has focused on how meaning, normativity, and social order are accomplished in practice, and has led to the development of Praxeological Analysis (PA) and Critical Praxeological Analysis (CPA). His recent work has explored how psychological questions may be respecified praxeologically, with particular attention to stigma and shame, as well as the placebo and nocebo response, showing how close attention to language and interaction can reorient inquiry in psychology and the human sciences.

Bo Allesøe Christensen’s research revolves around understanding the relations between communication and psychology. In his research he is influenced mainly by philosophies aiming at understanding ordinary language use and social-psychological approaches investigating everyday practices. A particular recent focus is the development of the discursive and social-psychological Positioning Theory and the relation between speech and other acts, normative and moral orders, and narrative structures, for the understanding of social interactions.

In this interview, they will discuss Hutchinson’s intellectual roots in Wittgensteinian philosophy, ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, and membership categorisation analysis, and how these traditions informed the development of Praxeological Analysis and, especially, Critical Praxeological Analysis. The conversation will focus on how psychological questions can be respecified praxeologically, and on CPA as a praxeological respecification of critical phenomenology. Drawing on Hutchinson’s work on stigma, shame, and the placebo and nocebo response, the interview will explore what becomes visible when moral and social phenomena are approached through language, interaction, and lived practice.