From Vexing Uncertainty to Intellectual Humility | Schizophrenia Bulletin | Oxford Academic
Michael Dickson, From Vexing Uncertainty to Intellectual Humility, Schizophrenia Bulletin, 2024;, sbad173, https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbad173 I am a 55-year-old husband, father, friend, and professional philosopher. In 1992, as a graduate student at Cambridge University, a porter found me amongst the cows in the meadows of King’s College, after being there for 2 or 3 days. I was in bad physical shape, having eaten nothing, and apparently getting water from the river. He asked what I was doing. I replied: “I’m solving a problem about stochastic calculus.” This statement was true, but did not answer his question. He took me to the hospital, where I remained for some weeks. It wasn’t the first time that I was psychotic, but it was, maybe, the first time that anybody noticed, the first time that I was unable to hide it from others, and therefore from myself. What follows is an abbreviated account of how I learned—haltingly, with setbacks, over the years—to cope with chronic schizophre
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