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What is mental health? Can we make sense of psychosis? What’s the connection between mental health and concepts including race & evolution?
Explore these questions, among others, through the lens of philosophy at the 2023/4 London Lectures.
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The You Turn, Naomi Eilan
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Naomi Eilan. She offers an account of second person awareness, mutual I-you relations, and the essential…
Empathy and Ethics: A Complicated Relation?, Rowan Williams
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Dr Rowan Williams. Is empathy required for ethical values? How we can hang on to a proper valuation of empathic…
Avicennan and Cartesian Doubt, Peter Adamson
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Peter Adamson, who will argue that Avicennan and Cartesian “arguments from doubt” may actually be stronger…
The Most Permanent Interests of the Human Spirit, John Haldane
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor John Haldane. He looks back at philosophy since 1925, arguing for a kind of philosophical humanism that was…
Why philosophers need to think about pregnancy, Fiona Woollard
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Fiona Woollard. She explores how philosophy can help us to understand pregnancy and improve the treatment…
What became of the public philosopher?, Regina Rini
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Regina Rini. She explores why we no longer need philosophers as all-purpose public sages.Part of TRIP's…
The Problematic and the Unproblematic, Nikhil Krishnan
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Dr Nikhil Krishnan. The politics of the last decade have been accused of moralistic excess. If this is fair, how…
Choosing how we Represent the Past; Derek Matravers
This lecture is presented by Derek Matravers, and discusses how the choices we make in framing the past can influence our views on it.Part of TRIP's London Lecture Series 2024-25, on Remembering and…
Proust’s Theory of Memory and Knowledge; Tom Stern
This lecture is presented by Tom Stern, exploring the phenomenon of involuntary memory in Proust’s work.Part of TRIP's London Lecture Series 2024-25, on Remembering and Forgetting.
Who should we remember, and for how long? A theory of justice for public commemoration; James Wilson
This lecture is presented by James Wilson, exploring how to reconcile different reasons for public remembrance.Part of TRIP's London Lecture Series 2024-25, on Remembering and Forgetting.
Can memories be unjust?; Katherine Puddifoot
Katherine Puddifoot explores how social stereotypes shape our recollections and how this can lead to injustice in personal memories.Part of TRIP's London Lecture Series 2024-25, on Remembering and…
Remembering the dead; Kathleen Higgins
This lecture is presented by Kathleen Higgins, exploring how memories and new insights help us honor the dead and integrate their presence into our lives.Part of TRIP's London Lecture Series …
Trauma, emotion, and memory; Michael Brady
In this episode, Michael Brady explores how memory can contribute to post-traumatic growth, examining the role of emotional memories in recovery.Part of TRIP's London Lecture Series 2024-25, on…
On Being Emotionally Haunted by One’s Past, Matthew Ratcliffe
In this talk Matthew Ratcliffe discusses the broader conception of human emotional experience through the lens of being haunted by one’s past.Part of TRIP's London Lecture Series 2024-25, on…
S3E7 Insta-Worthy Memories and Filtered Truth: The Effects of Technology on Our Personal Histories and Records of the Past
In this episode Kieron O’Hara examines how digital technology shapes our memories and alters our perception of the past, questioning the integrity of human memory in the age of social media and…
S3E6 Conservation as a Method of Remembering (and forgetting) - Erich Hatala Matthes
In this episode, Erich Matthes navigates questions of conservation, and how some easily overlooked aspects of conservation can render its relationship with remembering more complex than it initially…
S3E5 Forgiveness: Do we need it? - Lucy Allais
In this lecture, Lucy Allais considers the reasons philosophers have given for thinking that forgiveness is puzzling, and argue that they are key to understanding why we need it – but also why we…
S3E4 How We Remember and Forget Online; Alessandra Tanesini
In this talk Alessandra Tanesini explores how Social Networking Sites, especially Facebook, act as platforms where memories can be shared, individuals memorialised, and where at times some feel…
S3E3 Remember Who You Are: Personal Identity and Memory; Presented by Marya Schechtman
We all have treasured memories, but what, exactly, is it that makes them so valuable to us? In this talk, Marya Schechtman explores this question, proposing that one source of value is the role such…
S3E2 Trauma, Emotion, and Memory; Presented by James Dawes
How does memory help some people grow after trauma? Post-traumatic growth (PTG) is a term which has been extensively studied by psychologists for the past 30 years, but also represents a new version…
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